Yikes! A Bhutanese refugee killed himself in Pittsburgh in January

This is a story we missed at the time but I see it was reported a couple of days ago at Friends of Refugees where blogger and refugee advocate Christopher Coen tells us more about “refugee syndrome” and a study about the Bhutanese in New York City.

I told you about problems the Bhutanese were having in NYC last fall here in an apartment building somehow connected to the filthy rich International Rescue Committee.  I see that Coen has noted that the IRC would  not be interviewed for the report on “refugee syndrome.”

The refugee who committed suicide in January had been resettled to Pittsburgh, another city we have previously mentioned where refugee overload was causing hardship for refugees and for the community.  As a matter of fact, I believe the refugee quoted in this article about the suicide is the same Bhanu Phuyel we heard from when we wrote about refugee exploitation in Pittsburgh late last fall.

The Bhutanese man, Jit Bahadur Pradhan,was found hanging in the laundry room.

Six members of the family were sharing a two-bed room apartment along with another family with four people. They had not received any other facility except food card.*

Phuyel said that Pradhan was annoyed with the circumstances, and used to complain with his two sons that the situation there was no better than in the camp in Nepal.

More than 150 Bhutanese refugees, who were earlier taking shelter in eastern Nepal, have been resettled in Pittsburgh and outlying areas including Prospect Park and Green Tree. Sixty of them are working in a food-packing company.

* Am I reading this right?  If he had been resettled in only December, why in hell were two families (10 people!) living in a two bedroom apartment.  During the first three months at least, resettlement agencies are required as part of their contract with the US State Department to have housing adequate for their family.  And, I will bet there are local housing code regulations prohibiting that many people in one apartment.  How did the resettlement agency—Catholic Charities??? Jewish Family Services???—let this happen.  Incidentally we hear story after story of refugees piling in with each other when families are evicted but that is usually months after the resettlement agencies claim they are no longer responsible.

And, I see we have Prospect Park again!  That is the shoddy housing complex run by Catholic Charities or their ‘friends.’

Note the reference to 60 refugees working in a food packing plant.  I know they need work, but I swear one day we will learn that the resettlement agencies get some sort of cut out of supplying cheap refugee labor—some sort of employment service fee.   But, its that damn presumption of good intentions and political correctness that keeps investigative reporters from finding the truth, or even beginning to look for the truth!

Note to mainstream reporters:  One day when you get around to looking into collusion between the humanitarian do-gooder organizations and big business in need of cheap labor, check out the connection between resettlement agencies and certain landlords.  In the meantime, I won’t be holding my breath.

USCRI keeps the Rohingya drumbeat going

USCRI is the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (one of the top ten federal refugee contractors).   I just mentioned them yesterday, here, in a story about unhappy Iraqis resettled in Boston.   Today I see they have two articles that continue the Rohingya resettlement drumbeat.  It’s way too much to go into—we have 91 posts on the Rohingya issue going back a couple of years—but for new readers the Rohingya are Muslims who along with Christians are being pushed out of Burma (Myanmar).

Muslim Bangladesh doesn’t want them either.  Some have gotten into boats and tried to enter Thailand causing an international outrage last year when charges were leveled at the Thai military for towing a boatload of asylum seekers out to sea.   We have also learned that thousands are imprisoned in MUSLIM Saudi Arabia. 

I’ll let you read USCRI’s two recent articles, here and here.  The gist of all this is that they are pushing first for Bangladesh to take in the Rohingya and if that fails, and they know it will, the Rohingya should be resettled in the West.  I’ve noticed the following line cropping up in comments from Muslims recently (even once in a comment to RRW) so it must be part of Islamic supremacists’ ’talking points!’

It must also make all diplomatic efforts to find shelters for these stranded refugees in sparsely populated and prosperous countries of Europe and North America, and the Gulf states.

Calling all environmentalists (Carl Pope of the Open-Borders Sierra Club take note)—-what sparsely populated parts of the US might they be referring to?

And, finally, if all these drumbeat stories mentioned one thing I wouldn’t object so much.  They NEVER mention one important reason why people (and countries including Saudi Arabia) are leery of the Rohingya.  Some, and I say some, Rohingya have been linked to Islamic extremism with reports that Al-Qaeda-linked groups have recruited at Cox’s Bazaar (the refugee camp in Bangladesh).  If only they would throw a line in these stories about the terror links so people understood the full picture, it would make these reports more credible.

