A secret deal was made earlier this year to settle nearly 2,500 refugees from mostly Middle East countries in the United States – and the details are classified.
This type of action is why President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail, which went from talk of banning Muslims to “extreme vetting” to a temporary halt on taking any refugees, resonated with the American people.
Most Americans, after all, aren’t unmoved by the desperation of refugees but have grown scared and weary of terrorist attacks in the United States and across the world, most perpetrated by individuals from or associated with some of the same countries from where the refugees hail.
The Obama administration’s secret deal with Australia, which has a policy of rejecting refugees who come to the island by boat, involved 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who would be transferred to U.S. soil. Government officials would confirm only the refugees are from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Sudan, and that some were “stateless.”
Of those countries, Iran and Sudan are on the current U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list. But Center for Immigration Studies fellow Don Barnett told FoxNews.com the “stateless” refugees may offer the most worry.