American city exposes secret planting of Syrian 'refugees'
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It's been happening all over the U.S. -- Syrian "refugees" being secretly planted by the Obama administration.
And now, one American city is exposing the dark side after a 13-year-old girl was twice groped at a public pool ...
And now, one American city is exposing the dark side after a 13-year-old girl was twice groped at a public pool ...
Syrian refugees [insurgents]
The
secrecy of the federal refugee-resettlement program has once again been
highlighted by a local official who has seen the dark side of the
program play out in living color.
In
Lowell, Massachusetts, a 13-year-old girl was twice groped at a public
pool last week by a 22-year-old man freshly imported into the community
from Syria as a “refugee.”
The city manager of Lowell told his local newspaper Tuesday
that he was not even notified by the U.S. State Department or its
resettlement contractor that Syrians were being delivered to his
community.
Emad Hasso, 22, of Syria pleaded not guilty Friday to inappropriately touching the girl at the state-run Raymond Lord Memorial Pool in Lowell, according to the Lowell Sun.
This marks the second high-profile sexual assault on an American girl in the past month by a refugee. On June 2, a 5-year-old girl in Twin Falls, Idaho, was reportedly raped by an Iraqi refugee boy while an older refugee from Sudan filmed and coached him during the assault.
Emad Hasso
Hasso
is one of 18 Syrians, all of them most likely Sunni Muslims, who have
been secretly planted in the Lowell community since May, according to
the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center online database.
City
Manager Kevin Murphy said he’d like to receive regular numbers from the
federal contractor that resettles refugees in the city. The
International Institute subcontracts with the main federal contractor,
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, or USCRI, to deliver
refugees to Lowell.
The
city does not know when or from where refugees come to Lowell, Murphy
said, and is only made aware of them in instances like this one where a
refugee gets arrested or otherwise singled out for bad behavior.
“I
think we’ll reach out to the International Institute to see if they
could cooperate with us in the future by letting us know when they
relocate individuals to Lowell,” Murphy said.
Secrecy of refugee program a widespread problem
Refugee
watchdog Ann Corcoran, who has been following the federal refugee
program for nearly nine years, said lack of transparency is the most
oft-cited issue by critics, which has included many mayors and
governors.
“This
is the way they have been running the program forever. They arrogantly
have been operating in secrecy for two decades, under the arrogant
assumption that we the taxpayers don’t deserve to know what is going
into our communities, what the costs are, what the security risks are,
and so forth,” Corcoran told WND.
Refugee
resettlement agencies like USCRI, Catholic Charities and Lutheran
Social Services hold quarterly “stakeholder meetings” in most
communities, but the taxpaying public is never notified of these
meetings. And no legal ads or notices about what is discussed at the
meetings is ever posted by the resettlement agencies working as fronts
for the federal government.
“People
don’t like secrecy, and that’s why we are seeing backlash in every
community where this program has been exposed,” Corcoran said.
“Unfortunately, there are still many communities where it operates
completely in the shadows, and residents have no idea what is going on
with these refugees.”
The
mayors of Springfield, Massachusetts; Amarillo, Texas; Athens, Georgia;
Manchester, New Hampshire, and several other towns have all complained
to the Obama administration that they want more information on refugees
before their arrival.
More
than 24 mostly Republican governors have also complained, writing
letters to the Obama administration after the attacks on Paris and San
Bernardino last year that they did not want to receive any Syrian
refugees until a better screening system could be devised.
Citizen
activists have complained about the same lack of transparency in many
other cities including Spartanburg, South Carolina; Twin Falls, Idaho;
Fargo, North Dakota; Rochester, Michigan; Missoula, Montana; and several
areas of Tennessee.
But
nothing has deterred the Obama State Department, which has ignored the
complaints and concerns, citing the Refugee Act of 1980 as the source of
its authority. That law, authored by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and Joe
Biden, gives the states and localities very little power to stop the
influx of refugees.
Corcoran
said basic information like how many refugees are coming, where they
are coming from and what public services they will be using are all
vital for any city or county that is serious about controlling its
government and school budgets.
Unfortunately,
it is usually only after something bad happens that a community starts
pressing for more information. Usually a woman or girl gets sexually
assaulted by a refugee or a refugee gets arrested for a heinous crime or
terroristic threat or action. Then residents start asking questions and
learning about the numbers of refugees already resettled in their
community and how many social services they are using. For example, more
than 90 percent of refugees from the Middle East are on food stamps,
according to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, and 74 percent are
on Medicaid.
The
International Institute, which resettles refugees in Massachusetts and
signs them up for government welfare programs, referred all questions to
the U.S. State Department.
Refugees
are subject to state and federal laws, and can be removed from the
country if convicted of certain crimes, a State Department spokesperson
told the Sun.
But that rarely happens, according to Corcoran.
State
Department officials stressed to the Sun that refugees are put through
extensive security screening before coming to the United States.
But
that is in direct opposition to President Obama’s own FBI director,
James Comey, who testified before Congress last year saying it’s
virtually impossible to vet the Syrian refugees due to a lack of intel
and law enforcement data on them.
