Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Afghans or Us: Who Are the Refugees?
Aired: 2021-11-29
Duration: 09:17


=== 16,000 Afghan Asylum Seekers (08:34) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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[00:00:13]  How many Afghans are coming after the regime we supported for 20 years collapsed in 11 days?
[00:00:19]  We seem to have flown out about 70,000 in those final crazy days, but where are they now?
[00:00:26]  Just last Monday, There was a cheerful New York Times article about 12,600 of them living at Fort McCoy Army Base in Wisconsin.
[00:00:37]  The Times says 40,000 more are at other bases around the country, and another 14,000 are on overseas U.S. bases waiting to come.
[00:00:47]  At Fort McCoy, the Times notes, there have been outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and about 140 cases of COVID.
[00:00:57]  Men from different tribes get into fights, and there have been sexual assaults, but that's what you expect from Afghans.
[00:01:04]  A former member of the National Ladies' Paralympic basketball team is at Fort McCoy in her wheelchair.
[00:01:13]  About half of these Afghans, says the Times, know some English, which means the rest can't speak a word.
[00:01:20]  These people are obviously not the plucky interpreters and translators who helped us spread democracy and women's rights.
[00:01:28]  So who are they?
[00:01:30]  Well, but first, let's talk about those interpreters and translators.
[00:01:33]  They are supposed to get in on special immigrant visas, or SIVs.
[00:01:39]  That's a special kind of visa cooked up just for Afghans, who are in danger because they worked for us.
[00:01:46]  But SIVs were invented in 2009.
[00:01:50]  We were dispensing the American way of life at fever pitch, but we already knew, 11 years ago, that people who worked for us would have to bugger off?
[00:01:59]  I guess so, since we had issued more than 16,000 of these visas, and there were another 18,000 in the works when Kabul collapsed.
[00:02:09]  This article about special immigrant visas explains the process.
[00:02:14]  It notes that it took an average of two years to grant an SIV.
[00:02:18]  Why? A big reason was the need to conduct rigorous and lengthy background checks.
[00:02:25]  You couldn't trust Afghans even if they had worked for us.
[00:02:29]  Obviously, the 70,000 Afghans, half of whom don't speak a lick of English, along with a Paralympic basketball player, don't have interpreter visas.
[00:02:39]  So, what's their status?
[00:02:41]  If you think they're refugees or asylum seekers, you're wrong.
[00:02:46]  You don't know half the ways to get into this country.
[00:02:49]  Heck, I don't know half the ways.
[00:02:51]  As this article explains, they're coming in under what's called humanitarian parole.
[00:02:57]  That's for when we want to get people here in a panic.
[00:03:01]  As the article explains, while visa processes can take years or decades, the parole process may take days or even just hours to complete.
[00:03:12]  I bet with Kabul going to pieces, it took just minutes to waive each Afghan.
[00:03:20]  Instead of taking a nice, long look at them, we flew them right out, along with their measles, mumps, and polio.
[00:03:26]  And believe it or not, there is no legal definition of who gets humanitarian parole.
[00:03:32]  That means the Biden folks just made it up as they went along.
[00:03:35]  Once parolees get here, they have two years to decide what to do.
[00:03:40]  Still, we're supposed to feel very sorry for the thousands left behind.
[00:03:45]  The administration says they should go to a neighboring country and apply from there.
[00:03:50]  That won't be easy.
[00:03:52]  Pakistan, where Afghans usually run away to, has closed its border and just finished 1,640 miles of double fencing, 12 feet tall, with 6 feet of concertina barbed wire in between.
[00:04:07]  Iran and Turkey have closed their borders and stepped up patrols.
[00:04:11]  What do those countries know that we don't?
[00:04:15]  So what happens with these Afghans on parole?
[00:04:19]  After they've been cured of mumps and COVID, they will be turned loose.
[00:04:23]  Thirty-seven states have said they will take some, but two states, South Dakota and Wyoming, say no way.
