tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post153552013186433340..comments2023-09-22T13:07:59.106-05:00Comments on Jim's Thoughts: aliens among usJimBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-48862138620998142912015-11-20T06:23:32.490-06:002015-11-20T06:23:32.490-06:00Thank you, Jim. I guess if one's looking for a...Thank you, Jim. I guess if one's looking for an excuse to NOT be Christ-like---as did all those Congresspersons, Republican AND Democratic, did today---any old excuse will do. For the (typical) Syrian mothers and children, there's no room in the American inn.JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-23378195977252672942015-11-19T15:20:46.651-06:002015-11-19T15:20:46.651-06:00WWJD? The question is still out there.
FWIW
jimBWWJD? The question is still out there.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-88299100184781253442015-11-19T15:19:56.362-06:002015-11-19T15:19:56.362-06:00I saw the story of the young men with the stolen a...I saw the story of the young men with the stolen and/or forged passports. One of the reasons they were caught is that they stood out. Refugees are widows with kids fleeing ISL, not military aged young men with Greek papers. That dog won't hunt.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-11006491511567991582015-11-19T15:16:56.979-06:002015-11-19T15:16:56.979-06:00Ron,it is helpful to get the facts straight before...Ron,it is helpful to get the facts straight before the post. The Tsaranev brothers' father applied for asylum when he came here. That is an entirely different status and program. I am for ending that one and sending back those entering under the asylum program and their kids, starting with Sen. Cruz.<br /><br />Refugee status, which is something else entire, is granted only after a painstaking vetting which takes between 18 and 24 months.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-7732955316010178592015-11-18T18:44:09.922-06:002015-11-18T18:44:09.922-06:00And now this:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/1...And now this:<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/18/syrians-with-stolen-passports-caught-before-trying-to-enter-us-police-say/?intcmp=hplnws<br /><br />"Police in Honduras caught five Syrians who were trying to make their way to the United States with stolen and doctored passports, a law enforcement spokesman for the Central American country said Wednesday.<br /><br />Police spokesman Anibal Baca told the Associated Press the men were detained on Tuesday at the Tegucigalpa International Airport on an alert from Interpol about the passports."<br /><br />All 5 being single young men of fighting age. Now, these guys were caught. But Interpol and Honduras are not responsible for our security. We are. And while their documentation apparently was not sophisticated, others may be better.RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-41751504572904642802015-11-18T18:33:13.178-06:002015-11-18T18:33:13.178-06:00I'm fine with resettling actual legitimate Syr...I'm fine with resettling actual legitimate Syrian refugees in this country, at least until such time as they can return to Syria with a reasonable expectation of safety. Families with kids, unaccompanied minors, etc. - great. Single young men and women of fighting age? Hm. People fitting that description with Syrian documentation - at least one of which was faked - are responsible for what happened in Paris. Caution is advisable in such cases.RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-51587815183537594452015-11-18T18:30:20.380-06:002015-11-18T18:30:20.380-06:00Gov. Rauner says that he wants to suspend resettle...Gov. Rauner says that he wants to suspend resettlement of refugees in Illinois until there's been a review of the Fed's screening procedures. That seems reasonable to me. The Feds themselves say that they don't have good procedures.<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/17/senior-obama-officials-have-warned-of-challenges-in-screening-refugees-from-syria/<br /><br />"But one of the senior administration officials at Tuesday’s briefing acknowledged the limitations inherent in screening refugees from Syria, where it’s very difficult to determine something as basic as an applicant’s criminal history.<br />“We do the best with what we have,” the official said. “We talk to people about what their criminal histories are, and we hear about that. That’s pretty much where we are.”RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795176.post-82345383716232597732015-11-18T18:27:37.255-06:002015-11-18T18:27:37.255-06:00Ask the people of Boston about the Tsaranev brothe...Ask the people of Boston about the Tsaranev brothers, whose family came here as refugees seeking asylum. See if they agree that "In those 700,000 there has not been one arrested terrorist."<br /><br />Then there's this, from http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131<br /><br />"Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.<br /><br />The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky -- who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints."<br />RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.com