$2,000 Buys A Genuine Syrian Passport, A Driver's License, A Photo ID, And A New Identity In Turkey. ISIS Has Issued Thousands Of These Documents To Its Followers. Welcome To The U.S.A.

$2,000. That's all it costs to buy a Syrian passport, a driver's license, and an ID card in Turkey. And they're not just any old Syrian passport, driver's license, or ID. They're the real deal, as genuine as a real one. Because they are real.

You heard me. 100% authentic Syrian identity documentation can be bought on the black market in Turkey by anyone with $2,000 in cash. That's because thousands of these documents were grabbed by Syrian opposition forces and ISIS as they overran government offices formerly held by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and ransacked by the bad guys.

The $2,000 also gets you your photo on the documents along with a new identity, usually the name of an untraceable, squeaky clean, dead Syrian who was killed in the conflict that is raging in the Middle East.

Nick Fagge, Daily Mail reporter who purchased authentic Syrian documents with a new identity for $2,000

Meet Nick Fagge, a reporter for the UK's Daily Mail. You can call him Nick...or Jak, if you go by the very real passport and other genuine forms of identification he recently purchased in Turkey. These documents are all this Brit needs to become a Syrian and pass as a refugee on his way to Germany, France, the UK... or the U.S.

Nick Fagge, aka Jak the Refugee

$2,000.

And ISIS has its hands on thousands of these authentic documents ready to transform its lunatic followers into refugees who will be welcomed into the West with open arms.

How stupid can we possibly be? Better said, how stupid can the Liberal Left be?

Like President Obama, who recently said we will be admitting 110,000 additional Syrian refugees into the U.S. in 2017. And Hillary, who wants that number increased.

Again I ask, how stupid can they possibly be?

Pretty darn stupid, I'd say.

Before I go on, I need to something very, very clear. I appreciate the opportunity for people to immigrate to the U.S. more than most. I, along with thousands of other Cubans, was able to immigrate to the U.S. in 1960 and eventually became a naturalized citizen. Thousands more like me have followed since then, just like millions of immigrants from other countries did before us.

A throng of refugees, with some posing as Syrians, seeking to enter Europe

But there's a very real difference between Cuban immigrants, and immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Poland, Japan, Korea, China, India, etc. etc., that have come to the U.S. in the past, and refugees from Syria or other Muslim countries who seek to immigrate to the West.

None of the refugees or immigrants who have come to the U.S. in the past have indiscriminately inflicted death and destruction on America while chanting "Allah Akbar".

None of them have strapped on a bomb or planted explosive devices in public places with the intention of killing as many people as possible.

And none of them have come here with an express hatred of the U.S., everything it stands for, and anyone who lives here.

Some of the ones attempting to pass themselves off as refugees are anything but refugees. They want to come here for one purpose and only one purpose - to kill as many of us as possible.

As I said, I sympathize deeply with anyone striving to leave horrible conditions and come to a new land that offers the opportunity for freedom, success, and safe harbor. However, I'm smart enough to understand that sympathy must sometimes be tempered by wisdom, common sense, and caution. I also recognize that with my head out of the sand, I can see that the world today is a much different place than it was in the past when the U.S. could freely open its doors to those fleeing persecution, oppression, or sanctuary.

So, to all my friends on the left, let's drop the sanctimonious, faux-righteous indignation you frequently espouse when anyone expresses concern over allowing an influx of thousands and thousands of people from places that are ripe with people who wish to do nothing but kill us.

Expressing concern and demanding caution over the admittance of thousands of Syrian refugees does not make us, or America, hard-hearted, unsympathetic people. It makes us sane, rational, thoughtful people.

Unlike you, you naive idiots.

While we're at it, lets also drop the cliche' racist jargon - it got old the first twenty million times that you played that card. Opposing unfettered, nilly-willy immigration from Syria does not make us, or Americans, religious bigots who hate Muslims. The only Muslims we don't cotton to are those who believe in a radical, hysterical, fanatical type of Islam that is egregiously more racist, bigoted, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American as it can possibly be.

The problem is you can't tell which Syrians are peace loving, good and decent people, as opposed to the ones who are posing as refugees and are trying to come here to become martyrs and take as many of us as they can with them.

Is that so hard to grasp?

Perhaps if the leaders of other countries had tempered their compassion with common sense, many of their residents would not have been injured or would still be here to enjoy the life that many refugees hope for. 

