Speech #1140059165

Somalia. Sudan. and Iraq. For the refugees who arrived by land. the top three countries of origin are Syria. Afghanistan. and Pakistan. There has been much criminal activity. including multiple cases of rape. among refugee camps. On August 6 of this year. police finally reported that a young 13yearold girl was raped by another asylum seeker at a refugee facility in Detmold. Germany. The rape actually had taken place in June. but the police had kept quiet about it for several months. not wanting to alarm the German local population. It was only after a local media outlet had published this story about the crime that it came to light. According to German social work organizations. large numbers of women and young girls housed in refugee shelters in Germany are being raped. sexually assaulted. or forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers. An editorial comment in the German newspaper WestfalenBlatt said police are refusing to go public about the crimes involving refugees because they dont want to give legitimacy to criticism of the dangers of mass. unchecked migration from the Middle East. In this refugee population. there are many elements that neither Europe nor the United States would ever invite in. and the challenge is separating them. Europe is dealing with a stark reality that it does not want to face and would prefer to turn a blind eye. Police in the Bavarian town of Mering have issued a warning to German parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. In another Bavarian town of Pocking. administrators at the WilhelmDiessGymnasium have told parents not to let their daughters wear revealing clothes to avoid "misunderstandings" by the large number of refugees in their town. These are not the only troubling actions unfolding in Germany. a country which has pledged to take more refugees than any other country in the European Union. Levels of violent crime brought about by the groups from the Balkans and the Middle East have turned certain cities such as Duisburg into nogo zones for police. according to a police report from their headquarters in the North RhineWestphalia region. This is the most populous state in Germany. This report states that the ability of the police to maintain public order "cannot be guaranteed over the long term." according to Der Spiegel. the newsmagazine which leaked the report. There are districts where immigrant gangs are taking over entire metro trains for themselves. Local residents and businesspeople are being intimidated and silenced. People taking trams during the evening and nighttime describe their experiences as living nightmares. Policemen. and especially policewomen. are subject to high levels of aggressiveness and disrespect. Unassimilated refugees and immigrants have turned large sections of Europes great cities into nogo zones where even the police will not go. Jewish emigration from France is the highest since World War II. In the near term. nothing will change. according to this report. The reasons for this: the high rate of unemployment. the lack of job prospects for immigrants without qualifications for the German labor market. and ethnic tensions among the migrants themselves. The Duisburg police department now wants to reinforce its presence on the streets and track offenders much more consistently than before. I am not suggesting that every refugee or even the majority of these refugees are engaged in such criminal activity. It is a very small number. But what I am suggesting is that there are some among them who have terrorist intentions that have infiltrated these communities. and it is difficult to screen them out. Even one is too many. President Obamas plan is a potential national disaster waiting to happen. No one is saying that we should not help those who are in refugee camps. We should. America is the most generous and compassionate country in the world. We already are spending $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid. food. shelter. and medicine for these displaced persons in these refugee camps. What we should not do is endanger the American people and the safety of our children and our grandchildren. Each of us serving in this body took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against enemies. both foreign and domestic. and ISIS has already exploited this U.N. program to infiltrate Europe. We have a sworn duty to prevent foreign enemies from entering the United States and allowing them to become domestic enemies. particularly at taxpayer expense. The Presidents plan and the current policy of the Refugee Resettlement Act defies all logic. I am sure that I will be criticized and attacked for making this speech and sharing these very disturbing facts with you today. but I am compelled by the oath of office that I took when I was sworn in as a Member of the United States Congress to put the safety and security of the American people above political correctness. I didnt come to Congress to be politically correct.