Where is the $20.3 Million To Aid Refugees Going?

February 6, 2009 Are You Kidding Me?, Certifiably Insane, Defeatocrats, Government Spending, Hamas, Hillary, Islam, Jihad, Just Plain Wrong, Obama, Terrorism, Washington Scandals View Comments

Well, according to the Canada Free Press, it’s going to partially help Hamas take refuge in the United States! I’m not kidding at all!

From the CFP article:

On his first official day in the White House, President Barack Obama was on the horn to President Mahmoud Abbas.

â€œThe spokesman for President Abbas revealed that Mr. Obama had told the Palestinian leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office.â€ (TimesOnLine, Jan. 22, 2009).

Some thought that first call to the leader of the Palestinian authority was for spite. Others for statesman like reasons, still others for appeasement.

Given that a clip from Al-Jazeera televised Hamas-controlled Palestinians â€œburning up the phone bank from Gazaâ€ to rally support for his presidential campaign, perhaps the telephone call was made out of gratitude.

Seven days later on January 27, President Obama signed Presidential Determination No. 2009-15, which allocates $20.3 million for Palestinian migration and refugee assistance.

And it doesn’t end there!

…a memo sent by President Obama to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to invite Hamas to â€œmigrateâ€ into the United States of America.

The presidential determination covers the â€œUnexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related to Gaza.â€

â€œBy the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the â€œActâ€), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2 (c) (1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. (Italics CFPâ€™s).

â€œYou are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register,â€ President Obama instructs the new Secretary of State.

Two days before Obamaâ€™s inauguration, Israel began pulling its troops out of Gaza.

One week after his inauguration, President Obama designated $20.3 million to the Palestinians in Gaza.

What security measures are in place to keep Hamas terrorists from gaining free access into the U.S.?

What part of “on American soil” does Obama not understand? This will only add to the problems in Minneapolis, MN and Dearborn, MI. Thanks a lot, douche… you are bringing all kinds of uncool attention to the United States. I’m beginning to wonder if you really do love this country. No wonder Iran called the U.S. “weak” now that the chosen one is willing to negotiate with terrorists.

See? Folks just don’t get it. It’s not whether other countries love us or hate us; it’s that they respect us because they fear us. There’s no in-between with the rest of the world. It’s been a love/hate relationship ever since we became the world’s superpower, yet nobody seems to remember that. If we’re no longer liked, it doesn’t mean we’re suddenly liked; it means we’re seen as weak. And weak is not good, especially not in these times where Islam is seeking a caliphate. We’re ripe for the picking and they know it. Too bad Obama and the leftist apologists don’t realize it, too.

What alternative universe is he living in?

JihadWatch is all over this, too.