DHS hired former PLO spokeswoman who cheers Hamas to sensitive immigration positions

A former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) who regularly celebrates violence against Israelis on social media, works for the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), where she adjudicates cases for immigration benefits, investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reported at the Daily Wire.

In 2016 and 2017, Nejwa Ali worked as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation, which is described on its own website as the “PLO office in D.C” to the U.S.  The Trump administration closed the office in September 2018, saying that rather than working “to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel,” it had “condemned a U.S. peace plan they have not yet seen and refused to engage with the U.S. government with respect to peace efforts.”

After the PLO office closed down, Ali managed to secure a job at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as an Asylum Officer tasked with “applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications,” according to Rosiak.

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Kyle Shideler, a Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy said the fact that DHS hired a PLO operative like Ali “is both shocking in the extreme and entirely expected.”

“Technically under U.S. law, the PLO is still recognized by the U.S. Congress as a terrorist organization,” Shideler told American Greatness.

While previous presidents waived the law to allow the PLO to set up offices in the U.S., Trump refused to waive it, forcing the PLO offices to close. That this woman so easily bandied her time serving a terrorist organization into a job at the Department of Homeland Security, where her job was to screen asylum seekers for —among other things their support for terrorism— is a reflection of the degree to which elements of our federal government switched sides in the war on terror. Not just from the Obama or Biden administrations at the political level but at the bureaucratic level.

Shideler added that “support for terrorists and terror regimes like Iran and Hamas is now seen as advantageous rather than disqualifying.”

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