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Has The 9/11 Problem Been Fixed?
The deadly cost of unprotected borders and unenforced immigration laws.
5 commentsTwenty years later, it appears they are still there.
Had you driven through a certain intersection on Leesburg Pike in Falls Church, Virginia, yesterday or today, you would have seen a group of men — some standing, some sitting, but all waiting in the shade, apparently hoping someone would drive up and hire them to do some work.
Twenty years ago, two Saudi nationals, Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar, drove up to that very location looking for someone to help them do something illegal.
What happened then was described in a "Statement of Facts" that the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia presented in federal court in the case of the United States of America v. Luis A. Martinez-Flores.
"At all times material to this case, the defendant was a citizen and national of El Salvador living in the United States unlawfully," the statement said.
"On or about the evening of August 1, 2001, the defendant was seeking day labor from passersby in a parking lot at a 7-11 store in Falls Church, Virginia," it said.
"On that same date, Hanjour and Almihdhar drove a van with out-of-state license plates into the same parking lot while the defendant was there," it said. "Once in the lot, Hanjour and Almihdhar told the day laborers who approached their van that they needed someone to certify that they were Virginia residents on a DMV form."
Not everyone there was ready to cooperate.
"When the first two laborers who approached Hanjour and Almihdhar refused to help the men, the defendant came forward and agreed to help Hanjour and Almihdhar in return for a cash payment of $100," the statement said.
At that time, a person could get an identification from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles even if they did not produce a document that demonstrated they did, in fact, live in Virginia. Instead, they could get a third party to swear to a document called a DL51, which certified that they did live at a Virginia address.
This is what Hanjour and Almihdhar needed Martinez-Flores, the "national of El Salvador living in the United States unlawfully," to do for them.
"Once the matter was agreed, the defendant got into Hanjour and Almihdhar's van and directed them to the Springfield DMV office in Springfield, Virginia," the statement said. "There, the defendant helped both Hanjour and Almihdhar to complete a DL51 form." They claimed to have an address on Leesburg Pike in Falls Church.
"This address did not belong to either Hanjour or Almihdhar, but was rather the address on the defendant's Virginia identification card," it said. "The defendant no longer lived at that address, but had in the past."
"Once they had completed the DL51 forms, the defendant, Hanjour, and Almihdhar swore that the information on the forms was correct before a DMV clerk," it said.
"A few moments later, DMV clerks issued both Hanjour and Almihdhar Virginia identification cards," said this "Statement of Facts."
It was time for Martinez-Flores to get paid.
"Once Hanjour and Almihdhar had received their identification cards, the defendant, Hanjour and Almihdhar got back in the van and returned to the 7-11 store," said the statement. "Almihdhar then obtained $100 in cash from an automated teller machine inside the 7-11 store and gave the money to the defendant."
Timothy P. Carney and I co-authored a story on this incident that was published by Human Events on Nov. 5, 2001. It cited an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Jesus H. Gomez that had been filed in federal court.
"DMV records also show that Hanjour and Almihdhar used the address Martinez gave them on August 1, 2001, to complete DL51 forms for Majed Moqed (Moqed) and Salem Alhazmi (Alhazmi) on August 2, 2001," Gomez wrote.
"DMV records further show that Hanjour used the address Martinez gave him on August 1, 2001, to complete a DL51 form for Ziad Jarrah (Jarrah) on August 29, 2001," said Gomez.
On Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 took off from Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia. Four of the five hijackers on that plane had gotten Virginia identifications using the address provided to Hanjour and Almihdhar by Martinez-Flores. They were Hanjour — the hijacking pilot — Almihdhar, Moqed and Alhazmi. That plane flew into the Pentagon.
The fifth hijacker who used that address on a Virginia identification was Jarrah, the hijacking pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In February 2002, a federal judge sentenced Martinez-Flores to serve 21 months in prison.
"Luis Martinez-Flores, 28, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador living in Falls Church, had pleaded guilty to document fraud for falsely certifying that Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar — two of the hijackers aboard the jet that hit the Pentagon — were Virginia residents," the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported then.
After the 9/11 attacks, Virginia stopped using DL51s to issue identifications.
Only a government agency such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement could determine whether the men who still regularly congregate in the same area where Hanjour and Almihdhar picked up Martinez-Flores are legally present in this country. But it is not unreasonable to conclude that in the 20 years since 2001, our federal government has not secured our borders or fully enforced its immigration laws.
In August 2004, the staff of the 9/11 Commission published a report on terrorist travel that discussed the Virginia identifications secured by Hanjour, Almihdhar, Moqed, Hazmi and Jarrah.
"In all," said that report, "the five hijackers based their Virginia identification documents on the residency information of one bribed Salvadoran."
Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com.
IF WE ARE GOING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF JOE BIDEN!
9 MONTHS AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING THE MAN TOUCHES!
Joe Biden Wants Billions in Welfare for Afghan’s Economic Migrants
President Joe Biden’s deputies are pulling unvetted Afghans through an emergency side door in the nation’s immigration laws — and are now asking Congress to let the tens of thousands of economic migrants get billions of dollars in American-funded welfare programs.
Few of the Afghan migrants are eligible for “Special Immigrant Visas” (SIVs) that were created for Afghans who fought alongside the United States, such as interpreters.
