Like seeds in a garden, refugees are being planted in cities and towns all across America. But the fact that it's being done in secret should set off alarm bells, according to veteran WND reporter Leo Hohmann.

"No good thing usually happens in secret," Hohmann said in a recent appearance on "The Conservative Conscience podcast with Daniel Horowitz." "Secrecy is the enemy of truth, and this is what we've seen in one community after another. People just feel like their community is being changed without them having any say-so in the matter."

Hohmann attempts to cut through the secrecy of the federal refugee resettlement program in his forthcoming book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad." He told Horowitz refugees are being placed in small cities all over the country – places suchas Stone Mountain, Georgia; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Rutland, Vermont – with no input from the local communities.

Once residents find out about the plan, it is almost always too late to stop it or even to ask any questions. And those who do ask questions are often castigated as bigots or xenophobes who hate refugees.

So native residents are left with a town they no longer recognize.

"Before long you end up with cities like Dearborn, Michigan, Hamtramck, Michigan, where your vote is going to be watered down and eliminated by a foreign culture," said Hohmann, referring to two cities with large Muslim populations.

Resentment among the native population grows whenever a refugee commits a crime and gets off with little or no punishment. Hohmann said that does happen in America as in Europe. He pointed to Twin Falls, Idaho, where three refugee boys raped a 5-year-old special-needs girl in an apartment complex. An elderly resident witnessed it when she walked in on it in the laundry room. Moreover, the oldest boy filmed the assault, so there was no lack of evidence.

But when some bloggers initially reported on the incident, they said the refugee boys were Syrians when they were actually from Iraq and Sudan. The establishment local media seized on that mistake to try and discredit the whole incident, according to Hohmann.

Horowitz, who also discussed refugee policy in his book "Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges From Transforming America," said people tend to worry most about Syrian refugees today, but the Syrian resettlement program is relatively new. The U.S. admits more than 100,000 Muslim immigrants each year, and they come from a wide variety of countries. In fact, the U.S. continues to take in Somali refugees 23 years after their country collapsed into civil war.

America is headed down a suicidal path -- but it's a subtle invasion, and not many Americans understand the full extent of the problem. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann's brand new book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad," available now in e-book format ONLY at the WND Superstore.

It demonstrates that once a refugee admissions program starts, it doesn't stop, noted Hohmann.

"We've been getting 5,000 to 10,000 [Somali refugees] per year since the '90s," he said. "It's just unbelievable."

People can talk all they want about stricter vetting of incoming refugees, Horowitz opined, but that misses the point: The problem is the U.S. is importing people with a mentality that's antithetical to American values and cultivates a climate where people may become radicalized. He said it's not that the U.S. is letting in known terrorists; it's that it's letting in people whose attitudes may lead them to terrorism someday.

"You listen to President Obama, and he'll say 99 percent of the world's Muslims are peaceful, and every time there's a terrorist attack that's just the 1 percent I guess," Hohmann said. "Well, you know, that's not what you find when you go out and talk to people."

He noted media personality Ami Horowitz once filmed a documentary in Minneapolis, a city with many Somali Muslims. Almost every Muslim the filmmaker spoke to said Shariah law should be supreme over the U.S. Constitution.

"Just because they're not all out committing terrorist attacks doesn't mean they're going to buy into our system and assimilate into American culture," Hohmann said. "And what does that tell you? Over time, the more we bring in, if they're not assimilating, then we're creating a huge Trojan horse here in America down the road."

Daniel Horowitz’s solution for avoiding that Trojan horse is to be more selective about what types of immigrants allowed in. Again, he emphasized the answer is not to screen out known security threats but those who have the wrong mindset.

"Immigration's an elective policy, and there's a lot of supply," he pointed out. "A lot of people want to come here; everyone wants to come here. We should only bring in people who will affirmatively love America, cherish our values.

"Our Founders always referred to this in the context of immigration – you know, with all the hyphenated Americanism nowadays, there's one hyphenated American they always mentioned, and that's Republican-Americans. They wanted 'Republican-Americans.' It wasn't so much even about the welfare … but it was more so that they wanted people to assimilate into our political values."

America is headed down a suicidal path -- but it's a subtle invasion, and not many Americans understand the full extent of the problem. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann's brand new book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad," available now in e-book format ONLY at the WND Superstore.