In this mailing:
- Judith Bergman: Europe: Making
Totalitarianism Great Again
- Majid Rafizadeh: Welcome to America,
Terrorists! Right This Way for Student Visas!
by Judith Bergman • January 31,
2018 at 5:00 am
- The European Union has
programs in place that seek heavily to influence mainstream news
outlets and journalists with its own agendas -- such as that of
continued mass-migration into Europe from Africa and the Middle
East. For this purpose, the European Commission recently funded
the publication of a handbook with guidelines for journalists on
how to write about migrants and migration.
- It is seemingly in the
interest of these media representatives to label competition
from alternative or new media, "fake news".
- A proposed French law
would allow authorities to block websites during election
seasons, a draconian measure to combat political opponents,
which would place France in the same category as countries such
as China and Iran that block websites that do not suit the
agendas of the regime.
Both
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (left) and French
President Emmanuel Macron (right) are proposing restrictions that
would violate the right to freedom of expression and information that
is guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights. (Image
source: European Commission)
The European Union is intensifying its efforts to
censor and marginalize voices that disagree with its policies under
the convenient euphemism of combating "fake news".
"The Commission needs to look into the challenges
the online platforms create for our democracies as regards the
spreading of fake information and initiate a reflection on what would
be needed at EU level to protect our citizens," wrote
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, in May 2017.
How considerate that Juncker, in totalitarian fashion, wishes to
protect EU citizens from news that does not fit the Commission's
narratives and agendas.
by Majid Rafizadeh • January 31,
2018 at 4:00 am
- "Foreign students
have one of the highest rates of overstaying visas of any
category -- much higher even than tourist visas. It's one of the
favorite visas for terrorists to try to obtain, because it
offers a longer duration of stay." — Jessica M. Vaughan,
the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration
Studies.
- According to the
Department of Homeland Security, there were approximately
739,000 immigrants who overstayed their visas last year alone.
Roughly 80,000 of those were foreign students.
- Worse, jihadists do
not even need to obtain a university admission to set foot in
the US. They can get a student visa by obtaining an admission
from a school to learn English. Many of these Islamists can
alter their area of study once they set foot in the US. An agent
of the Iranian regime, for instance, may get a visa to study
English in the US, but once he arrives, he can switch that major
to study nuclear physics, to help his regime obtain nuclear
weapons.
(Image
source: US State Department)
Recently, in the middle of a speech at a conference in
Europe about the threats of radical jihadist groups, a young imam
stood up and vehemently voiced his objection to my remarks. At the
end of the conference, the imam and several of his followers came
forward. The imam insisted that Americans should be educated about
Sharia law.
One of the imam's followers spoke up, his voice filled
with excitement as he described how they had just entered Europe and
their next destination was the US. When asked what their experience
was like traveling to Europe, the man responded with a tone of
gloating in his voice.
"It was very easy," he said. "We came
here on a student visa, and we will be in the US on another student
visa!"
What the man claimed was tragically true. Many
Islamists have become adept at manipulating the flaws in the
immigration system and have found ways of taking advantage of any
legal loopholes.
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