Hamas Members to Resettle in US

thefederalregister.com ^ | 2/4/09 | unknown

[epow]

[[Page 6115]] Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27, 2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza Memorandum for the Secretary of State By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 27, 2009 [FR Doc. E9-2488 Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]

[epow]

Does anyone know anything about this? I got it by email from a friend who is usually trustworthy, but I have never heard of the website where she found it. The site is designed to look like an official government website, but it isn't. I would like to know if there is any truth to this "document" or is it just hearsay? If it's true it should be made public knowledge, but I'm inclined to believe that it isn't true or else some pro-Israel Republican in Congress would have raised a ruckus about it long before now. Or maybe someone did protest but the MSM didn't bother reporting it?

[posterchild]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/palestinians.asp

[I Hate Obama]

The more the merrier!

[grobdriver]

that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million

And this expenditure is important to the national interest... why?

[La Lydia]

No such bill has passed. There is no legislation with that number. The link to the “federal register” is a phony one. All government website links end with .gov. The one below is a .com link (an it has advertisements on it!). Here is a link to the real federal register. Also, a link to the Library of Congress Thomas website where you can look up all legislation, passed and proposed, and find its status. I suggest you bookmark them.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/

http://thomas.loc.gov/

I think the seed of this is last year’s refugee act, which allows certain Iraqis to come here and be granted asylum. So far there have been about 3-4,000 allowed in, and apparently the number they are looking at is 20,000. Which I think is a simply horrible idea. Some of them are in fear for their lives for having helped us, such as interpreters, but I am sure the vast majority have not done anything that would earn them a free pass into our country, and no doubt some would be coming with bad intentions. We have more than enough Muslims as it is.

[ml/nj]

This looks to be the same thing from a government site: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm.

I would note that this "Refugee Assistance Act of 1962" was undoubtedly passed with the refugees from Cuba in mind. Any analogous treatment of non-Christian refugees from Gaza with the refugees from Castro's gulag is obscene.

ML/NJ

[piytar]

Actually a LOT of Iraqis have helped US forces and put themselves at real risk of REAL torture and death. They deserve a “free pass” - or even a paid-by-us pass - into the US. If I had any faith that only those Iraqis were being let in under this federal action, I’d support it 100%. Unfortunately, like you, I doubt it...

[epow]

Thanks for the Snopes link, I tend to forget about Snopes when I get this type email link. My wife usually reminds me to check out these alarmist emails, but when left to my own devices I don’t always remember that there is such a site as Snopes.

[Bender2]

Hey, with the anti-American crowd The Øbamanation brought to Washington... why not Hamas?

[TFMcGuire]

Please don’t believe everything you read on Snopes. They showed during the presidential campaign a definite slant to the left.

If I remember correctly, it included an endorsement of the faux birth certificate as proof of zero’s citizenship.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I tend to forget about Snopes

Always a wise decision.

[posterchild]

I don’t take snope’s word on everything, but I’ve seen this particular claim debunked in several ways and snopes is just the most convenient one to find and link to. This claim (under different titles and sources) has appeared on FR at least 4 or 5 times.

[TFMcGuire]

Please dont take my words for criticism. We all share what we believe needs to be said and it is as much a comment to ourselves and the whole family as to the poster. LOL

[posterchild]

Thanks, but I hadn’t taken it as such. I agree with you that snopes isn’t beyond doubt.