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Archive for January, 2011

VDARE writer: stop all Muslim immigration to the US

Posted by acorcoran on January 31, 2011

Brenda Walker writing at VDARE on Friday pulls no punches when she recommends ZERO Muslim immigration to the US.

Persons concerned about the survival of Western Civilization watch Europe’s degradation with alarm, as hostile Muslims use intimidation and violence to destroy freedom of speech, individual rights and women’s equality.

Those freedoms are increasingly under assault in America too; one example is the woman who suggested Everyone Draw Mohammed Day was forced into hiding by Muslim death threats.

As terror analyst Walid Phares noted last fall, “According to open-source reports, between 2001 and 2008, U.S. agencies stopped one or two terror attempts a year. However, from 2009 until today, the government has been uncovering one or two cases a month, a troubling growth in jihadi activities.”

The prudent thing for Washington to do would be to stop Muslim immigration entirely, since there is no right to immigrate, and national security is endangered by the historically adversarial group.

We should have ZERO Muslim immigration, not a continued open door to potential enemies.

Instead the numbers are increasing.

Read it all.

Posted in Changing the way we live, diversity's dark side, Muslim refugees, Refugee Resettlement Program | 6 Comments »

ORR! January 31st (today!) is the deadline for the annual report to be submitted to Congress

Posted by acorcoran on January 31, 2011

As of the close of business today, you are THREE YEARS BEHIND in reporting to Congress the full economic and social impact of the large numbers of refugees being resettled to the US.  See reports here.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is REQUIRED BY LAW to submit a report to Congress by January 31st of the year following the end of the previous fiscal year.  The last report filed is 2007.  So ORR now owes Congress and the public 2008, 2009 and 2010.  Those are the worst years so far of the great recession and we can only conclude that ORR does not want to reveal to the public the dismal financial situation the refugees and the volags (federal contractors) are in!

Readers, if you have never looked at an annual report, check out 2007 and see what an incredible trove of information these reports contain.  Can you just imagine what the unemployment numbers are today or the welfare usage when over 50% of refugees in 2007 were on food stamps.

For just a reminder of what the refugee/asylum program costs you, go here.

Posted in Reforms needed, Refugee Resettlement Program | 8 Comments »

Waves of Rohingya Muslims still arriving in Thailand…

Posted by acorcoran on January 31, 2011

….and likely will be resettled in the West.

I haven’t written much about Rohingya (a Muslim minority group from Burma) lately (we have 96 posts on them here in a special category).  My interest had been about whether the US State Department was going to resettle them to the US, and once we quietly began doing that and dropping them into the middle of Christian Burmese communities, I got too disgusted to write about it.  Centuries of animosity are not going to be erased just because some Leftists in the State Department and in the contractor community say it will be so.  The American melting pot does not work when Islamic supremacism is involved.

From CNN:

Authorities in Thailand were trying Tuesday to deal with a new group of 67 members of an ethnic Muslim minority that arrived in a boat claiming that they were the victims of persecution.

The new group adds to a recent wave of Rohingya who have recently arrived in southern Thailand, claiming that they have been persecuted in Myanmar.

Their arrival could test Bangkok’s international pledges to treat the Rohingya humanely, two years after Thailand faced international condemnation over secret policies of towing Rohingya back out to sea in unpowered boats with little food and water.

The article goes on to report that there are one thousand Rohingya detained in Thailand at the moment with the Thai government trying to figure out what to do with them.

There must be more Rohingya going to Europe, and particularly Ireland, these days because I see this older post about Rohingya being resettled in Ireland visited a lot recently.

By the way, legitimate asylum seekers are to seek asylum in the first country in which they land, however, our State Department broke that rule (and set a precedent) when they very flagrantly began resettling as refugees economic migrants from Africa who landed on Malta, here.   The practice was set in motion by the Bush Administration and is, no surprise, being continued by the Obama Administration.

Posted in Muslim refugees, Refugee Resettlement Program, Rohingya Reports | Comments Off

Homeland Security tracking Central American smugglers of east Africans

Posted by acorcoran on January 29, 2011

…..but why not start investigating right here in the USA!

I just discovered this blog which I plan to visit often (and will put on our blogroll).  It’s called “Asylumist“  and it’s about , what else, the other half of our refugee resettlement program, the asylum program.   People get confused all the time about the fraternal twin programs—both born of the same law and only differing slightly in their appearance, but not in the results.

A “refugee” is determined to be persecuted and is screened abroad and brought here with the  help of the United Nations and the US State Department (you pay the airfare).  An asylum seeker gets to our borders on his or her own steam and then asks for asylum by claiming he or she will be persecuted if returned to their home country.   And, let me say right here, a true asylum seeker is SUPPOSED to ask for asylum in the first country in which they land.  They are not supposed to make six stops before reaching our borders and then asking for asylum.

The number of asylum seekers is increasing by leaps and bounds.  In 1990 we granted asylum to 8,472 claimants and in 2009 that number had risen to 22,119.  For some perspective, the number of refugees admitted in 2009 was around 74,000.  Both groups are then eligible for most forms of public assistance, legal permanent residency (there used to be a cap on this number each year, but no longer) and ultimately citizenship.   But, here is a kicker.  If someone isn’t granted asylum they can just disappear into America—like the now famous Auntie Zeituni (Obama’s Kenyan aunt)—because no one is detained prior to the decision (or after the decision for that matter).  Up until this year asylum seekers were detained after coming across the border.

