Caroline May
The Daily Caller
2/5/2014
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists…
…DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects.
“In addition to rigorous background vetting, including checks coordinated across several government agencies, these exemptions will only be applied on a case-by-case basis after careful review and all security checks have cleared,” the official added. “This exemption process is vital to advancing the U.S. government’s twin goal of protecting the world’s most vulnerable persons while ensuring U.S. national security and public safety.”…
…And while the changes will affect those seeking protection in the short term, the manner in which the Obama administration changed the law will not be lost on Republican skeptics of immigration reform in the long term.
“This glaring end-run around Congress underscores that immigration reform is doomed to failure,” a Senate GOP aide told TheDC.
The complete article, with audio of Laura Ingraham’s comments, is at The Daily Caller.
Update: Report: Convicted Terrorist Worked As ObamaCare Navigator in Chicago (video)
A terrorist convicted in the bombing deaths of two people briefly worked as an ObamaCare navigator in Chicago last year.
The National Review’s Jillian Kay Melchior joined Greta Van Susteren today to discuss her latest report. Melchior found that Rasmieh Yousef Odeh was convicted in Israel for her role in several terrorist attacks, including a bombing at a grocery store in 1969 that killed two Hebrew University students…
