Report Reveals That 72 Terrorists Have Come From Countries Covered Under Trump’s Travel Order Since 9/11

The Ninth Circuit judges who blocked President Trump’s travel order seem to think there is no risk in allowing people from the 7 countries covered into our country. Well…they’re wrong.

The Washington Examiner has released today that according to a review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016, “72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks.”

The Center for Immigration Studies reports the following:

In June 2016 the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, then chaired by new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, released a report on individuals convicted in terror cases since 9/11. Using open sources (because the Obama administration refused to provide government records), the report found that 380 out of 580 people convicted in terror cases since 9/11 were foreign-born. The report is no longer available on the Senate website, but a summary published by Fox News is available here.

 

The Center has obtained a copy of the information compiled by the subcommittee. The information compiled includes names of offenders, dates of conviction, terror group affiliation, federal criminal charges, sentence imposed, state of residence, and immigration history.

 

The Center has extracted information on 72 individuals named in the Senate report whose country of origin is one of the seven terror-associated countries included in the vetting executive order: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The Senate researchers were not able to obtain complete information on each convicted terrorist, so it is possible that more of the convicted terrorists are from these countries.

 

The United States has admitted terrorists from all of the seven dangerous countries:

Somalia: 20
Yemen: 19
Iraq: 19
Syria: 7
Iran: 4
Libya: 2
Sudan: 1
Total: 72

 

According to the report, at least 17 individuals entered as refugees from these terror-prone countries. Three came in on student visas and one arrived on a diplomatic visa.

 

At least 25 of these immigrants eventually became citizens. Ten were lawful permanent residents, and four were illegal aliens.

And while this report focuses solely on these seven countries, the information initially published on Fox News reports that “the senators reported that at least 40 people initially admitted to the U.S. as refugees later were convicted or implicated in terror cases.”

So…… do hey have anything they’d like to say about that?