“We are continuing to work with and await guidance from the
appropriate federal agencies on screening measures that will be taken. With
that said, if refugees – many who are children fleeing a horrific war-torn
country—seek and are granted asylum after a rigorous security process, we
should and will welcome them in Connecticut,” so said a spokesperson for
Governor Dannel Malloy, according to a piece in the Hartford
Courant.
There are some obvious difficulties with this passage. Syria
is administered by an odious dictator, perhaps even more ruthless than the
father who preceded him, and rigorous screening measures such as those
mentioned by Malloy are not always possible in horrific, war-torn countries.
Of course, a screening examination of even the most cursory
kind is never possible in the case of illegal aliens from wretched
countries such as Honduras and Guatemala who, crossing through Mexico, bum-rush
the US border and thereafter become nearly invisible tucked within a welter of
humanity – unless they call attention to themselves by violating a law other
than the immigration laws winked at in sanctuary cities. Such difficulties have
not stopped Malloy from opening the doors of Connecticut to unverified illegal
immigrants, some of whom may be found in Connecticut’s sanctuary cities such as
New Haven.
Right. According to
the Courant story, Alaa Hassan Qalb Allouz, a Syrian refugee who made his way with
his wife to New Haven’s sanctuary in 2016, was charged by FBI counter terrorism
investigators, two years after touchdown “when his ex-wife took their 13 month
old child to Yale New Haven Hospital with apparent signs of abuse.” Allouz was
arrested and released by New Haven police for assault and ordered not to contact
his wife. He was arrested again in 2017 for violating the order. Allouz had
contacted his wife at the domestic violence shelter in which the state had
placed her. A year later “while housed in Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional
Institute, (forgive the caps) ALLOUZ WAS ARRESTED BY US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS
ENFORCEMENT AGENTS PUSHING FOR HIS DEPORTATION.” Allouz was arrested by (ICE) two years after his wife had fled from him to a
protective shelter in New Haven’s sanctuary city. Transferred to a federal
immigration facility, “Allouz was ordered to be removed from the United States.
But there is a “but.” – “BUT HIS DEPORTATION CAME TO A HALT WHEN STATE
DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS TOLD ICE THEY WERE NOT SENDING ANYONE BACK TO SYRIA.”
Here is a question not addressed or answered in the Courant
story: To what extent are Dan Malloy’s sanctuary city protocols responsible for
the terrorization of a woman who received from her refugee husband, years after
he had first been detained – and released -- by sanctuary city police, the
following email: “I want you to understand that I’ll make you cry blood, and
you know that. If and when I go back to Syria, it will be really bad for you,
it won’t make a difference to me anymore, and you know that.”
FBI agents intercepted a recording between Allouz and a
doctor at a Connecticut prison in 2017 in which Allouz said, “If I don’t
slaughter her here, I will slaughter her in Syria. I will not do anything here.
But in Syria, I can do anything I want.” The American feminization movement has
yet to reach war-torn Syria.
A sanctuary city is one in which those seeking refuge – in the
case of Syria, some refugees whose background will not be revealed by a “rigorous
security process” – are given sanctuary and insulated from the impertinent intervention
of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency charged by the
US Congress with deporting refugees who are in the country illegally or others
who should be detained until they have passed rigorous “screening measures.”
Had police officials in New Haven’s sanctuary city immediately contacted ICE
when Allouz first terrorized his wife, ICE might have arrested him earlier. And
Malloy, as well as other members of Connecticut’s all-Democrat US Congressional
Delegation, might have interceded with US State Department officials to get
this domestic terrorist out of Connecticut – away from the woman he was
terrorizing.
None of this happened because sanctuary cities force a
breech between municipal law enforcement officials and ICE through a
process of nullification in which governors who receive profile in courage
awards are able to decide precisely which laws passed by the US Congress they
will or will not obey, sometimes
with murderous results.
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