The United States has secretively been importing millions of Islamic migrants from overseas for decades

 by Edward Ulrich, updated November 17, 2024

[Note: November 17, 2024— Text in this article has been updated.]




Introduction and Summary

For over four decades, the United States has been running a secretive program of importing mostly Muslim migrants into the U.S. under the “Refugee Act of 1980,” which has brought millions to the country.  The program was started by President Jimmy Carter, and it is importing record numbers under Joe Biden.

The program has been creating mostly Islamic immigrant “seed communities” throughout towns in the United States, being decided by Federal agencies and by organizations that often operate under the guise of being religious charities.  The program’s goal is to evenly distribute Muslim populations throughout the towns and cities of all U.S. States (currently except Wyoming.)  There is very little involvement in the program at the state level, and local residents of the towns who would almost certainly be critical of the agendas are kept in the dark about the programs until it is too late.

The program has brought millions of Muslim immigrants to the U.S. from Islamic countries during its history.

The United Nations initially chooses the immigrants which will be brought over, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security then supposedly screens them, although the vetting process is not nearly adequate enough, as this article explains.

After the immigrants are supposedly vetted, the U.S. State Department works with nine federal “resettlement contractors” to distribute them through 350 subcontractors to over 190 U.S. cities where the subcontractors have set up offices.  Those subcontractors are then able to move the migrants from their primary office to smaller towns within 100 miles of the home office.

The refugee admissions program is extremely expensive to taxpayers due to the immigrants being eligible for all forms of welfare that are available to U.S. citizens, and the federal government continues to shift more of the tax burden to the states every year.


This article is a part of A Summary of Islam Related Issues.















About the Refugee Resettlement Watch organization


The Refugee Resettlement Watch website is an excellent source of information about issues with the Refugee Resettlement Program in the United States.  It is founded and operated by Anne Cocoran, who started it is as a grass roots organization eleven years ago after she became curious about what was happening in her town in Maryland.  Almost all of the information in this article has been found using that organization’s website.

Anne Cocoran was recently slandered in a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center entitled “A Field Guide to Anti-Islam Extremists” along with other anti-Islamization activists including Steve Emerson, Brigitte Gabriel, Frank Gaffney, John Guandolo, David Horowitz, Ryan Mauro, Robert Muise, Daniel Pipes, Walid Shoebot, Robert Spencer and David Yerushalmi.  The SPLC has recently redacted that report after being sued by Maajid Nawaz.

(Many people are under the impression that the SPLC is a legitimate organization that works for “social justice,” however it is actually a corrupt Establishment organization that spreads disinformation for partisan political reasons.  See this link for more information about issues with the organization.)

Besides operating the Refugee Resettlement Watch organization, Anne has also published a monograph about the issue entitled “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America.”




















What is the difference between “refugees” and “immigrants”?


From this June 21, 2018 Refugee Resettlement Watch article:














Islam is not compatible with non-Islamic societies


Many well-meaning people think that that problems associated with Islam are merely “cultural remnants” which will soon dissipate, however they usually don’t understand that Islam’s issues are deeply entrenched into the religion itself, with those beliefs often being enforced through intimidation and violence, including even through the imposition of the death penalty.

Unlike other religions, individual interpretations of Islam are forbidden by mainstream adherents of it.  Islam has never gone through a period of “reform” as other major religions have, it is essentially the same religion that it was when it was founded 14,000 years ago.  See this article which summarizes many surprising and disturbing facts about the religion.





The “Aj-Hijra” is an Islamic doctrine of conquest through immigration


The “Aj-Hijra” says that is it the duty of all Muslims to migrate and spread Islamic Jihad to all people of the world.  It translates as follows:

“I charge you with five of what Allah has charged me with: to assemble, to listen, to obey, to immigrate and to wage Jihad for the sake of Allah” — Quote from the Hadith (five responsibilities or “charges” for those who submit to Islam)


















The UN has an agenda of flooding the U.S. with 600 million migrants by the year 2050


A 2001 UN Security document entitled “Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” outlines a strategy to “offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates” by importing millions of migrants into various regions of the world each year including Europe, Japan, Russia, Korea, and the United States.  The plan seeks to bring 10.8 million migrants to the United States each year until 2050, bringing a total of 593 million by that time.  See the following article for details:









Are the migrants at least being “vetted”?


