THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
President Joe Biden’s border officials are hiding an internal report which shows a massive 2020 increase in “overstay” illegal migration by almost 600,000 foreign visitors who should have gone home, according to a letter from two GOP Senators.
Officials are hiding the overstay migration to help Democrats pass an amnesty via the pending Build Back Better bill, according to the letter released December 28 by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK).
Hawley and Lankford are members of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
“We are concerned that the Department’s efforts to hide this number from the public are nothing more than a political cover for the Build Back Better plan’s radical, open border policies and provisions,” they wrote.
The two GOP senators sent the letter to Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, on December 21, saying:
We write today to express our concern that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not provided our Committee or the public with the FY 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report. This report includes information on the estimated number of individuals who have received a nonimmigrant visa but “remained in the United States beyond the authorized admission.”
But the Senators’ staffers acquired a copy of the undelivered 2021 report on 2020 overstays, the letter says:
Our staff obtained a copy of the missing FY 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report. The copy reviewed by our staff stated that the number of expected departures were 17.40 percent lower than anticipated, which led to an increase in the total number of overstays. The report further estimates that there were nearly 585,000 suspected in-country visa overstays in FY 2020 alone.
Breitbart News has covered President Donald Trump’s overstay reports and his deputies’ efforts to curb the little-recognized form of illegal migration.
The 2020 overstay number likely includes relatively few blue-collar workers, such as H-2B farmworkers, because Trump trimmed the inflow of visitors and migrants during the coronavirus plague in 2020.
But the overstay number likely does include many foreign white-collar workers whose multi-year visas expired in 202o. That protected population presumably includes many foreign graduates of U.S. universities hired by home-country managers at many small U.S. firms that provide subcontracted workers to the Fortune 500 firms.
Those subcontracted jobs were once the first rungs on the career ladders for U.S. professionals. But many of those starter jobs are now being given to a wide variety of foreign nationals, often in glaring violation of U.S. discrimination and workplace laws.
Mayorkas and his pro-migration deputies at the Department of Homeland Security are hiding the 2020 bad news in an attempt to get an amnesty for illegal migrants in 2022, the two senators suggested:
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that over 6.5 million illegal immigrants would receive amnesty under the Build Back Better plan. The DHS estimates in the FY 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report may complicate existing estimates about the number of illegal immigrants who would receive parole under the Build Back Better plan, and we are concerned that the Department’s efforts to hide this number from the public are nothing more than a political cover for the Build Back Better plan’s radical, open border policies and provisions.
As some elected representatives in Congress consider whether to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, it is vital that our Committee and the public have information from DHS on how many visa overstays are in the country and could benefit from this proposed amnesty.
For now, the amnesty in the BBB bill has been blocked by the Senate’s parliamentarian. Democrats will likely try again in January.
But the BBB bill also includes two changes to the U.S. immigration laws that would have much bigger impacts on U.S. graduates and U.S. families.
The first of the two changes would allow Fortune 5o0 executives to recruit many more low-wage foreign graduates with dangled offers of green cards. This authority would sideline many more U.S. graduates in many fields — not just the tech sector — because many Fortune 500 executives prefer to hire indentured, no-rights, foreign graduates. This change could easily push one million Americans off their career tracks during the next ten years.
The second change would allow approved chain-migration applicants to buy green cards instead of shuffling for many years in line before they can get one of the 230,000 family member green cards. This green card purchase process could bring in 3 million people in the next three years and many millions more over the next decade. The arriving immigrant workers, consumers, and renters would be great for employers and investors, but would also flatten wages and spike housing costs for many young Americans.
The two changes would also drain investment, jobs, and wealth — plus political power and social status — from interior states, including from Sen. Joe Manchin’s West Virginia, Lankford’s Oklahoma, and Hawley’s Missouri.
The revelation of the estimated 585,000 overstays underscores the minimal efforts by Mayorkas’s DHS to find and deport illegal migrants — and their efforts to welcome more economic migrants and overstays.
Overall, Mayorkas is trying to extract more migrant workers, consumers, and renters from other countries for use in the U.S. economy. From February to October 2021, he has likely allowed 500,000 illegal migrants to sneak across the border, invited roughly 600,000 migrants to cross the southern border under various legal pretexts, imported roughly 50,000 Afghans, and processed hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants.
This dramatic inflow is adding almost one new migrant for every two Americans born in 2021, and also one migrant for every American who applied for their first job during the year.
The Democrats’ migrant inflow hurts American workers and families who gained extra wages and better working conditions after Trump burst the cheap labor bubble in 2020.
Many polls show that Americans want to like immigrants and immigration. But the federal government under the leadership of both parties has exploited that openness since 1990 to extract tens of millions of migrants from poor countries to serve the interests of U.S. businesses as workers, consumers, and renters.
That economic strategy damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and also raises their rents.
The strategy also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
An 85-year-old woman was pulled from an elevator and apparently robbed during a Bronx purse snatching on Sunday, ABC 7 reported.
Authorities are hoping surveillance footage of what happened will result in an arrest.
The incident occurred a few minutes after 3:00 p.m. at an apartment building in the area of East 149th Street and Morris Avenue located in Mott Haven.
“The victim was in the elevator with the assailant, who first exited and looked around the floor before returning and grabbing the woman’s purse,” the outlet said.
In the NYPD Crime Stoppers video, the suspect, wearing a blue vest, appeared to drag the woman out of the elevator and down the hallway.
When the suspect rounded the corner, the elderly woman slammed into the wall and fell on the floor as the individual fled.
The victim complained of hip pain and was eventually transported to Lincoln Hospital.
Authorities found her purse but a wallet was still missing.
Citizens with information pertaining to the incident were asked to contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish speakers, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Meanwhile, Democrat mayors were being criticized because of their responses to increasing crime in cities such as New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia, Fox News reported December 14:
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI data – the largest annual increase on record, with Chicago topping the list. At least 12 major cities, including New York, have already set historical murder records in 2021. Robberies and assaults are also on the rise, and retailers in major cities across the country are reporting an uptick in organized smash-and-grab crimes during the busy holiday shopping season.
