Biden Administration to Immigrants: If You Want to Do Business with Terrorists, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do
By George Fishman on August 25, 2022
To adapt the lyrics of a Billy Holiday song, a new Biden administration policy on the immigration consequences of providing support for terrorists appears to be: “If a terrorist group ain’t got no money and you say, ‘Take all of mine, honey’, ain’t nobody’s business if you do. If you give them your last nickel and it leaves you in a pickle, ain’t nobody’s business if you do.”
In 1996, Congress declared that “foreign organizations that engage in terrorist activity are so tainted by their criminal conduct that any contribution to such an organization facilitates that conduct” and the House Judiciary Committee stated that:
[We] recognize[] the fungibility of financial resources and other types of material support. Allowing an individual to supply funds, goods, or services ... helps defray the cost to the terrorist organization of running the ostensibly legitimate activities. This in turn frees an equal sum that can then be spent on terrorist activities.
In 2007, Sen. Jon Kyl similarly stated that:
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