Chart: Obama Admin. On Pace to Issue One Million Green Cards to Migrants from Majority-Muslim Countries
A chart released by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest Friday details the surge in immigration to the U.S. from majority-Muslim countries since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
Specifically, in the first six fiscal years of Obama’s presidency (FY2009 – FY2014), his administration issued 832,014 green cards to migrants majority-Muslim countries, the most of which were issued to migrants from Pakistan (102,000), Iraq (102,000), Bangladesh (90,000), Iran (85,000), Egypt (56,000), and Somalia (37,000).
The total 832,014 new permanent residents do not include migrants on temporary, nonimmigrant visas — which allow foreign nationals to come to the U.S. temporarily for work, study, tourism and the like. As the subcommittee notes, the number also does not include those migrants who overstayed the terms of their visas.
Green cards, or Lawful Permanent Residency, puts immigrants on the path to citizenship and allows for lifetime residency, federal benefits, and work authorization. Included in the totals are refugees, who are required to apply for a green card after one year of residency in the U.S. Unlike other types of immigrants, refugees are immediately eligible for welfare benefits including Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), food stamps, and Medicaid.
A report from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) indicated that in FY 2013, 91.4 percent of Middle Eastern refugees (accepted to the U.S. between 2008-2013) received food stamps, 73.1 percent were on Medicaid or Refugee Medical Assistance and 68.3 percent were on cash welfare.
Green Card Totals, FY09-FY14:
Pakistan (102K), Iraq (102K), Bangladesh (90K), Iran (85K), Egypt (56K), Somalia (37K), Uzbekistan (30K), Turkey (26K), Morocco (25K), Jordan (25K), Albania (24K), Afghanistan (21K), Lebanon (20K), Yemen (20K), Syria (18K), Indonesia (17K), Sudan (15K), Sierra Leone (12K), Guinea (9K), Senegal (8K), Saudi Arabia (9K), Algeria (8K), Kazakhstan (8K), Kuwait (6K), Gambia (6K), United Arab Emirates (5K), Azerbaijan (4K), Mali (4K), Burkina Faso (3K), Kyrgyzstan (3K), Kosovo (3K), Mauritania (3K), Tunisia (2K), Tajikistan (2K), Libya (2K), Turkmenistan (1K), Qatar (1K), Chad (1K)
#1: Stoner To: redleghunter (#0)
Stoner posted on 2016-06-17 13:34:09 Reply Private Reply
#2: tomder55 To: redleghunter (#0)
The exact number of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent citizens who are on a terror watch list is much harder to know. Most sources refer to the federal government’s central Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) which has over 1 million entries — including 25,000 U.S. citizens or permanent residents. U.S. authorities would need approximately 500,000 staff members to observe all suspects day and night.
But in the case of the United States, things get a bit more complicated: The FBI has its own Terrorist Screening Database with 40,000 U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Some of the names are also included in the federal government’s TIDE database.
But the uncertainty regarding the real number of all American suspects on all U.S. terror watch lists changes little about how there are way more suspicious individuals than can possibly be monitored.
Instead of observing most suspects themselves, intelligence agencies and police authorities have to rely on relatives, neighbors or informants to warn of plots. Research has indeed shown that the overwhelming majority of terrorism plots in the United States were prevented because individuals close to the attackers informed authorities on time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/15/its- impossible-to-monitor-all-terror-suspects-these-charts-show-why/
If we need to have 60% of the police monitoring the activities of the jihadists amongst us ,who's left to watch the home grown right wing terrorist groups ? The Compost suggests that making accommodations with the Muslims is the only choice the emperor thinks he has . Does that include inviting more of them in ;and the disarming of the American citizens?
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Don posted on 2016-06-18 21:50:51 Reply Private Reply