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The Obama administration allowed two Muslim refugees from Iran to enter the country and they resettled them in Bowling green Kentucky, not far from Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. They were given refugee status after they said their lives would be in danger were they made to go back to Iran. Since the Obama administration is happy to take refugee’s word on just about anything, they welcomed them to the United States. Later, in Iraq, forces found some IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devises) and guess what? They found the refugee’s fingerprints on some of them.
Donald Trump has put forward a plan to ban Muslim refugees until we have some way to tell the terrorists from the real refugees. Obama has roundly criticized Trump’s plan:
President ObamaSlamming the door in the face of refugees would betray our deepest values. That’s not who we are. And it’s not what we’re going to do.
An intelligence tip initially led the FBI to Waad Ramadan Alwan, 32, in 2009. The Iraqi had claimed to be a refugee who faced persecution back home — a story that shattered when the FBI found his fingerprints on a cordless phone base that U.S. soldiers dug up in a gravel pile south of Bayji, Iraq on Sept. 1, 2005. The phone base had been wired to unexploded bombs buried in a nearby road.
As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.