San Bernardino County Residents Feared Syrian Resettlement
There's no official word yet on the shooters behind the massacre in San Bernardino County, but California did receive the most Syrian migrants of any state. That's a group in which significant numbers poll in support of ISIS and other terror groups. Yet the concerns of local citizens were ignored, dismissed and ridiculed.
Some members of Redlands Townhall and the Redlands Tea Party Patriots have called on city officials to keep Syrian and African refugees from resettling here.
They asked City Council members Tuesday what their plan will be if the city is asked to resettle some of the 85,000 refugees expected to come to the United States in 2016.
Many of the refugees would be Syrian and others would be from strife-torn areas of Africa.
“Where will they be housed? How will their expenses be paid and by whom? And what will be done to ensure the safety of our community? Our biggest concern is the safety of our family, our children and our grandchildren,” Victoria Hargrave of Redlands Townhall said the council on Tuesday.
“The Obama administration would like to bring in 85,000 Syrian refugees into our country in the calendar year that just started on Oct. 1 and they have admitted that they have no database or source of information with which to vet these refugees,” she said. “There are primarily Sunni Muslims. Al-Qaida are Sunni Muslims whose culture and ideology are completely contrary to our Constitution.”
The Redlands Tea Party Patriots were denounced as bigots and their concerns were not taken seriously. Maybe it's time we started paying attention to the people whose communities will come under siege.
Whether or not this was an Islamic terror attack, it's only a matter of waiting until the next one takes place.