DHS Bussing Amnesty-Seekers from Terrorist-Sponsoring Nations: Inviting Homeland Attack?

By Joe Guzzardi
May 15, 2015

If I hadn’t seen it with my own two eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it. Or maybe given President Obama’s contempt for national security, I can believe it—the online video of a large Department of Homeland Security bus transporting Somalis and other African nationals from the southern border to a Victorville detention center where they will request asylum.

Anita Fuentes, from We the People Rising, was at a local gas station when the bus, shades fully drawn to conceal its passengers, pulled in. The driver admitted that he had picked up the African aliens at the border, and that they would soon petition immigration officials for asylum. When Fuentes asked the driver if “asylum” is the “special key word…the password,” he answered “That’s what the password is now.”

Since 1991, more than 100,000 Somalis have come to the U.S. legally through the federal refugee resettlement program. About half of them live in Minnesota with the rest spread throughout Ohio, Maine and California. Their difficulties assimilating are well documented. Numerous Somalis have been arrested on charges that they have provided material support to the terrorist organizations al-Shabab, al-Qaida, and ISIS. Last month, the Washington D.C.-based Judicial Watch reported that ISIS is operating a training camp on the Mexican side of the border, just a few miles from El Paso. The Mexican Army and Federal Police confirm that coyotes have smuggled ISIS terrorists into Texas and New Mexico.

Not only do these frightening and possibly life-threatening developments go without Oval Office comment, a Customs and Border Control agent told World Net Daily that many more aliens from terrorist-sponsoring nations are entering than DHS admits.

Few on Capitol Hill question how supposedly impoverished African immigrants travel thousands of miles from their continent to the U.S. via Russia, Cuba or South America, in order to eventually arrive in America as asylum-seekers. Someone, possibly a well-funded terrorist group, underwrites their journey and coaches them on what to say once they get to the U.S. A recent Time Magazine report found that one of ISIS’s major income sources is trafficking migrants from the Middle East and Africa to Europe and, probably, to the U.S. Time described the ISIS income from smuggling as “a fortune.”

In the days immediately following 9/11, conventional wisdom was that U.S. immigration laws would tighten, especially as they might pertain to terrorist-supporting countries, many of which happen to be predominately Muslim. Instead, the reverse happened. According to the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, since 2001 the U.S. has issued more than 1.6 million green cards to arrivals from these countries. Thousands more non-immigrant visas such as those given to students or temporary workers have also been issued. The Pew Research Center estimates that 100,000 new Muslim immigrants, for example, arrive every year, about 10 percent of the U.S. total annual immigration intake. Extrapolating, that means that the U.S.’s Muslim population alone will double by 2030 and triple by 2050.

Yet even the most alarming statements from DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson or House Homeland Security Secretary Michael McCaul do not slow down the Muslim acceptance rate. Last week, Johnson predicted that a lone wolf terrorist could “strike at any moment,” and McCaul said that the nation’s “threat environment” is the highest he’s ever seen. U.S. military bases have been put on high alert.

Federal refugee policy is established without citizen input. Whether to accept fewer or more refugees is a question that doesn’t appear on any ballot. But it’s inconceivable that American voters would endorse the huge, and ever-growing influx of more refugees from terrorist-sympathizing countries.

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Joe Guzzardi is a Californians for Population Stabilization Senior Writing Fellow. Contact him at [email protected]