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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot of discussions this morning, obviously, with what took
place last night at the council meeting with Hoover and
an overwhelming vote against rezoning part of Hoover for an
Islamic center to be there. There's a lot of discussion
in our US Congress right now as to who's getting
into this country, what's going on with all the Sharia
law in cities around our country. And it's just not
a couple here and there. There are a bunch of
(00:21):
situations where this is happening. It seems to be growing
leaps and bounds. This all on top of what took
place in the attack that killed one of our US
of Force as National Guard members in Washington, d C.
Sarah Beckstrom twenty years old, seriously injured Andrew Wolf twenty
four years old. And the attack is obviously coming from
(00:44):
somebody from outside this country here. And I got to
tell you, I think our vetting process was certainly a
weak if there was even a vetting process in place
during Joe Biden, But right now it seems that it's
gotten away from it's joining us now to talk a
little bit more about this. Hannah Davis from the Federation
for American immigration reform. Hannah welcome in. We've gotten ourselves
in a bit of a jam, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, you're right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The DC National Guard shooting took the life of a
twenty year old Sarah Beckstrom, staff star to Andrew Wolf
luckily has been showing positive signs, according to the News
this morning. But this all happened because of a Biden
era parole program called Operation Allies Welcome, which essentially let
a bunch of Afghan evacue evacuees come into the nation,
(01:25):
around two hundred thousand from that program and subsequent Afghani programs,
and these people are living in the US.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
They didn't really undergo a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Vetting, and according to a caseworker for the suspect, mister Leckinwall,
he had severe mental health issues, manic episodes, hadn't been
functional since about twenty twenty three. He hadn't worked in
a year. He was facing an eviction. He's got a
wife and five sons, and that's a lot of stress.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
But for alls in some purposes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
When he was overseas, he led a unit of Afghan
special Forces. He was assisting US troops. He was associated
with the CIA. He wasn't in the CIA, but he
was associated with them, and it seems like it all
just came to a head in the past couple of
years once he came to the US and unfortunately, none
of that information was ever given to the government and
so they didn't use that information when vetting him. They
(02:19):
didn't know that he had these manic mental health episodes
or anything like that, and it goes to show how
lax the vetting was during that time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, Christy Naumas now said, that's it. We're clamping down
and this has got to stop and moving forward here,
what's the process going to be to implicate or not implicate,
but you know, put into place what's going to happen
here with moving in this direction to you know, prevent
this from happening again, tightening up.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She's paused all asylum applications, not just if you're Afghany
or not, which means you know, and and and then
the the U S Citizenship and Immigration Services is suspending
all immigration applic applications for Afghan national specific effective immediately,
which you know includes societies and refugees requests, naturalization, family benefits,
(03:06):
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And so what they're doing right now is clamping down
on all pending applications, regardless if they come from the
Middle East or overall.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I think that's the best thing they can do.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right now. They realize there's an issue, and it's not
just this one attack in DC. I mean just recently,
a few days after that attack, there was an Afghani
who came in through the same exact program, they named
Mohammed Dawood, and he was arrested in Texas for threatening
to build a bomb and attack a location in Fort Worth.
So there's obviously been a vetting issue and they're clamping
down now.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, she recommended to the president this full travel ban
on every country that's been flooding our nation with these
killers and leeches quote unquote and entitlement junkies, any word
from the White House, you know, and then putting this
in play.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Last I heard is that they're they're discussing it. I
do know, like I said, you know, they've paused all
asylum applications.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They've told Afghani's that all of their applications aren't going
to go through. And right now I think they're pausing
in a dressing the vulnerabilities rather than just continuing to
let these people come into the US, they need to
vet the ones that are already here well.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we see around our country as well. We've been
talking about this this morning, the Islamic sweep crown around
the globe, including the United States. In fact, Senator Tommy
Turberville is calling for anybody that's elected, not just the
President of the United States be born in this country,
but anybody that's an elected official in Congress, you know,
goes through this process. So it seems like it's gotten
(04:29):
away from us here and we're asleep at the wheel
on what's happening with the infiltration of our enemies and
people that want us dead in this country.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And then on the other side of that, we've got
people in Congress that are pushing for the Afghan Adjustment Act,
which would, you know, adjust the status of all Afghani's
in the US, which would give them legal status, you know.
So it's like we've got some people saying, hey, we
need to vet these people, and I think the administration's
on par with that and saying we need to pause applications.
