"... certain Ethiopian and Eritrean groups (Oromo Liberation Front
(OLF), Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), Democratic Movement for the
Liberation of Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK), Ethiopian People’s
Revolutionary Party (EPRP), and Tigray People’s Liberation Front
(TPLF) ..."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/30/obamas-deputies-invite-1500-foreigners-known-terror-links-u-s/
OBAMA’S DEPUTIES INVITE 1,500 FOREIGNERS WITH KNOWN TERROR LINKS INTO U.S.
AFP
by CAROLINE MAY
30 Sep 2015
The Obama administration admitted 1,519 terror-linked refugees,
asylees and migrants during 2014, by exempting them from a federal
statute that bars entry to individuals with terror ties, according to
the Department of Homeland Security.
Many of the new would-be Americans provided material support to
terrorist groups “while under duress,” said the report, titled the
“Report on the Secretary’s Application of the Discretionary Authority
Contained in Section 212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act.”
None of the people admitted were members of anti-American jihadi
groups, such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, HAMAS or ISIS, according to a
list of terror groups cited in the report.
The new report comes as Republican lawmakers raise national security
concerns about the Obama administration’s plan to admit tens of
thousands of refugees to the U.S. from terrorist hot-spots. The
political sensitivity is increased by claims from ISIS that it will
use refugee paths to infiltrate the West.
Each admission was allowable under “the Secretary of Homeland
Security’s exercises of discretionary authority,” the report said.
The beneficiaries either received “military-type training” from a
terrorist organization while “under duress,” provided voluntary
medical care to members of a terrorist organization, had existing
immigration-related reasons for entry, or were affiliated with
specific groups that the agency identified as eligible for exemptions.
According to USCIS, the exemption allows potentially ineligible aliens
entry to the U.S. only after completing a “thorough background check”
including a scrutiny of names and fingerprints against watch-lists of
known terrorists and jihadis.
“In addition to rigorous background vetting, including checks
coordinated across several government agencies, the Secretary of
Homeland Security’s discretionary authority is only applied on a
case-by-case basis after careful review of all factors and all
security checks have cleared,” the report claims.
The report did not detail what background checks were accomplished in
countries where records are poorly kept, officials can be bribed and
governments may be hostile to the United States.
Most of the 1,519 were let into the country under the nation’s huge
refugee program. Some won asylum, and 614 were granted lawful
permanent residence because of other immigration-related claims. The
report did not describe these immigration claims, but they could
include family ties to immigrant citizens.
The new Americans were tied to a diversity of armed groups, including
four groups from Burma, five groups from Ethiopia and Eritrea, two
groups from El Salvador, four group from Iraq, plus groups from
Kosovo, Indochina, and Cuba. Some of the groups have Muslim members,
but nearly all groups are focused on ethnic fights, such as a
long-running campaign by ethnic groups to secede from diverse
Ethiopia. According to the report,
In FY2014, exemptions were processed under the Secretary’s exercise of
authority for certain activities or affiliations with: certain Burmese
groups (the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), the Chin
National Front/Chin National Army (CNF/CNA); the Karen National
Union/Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA), and the Karenni
National Progressive Party (KNPP)); the Cuban Alzados; certain
Ethiopian and Eritrean groups (Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Eritrean
Liberation Front (ELF), Democratic Movement for the Liberation of
Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK), Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
(EPRP), and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)); certain
Salvadoran groups (Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza
Republicana Nacionalista or ARENA; Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front (FMLN)); Hmong-affiliated groups; certain Iraqi groups that
opposed the Saddam Hussein regime (Iraqi National Congress (INC), the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(PUK)); The Iraqi Uprisings in 1991; and the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA).
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