St. Cloud, MN man admits threatening Somalis

We first told you about this case, here.   And, to learn more about the on-going controversy swirling around the Somali issue in St. Cloud start here (or use our search function for ‘St. Cloud’).

From the St. Cloud Times:

A New Hope man who posted an online threat to shoot Somalis at a St. Cloud State University cultural event pleaded guilty Monday to making terroristic threats.

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James Scott Miller, 49, admitted posting the threat in response to an advertisement he saw on Craigslist that gave details about a Somali cultural night at St. Cloud State.

Miller has been in custody since his arrest in late March, and he was released from jail after his plea. He will be sentenced at a later date, and a plea agreement caps his sentence at 90 days.

Miller said he saw the advertisement for the Somali event on Craigslist. That ad listed the admission price at $10 per person. Miller admitted that, in response to the post, he wrote: “I’ll bring my rifle. I’ll gladly pay $10 for target practice.”

Miller admitted he posted the threat to “get a rise out of some people.”

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Officers spoke to Miller, who told them he made the post because he lives in an apartment building with a large Somali population and that he’s mad at them because “they have no respect for anyone else in this building,” according to the complaint charging Miller.

I’ve heard of this problem in apartment buildings from several places in the US.  The one that comes to mind at the moment is Shelbyville, TN where tenants were forced to move from an apartment building due to the disrespect Somalis showed to other tenants.  One big complaint I recall was that Somali drivers would dent cars in the parking lot and then not report what they did to the owner of the car.   I sure hope this guy isn’t going home to the same building!

SOS (Same old ….) Boston this time

Boston again, Iraqis again, evictions again, no jobs again, International Institute screws up again, commenters almost uniformly critical again!

I am truly sick to death of these stories.  We’ve had Fredericksburg, VA, San Antonio, TX, Boise, ID and Chicago, IL recently reporting the same story—no jobs, refugees suffer, resettlement agencies screwing up, some refugees are sorry they came, citizens ask why we are doing this!

From the Boston Globe:

“This is the tip of the iceberg. [Iraqi] families are coming to Chelsea on a weekly basis,’’ said Rushdan. “Housing and jobs. That’s what they need.’’

According to the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, 5,836 refugees have arrived in Massachusetts since 2007, including 1,199 from Iraq, the biggest refugee population in the state. Of those, 214 Iraqis were resettled in Greater Boston.

Unemployment and homelessness affect other refugee populations, but those who work with refugees say Iraqis are especially vulnerable.

Read the whole sorry tale.

Only two things I want to comment on.  First this case involves the International Institute in Boston.  We heard about them involved in a screw up with refugees in New Hampshire here last year.  International Institutes are USCRI (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) affiliates.  The former VP at USCRI now heads the whole refugee program in the Department of Health and Human Services—the revolving door in action.

Now look at this segment of the Globe story, does this sound like a woman who loves the refugees and her work?  Sounds like she doesn’t like Iraqis very much at all.

Carolyn Benedict Drew, International Institute president, said she agreed that the financial assistance was inadequate but also said many of the Iraqis came from well-to-do families and had higher expectations than refugees from poorer backgrounds.

“If somebody has been in a refugee camp all of their life, and has never really used a fork and spoon, that’s a very different expectation in coming to America than somebody in Iraq who was a physician and did very well,’’ Drew said.

What the refugees and the resettlement agencies can agree on is that before the Iraqis immigrated, they were given unfounded promises about America from refugee agency workers in Iraq.

“People were sometimes promised things, or perhaps misunderstood, before coming, that a car would be waiting, that they would have a home, that they could continue their medical practice. And that’s clearly not the case,’’ said Drew.

I can’t tell you the number of times we’ve heard this complaint, that someone is telling Iraqis that everything is great in America and they will be provided for.  Can’t the State Department get this rumor-garbage under control!

Then here we go again, Bob Carey of the filthy rich International Rescue Committee whining about not having enough tax payer money!

Carey, of the International Refugee Committee, said the problem lies in the formula used to calculate how much money and how much time refugees need to become independent: It was devised during better economic times.

“The program is not working because it’s reliant on people going to work, and that’s not happening in this economy,’’ said Carey, whose group shuttered its Boston office in 2008 because it felt it lacked enough money to effectively help the refugees here.