[00:04:30]  Eleven states are undecided.
[00:04:32]  Last week, Congress set aside $6.3 billion to ease the pain of relocation.
[00:04:40]  Well, I was surprised to learn that during the 20 years that we were bringing Coca-Cola and McDonald's to Afghanistan, we had already brought in more than 97,000 Afghans.
[00:04:50]  Here is a graph that shows when they came.
[00:04:54]  2014 is when the SIV holders really began to pour in.
[00:04:59]  But again, why did these guys have to run for their lives while nation-building was in full swing?
[00:05:05]  In any case, with nearly 100,000 Afghans already here, you'll hardly notice another 70,000.
[00:05:12]  Unless you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or Wyoming.
[00:05:15]  During those 20 years, these three states refused to take in even one Afghan.
[00:05:21]  Most of this new batch will apply for asylum.
[00:05:24]  They can do that because, in 1968, we signed a treaty that says we are supposed to let in anyone with, and I quote, a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group,
[00:05:41]  or political opinion.
[00:05:43]  If foreigners apply from outside the U.S., they're refugees.
[00:05:47]  If they apply from inside, like these Afghans, they are asylum seekers.
[00:05:52]  What are their prospects?
[00:05:55]  Excellent. Even if they turn out to be pederasts or bomb throwers or bigamists or experts in female genital mutilation, we won't send them back to a country we wrecked and no other country will want them.
[00:06:08]  Consider them home free.
[00:06:11]  Along with a lot of other people who get asylum.
[00:06:14]  Here's a question for you.
[00:06:15]  Which country gets the most people approved for asylum?
[00:06:20]  You get a gold star if you know that it's...
[00:06:23]  China. As you can see in this graph, since Xi Jinping took over in 2012, the number of Chinese who want to clear out has really taken off.
[00:06:34]  Guess where they want to go?
[00:06:36]  In 2020, 70% of them applied to come here.
[00:06:40]  Since 2010, we have granted asylum to more than 275,000 people.
[00:06:46]  This table is just for one year, 2019, but China is at the top spot.
[00:06:51]  Followed by Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Egypt.
[00:06:56]  For the last ten years, Chinese have accounted for fully one quarter of Azalees.
[00:07:02]  They usually come on a tourist visa, and they say they need asylum.
[00:07:07]  These are not Uyghurs, who are sure enough persecuted and might have a claim.
[00:07:13]  They're ordinary Chinese who want to live in the West and have suckered us into giving them asylum.
[00:07:18]  In the next few years, they should be nudged out of first place by worthy Afghans.
[00:07:24]  But don't forget refugees, the ones who applied from outside the country.
[00:07:29]  We've let in more than 600,000 of them in the last 10 years.
[00:07:33]  And as you can see on this table, the top countries are Myanmar, that's the hip new name for Burma, Iraq, Bhutan, Congo, and Somalia.
[00:07:44]  I'm told these people make wonderful neighbors.
[00:07:47]  This graph shows how much the number of refugees bounces around from year to year.
[00:07:52]  Over at the right, you can see that Donald Trump cut refugee admissions way back.
[00:07:58]  But as you can also see, in 2020, Joe Biden raised the refugee ceiling and promises to double it again.
[00:08:05]  My point is this.
[00:08:07]  Whether they are refugees, asylum seekers, border hoppers, or legal immigrants, Who says we need more Burmese, Congolese, Chinese, Bhutanese, Salvadorans, and Afghans?
[00:08:21]  To return to the New York Times article about Fort McCoy, it ends with a quote from an Afghan who points to Afghan children running around the base.

=== Whites As Refugees? (00:53) ===

[00:08:30]  These children are the future of the United States, he says.
[00:08:35]  Right, along with Burmese and Congolese.
[00:08:39]  Remember, Whites are expected to be a minority by 2040.
[00:08:44]  Despite our professed love of diversity, when the neighborhood turns Haitian or Guatemalan, whites move away.
[00:08:52]  I guess we'll just have to keep on moving.
[00:08:56]  So who are the refugees?
[00:08:58]  Us or the newcomers?
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