Shocking report: Who are the 42,000?

Numbers in immigration policy matter.  As I noted in my 7-point plan to protect the homeland, there is a lot of middle ground between never bringing in a single Muslim immigrant and continuing on the current trajectory of record high immigration from the Middle East.

While the media completely ignores the rampant problem of homegrown terror, we are seeing stories of young Muslims—either brought here as children or born here to Muslim immigrants—engaging in terror plots on a daily basis.  Thanks to the success of the cyber-jihad there is a growing dynamic of reverse-assimilation in which the children of Muslim immigrants to western countries are becoming more radicalized than even their parents.

To illustrate the sheer magnitude of the potential security risks, Census data shows that there are 918,306 U.S. born children of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, just like Syed Farook.[1]  More importantly, 42,163 of them will turn 18 every single year, the prime age for radicalization and Jihad.  Obviously the vast majority of them will not grow up to commit mass terror attacks.  But consider these two factors:

1. According to a recent poll, 29% of American-Muslim males under 45 believe that violence against America is justified in order to make Sharia the law of the land.  And with the growing trend of radicalization of the younger generation, including women, that trajectory will likely get worse. And remember, based on what we are seeing from the Farook family, while the parents rarely engage in terrorism, many of them do harbor radical Islamist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American views.
2. Immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries have a higher birthrate than other immigrants and a much higher birthrate than the native population.  Somalis, for example, have the highest birthrate of any immigrant group in the country.

Now remember that as we struggle to assimilate many of these younger, potentially vulnerable American Muslims, we admit over 100,000 new immigrants from the same countries every year, in addition to over 150,000 foreign students.  How in the world will such a mass migration not exacerbate the existing problem?

It is a fair and important question to ask because the incidents of young Muslims arrested for terror attacks are rampant. These are just the examples off the top of my head of young Muslim terrorists from this week alone:

• A man believed to be a radicalized Muslim was reportedly arrested after he allegedly chased and threatened to kill a neighbor with a sword.
• An ISIS-supporting Ohio Muslim hospital worker who called for U.S. soldiers to be beheaded in their homes was arrested.
• A 20-year-old Somali-American from Eagan was arrested by the FBI Wednesday night on charges of supplying material support to terrorists in Syria and Iraq, according to federal authorities and court documents.
• Two Muslim men bought 60 burner cell phones at 3:50 am Sunday morning from a local Wal-Mart.  They were questioned by police and RELEASED as officers did not have a “legal reason to detain them,” according to local news report.
• A UAE student who overstayed his student visa was arrested with illegally possessed ammunition this week.  He had paid $11,000 in cash for room fees in a motel in Melbourne Florida.

In all of these cases, there is a complete media blackout about the broader details of the terror plots or suspicious circumstances and no mention of the family’s immigration history.  Dr. Nidal Alsayyed, a brave Imam from southeast Texas, was fired from his position for expressing his support for a cool off period of new immigration from the Middle East.  He recognizes the existing problem among the Muslim youth. “We need to stop taking new ones until we fix the existing situation,” said an exasperated Alsayyed.

With the growing population explosion of young Muslims in this country from the existing irresponsible immigration policies, why can’t our elites see the writing on the wall that is so obvious to this courageous Muslim Imam?

[1] It’s important to note that there is no way to count precisely how many Muslims live in the U.S. or are admitted every year. However, by calculating the Census numbers or immigration numbers from the predominantly Muslim countries, we can ascertain a ballpark figure.  While a certain percentage of immigrants from these countries is likely non-Muslims, there are several other countries, such as India, that have sizable Muslim populations that are not included in these figure. Consequently, on balance, they are likely a close estimation to the actual Muslim population.

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