We told you about the corporate humanitarians at the IRC closing their Boston office here last spring.  I’ve speculated that all of these Iraqis suffering stories are legit but fueled by an International Rescue Committee media campaign to get more federal funding for the resettlement industry.  You know crisis begets change!   Maybe the IRC could use some of its own millions to help refugees.  I just this week came across a funder list for the filthy rich IRC—check it out here!  Those millions are in addition to the nearly 100 million they get from the taxpayers of the US.

Oh, just one more thing.  If the IRC felt that Boston did not have the “capacity” for more refugees last spring then why in hell is the State Department still sending refugees to Boston to another agency for more refugees to suffer this year?

P.S.  Be sure to read the comments at the Globe story!  And, visit Friends of Refugees where Christopher Coen posted this story yesterday.

Send in the National Enquirer to find the missing illegal Somalis!

That is the suggestion of radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock writing at World Net Daily yesterday!  The National Enquirer has gotten so good at investigating maybe they could show the FBI* a thing or two.   Although obviously meant to be humorous there is a grain of truth in the suggestion in addition to a bit of news I didn’t know about this case (for background see Judy’s recent post)!

Anthony Joseph Tracy has been arrested on charges he conspired with the Cuban Embassy in Kenya to smuggle some 300 Somali young men into the U.S. Immigration officials are “concerned” about Mr. Tracey’s admitted contacts with the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida ally.

In support of the charges, Justice Department attorneys told the federal court that prosecutors had “issued numerous subpoenas, reviewed Department of Homeland Security records and conducted witness interviews throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia and Africa.”

The feds allege that Mr. Tracy got the Somali men visas from the Cuban Embassy in Kenya. The Somalis then traveled from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba to South America to Mexico – then entered the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border.

No evidence was presented as to how poor young Somali men could afford such an expensive, circuitous travel itinerary.

However, under questioning by Federal District Judge Leonie Brinkema, the feds admitted that they could not identify any of the Somalis smuggled into this country or identify where in the country they might be. The judge threatened to dismiss the charges unless the government could produce evidence that even one of the Somalis was actually illegally in the country and was here through the efforts of Mr. Tracy. [Wow!  I did not know that Tracy could escape prosecution if they don't find any evidence that these guys are in the US--ed]

So far, the federal government cannot find any of these Somalis.

Send for the National Enquirer.

Good idea! 

* By the way, shouldn’t the Secret Service and the FBI have known about John Edwards affair with a staffer that was ultimately exposed singlehandedly by the National Enquirer?

Not everyone is fleeing Somalia

Some are going to Somalia…..

The Washington Post published a story on Saturday that would lead readers to believe that the brutality of Al-Shabaab (Islamic supremacists) was driving everyone from Somalia.  No doubt the brutality of SHARIA LAW is responsible for the flight of thousands of refugees, but nowhere in the front page story does it mention that some Somalis from the so-called Diaspora in the West are going to Somalia to join the Jihad.*

Nowhere does it say that Al-Shabaab supporters are busy recruiting in the Somali “community” in major US cities (use our search function for ‘missing Somali youths’ for our dozens of posts on the subject), and nowhere in the story does it mention that Al Shabaab may be responsible for sending 300 Somalis across our Mexican border over the last year—Somalis who have disappeared into American Somali “communities.”  It is all about the suffering of the refugees.

Many are running from al-Shabab’s radical dictates and increasing savagery, as well as fears of a major government offensive. [Later in the article there is a mention that people fear the US is going to attack Somalia---this is the 'US is bad' template--ed]

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“If they could all afford to come, not a single person would remain in Somalia,” said Allawi, 37, seated with her children on the reddish, sunbaked earth a day after they arrived. “There is no freedom in Somalia, only death.”

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Yet al-Shabab, which the United States has labeled a terrorist organization, now controls large swaths of Somalia. It has imposed Taliban-like Islamic codes in a region where moderate Islam was once widely practiced. Urged on by Osama bin Laden, the group has steadily pushed into Mogadishu, importing foreign fighters and triggering U.S. concerns that the movement could spread to Yemen, across East Africa and beyond. Somalia’s government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu and has little legitimacy elsewhere.

This strikes me as just one more story planted by the Far Left refugee industry to play on our sympathies so that we open our doors to thousands more Somali refugees this year.

For new readers, more Somalis are on the way:

For information on Somali missing youths, American citizens who have gone to Somalia to learn the Jihad trade, some leaving through Mexico, use those search words.  We have written dozens of stories on the case.  For more on Al-shabaab (sometimes spelled Al-shabab) also use our search function.

