Stop the influx of terrorists flood

Washington is such a phony city. Maybe that’s why it has such a good relationship with Hollywood.

In the sequel to a “film” we have seen many times before, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may “shut down” Saturday because of a dispute between the Obama administration and the new Republican congressional majority over funding for the president’s immigration orders, which writes The Hill, would “provide deferred deportations and work visas to illegal immigrants.”

DHS doesn’t have to shut down. Most employees will show up for work, though they might have to go without pay for a while, at least until Congress gets its act together, as it has in previous politically motivated closings. But the appearance of closing the agency will allow Democrats and their media flatterers another opportunity to blame Republicans and gain short-term political advantage.

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson employed a scare tactic to pressure Republicans into caving. Johnson appeared on ABC News This Week, warning that Minnesota’s Mall of America might be a terrorist target. The White House defended Johnson’s comments on Monday, but Press Secretary Josh Earnest assured Americans there was no “… specific, credible plot against the Mall of America or any other domestic, commercial shopping center.” Better get your Christmas shopping done early just in case.

As usual, we are focusing on the wrong subject, or at least the wrong part of the right subject.

Of greater concern should be the flood of immigrants from Muslim countries among whom terrorists are surely hiding. As reported by Investors.com, “France, Belgium and now even liberal Denmark regret letting in so many immigrants from Muslim countries. Their swelling Islamic communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists. So why is the United States opening the floodgates to foreign Muslims?”

Good question.

The time to be concerned about lung cancer is before one starts smoking, not after cancer is detected. The time to be concerned about terrorists infiltrating America is before they arrive and attack shopping malls, not after their growing numbers threaten our national security

As Investors.com reports, “Between 2010 and 2013, the Obama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations—more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period.” Many of them are arriving from Iraq and now Syria, where ISIS has established a caliphate and from which it has announced plans to conquer Rome, meaning Christianity. “The U.S. will admit as many as 2,000 Syrian nationals by the end of fiscal year 2015, up from 525 since fiscal 2011,” Investors.com adds.

President Obama is living up to his 2008 campaign promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” But transform it into what?

It’s long past time to stop this influx, to seal the border, and to cease allowing immigrants from nations where terrorism thrives.

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