United States faced with Syrian refugee influx - nearly 100,000 have entered since 2012

#syrianrefugees #terrorists #CounterTerrorism While a proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, the reality is that there are more than 10 times that number of people from Syria who have quietly come to America since 2012.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 16 December 2015.

Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year - this period roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country.
In the opinion of experts, any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps would be less when compared with the potential danger that is already there.
These Syrians have arrived on all kinds of visas and with green cards, and possibly U.S. citizenship. That makes it impossible for our counter-terrorism authorities to keep track of them all. Equally difficult would it be to prevent them from carrying out attacks or belatedly try to deport them.
The numbers have been obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection - it shows 60,010 Syrian visa holders have entered the U.S. since 2012, including 16,245 this year through August. Additional numbers have been provided by a Congressional source and it revealed that another 42,303 Syrians were granted citizenship or green cards during the same period.
Most of these Syrians have secured legal entry before they arrive.

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#australianpolice #jihadists #ISIS #airport #CounterTerrorism On a conservative estimate, 90 Australians are believed to have joined up with the ISIS and fighting in the Middle East but the counter-terrorist police of Australia have prevented around 76,000 more from leaving the country. This works out to approximately 400 per day over the period August 2014 and February 2015.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 16 March 2015.
The Australian police are stopping hundreds of people every day at airports so that would-be jihadists do not leave the country.
This has been made possible by the creation of a new counter-terror unit who do not carry out random checking but target potentially suspicious travelers.
This is the Border Force Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) and is a new unit that has been designed to tackle extremists who try to leave the country and join terror groups such as Islamic State (IS). It is understood that CTU teams in Sydney and Melbourne have intercepted at least 11 terror suspects in their first three weeks of operation. They have also seized extremist material apart from evidence of attempted movement of large sums of money.
The Border Force Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) are at present operating at Australia's eight international airports namely Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Cairns, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Darwin.
From the exercise carried out by Australia, other countries can introduce similar checks on outgoing travelers so that the designs of such would-be jihadists can be nipped in the bud.

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