Most recently, four attacks were reported in different locations of the New York City subway on Sunday, according to ABC 7:
“It’s always something happening. I’m not really surprised,” one woman told the outlet.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center specializing in investigative reporting on the Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Biden administration could pull the troops out of Afghanistan, but the actual withdrawal will never end. After bringing over some 50,000 Afghan evacuees, most of whom had no visas, there are another estimated 62,000 Afghans waiting on visas to come to America.
That’s over 110,000 Afghan immigrants coming to America and we’re just getting started.
In July, I wrote an article headlined, "'Saving Afghan Interpreters' is a Scam That Would Bring 100,000 Afghans to U.S." We’re already on track to break the 100,000 barrier in 2022.
But even as Biden is rushing every Afghan he can find to America, taxpayers are sending $144 million in “humanitarian aid” to Afghanistan so the Taliban don’t have to divert any of the money they gain from the opium trade and taxing our “humanitarian aid” to caring for their own people.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai of the Taliban recently asserted that, “It is the duty of the world, especially the US... to come and rebuild the Afghan economy."
The Taliban control the country, but they want us to still keep on pumping billions into it.
The Jihadists are cheerfully duplicating the same arrangement that Hamas has in Gaza or the Houthis have in Yemen in which they get to focus on fighting us while we take care of their people. The terrorists get the geopolitical and financial benefits of controlling a country while Americans get to do the hard work of providing basic services to the people trying to kill us.
But if the Democrats have their way, Afghanistan will indeed become America’s Palestine.
A recent congressional letter to the Biden administration signed by Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Karen Bass, Rep. Ted Lieu, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, among others, proposes using Afghan assets held by the U.S. to fund Afghan schools and "hold the Taliban-led government to their commitment to allow girls and young women to attend secondary school nationwide."
Then the Biden administration "should assist multilateral organizations attempting to pay Afghan civil servants" which amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the bureaucracy of a terrorist state.
Finally, "the Biden administration should allow international financial institutions to inject the necessary economic capital into Afghanistan to stave off the worst of its economic meltdown" and "facilitate dollar auctions" through an Afghan bank.
If these measures were actually implemented, the United States would still be funding and running much of Afghanistan’s economic and public service infrastructure remotely even while the Taliban actually control the country. The best way to describe the insane proposition is to say that it would turn Afghanistan into America’s very own private little “Palestine”.
Like the PLO and Hamas, the Taliban would have their own territory and would focus on terrorism, while the international community, led by the United States would fund their schools, run their official economy, and provide most social services through the UN and various NGOs.
Afghanistan would literally become our very own Gaza. The Taliban would function as the Palestinian Authority, the “moderate” terrorists we deal with, while ISIS-K would play the role of Hamas, the “extremist” terrorists we want to stop by giving money to the “moderate” terrorists.
And we would be spending hundreds of millions on social welfare to stop “radicalization”.
That may be exactly what the Taliban want. The Jihadists would get the best of both worlds. There would be an “inclusive” front government” made up of the few factions tolerated by the Taliban, including even a few women in burkas, with experience in navigating NGO slang.
They would tell the State Department whatever it wants to hear about educating girls, religious tolerance, and democracy, as long as we keep sending them hundreds of millions of dollars.
Meanwhile a Taliban shadow government would actually run things to their own liking, taking credit for all the social services and humanitarian aid provided by the United States while finding new ways to profit from it the way that it did back when the Taliban were an insurgency.
The congressional proposal is full of promises that the money won’t fall into the hands of the Taliban. Insisting that you can pay Afghan civil servants, fund schools, and inject massive amounts of capital into the country without any of it falling into the hands of the government is a dumb lie. The Taliban had an extensive taxation infrastructure which extracted money from the UN even when it was a terrorist insurgency, the idea that it won’t see any money from aid, salaries, and economic development capital when it’s in charge is entirely impossible.
But, as with the PLO and Hamas, the game here is plausible deniability for funding terrorists.
Democrats (and some Republicans) want to turn Afghanistan into another Palestine, a broken society run by terrorists, in a permanent state of humanitarian crisis that we are personally responsible for. Withdrawing from Afghanistan was not about actually getting out of the country, but letting the Taliban take over so that America is on the hook financially, but with no control.
Every year, we’ll hear about the coming famine in Afghanistan and we’ll chip in another few hundred million to feed the people while the Taliban builds its war chest. Just as Biden is doing this year. Americans will still fund Afghanistan’s government, but it will answer to the Taliban. Americans will fund Afghanistan’s schools, but they’ll teach Jihad and hatred of America.
And every time there’s a problem in Afghanistan, it’ll be our fault for not giving them enough.
Meanwhile, Islamic terrorists will set up shop in Afghanistan and stage attacks against America. The Taliban will, as they did with the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 of our service members, disavow responsibility and then claim that people are joining ISIS-K because we haven’t sent them enough “humanitarian aid” to spend on social services for the terrorists.
And then Afghanistan really will be our own Palestine.
Withdrawing from Afghanistan was supposed to recalculate our national interests, instead it’s sucking us deeper into the Afghan swamp. It’s time to step back and think about what we want, not for Afghanistan, but for ourselves.
“No one benefits from a failed state in Afghanistan,” the congressional letter falsely claims.
That’s not true.
The Taliban’s failure is good for America. Afghanistan will always be a hellhole beloved by Islamic terrorists, and its people will always want to come to America and Europe. No amount of money we spend on aid will change that. If two decades and trillions spent on Afghanistan have taught us nothing else, they should have taught us the folly of trying to change this basic reality.
It’s in America’s national interest for the Taliban, who aside from being our enemies, are also the catspaws of Pakistan and Communist China, to fail as much as possible and to be diverted from anything other than trying to maintain their grip on Afghanistan. The worse things get in Afghanistan, the more Afghans will do what they should have done all along and oppose them.
American aid helps the Taliban even if it does nothing more than relieve the inevitable misery.
The last thing we should be doing is helping the Taliban hold on to power and discouraging opposition to their regime by making life comfortable for the Afghans who welcomed their rule. What we should do to the Taliban is exactly what we did to Soviet allies during the Cold War by undermining them at every turn. Instead we’re subsidizing Al Qaeda and China’s allies.