The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US (this linked post continues to be one of the most widely read posts we have ever written) in the last 25 years and then in 2008 had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.  That specific program has not yet been reopened (that we know of), but will be soon. 

Nevertheless, thousands of Somali Muslims continue to be resettled by the State Department as I write this. We recently learned that we will be taking 6000 Somalis this year from one camp in Uganda and as many as 11,000-13,000 total from around the world.

* Update:  Here is an annoying story about maligned Muslims in the US that discusses the recruitment of the poor disinfranchised Somalis and others.  I’m posting it here so I don’t lose the link—nowhere does it place the blame on the Islamic religious  imperative to fight Jihad.

Oh, and here is another link I don’t want to lose from Loganswarning, an excellent blog on Islamic supremacism—the call has gone out for Muslims around the world to fight the final jihad!

Roy Beck at NumbersUSA: Immigration has undercut environmental progress

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  Roy Beck is the President of NumbersUSA and today he has a message for America about how the high levels of immigration (legal and illegal) have an unsustainable impact on our environment.  For the rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants we lose open space as we must provide land for schools, roads, housing, and as the population expands we will undoubtedly see a degradation of air and water quality as well.   As Beck points out in his message today, I too wonder why the leftwing Democrats don’t see that.

Sustainability was the big idea 40 years ago when much of the nation’s attention was drawn to the events and news of the first Earth Day. I was a cub newspaper reporter covering the events. And I remember well that an important theme in 1970 was that sustainability required the U.S. to begin to stabilize its population after having added the SECOND 100 million in just 55 years.

Well, now we’ve added the THIRD 100 million in less than the 40 years since that first Earth Day and we’re on pace to add the FOURTH 100 million even faster!

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Nearly all of the population growth is caused by the increases in immigration that Congress ordered or allowed since 1970. For every restriction and cost that the government has put on us since then to improve environmental quality, it has negated part or all of the benefits by forcing high population growth through radically increased immigration numbers.

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Without all the increases in immigration, our communities would have around 250 million inhabitants right now, with little likelihood of ever going over 265 million.

Instead, because of a quadrupling in legal immigration numbers, we have more than 310 million inhabitants and are on a trajectory to cross 600 million well before the end of this century!

How the Sierra Club and to a lesser degree the Natural Resources Defense Council sold out the environment. 

I’ve written a lot of posts on the subject here, here, here and here for starters.  Readers need to know that the Sierra Club and NRDC * are part of the far left, pro-union, pro-open borders Apollo Alliance which is credited with drafting the stimulus bill to redistribute the wealth (as Van Jones would say) to an increasing number of the world’s poor while hiding behind a faux green jobs agenda.  Heck, one Apollo Alliance board member—John Podesta of the Center for American Progress— is a big open borders advocate and the CAP pushed for an airlift of 100,000 Iraqis to the US last year when we have no jobs let alone the mythical “green” ones.  And, would someone explain to me how all the immigrants Podesta is pushing won’t compete with the union workers supposedly represented by union leaders on the Apollo Board.

* I note that since I wrote my first post on the Apollo Alliance that Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, has gotten off the Apollo board (I’m glad I had copied the board of directors list in that earlier post), and she doesn’t even mention her Apollo Alliance role in her bio, here.  I wonder why?

One more thing:  After I posted this, I searched NRDC’s website and found only one obscure mention of the Apollo Alliance in reference to an employee who had previously worked there.  Interesting—not proud of their earlier key role on the Board of the Apollo Alliance?

Episcopal Migration Ministries lobbies for more money, forget meaningful reform

Episcopal Migration Ministries held its annual conference in Washington, DC recently so that they could lobby Congress for more money for the refugee program.  They call it “reforming” the program but I have doubts we will see any meaningful reform anytime soon—it’s all about the funding stupid.

Before I proceed with more of this recent news about the lobbying campaign, I remind readers that critics of the financially struggling Episcopal Church USA claim the church is staying afloat with the money it receives for refugee resettlement.  See a post here, in March, that is the second post we’ve written on the subject.  I don’t know if its true, but it warrants looking into.   The first reform we should be demanding is that the volags (supposedly voluntary agencies) undergo regular rigorous financial audits.  Readers are probably surprised to learn that there are no financial audits required at this time.

