Muslim immigration from dangerous nations is dramatically higher in recent years and government assurances that immigrants are being properly screened is “a farce” according to accomplished author and columnist Paul Sperry.
“It’s a huge surge under Obama. In the last three years, he’s averaged 100,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations a year. That is very alarming. It’s more than we’re importing both from Central America and Mexico combined. This is a big shift in immigration flows,” said Sperry, who is the author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.
“It’s really insane what we’re doing. No one’s really talking about it, but this mass immigration from Muslim countries poses a serious national security threat,” said Sperry.
The stated reason for the influx in recent years is the rise in refugees from war torn nations like Syria and Iraq. The amount of people accepted from Syria in particular baffles Sperry, who says there is a long standing policy of keeping Syrians at bay.
“Syria has always been on our terrorist list. We have had very strict restrictions on Syrian immigration. Since Syria’s become a failed state, Obama’s increased the number of refugees. By the time he leaves office, we will be importing over 10,000 Syrians into this country. This is a concern because Iraq and Syria are now controlled by the Islamic State,” said Sperry.
The government insists the case of each refugee is carefully scrutinized before they are allowed into the U.S.. Sperry says that claim is laughable.
“At the top levels of the administration, DHS and so forth, they claim that these refugees are being vetted. But it’s a complete farce. We know that from testimony from the FBI officials who are in charge of that type of vetting process for terrorists coming in under visas and these refugee programs,” said Sperry.
What has the FBI testimony shown?
“They admit, under oath, that they have no idea who these people are and they can’t find out what type of backgrounds they have, criminal, terrorism or otherwise, because there is no vetting opportunities. You can’t vet somebody if you don’t have documentation, police records, etc.,” said Sperry.
“Of course Iraq and Syria are now failed states and the police. There are no police records, so we are not vetting these folks,” he said.
Sperry says it’s a huge gamble to let people from hostile nations enter the U.S. without any meaningful background check.
“We have no idea of they’re going to come into this country to escape terrorism or to carry out terrorism. We have no idea and they admit as much. For all we know they could be joining a sleeper cell here,” said Sperry, who says Obama has also greatly increased the number of Saudis in the U.S. on student visas.
According to Sperry, the U.S. should be feverishly dialing back its acceptance of Muslims from questionable nations. He says western Europe is a glaring example of what happens when more scrutiny is not paid to who enters the country. Sperry cites recent terror attacks and plots in Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels as proof that liberal immigration standards and refusal to demand assimilation is a breeding ground for disaster.
“They opened the floodgates for North African Muslims. Now they regret it, of course, but it’s too late. Europe regrets doing what we’re doing now. We’re the ones who are rolling out the welcome mat for Muslims from these hostile nations,” said Sperry.
While Sperry is quick to clarify that the U.S. contains none of the no-go zones for police that are found in some major European cities, he says political figures in the U.S. are naive to think that Muslims are not effecting major change in communities across the country, including some just a stone’s throw from the nation’s capital.
“That’s just nonsense on stilts. These politicians need to get out and go out into some of the communities just in their backyard. Alexandria, Virginia, for example, Bailey’s Crossroad. They actually call that area Northern Virginia-stan,” he said.
Two major Midwestern cities are also cause for major concern to Sperry.
“Then you have Dearbornistan, Michigan, and Minneapolis. We’ve brought in so many Somalian refugees that they’ve turned Minneapolis into a terror hot spot. They are very belligerent, very aggressive about asserting their culture onto the West. The Minneapolis mayor is now wearing a hijab when she meets with Muslim leaders,” said Sperry.
Asserting the culture leads to a litany of other problems. Sperry says law enforcement has a tough time arresting Muslims in some areas for spousal abuse because it is allowed by the Koran if the wife is disobedient to her husband. He also says honor killings are on the rise, where fathers or brothers are permitted to murder Muslim girls for wearing western clothing or dating a non-Muslim. Female genital mutilation is also a growing problem.
Sperry says it’s time to stop pretending we are not at war and take concrete measures to keep out people from suspect nations. He believes there is an obvious place to start.
“They have a list of Muslim countries who are most hostile to the U.S. and the West. They rank them. We can start with those countries for a moratorium, putting some curbs on immigration from these countries,” said Sperry.
If the lack of solid background information were not enough, Sperry says the FBI is hopelessly overwhelmed in trying to vet immigrants already in the country so opening the doors to hundreds of thousands more makes us even more vulnerable.
“Our FBI doesn’t even have the resources to get a handle on all of the ISIS/jihadist threat in the Muslim community. Now we’re going to lay on top of that all of these new immigrants who are even potentially more radical on top of that threat matrix. I mean that’s just ridiculous,” said Sperry.
But is it fair to let no one from those countries when surely a sizable percentage have no interest in attacking the U.S.? Sperry says there’s no other choice.
“We just don’t have the information. The FBI admits they don’t have the information on the ground that they need, unless the FBI is going to go into these failed states, which isn’t going to happen. . They do not have the police records, the police reports that they can make objective decisions on these folks coming in,” said Sperry.
“It’s a pure sympathy play to let all these folks in on blind trust. We just cannot do that,” he said.