And if the Democrats have their way, America will be permanently tethered to Afghanistan. The forever war will become a forever administration in which we will fund the Taliban’s schools, pay their bureaucrats, and feed and care for their people for generations with no end in sight.
If not forever.
Biden sacrificed 13 American lives, abandoned Americans behind enemy lines, and allowed the Taliban to humiliate us in front of the world in order to withdraw from Afghanistan. Let’s make that botched withdrawal count and actually withdraw financially and politically from Afghanistan.
DESTROYING AMERICA ONE ILLEGAL AT A TIME. THAT IS THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT'S DOCTRINE FOR 'CHEAP' LABOR
These staggering numbers reveal the massive speed with which Islamic colonization takes place, fueled by birth rates and then religious violence, but even with the high birth rates within Islam in general and in Afghanistan in particular, the Fort McCoy numbers are still too high.
As Many as 1 in 3 Afghan Refugee Women at U.S. Bases are Pregnant
Despite the denials, statistics make the existence of child brides obvious.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
When Biden's Afghanistan retreat first brought tens of thousands of Afghans to the United States without any visas or vetting, officials at Fort McCoy warned about numerous incidents of Afghan child brides. Democrats and senior military officials have denied these allegations, but shocking new statistics out of Fort McCoy raise new questions of just how pervasive this is.
When thousands of Afghans first arrived at the military base in rural Wisconsin, local residents in Sparta, the “Bicycling Capital of America”, a small city of less than 10,000, began warning that the Afghans being housed at Fort McCoy were putting a significant strain on their infrastructure and their medical services. I was told that there were as many as 800 pregnant refugees at the base. The number seemed wildly implausible, but now the official number is out.
According to military officials, there have been 500 pregnant Afghans at Fort McCoy and, according to a local news report, “the numbers keep growing”.
“I am so happy that my son was born as a US citizen,” one Afghan evacuee declared.
Considering that there were only 12,600 Afghans on the base, down to about 7,000 now, these numbers are staggering. According to the Pentagon, only 22% of Afghan evacuees across all the bases are adult women. Around half of the evacuees are children. Assuming that these numbers hold true for Fort McCoy, that would mean that it housed only 2,772 adult women.
As the number of Afghan evacuees fell to around 7,000, most recently, the number of adult women would have averaged around 1,500. Even as its highest population mark, that would mean that 1 in 5 Afghan women were pregnant, while as its current number it would be 1 in 3.
All of that within a five month period.
In all of Wisconsin, a state of nearly 6 million people, there were only 60,615 births last year. 1.6% of the adult women in the state had a baby in one year, but between 18% to 33% of the Afghan women at Fort McCoy were pregnant during their time there.
These staggering numbers reveal the massive speed with which Islamic colonization takes place, fueled by birth rates and then religious violence, but even with the high birth rates within Islam in general and in Afghanistan in particular, the Fort McCoy numbers are still too high.
At 4.32 children per woman (as opposed to the American birth rate of 1.70), the Afghan birth rate is high, but 1 in 5 Afghan women (let alone 1 in 3) are still not pregnant at any given time. Some of the Afghan female refugees must be older which narrows down the population further. The only way to account for such a high pregnancy rate is by factoring in the underage girls.
Shortly before September, Senator Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Mark Pocan and other Democrats toured Fort McCoy and falsely claimed that the evacuees were being reliably vetted and screened.
"There are no cases in Fort McCoy right now with a child, 15 or under, who is married," Senator Baldwin insisted. The careful wording by the former lawyer leaves plenty of room for loopholes. It does not address the question of whether there are any pregnant children, 15 or under. And it doesn’t even touch on how many 16 and 17-year-olds are pregnant. And, since many of the Afghan evacuees had no documentation, there’s no way to know if any of those 16-year-olds are actually 15, 14, or even 13, despite how old the men trafficking them claim that they are.
Why else did the State Department demand "urgent guidance" after “intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families?” Afghanistan has a 57% child marriage rate. Senator Baldwin and the Democrats expect us to believe that what the media is now describing as the “baby boom” is entirely due to 500 women, out of 1,500 to 2,700, all somehow being pregnant at Fort McCoy.
The only way to make sense of these numbers is to include many of the underage girls.
But why are so many Afghan women and girls at Fort McCoy pregnant? Obviously having a baby on American soil solidifies their legal status and provides them with assorted benefits. Demographic colonization of infidel nations through reproduction is also considered a form of Jihad. But for the men who bought and sold young girls for the trip, impregnating them is also a way to control them. It will be a lot harder for those girls to get away once they have a baby.
State Department personnel asked for guidance and the Biden administration began a coverup.
The media reporting on the “baby boom” at Fort McCoy state that the “base is partnering with local hospitals for deliveries”. Locals have long complained about the enormous demands that the Afghans at Fort McCoy are placing on local hospitals and medical personnel. For the first time we’re getting a small sense of just how enormous that demand really is.
In all of Monroe County, there were only 534 births in 2017. The Afghan migrants are set to equal all of the American births in a county with a population of three-quarters of a million.
When 12,500 Afghans can outnumber 741,770 Americans, what will happen when over 100,000 Afghans are brought to America? After Biden brought 53,000 Afghans to America, another 60,000 are waiting on visas in Afghanistan. That’s 113,000 Afghans and it’s just the beginning.
At a time when hospitals are already under strain and there are shortages of medical personnel, Biden’s decision to dump over 12,000 Afghans into rural Wisconsin has proven to be catastrophic. Gundersen Health Systems, one of whose hospitals has been used to deliver Afghan babies, has claimed that it's near capacity with COVID patients. Could Americans lose their lives because of shortages created by the Afghan strain on our medical system?
Either way, the Afghan influx has hit the region hard and as their wave of demographic change transforms the country, the next phase of the war in Afghanistan will take place in America..
A few days after September 11, Rep. Ilhan Omar signed a letter to the Secretary of Defense in response to complaints from the evacuees, claiming that the Afghans at Fort McCoy were suffering "mistreatment" and had been spoken to in a "rude condescending manner".
The next Omar, nurturing a grievance against America, is already at Fort McCoy. If the flood of Afghan migrants doesn’t stop, within another decade or two, she’ll be sitting in Congress.
