Unsatisfied with importing millions of “migrants” from the Third World and such hostile nations as China that present a major national security threat, the Biden administration is mulling plans to grant refugee status to angry Palestinians from the Gaza strip.
The report from CBS News that detailed the wildly imprudent plan didn’t divulge numbers. It did say they would be on the road to citizenship, a more frightening prospect given that it would mean they will never leave.
Left unexplained is why the Islamic Arab nations won’t take them in, or how many of them will be Christians who likewise are suffering in the Israel-Hamas war.
Family Reunification
Government documents, CBS reported, show that “senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents,” the network reported:
One of those proposals involves using the decades-old United States Refugee Admissions Program to welcome Palestinians with U.S. ties who have managed to escape Gaza and enter neighboring Egypt, according to the inter-agency planning documents.
Top U.S. officials have also discussed getting additional Palestinians out of Gaza and processing them as refugees if they have American relatives, the documents show. The plans would require coordination with Egypt, which has so far refused to welcome large numbers of people from Gaza.
Those who pass a series of eligibility, medical and security screenings would qualify to fly to the U.S. with refugee status, which offers beneficiaries permanent residency, resettlement benefits like housing assistance and a path to American citizenship.
“Resettlement benefits” and “housing assistance” is code for inviting yet another horde of foreigners to live at the expense of American taxpayers.
The report said the number of eligible Palestinians is “relatively small,” but then again, officials might extend the invitation to those trying to escape the war between Israel and Hamas.
CBS observed that the United States typically does not admit Palestinians and hasn’t since 1980.
Of the almost half-million refugees admitted in the past decade, the network continued, fewer than 600 were Palestinian. Just 56 Palestinians were among the 600,000 Biden imported last fiscal year.
“While many Democrats would likely support the move, admitting Palestinians as refugees could spur even more political challenges for the Biden administration related to the Israel-Hamas war. The conflict has already exposed rifts within the Democratic Party, triggered massive protests on college campuses and divided communities across America,” CBS continued:
To qualify to enter the U.S. as a refugee, applicants have to prove they are fleeing persecution based on certain factors, such as their nationality, religion or political views. While some Palestinians could say they are fleeing repression by Hamas, others could identify the military and government of Israel, a top U.S. ally and recipient of American aid, as a persecutor.
Dangerous Idea
U.S. officials apparently didn’t explain why U.S. taxpayers must provide a haven for Palestinians, or why they can’t migrate to and/or stay in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, or Saudi Arabia.
Then again, they are fleeing a war that includes a belligerent highly dependent on U.S. foreign aid. Some might argue that fact means the United States is partly responsible for their trouble.
Given that the Palestinians are likely enraged about Israel’s retaliatory strike on Gaza after the October 7 Hamas terror raid, and certainly know who provided that foreign aid, importing them could be a major terror threat that would add to the mounting security threat already here.
As The New American reported in January, FBI officials warned top members of Congress in a letter that the Biden administration’s policy of open borders and releasing millions of illegal aliens into the country to disappear had invited a “soft invasion.”
“It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown,” the FBI officials wrote:
They include individuals encountered by border officials and then possibly released into the country, along with a shockingly high estimate of “gotaways” — meaning those who have entered and evaded apprehension.
Noting that Biden’s “migrants” are “young men traveling alone,” the officials said they are “potential operators in what appears to be an accelerated and strategic penetration, a soft invasion, designed to gain internal access to a country that cannot be invaded militarily in order to inflict catastrophic damage if and when enemies deem it necessary.”
The hostile nations include Syria and China. Some 30,000 Chinese nationals had appeared at U.S. borders as of February.
But now, instead of heeding that letter and closing the border, the Biden administration rushes headlong with a plan to import even more of them.
CBS doesn’t appear to have inquired about the wisdom of importing people with an incentive to seek revenge on Americans for providing aid to Israel.
Political Peril
The Palestinians don’t merely present an immediate military or terror threat.
The peril is also political. When they enter public office or become public-policy advocates, they will become lobbyists against Israel and for their people on the West Bank.
Example: U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, who represents Michigan’s 5th District.
Tlaib, the perpetually furious daughter of Palestinian immigrants, recently voted against a bill that would have blocked Hamas terrorists from entering the United States.
As The New American reported in 2018 after she was elected, Tlaib is virulent Israel hater.
During her campaign, she raised money with the help of terror apologist Linda Sarsour.
For Tlaib, one of her supporters averred, “the first fight was for Palestine, always Palestine.”
Should those Palestinians whom Biden imports become citizens, they too will have the chance to “first fight for Palestine, always Palestine.”
