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Sunday, March 9, 2014

ONE WEEK AFTER RUSSIA TAKES OVER CRIMEA, THE WHITE HOUSE IMPOSES TRAVEL VISA RESTRICTIONS ON ISRAELIS

 
BREIBART - At the same time the US State Department is relaxing entry requirements to visa applicants with Islamist terrorist connections, and reassuring President Putin of Russia that any sanctions against travel to the US placed upon those responsible for Russia's invasion Ukraine will be limited to no more than a "few dozen" named individuals, it is dramatically increasing its rejection rate of Israelis seeking visas to visit the US.  

 While the State Department denies it, Israeli officials now suspect  their country is being deliberately sanctioned as part of an unannounced administration policy to punish the Jewish state.

This week their fears were publicly shared by none other than administration ally NY Senator Charles Schumer, who, in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry,  demanded an end to the “State Department policy of categorically denying young Israelis tourist visas that makes it nearly impossible for any young Israeli to visit the U.S.” 

The harsh and unexplained crackdown against Israeli tourists, first felt in 2009 has been tightening ever since, particularly, say those familiar with the matter, within the last year.

When first imposed, the travel bans were extended to all young Israelis seeking to visit the US after completing their compulsory military service. Israeli reports examining such records show that, starting in 2012, rejections of Israeli visa requests were applied preemptively and categorically to all Israeli nationals of student age. 
 
The State Department confirms there has been a 400% increase in the visa refusal rate for Israeli citizens since 2007, when only 2.5% of all Israeli visa requests were denied, as compared to 2013 when 9.7% were.

In fact, rejection rates for Israeli visa applicants were so high in 2013, that Israel was expelled from the State Department’s visa waiver program. Some of the countries whose citizens are eligible to participate the US visa waiver program, in addition to traditional and treaty allies like Canada and the UK, include Saudi Arabia and Qatar. 

Source - http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/08/One-Week-After-Russia-s-Crimean-Invasion-US-Imposes-Travel-Sanctions-Against-Israelis

 
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Peak in US Rejection of Israeli Visa Requests
 
By Ari Yashar for A7- Israel National News
 
80% rise in visa rejections in part of growing trend that Foreign Ministry criticizes as being 'political.'
 
US State Department figures from 2013 reveal a sharp 80% rise over the course of the year in Israeli visa requests that were rejected, continuing a trend of Israeli visa rejections over several years.
 
The figures, which were published Monday morning in Yediot Aharonot, show that last year about 125,000 Israelis requested tourist visas to the US, with 9.7% of them being refused. The previous year in 2012, that figure was at 5.4%.
 
The percentage of rejected requests has risen dramatically in the past years. As recently as 2007, a mere 2.5% of the requests were denied.
 
Due to the recent upsurge in visa request rejections, Israel has lost its place on the "white list," the list of countries whose citizens can visit the US without a visa. Only nations with a visa rejection rate of less than 3% are allowed on the list.
 
Sources in the Israeli Foreign Ministry's consular branch claim the increase in rejections stems from political motives and is unwarranted. They add that the rejections were meant to remove Israel from the "white list."
 
"We meet all the requirements to receive an exemption (from visas), aside from the rate of rejections," noted an official in the Foreign Ministry, who criticized the move as "political."
 
As Israeli ties with the US have become tense, with America has exerted pressure and boycott threats on Israel in the frame of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli connections with China have been growing stronger, including mutual tourism agreements between the two nations.
 

Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177798#.Uxymo5uPKM9


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White House eases restrictions for
 requests for asylum by Muslims terrorists

Last month, this administration took an action making it easier for supporters of Islamist terrorists to be granted asylum in this country.

At the same time, persecuted Christians face a brick wall at the Obama State Department in their efforts to secure refugee status, and a report this week reveals Israeli officials are now finding it more difficult to get simple visitor visas or to even renew existing visas. Why is all of this suddenly emerging?
 
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, none of us ever imagined a dozen years later we’d be negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan, supplying aid to al Qaeda-affiliated “rebel” groups in Syria, and releasing from Gitmo some of the most hardened al Qaeda operatives. Under the Obama administration, that’s exactly what we’re doing.
 
Now we can add another bizarre, and potentially dangerous, unilateral decree from the administration: Mr. Obama has ordered a change in immigration rules making it easier for so-called “minor” terrorists to gain refugee status and asylum in the United States.

Additionally, Israelis who work in their country’s defense industry are being denied visas to enter the United States. According to one government official quoted in coverage by Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, “everything has changed” in the last year, with “hundreds of Israeli individuals with ties to Israel’s defense establishment” being denied entry to the United States.

In other words, the Obama administration is making it easier for Muslims with terrorist associations to enter the country, while making it more difficult for persecuted Christians and Israeli Jews.

In related news, a Christian German family, the Romeikes, who gained asylum in the United States after escaping a draconian Nazi-era anti-home-schooling German law, had become targets for deportation by the Obama Department of Justice.

In 2010, the Romeikes were granted asylum on religious freedom grounds, but for some reason, the Obama administration felt the need to appeal that decision, and its Department of Justice won.

The regime fought tooth and nail for this victory and that would result in deportation.  Just this week, however, after the Supreme Court refused to hear the family’s appeal, the Justice Department did an abrupt about-face, and almost immediately granted the family “indefinite deferred status.”
 

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Terrorists, welcome to the United States of America

The US administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called "deeply alarming." The change, approved by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry, was announced Wednesday in the Federal Register. It would allow some individuals who provided "limited material support" to terror groups to be considered for entry into the U.S.   Supporters of the change, including Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., argued that the current ban on anyone who has ever aided terrorists has unfairly blocked thousands of refugees. 

Read more -
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/06/administration-eases-restrictions-on-asylum-seekers-with-loose-terror-ties/?intcmp=latestnews

And here -
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/06/Obama-Makes-It-Easier-For-Terrorism-Suppoerts-To-Seek-Asylum

RELATED

YOUR NEW NEIGHBORS: AL QAEDA TERRORISTS LIVING AS REFUGEES IN KENTUCKY AND ELSEWHERE IN THE U.S.
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents.
Read more -
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/11/your-new-neighbors-al-qaeda-terrorists.html


Thousands of Middle East terrorists have been intercepted at the border with Mexico. 
How many more get through?
Read more
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists


Border Patrol says government has ordered them to stand down
Read more
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/02/Exclusive-Border-Patrol-Management-Orders-Agents-to-Stand-Down-While-Tracking-Smugglers

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