An Afghanistan Grows In Wisconsin
Biden didn’t withdraw from Afghanistan. He brought Afghanistan to America.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The skies over Sparta have never been as busy as when the Biden administration decided to dispatch 13,000 Afghans, including at least one pedophile, to Wisconsin.
Sparta, a small town of less than ten thousand souls, whose claim to fame is being the “Bicycling Capital of America”, could only watch as a population of Afghans outnumbering its own population created a new Afghanistan on the premises of Fort McCoy.
None of the Afghans at Fort McCoy have a Special Immigrant Visa. Biden left the SIV visa holders behind in Afghanistan. The Afghans who have overrun the Wisconsin base are the ones whom the Taliban, for their own reasons, decided to allow through their checkpoints.
And they’re living up to the high cultural standards of the Taliban.
The problems began with the toilets. Then there were issues with the rice, the sexual abuse of young boys, and Afghans simply leaving on their own despite promises of taxpayer cash.
“Afghans were confused and upset by hygiene practices,” a Wall Street Journal article described. “Every toilet on base was Western style, with a seat and toilet paper. But a number of Afghans are accustomed to restrooms that allow them to squat so they don’t have to physically touch the toilet. It led to some cases of Afghans relieving themselves outside.”
This shouldn’t have surprised anyone after two decades in Afghanistan. But political correctness has mostly suppressed accounts of even the most basic facts about the beneficiaries of our great nation building project leaving Americans confused by the behavior of the new arrivals.
A Czech journal article from the Department of Military Hygiene noted that Afghan "people in rural areas were found to defecate almost everywhere according to convenience. It is important to observe that particularly the rural population does not know or does not use toilet paper."
More accurately, Islamic law is held by some authorities to ban the use of toilet paper.
“You should consider very carefully shaking hands during the contact with the local population,” the journal article warned. Unfortunately their local population is now our local population.
An account of the toilet practices of the defunct Afghan National Army described how our soldiers were forced to “share their toilet with the ANA, as they had been ordered to do by their commanding officers” to win their “hearts and minds”. Unfortunately “it was the custom of the ANA to wipe themselves with their hands, smear their excrement on the walls of the toilet, and rinse their hands in the sink, which left the sinks reeking.”
While great care is taken by Muslims to keep their clothes clean so that they are not “impure” during prayers, bathrooms can be left in a horrifying state because they’re already unclean.
Muslim tradition teaches that toilets are possessed by demons and as a result followers of the religion may be reluctant to make contact with them because they have been taught that “Satan plays with the backsides of the sons of Adam”. Islamic teachings encourage squat toilets and forbid men to urinate standing up because Mohammed “only ever used to urinate sitting down.”
At Kandahar Air Base, the toilets were segregated because, as an officer noted, “When they use our port-a-potties, they stand on the seats and it causes quite a mess. I think it's just a cultural thing." There are a lot of these cultural things. Many of them far worse than the toilets.
Although when dealing with a group where “90% of the population are infected by a parasitic disease” and which routinely goes around with fecal matters on its hands, it is an issue.
Democrats insist that 2-year-olds should wear masks, yet invite in a population that doesn’t understand the concepts of toilets, toilet paper, or disease transmission.
But the toilets were the least of the problems at Fort McCoy.
The Afghans, who had supposedly just been saved from death, didn’t like American food.
American rice was “swapped for basmati rice. New spices, hummus and dates were added to the chow hall’s menu” which was entirely Halal. Basmati rice is one of the most expensive varieties of rice available, but nothing was too good for the endlessly complaining arrivals.
While the Afghans were complaining to reporters about "hard rice", personnel at Fort McCoy were complaining about “multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families." This wasn’t too surprising since the child marriage in Afghanistan stands at 57%. Like the toilets, it’s a “cultural thing”.
While no action was taken on those cases, Bahrullah Noori, an Afghan refugee, was arrested for trying to undress a 14-year-old boy and behaving inappropriately with a 12-year-old boy.
Mohammad Haroon Imaad was also arrested after his wife accused him of choking her. He had also allegedly threatened to “send her back to Afghanistan where the Taliban could deal with her” and also told her “that nine women have been killed since getting to Fort McCoy and that she would be the tenth.” An estimated 87% of Afghani women face domestic violence.
Like the toilets and the child rape, choking women is just another Afghan cultural thing.
General Glen VanHerck however visited Fort McCoy and assured reporters that the enlightened Afghans were much more law-abiding than the racist Americans.
I've done some research and how that compares to populations across the United States," VanHerck declared. "For example, in six weeks in Operation Allies Welcome, in a population of 53,000, there have been eight reported cases of robbery and theft.”
VanHerck neglected to Google the statistics for assaulting children and women. Or to note that this isn’t a measure of Afghans having lower crime rates than Americans, but a much lower willingness to report crimes to infidels who don’t resolve problems with the use of Islamic law.
"And how long are the Afghans going to be on U.S. military bases?" the FOX News correspondent asked.
"We're prepared to be here as long as we need to conduct this mission," VanHerck replied. "We'll be ready if we need to support through the winter months and into the spring."
If only there had been the same sort of commitment to getting Americans out of Afghanistan.
Forget the ‘Forever War’ and get ready for the ‘Forever Refugees’.
VanHerck claimed that the Afghans at Fort McCoy "are appreciative of our support and eager to begin their lives in America.”
They're so eager that they're just leaving.
Some 700 Afghans have left bases like McCoy despite promises of free taxpayer cash if they just stay and wait to be resettled. The deserting Afghans are upsetting the Biden administration, not because it’s concerned about potential terror threats from the refugees, but because it makes it harder for its refugee resettlement allies to cash in on every single Afghan. And it interferes with their plot to alter demographics in red states by resettling Afghans in the South.
Meanwhile Fort McCoy is near capacity. American soldiers are back to patrolling Afghan streets and trying to win their hearts and minds by asking them to use toilets and not to abuse their women and children. But the scenes of American soldiers trying to keep the peace among Afghans and communicate American values to them are no longer taking place in Kandahar, but in Wisconsin, and in other states with the misfortune of housing Afghans.
It’s almost as if we never actually withdrew from Afghanistan.
