Still another reason not to let in Syrian refugees
Whatever could go wrong?:
American authorities are warning the terror group’s followers may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports ISIS has printed itself with its own machines, according to an intelligence report obtained by ABC News.
The 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report, issued to law enforcement last week, says ISIS likely has been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since taking over the city of Deir ez-Zour last summer, home to a passport office with “boxes of blank passports” and a passport printing machine. Another passport office was located in Raqqa, Syria, which has long been ISIS’s de facto capital…
Fake Syrian passports have already been discovered in Europe, most notably two used by suicide bombers in the horrific terrorist attack on Paris last month. The two men are believed to have slipped into Europe with a flood of Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in their homeland.
According to the source that provided the passport information to homeland security officials, Syria is awash in fake documents.
“The source further stated that fake Syrian passports are so prevalent in Syria that Syrians do not even view possessing them as illegal,” the report says. “The source stated fake Syrian passports can be obtained in Syria for $200 to $400 and that backdated passport stamps to be placed in the passport cost the same.”
It sounds as though these passports are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. And since we apparently can’t cross-check them against official Syrian records (whatever and wherever and however accurate they might be), it’s hard to know how these passports could be authenticated by authorities.
I repeat: whatever could go wrong?
Or rather: whatever already has gone wrong, and will go wrong in the future?
This isn’t new, since the story of the captured consulate office and its cache of passport blanks is months old. What is new is that only now are Americans being widely apprised of the story. Weird, right? That is, that information relevant to the national security of a people is either withheld or suppressed? The question, as usual, returns to “why?” Why is this so? For what purpose, to what end?
I still say that the Congress Critters who want to take in the Syrian refugees should personally accept responsibility for the results. If just one of the refugees turns out to be a terrorist, they should be forced to resign in disgrace and lose all their pension benefits. Accountability, it’s a simple concept.
Wouldn’t we properly demand similar things from those who assure to us that the Islamic Republic of Iran will never obtain nuclear weapons due solely to the imposition of their noble policies, when come some day the Iranian government openly declares they are in fact in possession of deliverable nuclear warheads, J.J.? And yet we know no such demand will ever be fulfilled. Quite the contrary: these knaves and fools will be rewarded with wealth and celebrated as great peace-makers.
Seems to me that J.J.’s proposed Congresscritter penalty (loss of position and pension) is a rather modest price for the slaughter of Americans.
Frog,
I think the proposal is meant to make these people think a bit before they vote. After the fact, it won’t matter.
Those mysteriously ‘radicalized’ terrorists are bho’s Christmas present to America for always being naughty and never nice.
We could not confront the Soviet Union directly. We can deprive the terrorists of safe havens. The refugee crisis follows from the social justice movement (e.g. “Arab Spring”) that left two continents in chaos and threatens to expand the humanitarian disaster to two and possible three more.
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