Back when Johnstown’s Myopia 2025 was in its Afghan refugee period, operating behind the scenes in an attempt to flood the area with displaced Afghans, we noted in this space several potential downsides to the plan, beyond it being an attempt at operating in secrecy
Among those concerns was that although the Myopia gang was assuring all that any Afghans landing here would be fully vetted to eliminate criminals, terrorists and otherwise undesirable people being planted in our area, could we really trust those doing the vetting?
Our intelligence agencies haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory in the past few decades. They were asleep at the controls as Saudis trained here to execute the 9/11 attacks.
More recently, we were assured pulling out of Afghanistan would not lead to a quick collapse of that country’s government.
On a more domestic note, we have continuing efforts by government “justice” types to harass and convict Donald Trump on their cause of the moment.
Similarly, Trump loyalists have been harassed, frequently on ridiculous allegations and specious information, some of which has shown itself to be entirely false.
Yet these are the people Myopia 2025 was convinced could weed out any problems among an Afghan influx.
A report posted on zerohedge.com yesterday notes that the vetting has been a disaster.
According to no less a source than the office of the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, the vetting has been slipshod
There reportedly were nearly 80,000 Afghans brought here from July 2021 to January 2022. Nearly 89,000 evacuee records were checked (obviously more than one for some) and 11,110 had their date of birth listed as Jan. 1.
This is sort of like the vote counting in the last election; theoretically possible but extremely unlikely. More than 44,000 other documents used to check out immigrants were flawed in some way or another.
The bottom line is, again according to various government sources, nearly 400 individuals who are either terrorists, suspected terrorists, or people raising security concerns, floated in on the wave of Afghan refugees.
The number of outright criminals or otherwise undesirable people has to be much greater than that.
Some of those could have been right here in our little crime-ridden city, where already this week there have been two incidents of gunfire, one a standoff with the police, had Myopia 2025 gotten its way.
No need to congratulate me for doubting Myopia 2025’s assurances that all Afghans coming to the United States or Johnstown would be good Afghans.
Chalk this up as yet another unfortunate incident in which propaganda fails when facts are introduced.
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