A Syrian "refugee" is taken into custody after his terrorist attack

Like Germany, where earlier this year Syrian "refugees" committed two separate terrorist attacks. The first took place in Reutlingen where a man stabbed five people, killing one woman before being taken into custody by local police. In another, a Syrian "refugee" blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach. No one was killed but 15 people were injured in the blast.

These attacks came on the heel of another incident in which an Afghan "refugee" pledged allegiance to ISIS and tried to stab commuters on a German train.

As horrific and alarm-bell-ringing as those incidents were, they pale in comparison with what happened earlier this year in France.

Last October, some two hundred refugees arrived by boat in Greece seeking to make their way to other parts of Europe. Among these refugees were four individuals who were anything but asylum-seeking refugees - they were on their way to France for the sole purpose of murder.

Posing as Syrian refugees with doctored passports and false identities (does this ring a bell?), two of these ISIS jihadists successfully masqueraded themselves all the way to Paris and detonated suicide vests at the Stade de France complex, part of the deadliest attack on France since World War II.

And that's not all. More than three dozen suspected militants who impersonated migrants have been arrested or died while planning/carrying out acts of terrorism. They include at least seven directly tied to the bloody attacks in Paris and Brussels.

Meanwhile, ISIS is gloating that they have far more lying in wait. An ISIS commander was recently interviewed over an encrypted data service and said:

“We have sent many operatives to Europe with the refugees. Some of our brothers have fulfilled their mission, but others are still waiting to be activated.”

Prior to the Paris and Brussels attacks, ISIS claimed that 4,000 of its members had traveled to Europe disguised as Syrian refugees. Syria’s ambassador to India reaffirmed those claims shortly after the Paris attacks when he acknowledged that more than 20 percent of the Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe belong to ISIS.

Yet President Obama has compared Syrian refugees to the first Pilgrims who sailed to America on the Mayflower in September 1620.

The forger who sold the fake passport and ID's to the Daily Mail reporter had a different view. He said that the Syrian refugees are loaded with ISIS fanatics using fake documents to travel undetected across borders into Europe, hidden among tens of thousands of genuine refugees fleeing the terror and destruction. Once in Europe, they set up sleeper cells or live freely under with their new identities until they are called to action.

As the forger told the Daily Mail, "ISIS fighters are among the people going to Europe in this way. They are going to wait for the right time to become a fighter for ISIS again."

I'm not the only one who understands the folly in admitting thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. and the dangers they represent. FBI director James Comey has admitted that the federal government does not have the ability to conduct thorough background checks on all of the Syrian refugees that the Obama administration wants to bring in to the U.S.

“We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”

Do we really want to sacrifice the safety of our families, children, and our fellow Americans because of some misguided, sanctimonious, politically correct theme that Progressives want to follow? They keep telling there is nothing to fear, that they will be vetted, that we will not let the bad guys get in, but that's a crock of manure.

Tell that to the hundreds who have died or were maimed in France and Germany.

And then consider that for us to rely on our federal authorities to protect us requires us to rely on the same people who recently granted U.S. citizenship to some 800 immigrants who had been ordered deported.

A Department of Homeland Security report just disclosed that these individuals, who should have been deported, were instead granted citizenship because of "gaps" in fingerprint record keeping. Translated - the deportees beat the system by using another name or date of birth, applied for, and were granted citizenship and because neither Homeland Security nor the FBI keeps old fingerprint records of individuals previously deported, they breezed through the system undetected.

Last but not least, we have the shining example of what just happened in New York City and its surrounding metropolitan area. The Afghan immigrant bomber had been reported to the FBI by his own father two years ago as a terrorist. He had travelled to Afghanistan and the Taliban held portions of Pakistan numerous times, sometimes for over a year, and returned to the U.S. as a radicalized murderer. At least that's what his friends would have told the FBI had they stopped by to ask.

With all these red flags flying over the bomber's New Jersey apartment, where was our FBI? Where was Homeland Security? Where were the people upon who we would rely to vet the Syrian refugees?

The FBI says they investigated and found nothing to warrant surveillance, questioning, or action. Really? And these are the folks that we are to rely upon when "vetting" Syrian refugees?

Think about that the next time Hillary tells you that she wants to increase the number of Syrian refugees by 550% over what the Obama administration has planned. And then think again when you are in the voting booth trying to decide whether you want her in office to implement her plan.