Americans are funding three Halal meals a day for tens of thousands of Afghans, our bases are full of mosques, our soldiers are trying to keep Afghans from killing and abusing each other, and we are on the hook for every dollar in welfare spending lavished on the Afghans while Americans struggle. As the Afghans leave Fort McCoy, the occupation of America will begin.
Biden didn’t withdraw from Afghanistan. He brought Afghanistan to America.
Study: Over Half of Migrants Are on American Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
More than half of the nation’s non-citizen population — including legal immigrants, foreign visa workers, and illegal aliens — use American taxpayer-funded welfare after arriving in the United States, a new analysis reveals.
Research by Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota finds that about 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.
Camarota’s research analyzes the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation data from 2018, showing that 49 percent of households headed by foreign-born residents, including naturalized American citizens, use at least one welfare program.
In 2017, economist George Borjas called the U.S. immigration system “the largest anti-poverty program in the world” at the expense of America’s working and middle class.
Specifically, foreign-born residents used vastly more Medicaid compared to native-born Americans and food stamps. For example, while 33 percent of foreign-born residents use Medicaid, just 20 percent of native-born Americans do so.
Likewise, while 31 percent of foreign-born residents are on food stamps, only 19 percent of native-born Americans use the program.
Camarota’s research reveals that even after years and years of residing in the U.S., foreign-born resident households continue to use high levels of welfare.
About 44 percent of foreign-born residents who resided in the U.S. for 10 years or less use at least one form of welfare. Roughly 50 percent of those who resided in the U.S. for more than 10 years are on welfare.
When naturalized Americans are excluded from that count, the level of welfare use rises significantly for those who have resided in the U.S. for a while. For example, among non-citizen households who resided in the U.S. for 10 years or less, 40 percent use welfare. For those in the U.S. for more than 10 years, about 62 percent are on welfare.
The latest data comes after similar numbers were released in March 2019 that showed that, in 2014, non-citizen households used nearly twice as much welfare as native-born Americans.
Currently, there is an estimated record high of 44.5 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. This is nearly quadruple the immigrant population in 2000. The vast majority of those arriving in the country every year — more than 1.5 million annually — are low-skilled foreign nationals who go on to compete for jobs against working class Americans.
At current legal immigration levels, the Census Bureau projects that about 1-in-6 U.S. residents will be foreign-born by 2060 with the foreign-born population hitting a record 69 million.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
(CNS News) -- Based on two 2021 polls, Gallup found that nearly 75% of Americans identify with a specific religious faith, including 69% who identify as Christian.
However, that percentage has declined from 90% who identified as Christian in 1971, some 50 years ago. In addition, formal church membership has declined since the 1970s, as well, and it has "largely been driven by younger generations of Americans," reported Gallup.
"About one in three U.S. young adults have no religious affiliation," according to the survey firm.
For the 69% of Americans who identify as Christian, 35% are Protestant, 22% Catholic, and 12% "identify with another Christian religion or simply as a 'Christian,'" reported Gallup.
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Another 2% identify as Jewish, 1% Muslim, and 1% Buddhist. "Twenty-one percent of Americans said they have no religious preference," reported Gallup.
"Fifty years ago, in 1971, 90% of U.S. adults identified with a Christian religion, 6% were non-Christian or another religion, and 4% did not have a religious preference," said Gallup. "Thus, much of the change in the U.S. has been a shift away from Christian religions to no religion at all."
Although about 75% of Americans identify with a specific religion, only 49% say that religion is "very important" in their life, according to Gallup.
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Church attendance continues to decline. "Asked whether they personally had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days, an average of 29% of U.S. adults in 2021 reported they had done so, either in person or virtually," reported Gallup. "In 2000, 44% had gone to church in the past seven days, and in 1958, 49% had."
From the survey, Gallup found that 22% of Americans said they attend religious services "every week," and another 9% said "almost every week."
"[L]ess than half of Americans, 47%, belong to a formal house of worship," according to Gallup. "When Gallup first asked the question in 1937, 73% were members of a church, and as recently as 1999, 70% were."
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"The decline in formal church membership has largely been driven by younger generations of Americans," reported Gallup. "About one in three U.S. young adults have no religious affiliation. Further, many young adults who do identify with a religion nevertheless do not belong to a church. But even older adults who have a religious preference are less likely to belong to a church today than in the past."
For the survey, Gallup conducted telephone interviews "May 3-16, 2021, and Dec. 1-16, 2021, with a random sample of 1,837 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia."
Unspecified “bandits” in Muslim-majority Zamfara state, Nigeria, attacked as many as 15 villages on Christmas Day, killing at least seven and abducting dozens.
Nigeria’s Premium Timesconfirmed the attack on Monday. As many Christian communities in northern Nigeria are extremely remote, it often takes days for the news of such attacks to reach local journalists. The attacks occurred after a “Fulani association” sent a letter to the Christian minority in northern Nigeria in late November demanding that all churches in Zamfara shut down within three years or face violent attacks. The letter listed some churches to be attacked between late November and Christmas regardless of their operating status.
Ethnic Fulani jihadists have threatened the Christian minority in the north of the country for years, engaging in widespread massacres in an attempt to drive Christianity out of the region entirely. Experts often state that the slaughter of Christians in the region began as a “conflict” between the majority-Muslim Fulanis attempting to use the land for herding and Christians trying to farm, but the overwhelming majority of attacks in the “conflict” are against Christians, and the disagreement manifests itself as Fulanis forcing their animals onto Christian farmland, destroying their crops.
On Saturday – Christmas Day – the Premium Times reported that “armed persons,” without further identifying them, descended on 15 different communities in the greater area surrounding the regional Zamfara capital of Gusau, abducting at least 33 women. The spate of attacks began on late Saturday and continued into Sunday, according to the outlet. The newspaper did not note if the villages attacked were Christian communities.
Locals said they knew of seven dead but mass desertions of villages in the area mean many individuals are not accounted for, so it remains unclear how many have truly been killed or abducted. Families do not have possession of the bodies of the dead, as the danger of retrieving them increased their own risk of being killed.
A Christian victim of a Fulani attack in Plateau State, Nigeria. Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has written to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ahead of his visit to Nigeria on 18 November 2021, to highlight the imminent risk of genocide in the African country and urge him to engage with victims of human rights abuses there.
