In the 14 years since September 11, 2001, the United States has resettled 784,000 refugees from around the world. And within that population, three people have been arrested for activities related to terrorism. None of them were close to executing an attack inside the U.S.You don't need a large number of terrorists to create the kind of devastation we saw on 9-11, all you need is opportunity.
And again -- to reiterate the same state-the-obvious point yet again until it sinks in..... you don't need to immigrate to do that either. It would be insane to sit through all that process and all that time and trouble when all you needed was to be in a plane, with someone on your team trained to navigate it, in American airspace. NONE of that requires citizenship. All it takes is a passport.
This is where Argument from Emotion shoots itself in the back eighty-seven times, pausing only once to reload. Once it's thought about rationally there's no there there.
None of that changes the fact that we are talking about refugees coming from a region that is highly susceptible to terrorist activity. France were very open in welcoming those refugees, and a terrorist was able to use that opportunity in Paris to kill 120 people in an attack. It does not take a lot of terrorists to create a devistating attack, and that is a fact! Do you know how France responded to their previous open border policy?
If a terrorist were to exploit an opportunity in slipping among a group of refugees that arrives into this country unchecked then President Obama would be completely responsible for that breech in security of our borders, as I seem to remember a group of liberal democrats trying to lay blame on President George W Bush for what took place on 9-11. To put it bluntly, their actions dictate that liberal democrats like Obama never seem to take any consideration for our national security .. or even take such concerns seriously.
Once AGAIN --- this'll be at least the fourth time now, guess we'll just play this over and over until it finally sinks in --- 9/11 was not done by immigrants. The immigration process played no part in it, as it has no role in it. It is irrelevant to it.
To commit an act of terrorism you need to be physically in the place. You do NOT need citizenship. No bomb or bullet or plane stops and asks first if its operator is a citizen before it works. It isn't necessary.
Don't know how many ways it's necessary to say this before it registers ---- if you're going to commit an act of terrorism, you need certain stuff --- A plan; some equipment and/or training; a study of the target; probably some collaborators. Atop the list of things you do NOT need is "citizenship". It serves no purpose.
Of all the possible reasons to emigrate somewhere, "to commit terrorism" is not on the list. If terrorism is your mission, all that process would do is slow you down and bestow no benefit to your mission whatsoever.
And then as far as refugees --- they're in that position because they're fleeing that shit --- not because they're causing it.
We are talking about a terrorist blending in WITH refugees. The refugees in that region live among terrorists!!!! What do you think took place in Paris? You're right .... France closing its borders couldn't possibly be due to that terrorist attack. It would appear the French are more intelligent than you are.
As U.S. officials and refugee advocates point out, an attempted terrorist attack by a refugee has never happened in modern history. Not when the U.S. took in tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. Not when 125,000 Cuban “Marielitos” arrived by boat in 1980. And not in the desperate aftermath of more recent wars in Bosnia, Somalia, or Rwanda. These people like the Syrians came from war torn countries where background checks were limited.
Considering the millions of Muslims that enter the US each year with nothing more than a database security scan and the 5 million that live in the US, fear of Syrian refugees, mostly women and children seems a bit silly and obviously politically motivated.
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