So Biden’s officials have declared the many non-SIV migrants are “vulnerable” migrants and are letting them in through the “parole” side door. That door was created by Congress for rare problems, such as a sick crewman on a foreign fishing ship.
Now the parole door is being used to import a wide variety of Afghans, many of whom face little danger from the Taliban, and some of whom forced their way past U.S. soldiers to get on U.S. aircraft in Kabul. Officials are suggesting that at least 80,000 Afghans will be pulled through the parole door.
But federal law does not provide any welfare or aid for the non-SIV migrants who enter via the side door.
So the White House is asking Congress to let the Afghans enroll in American-funded healthcare and welfare programs — along with their chain-migration spouses, children, and parents. The welfare programs include Medicare and Medicaid, Obamacare, Section 8 housing vouchers, and food stamps, along with specialized teachers for their non-English speaking children.
Many of the paroled Afghans do not speak English. Many do not read or write, and many lack the workplace skills to stay out of poverty in the United States. So the welfare cash will help employers train them for jobs that would otherwise go to Americans at higher wages. The cash will also help the eight big refugee resettlement organizations settle the migrants in towns throughout the United States, so boosting rents for Americans.
The groups have also asked for $6.4 billion in resettlement funds, in addition to the welfare offered to the Afghans.
The welfare request is buried on page 25 of a 34-page page list of budget requests to Congress, titled “Continuing Resolution (CR) Appropriations Issues”:
(c) Benefits – Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an Afghan national described in subsection (a), whose parole has not been terminated, shall be: (1) eligible for resettlement assistance, entitlement programs, and other benefits available to refugees admitted under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1157) to the same extent, and for the same periods of time, as such refugees;
(2) considered to be in a lawful status for the purpose of eligibility for a driver’s license or identification card under section 202 of the REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-13, Div. B (49 U.S.C. 30301 note); and
(3) eligible for any or all services described under section 412(d)(2)(B) of INA ( 8U.S.C. 1522(d)(2)(B)), if under the age of 18 (or such higher age as the State’s child welfare services plan under part B of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 620 et seq.) prescribes for the availability of such services to any other child in that State) and unaccompanied as defined by 6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2).
(d) Spouses and Children – A spouse or child (as defined in section 101(b)(1)(A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of the Immigration and Nationality Act) of any Afghan national described in subsection (a) who is subsequently paroled or admitted into the United States at any point after the entry of that Afghan national shall be entitled to the same treatment described in subsections (c) and (f).
The Democrats have the votes to push the welfare expansion through Congress — unless GOP Senators oppose it or force some curbs.
Nationwide, 55 percent of non-citizen households in the U.S. use at least one form of welfare compared to just 32 percent of households headed by native-born Americans, according to a report by Steven Camarota, at the Center for Immigration Studies.
But the Democrats are taking a political risk in helping many unidentified Afghan migrants land in the United States.
RealClearPolitics.com reported September 8:
Former Force Reconnaissance Marine Chad Robichaux … [said] The U.S. military and State Department officials operating at the Kabul airport pretty much did … a pat-down for weapons and explosives and put them on planes, but there was no processing or vetting.”
The Washington Post reported September 5:
It was 2:30 a.m. when Mustafa, finally safe in the cargo bay of an American military plane after surviving the chaos and violence of the Kabul airport, glanced around at the other weary Afghans and was struck by what he saw.
Many had minimal identification and did not appear to have worked closely with the United States as he had, serving as a translator and analyst. They were “just people,” he said, who took advantage of a disorderly evacuation to flee their turbulent country.
“Nobody knows who was the good guy and who was the bad guy getting into the plane,” said Mustafa, who asked to be identified only by his first name to protect relatives still in Afghanistan. He added, “It’s a risky thing that I believe happened.”
The migrants include many older men who bring other families’ young girls as their wives, ensuring the two families can begin their chain migration from Afghanistan to Americans’ welfare rolls. YahooNews.com reported September 8:
“U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have found many incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the wives of much older men,” says a Sept. 5 report by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis in CBP’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.
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A U.S. government official familiar with the reports of alleged child brides said the problem is a result of poor vetting of Afghans. “The concern is, we’re seeing a lot of family units with very young girls. These girls are brought into the U.S. as wives,” the official said. “It’s not a small number.”
But homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas only offered a sentimental portrayal of the migration during a September 9 event at the National Press Club, saying:
What we have seen across the country is an extraordinary outpouring of generosity regardless of political party affiliation … a united effort to extend this Nation’s generosity in its proud tradition of being a place of refuge.
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as the Afghans disembark from the bus that has brought them to the military facility [in Virginia], the soldiers provide the children with an American flag. And when the children wave that flag, their fathers place their hands over their hearts in gratitude, in reverence, and out of respect for what our country has meant to them.
The White House’s request for welfare is accompanied by a request that Congress put the migrants on a fast track to citizenship, theoretically allowing them to vote in the 2028 presidential election.
A majority of Americans oppose the resettlement of more than 50,000 Afghans in the United States, according to a survey by Rasmussen Reports. The August 18-19 survey included 1,000 likely voters.
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
So far, GOP legislators have done little or nothing to oppose Biden’s Afghan migration.
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