FBI
counter-terror specialist Michael Steinbach told Congress the same
thing, saying there is no data to verify the identity of Syrian
“refugees” in a “failed state” like Syria. That begs the question: How
can the U.S. government vet refugees from other failed states and
partially failed states like Somalia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan?
A
total of 85,000 refugees are being permanently resettled in more than
190 U.S. cities and towns during fiscal year 2016, up from 70,000 in
2015. President Obama plans to increase the ceiling again in fiscal
2017, to 100,000.
Obama’s
expanded refugee plans, fully funded by the GOP-controlled Congress,
call for 10,000 Syrians to be permanently resettled in the U.S. in
fiscal 2016, which ends Sept. 30.
With a little over two months to go before the Sept. 30 deadline, Obama has thus far delivered 5,449 Syrians to the U.S. They are now arriving at a rate of nearly 400 per week.
Where the Syrians are being sent
Some of the cities receiving heavy numbers of Syrian refugees are the following
- Atlanta, Savannah and Stone Mountain, Georgia;
- Asheville, High Point, Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina;
- Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio;
- Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, New York;
- Omaha, Nebraska;
- Erie, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
- Dallas, Austin and Houston, Texas;
- Salt Lake City, Utah;
- Louisville, Kentucky;
- Baltimore and Silver Spring, Maryland;
- Dearborn, Grand Rapids, Troy, Ann Arbor and Clinton Township, Michigan;
- Tampa, Clearwater and Jacksonville, Florida;
- Glendale, Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona;
- Chicago, Indianapolis, San Diego, Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Obama
ignored the concerns of the governors and began delivering Syrians en
masse to almost every state along with a steady stream of Somali,
Afghan, Iraqi and Burmese Muslims.
Syrian in Lowel claims groping was ‘accident’
Hasso
was arrested by environmental police at the pool area in Lowell. The
girl told police Hasso asked her age and twice touched her on the upper
thigh. In court, Hasso said through an interpreter he may have
accidentally bumped into the girl but did not assault her.
Hasso is part of one of four Syrian families resettled by the International Institute from October 2015 through July.
Hasso’s
family was resettled into 82 Willie St. in the city’s Acre
neighborhood, the Sun reported. A man who answered the door at that
address Monday evening provided a piece of paper to the Sun reporter Amelia Pak Harvey, indicating that he did not speak English.
Prosecutor Sam Miller reported on Thursday
the 13-year-old girl said a man approached her, touched her upper thigh
and asked her age. The girl told him she was too young for him and
walked away.
Hasso
then allegedly followed the girl around the pool. While swimming, he
again approached her, touched her upper thigh and asked her age. Miller
said the girl responded that she was a “little kid, leave me alone.” At
that point, other people at the pool, including the lifeguard, saw some
of the interaction between Hasso and the alleged victim and intervened.
Migrant sex assaults mounting in Europe
The
news of the groping of the 13-year-old girl mirrors the problems that
European countries such as Sweden, France, Italy and Germany have had
with Muslim migrants who have surged into those countries over the past
two years. Many German towns have had to temporarily ban co-ed swimming
and Sweden’s famed co-ed bathhouses have had to post signs instructing
migrants that they are not allowed to touch female bathers’ breasts or
other body parts.
Muslim
sex attacks at public swimming pools in Europe are so frequent that
Muslims have been banned in multiple areas, including all of Austria
In May, a 20-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested after sexually assaulting a six-year-old boy in the changing room of a Munich sports hall.
Sweden is at the top of the E.U.’s statistics on
physical and sexual violence against women, sexual harassment and
stalking. A police report stated unequivocally that it is “asylum-seeker
boys” and “foreign men” who commit the vast majority of the reported
crimes.
Just last weekend, five rapes and 40 cases of “severe groping” were reported to police at a free concert in Karlstad, Sweden.
As
WND has previously reported, most young men who have grown up in
Shariah-compliant countries like Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Somalia and
Syria have been taught that a woman who uncovers herself and isn’t
wearing a hijab is “asking” to be raped.
To
unleash these young men into public swimming pools without putting them
through intensive cultural sensitivity training is simply
irresponsible, Corcoran said.
In Sweden, the problem has gotten so bad that Swedish women have started “vigilante patrols” as swimming pools, the Independent reports.
The
screening process for refugees begins in the refugee camps run by the
United Nations and from there moves to the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services.
USCIS
would not comment on Hasso’s specific case, but the Department of
Homeland Security can opt to remove a refugee if a criminal conviction
occurs. But that rarely occurs, Corcoran said.
Refugee
resettlement stirred some concern in Lowell this spring, when there
were rumors of hundreds of Syrians streaming into the city. In fact, the
stream has started with a trickle, perhaps because of the complaints.
Judge
Stacey Fortes set Hasso’s bail at $25,000 cash after Hasso pleaded not
guilty to one count of indecent assault and battery on someone under 16.
He was ordered to stay away from the alleged victim and the pool and is
due back in court on July 29 for a pretrial conference. He had not posted bail as of Monday night, according to a spokesman for the Middlesex Sheriff’s Department.
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