THE INSIDE JOB: Faces of the Anti-American Movement

It's one thing when a foreign government turns hostile. It's another when legal citizens, elected officials, and people whose ancestors built the USA start walking away from loyalty to the United States. A concerning and growing phenomenon of people who aren't rejecting America out of ignorance or malice, but deliberate choice.  

A conversation with Sharon Rondeau.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Sharon Rondo from the USA, and we're looking forward to that conversation with Sharon. She keeps us up to date with all things happening regarding citizenship issues, fraud, crime, all sorts of things in the United States. Sharon, it's great to have you back on the show. Thank you so much, Cheryl. Thank you for having me. My pleasure, Sharon. And I've also got Peter Richardson here on the line as well. He's joined me in the studio today, looking forward to this conversation. Sharon, you've been very, very good in keeping us up to date with what's been happening with the major issue, which is the uh issue. And I believe that there's also something else that's really going to speed this along, and that is the arrest of a woman by the name of Shamim Maffe. And I believe that she was arrested at LA Airport. Can you tell our viewers what's been happening there?

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Yes, yes. In fact, I will. Thank you for asking. Um, this unfortunately seems to be following a pattern of uh people who have been allowed into the United States and given all kinds of benefits that that uh naturalized citizens sometimes get, uh, they have to supposedly earn that citizenship if they do go in that direction. And to be clear, she was not a U.S. citizen, but she was what we call a green card holder. I checked that out with the DOJ today because there was a report last night that she actually was a U.S. citizen, that she was naturalized. She was not. But on April 19th, she was arrested at LAX uh International Airport. That's the international airport for for uh Los Angeles, California, very major airport. And uh she was accused of selling drones, bombs, bomb fuses, ammunition to the country of Sudan at the behest of Iran. She is an Iranian national, uh, or she was born there. And uh some reports are calling her an Iranian entrepreneur of all things, and that's a whole other issue with the media. But at any rate, she was arrested, she is accused of those things. She became a legal permanent resident in 2016, uh, that was before Donald Trump took office. Uh uh Barack Obama was still in office then. And uh I don't know how far she was on the road to becoming a citizen. That may not even figure into it, but her name is Shamin Mafi. And uh the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California says that she uh uh it's he he's accusing her of these things, and they're very glad that they caught this before something awful happened in the United States because there's always that potential. Uh the weapons were made by Iran and sold to the Sudan uh in playing a role in Sudan's civil war. Uh at any rate, uh this person was given the benefit of a green card, which means you are a legal permanent resident. And um it it all goes to show that this pattern in the United States over the last 10, 15, 20, even more years of allowing people in without proper vetting and then allowing them to stay, and of course, I guess assuming that they have the best of intent is is not going to work for us. So that's one of just several cases like this that have happened all just in the last few months.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

Indeed. And if she is found guilty, I believe if she's convicted, she will face up to twenty years in federal prison. And what also goes with that then is the ongoing uh cost for US citizens. One, they have the issue of the citizens that uh have no faith or loyalty to the USA at all. And secondly, it is uh continuing for you know to you know put hands in pockets of taxpayers if these people are con are convicted and put into federal prison. So it's i there's it's not a win situation at all, is it? Because you can't uh deport these people, can you?

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Now that raises a very good question. One of the major focuses of the Trump administration, this second administration in particular, is what we're calling what they call denaturalization. And the US Department of Justice has a whole section on this. They uh identified it as a major area, one of major areas of focus uh for uh the Department of Justice, and um they can denaturalize. I looked today in preparation for the show for any examples of denaturalization, recent examples, and I didn't find any. It has been discussed a lot, uh, there's a lot of controversy around it, and of course the immigration groups don't want to see that happening. They feel there's a defense for for just about anything that a naturalized citizen might do. And granted, in the case of Shamima Pi, she would not naturalize, but some of them have been. And it would be interesting to see, and I think of great uh uh really value to U.S. citizens and even to our safety and security, to see what the Department of Justice under this administration does. Um, because some of these people have killed Americans, and some of them have killed other immigrants uh who came to this country and had the best of intentions, or they're the children of immigrants and they've grown up and they were contributing to our society. Uh so there's been death and destruction and then this this horrible thing selling these uh these munitions uh to Sudan for Iran, which is obviously not a friend of the United States, and this presents a completely uh uh unacceptable national security uh problem in our country.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

Indeed, and that leads us to Ilhan Omar. Now, interesting, a Minnesota Democrat, and we know that recently in February, I believe, that she was removed from the very influential Foreign Affairs Committee. You've got to ask why she was on that committee in the first place, given that we know what's happening is uh some of the examples you've just provided there.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

