ISIS has a secret weapons facility in its self-declared capital of Raqqa, Syria, according to a new Sky News report.
ISIS training videos that were never meant to be seen by the public reveal that the terror group is employing scientists and weapons experts to train jihadists to carry out sophisticated, “spectacular” attacks abroad.
They are also working on remote-controlled car bombs and weapons systems capable of targeting passenger jets and military aircraft.
Educating ‘Engineers of Jihad’ at US Universities
How the legal immigration system allowed four al-Qaeda-linked terrorists to attend U.S. colleges and roam free among us.
Why educating foreign STEM students is bad for American workers and national security.
Today the United States has more than one million foreign students studying in roughly 9,000 schools and universities. In the past year the number of foreign students increased significantly.
There are not enough ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents to even determine if all of these schools actually exist or if they are nothing more than fraud “mills” that for the appropriate “tuition” will file the appropriate paperwork to enable foreign students to enter the United States with student visas. When foreign students fail to show up for classes or drop out, it is up to the foreign student advisors to notify ICE. (The honor system only works for honorable people!)
On the other hand, America’s most prestigious universities are educating students from around the world. Upon graduation, these students will then be in the position to provide competition for beleaguered American STEM students and professionals
I have testified before well over a dozen Congressional hearings in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission. Perhaps the highest profile hearing I for which I have been called to testify involved “foreign student” terrorists was conducted on March 19, 2002 by the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, on the topic:
The hearing was covered by C-SPAN and the C-SPAN video is one that every American and especially every member of Congress should be required to watch.
It is unfathomable how, nearly 14 years after that hearing was conducted- into one of the most outrageous screw-ups that none of the promises to address the failures of the system were kept and hence these failures and additional failures continue to plague the very same system that is supposed to monitor foreign students and address a myriad of other issues that draw a clear connection between immigration and national security.
This dysfunctional system would be required to adjudicate the applications filed by unknown millions of illegal illegal aliens in the United States under “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” or any other such massive program advocated by many of the presidential candidates claiming that since we cannot deport all of the illegal aliens in the United States we should provide them with lawful status.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:
“Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”
This paragraph is found on page 98 of the report, under the title “Immigration Benefits:”
“Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.”
“Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”
This paragraph is found on page 98 of the report, under the title “Immigration Benefits:”
“Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.”
The Summer Edition of The Social Contract includes my extensive article, “The 9/11 Commission Report and Immigration: An Assessment, Fourteen Years after the Attacks.”
On April 20, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article, “How DHS Ineptitude Facilitates Terrorist Operations » A chilling case-in-point from Ohio.”
“We’re not holding anything, we’ll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy.”
Pushing back against Comprehensive Immigration Reform is the same as holding position. The time has come for us to advance by demanding that our borders be made truly secure and our immigration laws be effectively administered and enforced.
The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission must be the starting point for any discussion about immigration legislation. That commission determined that a lack of border security, including the visa process. and fraud in the immigration benefits program, enabled terrorists to enter and embed themselves in the United States, as they went about their deadly preparations.
All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!
We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
-michael cutler-
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