Jim Simpson, a conservative writer who works closely with the Center for Security Policy, told the Center’s Jim Hanson in an interview yesterday that refugee resettlement to the U.S. must be stopped because liberals are using it as a ploy to bring in “people from all over the world that do not share our culture and our values” because they know that the “beliefs that we as Americans hold stand directly in the way of them gaining power.”
Hanson, who was guest hosting the group’s “Secure Freedom Radio” program, asked Simpson about a discredited poll his organization produced that purported to show a high prevalence of extremist beliefs among American Muslims, a poll that Donald Trump cited in his call for a ban on Muslim immigration last year.
Trump’s more recent proposal to ban immigration from what he called “terror nations,” Hanson said, “seems like a common-sense solution to me.”
Simpson agreed that “it’s absolutely a common-sense solution” but said that more can be done, such as an effort to “curtail if not halt entirely the refugee resettlement program.” The refugee program, he said, is “so out of control” and is “driven by very malevolent motives” from resettlement contractors (many of which are religious groups), which he said just want to make money, and from the “radical left.”
“[T]he radical left and the Democratic Party, primarily if not exclusively, benefit directly from bringing in people from all over the world that do not share our culture and our values,” he said. “Gradually, our unique culture, our unique values that have made us the envy of the world for 200 years are being watered down and diluted to the point of irrelevance because we are bringing in people from all over the world that do not share those values. And that is and has been a long-term goal of the radical left in this country, because the left knows that those cultures, those traditions, those beliefs that we as Americans hold stand directly in the way of them gaining power.”