From Episcopal News Service:

The U.S. Department of State works with and funds 11 volunteer agencies — five of them faith-based, including EMM — and the State of Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services to resettle refugees in the United States. Each year, Congress and the president determine the number of refugees permitted to resettle in the U.S.; for 2010 they set the ceiling at 95,000.

What?  Where did we pick up an extra 15,000 refugees for FY2010?  The Presidential Determination letter for 2010 put the ceiling at 80,000 (the highest number since before 9/11)!   And, by the way, the State of Iowa has dropped out of the refugee program and a Kurdish volag has stepped in to bring refugees to your town (see links in this post).

Throughout the four-day conference, EMM offered training for its frontline staff, including job development in today’s economy and church co-sponsorship, and in areas specific to its partners, the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Eric P. Schwartz gave the conference’s keynote address April 14 and praised EMM and its affiliates for their work.

“Your ministries and your network are important partners in refugee protection,” he said. “In the last fiscal year you resettled some 5,000 refugees through 31 affiliates in 21 states, which is a marked increase from previous years, and you are managing your network responsibly through opening offices in new locations, all during a very difficult economic period,” he said.

Schwartz also talked about the doubling of the reception and placement grant — $900 to $1,800 — passed by Congress for 2010. But, as important as the funding increase is in addressing refugees’ immediate needs — a roof, a clean bed and basic assistance — more still needs to be done for refugees. To that end, Schwartz said, it’s important for the State Department and resettlement partners to “stay the course.”

“The White House is leading a comprehensive effort to review the resettlement program and we will remain deeply engaged in this enterprise,” he said. “We will be working closely with the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services to secure additional job training, education, cash and medical assistance in the months that follow reception and placement.”

The White House reform is a joke!

There isn’t any real reform coming from the White House whose main mission is to make it easier for more refugees and asylees to get into the US (more voters!) and to redistribute wealth.   They don’t care about the biggest problem they have—too many refugees (immigrants) causing stress for communities and potentially social unrest (remember crisis brings change!) like the extreme kind in Los Angeles yesterday (here too) and resettlement agencies running amok mostly because they are overloaded and unmonitored and simply demanding more money, more money, more money!

Cities have reached their capacity to absorb more needy people and the powers that be have no way of knowing what that capacity is.  Rumors are circulating that some locations have told Schwartz’s shop in the State Department to stop sending refugees.  We know for sure that Fredericksburg, VA is one of those and San Antonio, TX  and Boise, ID officials were expressing the same concern just in the last few weeks.  How many more are there?

So how do the powers in Washington assess a community’s capacity to take in more refugees—they don’t, and they don’t have a clue how to go about it.  I do!

Reform suggestions from me

Regular readers know that this is a reform proposal I’ve been harping on for years.  We need social and economic impact studies done for each city or town that is, or is proposed to be, a resettlement city.   This federal study would be patterned after the Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) required by the National Environmental Policy Act which requires that when a major federal action is proposed for a location a public hearing is held and all pertinent information is reported to the public.  A finding is made as to whether the impact on the community is significant.  In the case of the EIS a determination might be made to not proceed with the project.

I envision a similar study for resettlement cities.   Economic factors such as job availability, housing, medical care, schools etc. would be incorporated in the study.  Public input would be obtained.  Contrary to the present view that resettlement should be done in secrecy so that citizens won’t be able to object, a full public debate on how many refugees will be brought to a community and from where they might originate will cause less social unrest then the sneaky strategy employed today.

I repeat:  if the State Department and the volags cannot sell the program to the community with all the facts on the table then maybe it’s not a good fit for the community!

The strategy employed obviously since the inception of the Refugee Act of 1980—keep pouring refugees into certain cities until people scream—stinks!    It’s not good for the refugees and it’s not good for social cohesion.

If at the conclusion of the initial Social and Economic Impact study it was determined how many refugees a city (town, county) could manage, only that number would be resettled.  After a given period of time —three years, five years(?)— a new study would be ordered that would determine whether the city had the capacity to continue at that level or be increased or decreased based on changing economic and social conditions.

And, of course, I continue to suggest we remove all the middlemen volags from the program—-it should be run through the State Department and each State’s refugee agency.  All the churches and other caring groups could provide true charity by giving their own time and private resources to the refugees.  They just would no longer handle the taxpayers’ money.

SOS (Same old ….) from Chicago

The New York Times has a story this week (another story!) about how refugees are left in the lurch in Chicago.  (Check out Friends of Refugees, here for more details).  I just wanted to focus on this one section of the article.