Citing the BBC, the Premium Times quoted a local: “They took 10 women in Kura village. In Bayauri, we knew they took nine women including young ladies, while seven women were taken in Gana and went to Duma and abducted another seven in the early morning of yesterday Sunday.”
Locals speaking to the Premium Times expressed outrage at the government for doing nothing to stop the attacks or to give those affected and now displaced any shelter or food.
“No food, no decent clothing. I feel bad for them and the situation is terrible. It’s as if there is no government in this country,” one unnamed local said.
While the reports this week did not link the Christmas Day attacks directly to previous threats, the timing of the letter from an unnamed “Fulani association” to northern Nigerian Christians threatening attacks if they did not cease practicing their faith suggests the two are related. The African website Sahara Reporters confirmed in late November the existence of the letter, sent to Christians in Zamfara state. Though addressed to Christians generally, the anonymous people behind it sent the letter to police stations, not to churches or Christian leaders.
A Christian leader requested prayers from the international community in an anonymous statement to Sahara Reporters confirming the letter, asserting, “Let’s pray for Christians in Northern Nigeria, especially in Zamfara State as we are issued a three-year ultimatum to close all churches in the state.”
“Some churches were listed for attack between now and the end of December,” the leader reportedly said, “though the churches that would be attacked according to the Fulani group that wrote the letter are located on the outskirts of the town.”
He noted that the larger Christian Association Nigeria (CAN) had “directed all churches not to hold church activities beyond 5 p.m. for the next three months” to protect believers, significantly impeding services for Advent, the month in which Christians prepare for the arrival of Christmas.
The unnamed Christian leader said he believed the threats of a church attack were “just a trick.” Police officials appeared not to agree, however, as spokesmen for local law enforcement authorities said they would heighten security in the last month of the year near Christian churches.
“The police are certainly treating it as a credible threat. They have warned the Christian community. They have warned church leaders, ‘Hey, be on the alert, be cautious,'” Todd Nettleton of the Christian group Voice of the Martyrs USA said last week.
Zamfara state has been officially governed by sharia – Islamic law – since 1999, ostracizing the Christian minority. Human Rights Watch estimated in 2004 that about five to ten percent of Zamfara residents were Christians, through that population dwindled as Christians fled the implementation of sharia.
In 2018, the U.S. State Department noted that Zamfara was home to widespread jihadist violence, often enabled by the government.
“The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Zamfara noted a case where a Christian businessman sold land and the certificate of occupancy to a Christian church during the year,” the State Department recalled. “The church attempted to register the sale with the state government, but the sale was not approved because, according to the church, the government was concerned it would build a church.”
“CAN also said Christians in local communities in Zamfara occasionally did not inform the government when building a church because they feared the government would have it demolished,” the American government office noted.
The Zamfara attacks this weekend followed a similar assault last week in Nasarawa state, a central state outside of the national capital, Abuja. Fulani terrorists slaughtered 45 farmers of the majority Christian Tiv community during several attacks throughout the week before Christmas. The mass killing preceded tensions, reports claimed, similar to those in the north, prompted by Fulani herdsmen forcing their cattle onto Christian farmland.
Under President Muhammadu Buhari, an ethnic Fulani Muslim, the Nigerian government has done little to stop the attacks. After the mass killing in Nasarawa, Buhari condemned the “senseless and barbaric” attacks, but Christians report that local authorities do little to respond to threats or complaints of attacks from the victims.
“In 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari .. came to power, and the situation went from bad to worse,” Salihu Musa Umar — the founder of Africa’s Farmers and Herders Initiative for Peace and Development — told AFP in April.
The administration of President Joe Biden removed Nigeria from its list of “Countries of Particular Concern” regarding religious freedom this year, prompting condemnation from international Christian aid groups and Christians in Nigeria.
THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICA THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY! A PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKING, LYING SOCOIOPATH LAWYERS. THESE ARE BILLARY AND HILLARY, LAWYER JOE BIDEN, HIS PARASITE LAWYER SON, HUNTER AND LAWYER JAMES BIDEN, LAWYER BARACK OBAMA AND RACIST LAWYER MICELLE OBAMA, THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER ERIC HOLDER, AND THE BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND. THAT’S ONLY THE START OF THE LIST!
Guilt By Accusation
How Democrats use the tactics of Stalin’s prosecutors.
Bruce Hendry
Editors' note: Below is Part 3 ofa new essay written by Bruce Hendry: Democrats, Progressives and Socialists. Stay tuned for the ensuing chapters. [See links to previous chapters below this article].
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7. Islamic Immigration Is Like All Other Immigrations.
The idea that Islamic immigration is just like all of the other immigrants is100% wrong. The National press and Democrats have a double standard when it comes to Islam. Islam is permitted to be against Jews and Christians, but Jews and Christians cannot be against Islam. When Ilhan Omar, the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota’s 5th district accused Jews of being traitors and buying the Democrat Party, nothing happened to her; but when Judge Jeanine Pirro, a Fox news host returned the fire with a speech that was true, she got suspended from her show.
The Koran make it very clear why Islam is a danger to any non-Islamic society. If Islamic immigrants only brought their religion with them, then I would not be writing this, but Islam is also a political and military doctrine. Religion in Islam cannot be separated from politics and the military - they come as part of the package. Islam is different than other religions in that it is a total way of life that includes the mission to subdue all other religions and establish a global Islamic Caliphate by any means necessary. Islam includes a Constitution establishing Sharia Law. Muslims consider the Koran to be the final revelation of God. Islamic law touches on virtually every aspect of life and society, from banking and welfare, to family life, holy war against infidels. the environment, and how many times a man can shake his penis after he urinates, and which direction a person must face when she defecates. Because the Qur’an is considered the unarguable and final word of God, nothing in it can ever be changed or updated.
The word “Islam” does not mean “peace”, as the liberals seem to think but “submission.” The rationale for Islam meaning “peace” is that if everybody in the world submits to Islam then there will be peace. Islam actually means violence to subdue the world for Allah, and only then peace. Islam does not allow for the “corrupt” western ideas of democracy, freedom, tolerance and equality. It’s easier to understand Islam if you substitute the literal translation of “Islam” into the 5 Pillars of the faith. For instance the 1st Pillar of Islam “ becomes “The First Pillar of Submission.” Christianity is about being a good person; Islam is about being an obedient Muslim.