Yes, yes. Uh her her background is is very questionable, as as you know we've discussed before, and she has been in the past on committees that would seem completely incompatible with these questions about her background. She has made uh public statements that appear to show fealty or allegiance to Somalia rather than to the United States. There are questions about whether or not she is even a citizen, which is the other side of the fraud uh that we've spoken about before. Is she even a United States citizen? Did she ever swear allegiance to the United States? Because we've seen some reports here that many in the Somali uh community, particularly Minnesota, uh, just don't bother. They don't bother to become U.S. citizens because they have all the benefits of U.S. citizens already. They have public assistance and what we call food stamps or EBT assistance with buying food and things like that. There many of them are on public assistance if that's they have no other way to make a um any a living. And uh with her uh you probably know about the tax filing. This is the most recent thing, and I'm looking at a Fox News story now that the House Oversight Committee and and the Republicans right now are of the majority by a very, very slim margin. So they are running things. They have they have the chairmanships of the committees, but the uh House Republican who's in charge of that committee has raised questions over or not she whether whether or not she committed a felony. Uh they reported her assets uh for 2024 as $30 million, which is a lot of money for a sitting congresswoman. And now what they say is the assets were really much lower than that, and uh it between $18,000 and $95,000, and they attribute it, Omar does, to an accounting error. And so the House Oversight Chairman is saying, hmm, I wonder what's really going on here. Um now members of the Congress cannot charge anyone criminally. They they don't have that authority, they are legislative and not law enforcement, but they can refer members of the Congress or anyone who has actually testified uh to them and they believe they lied, they can refer that with the evidence to the Department of Justice. So there may be a whole new investigation there, but there already is an investigation into her by the Department of Justice on the citizenship issue or lack thereof, and we have not heard the the end of that yet.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Hello, Sharon. Um so what's relevant here to Australia, I think, uh, with the Sh Shamee Maffey, is that she was allowed into America. She didn't come across the border illegally, did she? Uh and if so, it it's relevant to Australia because we've uh been on top of the um uh the boat people, etc., coming in. Um that that isn't happening now, but we are still allowing people in here that shouldn't be here, and uh we're not vetting him well enough. And um so I s I suppose that's most relevant to uh Shamin Maffey and w and how she g entered uh America.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yes, you're right about that. She was permitted in. She did not cross illegally, and in fact, I I looked into four different cases over the course of the day uh uh of people who have betrayed America by killing people, by killing Americans, um, by uh handling IEDs in the case of the two young men in New York City on March 7th at Gracie Mansion, which is the New York City uh mayor's residence, uh whoever's in office. And um these people have turned on us. Uh some of them are born here. The two young men in in the case of Gracie Manchin were born here, and they're U.S. citizens, um, and that's all you need. That's the problem. People come over the border, now that that would be in that case probably illegally, have a child here, and that child is considered a U.S. citizen. Um in the case of Shamin Mafi, that that was not the case. The two young men, uh, one was from Pennsylvania, one from New York, that is the case. They were born here, but they pledged support to ISIS. Uh they're radicalized. Um, and that goes back to perhaps their parents or their relatives, or radicalization online, or maybe all of those things. But it points to the fact we need to be much more careful who we let in. Um Donald Trump has done, I think, I think everyone, even his detractors, would have to admit he's done a good job closing up the border. So we are seeing what's been reported as zero illegal crossings. So that part of it really has been sewn up quite effectively from what we've seen. But as far as people getting in illegally and having children here, and then those children get to bring their relatives through their parents, basically, because they're given U.S. citizenship. And that has been to the Supreme Court. April 1 were the arguments, and we have to see what happens there, uh, whether or not birthright citizenship, as they call it, should be extended to uh a child born to illegal aliens here. But there are so many of them that are allowed in, and that was the case with her and and with others. They've the man in Austin, Texas on March 1, who killed three young people, 19, 20, 21 years old. Um, he was here, uh, he was a citizen. He came from Senegal and um he was naturalized. He was 53 years old, and he turned on us and fired uh uh in a bar. He injured 14 people, he had a sweatshirt on that said property of Allah, and um he had all kinds of propaganda, Iranian propaganda in his home and everything the police found later. But this man was allowed in and naturalized. When you naturalize, you have to take civics courses, you have to learn English. You may have known English already, but you have to declare your allegiance to the United States of America, and people do that, and it doesn't seem to mean anything in some cases.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

Indeed, Sharon. So what we've got here now is not just, as you've just pointed out, those that have green cards, you're also talking about people who are citizens of the United States who have no affiliation or loyalty to the country. So as you've again pointed out, Donald Trump has made the first step in closing borders. Next step is to investigate US citizens who are working tirelessly against the country. It's always great to have you on the show, Sharon, and that is going to be our next conversation when you come back. Well, thank you so very much for having me. Pleasure. Have a great day. Thank you so much, Sharon, and God bless. Thank you. That was Sharon Londo, the uh US correspondent that we have that keeps us up to date with what's happening with citizenship in the United States and the serious issues of loyalty or otherwise to the country with the fortune and the behaviour that goes with it.