Even as budgets are slashed, arrivals are surging. Since 2003, refugee arrivals in Illinois have increased 175 percent, and the number of countries sending refugees has gone to 60 from 31. Iraqi refugees, according to the United States Office of Refugee Resettlement, went from zero to 1,298 from 2006 to 2009, making Chicago home to the second-largest Iraqi population in the country after Detroit.

Readers should know that in the wake of 911 the number of refugees brought to the US was dramatically (and I mean dramatically! reduced) so it’s a little disingenuous to use 2003 (39,201 refugees) as a benchmark year.  As a matter of fact, in 2000 we resettled 91,960 refugees ( a much higher figure than today, in 2008 it was 60,192—still down by a third from 2000 levels).   Budgets have not been slashed—the amount of federal funding of the refugee program has just been dramatically increased! 

And, by the way, although we know Detroit is a huge reciepient of refugees, San Diego claims they are number one for Iraqis (here).

Illinois and nine other states received more than half of all incoming refugees to the United States in 2008, the last year for which data is available. Yet severe cuts in financing —Illinois will receive $2.8 million in 2010 for resettlement services, down from $7.5 million in 2000 — have strained the budgets of local resettlement agencies.

Once again, cherry picking numbers to make the point they want to make which is—- wahhhhh! we need more money from the taxpayer.   In 2000, 3207 refugees were resettled in Illinois. If the $7.5 million figure is correct that means it cost  the taxpayer a whopping $2338 per refugee (every man woman and child!) to resettle them in Illinois.  To paraphrase the Burmese refugee I heard speak in March in Washington, DC (here), ‘where did all the money go?’

Then note that they say Illinois is only getting $2.8 million for FY 2010, but there is no information about how many refugees are to be resettled in Illinois for 2010.  Is it possible that the numbers are being greatly reduced for Illinois this year because of all the refugee horror stories reported there?   The reporter (or more accurately whoever was spinning the story for the reporter) is comparing apples and oranges.

Gee, was it Ed Silverman spinning and whining?

What was once a public and private partnership has become increasingly private, said Ed Silverman, who directs the Illinois Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Services.

We’ve told you about Mr. Silverman before, here and here (Ethiopian resettlement agency is discussed here too!), and about how refugees are left in the lurch in Chicago.   What he is telling the NYT is a flat out lie.  The resettlement agencies were supposed to be public-private partnerships but have definitely become increasingly funded by the public—with your tax dollars—as we have noted ad nauseum on these pages!   Some resettlement agencies are as much as 90% and up funded by you.  That doesn’t leave much for the private portion, does it?

For new readers:  If you are interested in numbers of refugees arriving in previous years and to what states they were initially resettled, start your research, here.

Update:  Geez!  It never ends.  Here Friends of Refugees has another post this time about Church World Service and its cohorts crying for more federal funding for refugees.

Muslims vs. McDonalds

If I were a betting person I would put my money on the Muslims especially since you can be sure that CAIR is already on the scene.  CAIR is the Council on American Islamic Relations (aka the Muslim Mafia) and if I were a betting person, I’d bet CAIR is behind this.   An immigrant from Bangladesh was told she could not wear her head scarf while working at McDonald’s in Detroit. From UPI:

DETROIT, April 14 (UPI) — A Muslim woman in Michigan says she was turned down for a job at McDonald’s because she wears a headscarf or hijab.

Nasihah Barlaskar, 19, the daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, has filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [many critics call the EEOC CAIR's handmaiden-ed], the Detroit Free Press reported. She alleges she failed to get a job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Rochester Hills because of religious bias.

In an interview with the newspaper, Barlaskar said a manager asked her during a March 27 interview whether she was required to wear “that thing,” referring to her headscarf. She said she responded: “I do. Is that a problem?”

The manager told her she would not be able to wear the hijab on the job, she said.

Meanwhile other western countries are actually attempting to ban the hijab, most notably Canada, Belgium and France.  I haven’t followed the news that closely on the issue in those countries so I don’t know where it stands, but will report it here when I find out.

Just for your information, Bangladesh is a Muslim country that has been making the news lately for its attacks on Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge there.  Because Bangladesh is discriminating against its co-religionists we have begun resettling Rohingya to the US.   That is a whole other story that you can learn about in our Rohingya Reports category here.