What, you may ask, is the cultural battle that has been waged by Islam against the West for the last 1,400 years? It’s virtually everything that we hold dear in a free western society. Here are the Islamic values that the progressive left is so intent on protecting:
Censored Speech: Islam forbids freedom of speech, and speaking against Islam, Mohammed or Allah is called blasphemy and is punishable by death. In ancient times Jews and Christians had similar rules, but Islam has them today and, every Saturday, beheadings, stoning to death and amputations are carried out in the public square in major cities in Saudi Arabia.
Islam Uber Alles. The Koran is very precise in dividing the world into, Dar al-Islam, “the house of peace” and Dar al-Harb, the “house of war” which is the rest of the world that is waiting to be conquered by Islam. Leaving Islam for another religion is punishable by death.
Subordination of Women: In the West, we value women’s rights. In Islam, the women are considered property, to be controlled by their father before they are married and by their husband after they are married. Every woman is subject to a wali, a male guardian. She requires his permission to do almost anything of importance. Yet the head of the so-called Women’s March, Linda Sarsour is a Muslim, and a strong advocate of the Shari’a laws that keep women in their place.
Theocratic Dictatorship: The American idea of the separation of church and state is anathema to Islam. In Islam, religion and state are one.
Political Submission: The right to vote and to choose your own political leaders and to create and enforce your own laws is condemned by Islam as a corrupt western idea.
Inequality under the law: In Islam, men have more rights than women, and Muslims have more rights than non-Muslims.
I think the easiest way to understand Islam is to understand that this is a cult conceived of by a brilliant individual named Mohammad centered around himself. It is not that different from other cults in which the adherents were willing to kill and or die for their master. In Islam today there are innocent victims that are killed somewhere in the world every day in the name of Islam, and those Islamic killers are victims too, they are victims of the Islamic cult which not only allows for this kind of violence but also encourages it through the teachings of the Koran and the Islamic concept of holy war or jihad.
The Koran instructs its believers to convert the whole world to Islam and they have done a pretty good job of it over the centuries. Now, in addition to exploiting western values of democracy and inclusion to their own advantage they have another potent weapon, much more dangerous than the suicide bombers - the weapon of demographics, of their birth rate. Pew research reports that the Islamic birth rate is the highest of any religion in the world and is 2x that of the world at large - even more when considering the low birth rates of United States or Europe. In many countries, France and Israel come to mind, the Muslims will eventually be the largest number of voters and then they can and will take over the country at the ballot box.
We in the United States should be worried about Islam because there has never been a time in history that Islamic authorities taught the equality of non-Muslims with Muslims, and there has always been, with no historical interruption, Jihad, the Holy war against the Infidel.
WELL, WE KNOW WHAT THE MUSLIMS DO TO CHRISTIANS!
Israeli PM’s Christmas Message: Israel ‘Our Common Heritage,’ Only Place in Region Protecting Christian Life
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued Christmas greetings to Christians worldwide along with a message of brotherhood and unity, highlighting Israel’s determination to protect Christian life and thanking Christian “brothers and sisters” who are “united in our love for Jerusalem” for “caring about us” and “fighting for the state of Israel.”
In his public Christmas message in English posted on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wished all Christians in Israel and around the world a merry Christmas.
“From the holy city of Jerusalem, I want to wish all Christians in Israel and across the world a Merry Christmas,” Bennett began.
He also highlighted what he described as the “common heritage” of both Jews and Christians.
“It’s here in this ancient land where our forefathers lived the stories we all read in the Bible from the Galilee to the Holy City of Jerusalem, right here,” he said. “You see, the land of Israel is the land of our common heritage, and it remains a beacon of religious freedom, tolerance, and prosperity.”
Noting the increased persecution of Christians in the region, Bennett highlighted Israel’s role in protecting Christian life there.
“In a region where Christians are routinely persecuted, there’s only one place, one country, that protects Christian life — where the Christian community is growing, thriving, and prospering — and that’s right here in the state of Israel,” he said.
Stating, “We’re brothers and sisters, and we’re all united in our love for Jerusalem and our prayers for peace,” the prime minister wished “warm greetings” from Israel’s historic capital.
“So, as you celebrate the holidays in Israel and around the world, I would like to send you all warm greetings from Jerusalem,” he said.
He concluded by expressing appreciation for Christians who support the Jewish state.
“I also want to thank you for caring about us; we know that you’re out there fighting for the state of Israel,” he said.
“I’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year,” he added.
People gather by the giant hollow Christmas tree set up in Iraq’s predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh (Baghdeda), in Nineveh province, some 30 kilometres from Mosul, on December 7, 2021. (Photo by ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP via Getty Images)
Also on Thursday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with Pope Francis, wishing him and Christians worldwide a merry Christmas on behalf of Israel.
“Israel is firmly committed to the wellbeing of Christian churches and communities in the Holy Land and the Middle East,” he said.
This year saw Christian populations persecuted in countries around the world despite a lack of significant media coverage, as the number of nations documenting such persecution has doubled in the past 15 years.
The Christian advocacy group Open Doors, whose ratings for Christian persecution track fairly well with the State Department’s annual Report on International Religious Freedom, revealed over 340 million Christians are facing “high levels of persecution” across the globe, equalling roughly one-eighth of the total Christian population.
In its latest annual religious freedom report, the Pew Research Center found that Christians are “the most persecuted religious group in the world,” with 153 nations reporting attacks or discrimination against them.
Islamophobia is seemingly more important than Hinduphobia and will be explicitly used to shut down any attempt from India and Hindus to combat it, at least according to the Combating International Islamophobia Act.
This overreaching piece of legislative propaganda passed 219 to 212 votes on a party-line earlier this week in the United States, co-sponsored by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu).
The bill calls upon the president to appoint a ‘special envoy’ to fight ‘Islamophobia’, heading up a State department to monitor this apparent scourge. It is ostensibly created to fight efforts to ‘promote racial hatred’ against Muslims, conveniently sidestepping the logical fact that Islam is not a race and there are Muslims among people of all races.