There is no way to effectively screen the hundreds of thousands of migrants that are being brought mostly from Islamic countries, however that doesn’t stop the Establishment from creating a false perception that effective vetting has been taking place.

For all intents and purposes the quality of the vetting for the migrants being brought into the U.S. isn’t actually much better than what is happening in Europe.  Often the migrants either don’t have identifying papers or they are unwilling to show them, so of course any realistic vetting is not possible.

In 2015 Obama’s FBI director James Comey said that it is impossible to screen the Syrian migrants that were being brought into the United States, but that didn’t stop Obama from bringing tens of thousands of them in anyway.  Comey also said that hundreds of migrants reached the U.S. with ties to Islamic terrorism.

Trump continuing with the same policies, while almost none of his supporters were even aware that he was bringing tens of thousands of essentially unvetted Muslims into the country!

The Establishment is doing what it can to create a perception that vetting is happening, but actually they don’t even want it to be a “safe” situation in the first place!  They have an agenda of importing Muslims into the Western countries in order to satisfy various long-term agendas, with the migrants often being made use of as unwitting pawns for nefarious purposes such as for creating crisis, chaos, and division, as has been happening in Europe.  This is being done to create a justification for the Establishment to increasingly crack down on people’s personal liberties, among other reasons.

In Europe the political Establishment was able to get away with simply throwing open the borders and allowing anyone to walk in and sign up for welfare benefits, inducing even many enemy combatant Jihadists.  But the Establishment has needed to use another approach in the United States.

Here are some examples of Trump’s first administration being deceitful about the supposed “vetting” that is happening:

Following are excerpts from a March 2017 Refugee Resettlement Watch article entitled “Refuting, once again, the big lie about 18-24 months of vetting!”




See this May 2017 article about Trump’s supposed vetting of the Australian “dumb deal” asylum seekers: “Australia dumb deal: If this is ‘extreme vetting’ we are in deep trouble!”

And see this September 25, 2017 article that says “Trump won’t do extra scrutiny of the refugees arriving in potentially large numbers from Iraq, Afghanistan and Burma (Rohingya!)  He even took Sudan off the list!”

.. Also, that same article was a run-up to Trump’s “refugee determination” last year, where Trump could have decided not to bring in any migrants at all, but instead he imported tens of thousands of them.  Will his upcoming decision this year be the same, or even worse?!

Then, on January 30th, 2018, Trump announced that he was opening the floodgates to migrants from 11 “high risk” countries, but with “extra vetting.”  (By the way those people are now living in the United States and they are essentially citizens.  Tens of thousands of them!  Refugee contractors and Amnesty International also ridiculously said that they were “worried” about the extra vetting.)  Following are the countries in question: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

.. And then, on February 7, 2018, Trump announced a supposed “National Vetting Center.”  (But obviously that program is nothing more than just some words on a webpage.)

Most people assume that Trump only brought in a few thousand Muslims because of the “bad deal” with Australia (that he actually could have and should have refused anyway.)  Can you imagine what Trump’s supporters would have thought if they knew that he’s already actually imported tens of thousands of essentially unvetted Muslim migrants?  It’s important for people to be made aware of that fact because Trump has the power to stop it from happening again— And in fact he’ll be making the same decisions again in the his new administration.






Muslim refugees could instead easily be relocated to safe parts of other Islamic countries


Most of the Muslims which the U.S. has been importing are not actually refugees, but rather they are economic migrants who are being offered a chance to immigrate by the political Establishment.

Muslims who are genuinely refugees could easily be relocated to safe parts of other Islamic countries instead where they would be much more compatible.  For example, Sunni Muslims who prefer the most strict interpretation of Sharia law should ideally be able to choose to relocate to Saudi Arabia, which is a wealthy country that has plenty of space to accommodate refugees.  Currently Saudi Arabia receives no immigrants whatsoever despite having plentiful resources and being totally compatible with the Sharia law beliefs of many of the migrants.

Other safe parts of the Islamic world could also easily be designated to accommodate the various other sects of Muslims.






Many people confuse the resettlement program with immigration from Latin America whenever they hear it mentioned in the media (if ever)


The “Refugee Resettlement program” is entirely different than Latin American immigration.  There are many differences between the two, but one is that the resettlement program is actually legal.  However, few people even know that the resettlement program exists because of essentially a media blackout about the topic.  And also people tend to confuse the program with Latin American immigration whenever the media might actually mention it.  The media understands such a potential cause of confusion and they intentionally try to exploit it to conceal the existence of the refugee program.

