War criminals among us: inside the quiet effort to prosecute and deport violators disguised as refug

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War criminals among us: inside the quiet effort to prosecute and deport violators disguised as refugees
Fox News, Jul 8, 3019, Hollie McKay

They could be your Uber driver or the security guard at a local airport. The elderly neighbor living next door or the operator of the neighborhood ice cream shop. They came to the United States from all corners of the globe -- Somalia, Rwanda, El Salvador, the Balkans, Germany, Iraq -- claiming to have been persecuted. In reality, they were the persecutors.

For decades, war criminals have lived alongside those they tortured or displaced. Under the guise of being a refugee, they've sought new lives in America. But quiet efforts are underway to expose and punish as many of these hidden offenders as possible -- and ensure none find a lasting haven in the U.S.

“What survivors want is for the truth to come out through the due process,” Dixon Osburn, Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Accountability told Fox News. “When we prove with evidence, that is really empowering for individuals who have suffered.”

Just over a month ago, in a civil case championed by San Francisco-based nonprofit CJA, a U.S. jury ruled Somali native Yusuf Abdi Ali shot and tortured at least one other refugee -- who now also lives in the U.S -- when Ali served as a commander in the national army amid Somalia’s civil war in the late 1980s. Up until the trial in May, Ali drove for Uber and Lyft in Virginia – scoring the jobs even after he was deported from Canada due to his past and despite another suit filed against him that resulted in Ali being placed on administrative leave from a previous position as security guard at Dulles International Airport near Washington DC.

A jury awarded the torture survivor some $500,000 in damages in the CJA case.

It marked the third CJA victory in cases brought against those who committed shocking human rights violations dating back to the early ’90s war in Somalia alone. Yet it's merely the tip of the iceberg of war criminals lurking -- and working -- on U.S. turf.


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