It is yet another example of special treatment for Muslims and Islam itself, with the office now being created to record instances of Islamophobia, including violence against and harassment of Muslims and vandalism of their mosques, schools and cemeteries WORLDWIDE. Isn’t that quite something?
The office will not be localized to dealing with acts of perceived hatred against Muslims in just the US but also worldwide, including India which is clearly a target of the bill. The narrative this feeds into is that Muslims are unique, unique victims of persecution around the world, and one of the main proponents of this persecution is India, particular Narendra Modi, the RSS, the BJP, all its supporters and Hindus who cannot critique the forces, rationale and political groupthink that underpins Islamist sponsored atrocities when they occur just because the likes of Omar do not agree with them.
It is troubling indeed that the State Department isn’t as worried about violence against and harassment of Jews, Christians, and Hindus and the vandalism of their religious institutions, even though the US and the United Kingdom, for example have recently seen acts of desecration to Hindu temples as well as abuse of Hindus in student campuses at major universities.
It is clear that those who continue to frame Islam and Muslims as the most targeted group, race, and religion in the world do not afford the same importance towards other religions, as if their persecution is not as deserving.
Even more troubling is that this new office would target “propaganda efforts by state and non-state media to ‘promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people’.
But if Islam is not a race, then how can ‘racial hatred’ against Muslim people be actualized? What this really refers to is the subjective perception of such hatred, as well as any attempt to combat it by think-tank, NGO, lobby group, media house, or commentariat; and if any of those parties just happen to be aligned to the BJP, Modi, the RSS, or any left of center Indian media house, then woe betide the consequences that lay in store for them, even if their reporting of Jihad activity and, you know, real terrorism inspired by Islamic tenets, falls within honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind it.
So if India, Modi, any proud Hindu narrative dissents or critiques Islamic terrorism, it will now be directly in the firing line of this bill, the better to silence it completely. Since the definition of Islamophobia has not been specified n the bill-quite deliberately-Omar and apologists for Hinduphobia and overreaching Islamism are opening the doors for the propagation of antisemitism, hatred of Western civilizational values, and rampant Hinduphobia under the guise of protecting Islam.
India will now certainly be a target as Democrats and left leaning Modi haters have long taken the view that Modi and the BJP despise Muslims and want to erode their rights and existence to promote a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.
Islamophobia has always really been about hurt feelings, victimhood, and this bill aims to explicitly appease the feelings of those who no longer wish the harsher aspects of Islam to be critiqued; giving them free reign to wield antisemitic, anti-American, and certainly anti-India and anti-Hindu views.
Omar has shown that playing the victim card is the easiest way to shift the focus of public debate in favor of Islamists, a careful strategy to slowly shut down criticism of Islam, its political configurations, and the views of its proponents. In doing so they will be able more easily attack India and Hindus who they feel are its key enemies.
It is a dark day indeed for democracy and free speech especially if you are an Indian and a Hindu.
Saurav Dutt is a TIME magazine featured author and political analyst. His commentary has been featured on Republic TV and The Festival of Bharat series, as well as CNN, Newsweek, VICE and Esquire.
When it comes to the Taliban, Nancy Pelosi is delusional
Showing a bizarre disassociation from facts, senility, or a feminist obsession that overrides all other things, Nancy Pelosi issued an utterly ludicrous statement on Afghanistan. Its entire focus is on women and girls. There’s no mention of the thousands or tens of thousands of men who have been and will be slaughtered in cold blood. There’s also no recognition that the Taliban is a medieval Islamic sect that believes women and girls (including little girls) belong in the home cooking for and satisfying the sexual needs of their Taliban husbands – and that’s it.
I’m printing the pertinent language from Pelosi’s statement, along with my comments.
The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken.
Pelosi is referring to a White House statement on Saturday when Kabul’s fall was imminent but before it actually happened. He stated that 5,000 troops will return to Afghanistan to get Americans and favored Afghans out of the country. Since then, the U.S. Embassy has fallen and it’s placed a notice on its website stating:
The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly including at the airport. There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place.
Also, if Americans want to leave, they will face the ultimate bureaucratic insult to people looking at the possibility that they will be captured or killed by medieval Islamists: They must fill out an online form. Without it, tough luck!
U.S. citizens wanting assistance in departing the country should register for any option that might be identified to return to the United States, and must complete this Repatriation Assistance Request for each traveler in their group. Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens in Afghanistan who are awaiting immigrant visas should also complete this form if they wish to depart. Please do so as soon as possible. You must complete this form even if you’ve previously submitted your information to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Do not call the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for details or updates about the flight. This form is the only way to communicate interest in flight options.
I’m sure that people sheltering in place from gunfire (with the Taliban using weapons America abandoned) are perfectly situated to go online and fill out those all-important forms.
Pelosi, though, has different priorities:
The Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls. The U.S., the international community and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban.
Once again, we’re seeing the administration’s bizarre belief that the Taliban care about the world’s opinion. Democrats care deeply, so much so that they govern to please “the world” before they govern to benefit Americans. The Taliban answer only to Allah, and they do so via the words of a fanatic warlord turned prophet. Those guides tell them that women exist solely to satisfy men’s lust.
Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is critical to the future of Afghanistan. As we strive to assist women, we must recognize that their voices are important, and all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture. There is bipartisan support to assist the women and girls of Afghanistan. One of the successes of U.S.- NATO cooperation in Afghanistan was the progress made by women and girls. We must all continue to work together to ensure that is not eroded.
The Taliban don’t need a “political settlement.” They’ve won the war. As for bloodshed, they’re all in. As women and little girls are turned into sex slaves, I’m sure they’ll appreciate that Pelosi wants the Taliban to “listen to them for solutions,” all while the West is “respectful of their culture.” Defying all facts and logic, Pelosi has this delusional belief that there is some sort of gentlemanly agreement to be had with the Taliban, by which they swear to abandon the Koran’s mandates about women.
Our political leaders are clowns. They’re not even fun or funny clowns. They’re nightmare clowns from a horror movie. But this is no movie and real people will die and suffer in Afghanistan. And with radical Islam again on the move (and very successfully so), I worry that lots of us are going to die soon. I think it’s time to reinstate full security at iconic American locations that make ripe targets for terrorists.
