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2020-02-24 Iraq

How the 'Interpreter' Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America

[Sultan Knish] The latest battle over Special Immigrant Visas pitted Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor, against the Pentagon. The military brass was lobbying for 6,000 special immigrant visas for Iraqis who worked for American forces in the country. These visas were once again billed as helping "interpreters".

That’s a lot of interpreters considering that there were only 5,200 American troops in Iraq.

How could there be more Iraqi interpreters for American troops than there are troops?

The Special Immigrant Visa scam has been sold for over a decade using the same claim that it’s needed to save the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who are risking death by helping American soldiers.

In one decade, the United States has handed out 75,250 of these visas to Iraqi and Afghan employees, and their dependents. Between 2007 and 2017, they represented 1 percent of all immigrant visas.

The truth is that the military brass has wrongly used the incentive of Special Immigrant Visas to recruit local personnel and cut costs by promising them resettlement in the United States. Considering the costs of resettling even the nicest Iraqi or Afghan families, it would have been cheaper to pay each of them a six-figure salary. But that would have come out of the defense budget. The SIV scam passes the buck to local cities and states, to ordinary taxpayers and communities who have to hire interpreters who speak Pashto to interact with the children of the interpreters who are swamping local school systems.

One Iraqi or Afghan employee brings a lot more dependents and expenses with him. In 2017, the 4,677 Iraqi and Afghan employees brought 13,713 dependents with them for a total of 18,390 refugees.

Those were the worst numbers since before Obama took office.

While conventional refugee numbers have been slashed, the number of Special Immigrant Visas for Iraqis and Afghans drastically shot up because the Pentagon was getting its way on immigration. Few of these visas were for actual interpreters. That number tends to be capped at 50 a year. Most of the SIV applicants coming in had to have only worked for a few years in often vaguely defined capacities.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-24 07:29|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Wasn't the narrative for the last several years that we were "abandoning them?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-24 08:36|| 2020-02-24 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 You'd think sending your own guys to a language school in Iraq'd be more practicable, right ? But the problem was not one of mere interpretation.

It was elements of the sunnat your ⭔ needed sifted, their implications in the texts deciphered. They were occurring in legalese, community charters, correspondence, etc. There was a tug-of-war after 2001 between US defence and intelligence factions over whether to approach Asian or Arab help over it.

The 'history and culture' part of the Jihad is known best to the Pakistainer and the Indian, since that is where the bloodshed mostly begins. But India was strictly a navel gazing polity, afraid of venturing into geo-politics, especially war with muslims... brrr ! The Indian governments wanted the muslim vote and they couldn't care less about America's troubles or Israel or anything until the 2008 attacks. India's Leftist govts never encouraged anti-islamist lobying or covert operations back then. They just didn't volunteer to help. Pakistain did, and America and Britain did take them up on that, but the ISI piggybacked their Jamaat sasquatches on such visa policies and entrenched them deep in NY, New Jersey, London, Birmingham, Manchester.

By Obama's time, the richer Muslim Brotherhood had practically infiltrated nearly all offices in American intelligence, the Pakistani ISI in UK's political parties. The pan-islamic Muslim Brotherhood and the Asian Jamaats are essentially rivals for the same crimson hued sunni dystopia envisioned by their predecessors; often playing a balance of power game with the amount of influence they can garner in liberal democracies.

We should have pitted them against each other, and bumped them off in false flag ops, but the over-compartmentalized, assembly-line systematization plaguing the American side; and the classic ineptitude and political impotence of the Indian side kept us from trusting and working with each other. The advantage was reaped by well taqiya-ed plants and bi-lingual sasquatches who wanted to exploit American largesse.

There's book about all this written by one o' my betters, a Gen Katoch. I forget the name. It documents the ways by which the Jamaat and the MB divvied up sectors, and infiltrated and consolidated their hold on different aspects of Ewwropean and American administrations using Leftist provided social justice covers and means.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-24 08:52|| 2020-02-24 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 This General Katoch?

Posted by Matt 2020-02-24 10:59|| 2020-02-24 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Yupp.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-24 11:03|| 2020-02-24 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I heard that right after 9/11, hyphenated American Jews from the Muslim world tried to volunteer as interpreters for the FBI/CIA/DoD. But the entrenched Muslim interpreters let it be known they would not work if the sons of apes and monkeys were hired, and that was that.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-24 16:10|| 2020-02-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

#6 That's because the primarily Arab Muslim Brotherhood had already gotten it's hold through the CAIR, the North American Islamic Trust, and Islamic Society of North America into these American govt depts.

The Arab sees the South Asian as a monkey, subhuman. They are essentially only fit to be slaves, even according to their scriptures.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-24 16:26|| 2020-02-24 16:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course the hatred for Jews is even more intense.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-24 16:34|| 2020-02-24 16:34|| Front Page Top

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