And then We've got people in Congress that are saying, hey, no,
we need to go ahead and just let these people
in them stay here, give them permanent legal status.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And so I do think that's coming to a head.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, well it certainly needs to and it needs to
be dealt with quicker than later, because things are going
to get worse and worse and worse on a daily basis. Well,
thank you so much, and I appreciate you handing Davis
with a Federation for American Immigration Reform
A lot of discussions this morning, obviously, with what took
place last night at the council meeting with Hoover and
an overwhelming vote against rezoning part of Hoover for an
Islamic center to be there. There's a lot of discussion
in our US Congress right now as to who's getting
into this country, what's going on with all the Sharia
law in cities around our country. And it's just not
a couple here and there. There are a bunch of
(00:21):
situations where this is happening. It seems to be growing
leaps and bounds. This all on top of what took
place in the attack that killed one of our US
of Force as National Guard members in Washington, d C.
Sarah Beckstrom twenty years old, seriously injured Andrew Wolf twenty
four years old. And the attack is obviously coming from
(00:44):
somebody from outside this country here. And I got to
tell you, I think our vetting process was certainly a
weak if there was even a vetting process in place
during Joe Biden, But right now it seems that it's
gotten away from it's joining us now to talk a
little bit more about this. Hannah Davis from the Federation
for American immigration reform. Hannah welcome in. We've gotten ourselves
in a bit of a jam, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, you're right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The DC National Guard shooting took the life of a
twenty year old Sarah Beckstrom, staff star to Andrew Wolf
luckily has been showing positive signs, according to the News
this morning. But this all happened because of a Biden
era parole program called Operation Allies Welcome, which essentially let
a bunch of Afghan evacue evacuees come into the nation,
(01:25):
around two hundred thousand from that program and subsequent Afghani programs,
and these people are living in the US.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
They didn't really undergo a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Vetting, and according to a caseworker for the suspect, mister Leckinwall,
he had severe mental health issues, manic episodes, hadn't been
functional since about twenty twenty three. He hadn't worked in
a year. He was facing an eviction. He's got a
wife and five sons, and that's a lot of stress.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
But for alls in some purposes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
When he was overseas, he led a unit of Afghan
special Forces. He was assisting US troops. He was associated
with the CIA. He wasn't in the CIA, but he
was associated with them, and it seems like it all
just came to a head in the past couple of
years once he came to the US and unfortunately, none
of that information was ever given to the government and
so they didn't use that information when vetting him. They
(02:19):
didn't know that he had these manic mental health episodes
or anything like that, and it goes to show how
lax the vetting was during that time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, Christy Naumas now said, that's it. We're clamping down
and this has got to stop and moving forward here,
what's the process going to be to implicate or not implicate,
but you know, put into place what's going to happen
here with moving in this direction to you know, prevent
this from happening again, tightening up.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She's paused all asylum applications, not just if you're Afghany
or not, which means you know, and and and then
the the U S Citizenship and Immigration Services is suspending
all immigration applic applications for Afghan national specific effective immediately,
which you know includes societies and refugees requests, naturalization, family benefits,
(03:06):
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And so what they're doing right now is clamping down
on all pending applications, regardless if they come from the
Middle East or overall.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I think that's the best thing they can do.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right now. They realize there's an issue, and it's not
just this one attack in DC. I mean just recently,
a few days after that attack, there was an Afghani
who came in through the same exact program, they named
Mohammed Dawood, and he was arrested in Texas for threatening
to build a bomb and attack a location in Fort Worth.
So there's obviously been a vetting issue and they're clamping
down now.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, she recommended to the president this full travel ban
on every country that's been flooding our nation with these
killers and leeches quote unquote and entitlement junkies, any word
from the White House, you know, and then putting this
in play.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Last I heard is that they're they're discussing it. I
do know, like I said, you know, they've paused all
asylum applications.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They've told Afghani's that all of their applications aren't going
to go through. And right now I think they're pausing
in a dressing the vulnerabilities rather than just continuing to
let these people come into the US, they need to
vet the ones that are already here well.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we see around our country as well. We've been
talking about this this morning, the Islamic sweep crown around
the globe, including the United States. In fact, Senator Tommy
Turberville is calling for anybody that's elected, not just the
President of the United States be born in this country,
but anybody that's an elected official in Congress, you know,
goes through this process. So it seems like it's gotten
(04:29):
away from us here and we're asleep at the wheel
on what's happening with the infiltration of our enemies and
people that want us dead in this country.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And then on the other side of that, we've got
people in Congress that are pushing for the Afghan Adjustment Act,
which would, you know, adjust the status of all Afghani's
in the US, which would give them legal status, you know.
So it's like we've got some people saying, hey, we
need to vet these people, and I think the administration's
on par with that and saying we need to pause applications.
And then We've got people in Congress that are saying, hey, no,
we need to go ahead and just let these people
in them stay here, give them permanent legal status.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And so I do think that's coming to a head.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, well it certainly needs to and it needs to
be dealt with quicker than later, because things are going
to get worse and worse and worse on a daily basis. Well,
thank you so much, and I appreciate you handing Davis
with a Federation for American Immigration Reform
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