For example, this deceitful NBC video intentionally tries to exploit such confusion by first mentioning that Trump is “.. reducing the number of refugees [being permitted] into the U.S. next year— scaling back a system designed to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.  For the 2018 fiscal year the White House set a cap on refugees of 35 thousand, a historic low.”  (And they also said that Trump only admitted “half” that number, but actually they deceitfully didn’t include the additional 16 thousand migrants that were also brought in from Afghanistan.)  But then, they immediately segued into talking about the much hyped “border child separation issue,” creating a perception that they were previously only talking about Latin American immigration!  Very sneaky!  (Later they did mention that there was a distinction, but they played it down as if it was insignificant.)

At least a benefit of the resettlement program being a “secret” is that it can be eliminated without a lot of fuss.






What problems are being caused by Islamic migration in the United States and Europe?


The media tries to be quiet about problems with immigrants in the US, but many issues do exist.  The situation in the U.S. isn’t as bad as it currently is in Europe, but it is on track to becoming that way as well.

Europe is absolutely having an epidemic of problems related to the Islamic immigration.

For example see this 2016 RRW article entitled “Ten US cases of refugee Islamic terror arrests/convictions, and see the Islam summary article on News of Interest.TV (this website) for much summarized informaton about issues with Islam.






Nine Federal “resettlement contractor” organizations are responsible for bringing the immigrants into the U.S.


After the migrants are supposedly “vetted,” the U.S. State Department works with nine Federal “resettlement contractors” to distribute them through 350 subcontractors to over 190 cities where the subcontractors have set up offices.  Those subcontractors can move the migrants out from their primary office to smaller towns within 100 miles of the home office.

Following are the contractors: (Note the percentage in parenthesis is the amount of tax dollars that the contractor receives for its work.)

Church World Service (CWS) (71%) — http://www.churchworldservice.org/

Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular) (93%) — http://www.ecdcinternational.org/

Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) (99.5%) — http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/emm/

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) (57%) — http://www.hias.org/

International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%) — http://www.theirc.org/

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%) — http://www.refugees.org/

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) (97%) — http://www.lirs.org/

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) (97%) — http://www.usccb.org/

World Relief Corporation (WR) (72.8%) — http://www.wr.org/


The contractors are distributing Muslims to small and medium sized cities, often away from established immigrant sanctuary cities.  For that reason there are Mosques being built all over the country in states even including Alaska.  Once a Mosque is built, it serves as a magnet in that area and resettlement contractors cite the presence of it as a reason for bringing in more migrants.

Resettlement contractors are paid for every migrant that they bring in, so there is much incentive for them to import as many as possible.  The contractors also act as leftist government funded political action group activists and community organizers in order to fight to protect their jobs!

The resettlement contractors can make exorbitant amounts of money

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the refugee contractors which has profited heavily during the Obama Presidency.  Many of the migrants they brought in have been sent to work for Tyson Foods meatpacking, which is a long-term associate of Bill Clinton.  From the IRC’s 2016 tax returns, it is apparent that they had a revenue of $736 million dollars, with $494 million being paid by taxpayers— all to bring mostly unvetted Muslims into the country!  Also their management staff are paid very high salaries, with their CEO David Millibrand earning almost $700,000 per year.  See this 2018 RRW article about the matter.

See this 2017 RRW article containing financial data about each of the resettlement contractors.






The recent relative “slowdown” of the migrants being imported into the U.S. is causing contractors to panic for fear of losing their jobs


Since the resettlement contractors are paid for each of the migrants that they process, the relative slowdown of the number of migrants that are being imported sometimes drives the contractors to embark on PR stunts, such as on leftist media outlets like NPR affiliates which run stories that talk about “the tragedy of refugees being blocked from salvation, ect..”  See this article for an example of such a tactic.

Also the importation of the 16 thousand additional migrants that Trump brought in from Afghanistan apparently had been motivated as a political “gimme” to resettlement contractors in order to keep them afloat.






Selected key points from a Refugee Resettlement Watch article entitled “Ten things your town needs to know when (if!) “welcoming” refugees for the first time”