What do you know!  Homeland Security is concerned about Central American smugglers of Somalis!

From the Asylumist:

Many African asylum seekers enter the United States at the Mexican border. Their journey to the U.S. is long and circuitous. In East Africa (where some of my clients come from), people travel from Ethiopia, Eritrea or Somalia to Kenya. From there, they go to South Africa and Brazil using false passports, and then through South America (sometimes by boat up the Amazon River!), to Central America, and then Mexico and the U.S. Along the route, they are passed from one smuggler to the next. Its big business for the smugglers: I’ve heard the trip costs between $10,000.00 and $15,000.00, and sometimes more.

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Now, if the rumor mill is to be believed, DHS and at least one Latin American government are planning to arrest some additional smugglers in Central America. DHS investigators have been interviewing smuggled aliens in the United States. They have asked the aliens to identify photos of several smugglers based in Central American. While most of the smugglers are from Latin America, at least one is African.

It seems that DHS’s central concern involves the Somalis, who have long been viewed as a potential threat to national security (I’ve blogged about this issue here), and apparently DHS’s interrogation of the smuggled aliens has focused on Somali migrants.

I suggest DHS start by asking some big American NGOs (and immigration lawyers) what they know about the Somalis coming across our border.  It strikes me as a bit far-fetched to assume that some poor Somali with no English language skills should be able to get half way around the world and know to ask for asylum on our Mexican border.   I wrote about my suspicions here earlier this month.

And tell me if this makes sense—poor Somali has $10,000-$15,000 just kicking around to pay for the journey to America in order to get a minimum wage job with a meatpacker.   Who is paying the asylum seeker or the smuggler?

Posted in Africa, Asylum seekers, Crimes, Refugee Resettlement Program | 3 Comments »

So how much does all this cost us?

Posted by acorcoran on January 29, 2011

Your tax dollars:

You are probably aware that the last Congress never did pass an Appropriations bill for the fiscal year (FY 2011) that we began on October 1st, 2010 and is about to take up the matter with votes expected in mid February.  Although the Constitution says that all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives, at the end of the 111th Congress the US Senate was actually driving the appropriations debate with a draft Appropriations bill.

According to the blog MicEvHill the following is a summary of the spending that was proposed in the last Congress for Refugee and Asylee programs (MicEvHill doesn’t seem to have links for the individual posts which makes finding things very difficult, you need to go here and scroll down to the story on January 5th).  The new House of Representatives is proposing an appropriations cut which takes the spending back to 2008 levels.

The grand total cost of the Refugee program as proposed by the Senate is just over $2,500,000,000 (that is billions!), while 2008 levels would take it down a half billion to around $2 billion.

From MicEvHill:

*Refugee Admissions and Overseas Refugee Assistance. The draft Senate bill would have appropriated $1.685 BILLION in fiscal year 2011 for Department of State’s Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, which funds both refugee admissions and overseas refugee assistance. Congress appropriated the same amount for the MRA account in fiscal year 2010. However, it only appropriated $1.296 BILLION for the MRA account in fiscal year 2008.

*Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance. The draft Senate bill would have appropriated $45 MILLION in fiscal year 2011 for the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) account, which funds draw-downs for emergency refugee situations. Congress appropriated the same amount for the ERMA account in fiscal year 2010. However, it appropriated $76 MILLION for the ERMA account in fiscal year 2008.

*Office of Refugee Resettlement. The draft Senate bill would have appropriated $767.1 MILLION in fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which operates the federal government’s refugee resettlement, trafficking victim assistance, torture victim assistance, and unaccompanied alien children programs. Congress appropriated $730.928 MILLION for ORR’s activities in fiscal year 2010. However, it only appropriated only $628 MILLION for ORR in fiscal year 2008.

*Refugee and Asylum Adjudications. The draft Senate bill would have directly appropriated $176.4 MILLION in fiscal year 2011 to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for processing applications for asylum or refugee status. Congress appropriated $50 MILLION for refugee and asylum adjudications in fiscal year 2010. However, it did not appropriate any funds for that purpose in fiscal year 2008.

Granted, some of this funding gets sent abroad—like that ERMA money ($20 million) that Obama sent to the Palestinians in 2009, here, but this means that with about 100,000 combined refugees and asylees we admit each year the cost of this program could be more than $20,000 per refugee ($100,000 for a family of 4?). You know the refugees aren’t getting much so you can see why this is such a cash cow for the immigration industry (including the UN, by the way).

And, that number does not include the cost to cities and states for health care, education, public housing, public safety and so on.

Who benefits the most?  Volags like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (which lobbies for more legal immigration and for amnesty for illegal immigrants) and big companies who need cheap labor like Tyson Foods benefit.

What is that expression again?  Doing well by doing good?

Posted in Reforms needed, Refugee Resettlement Program, Where to find information | 6 Comments »

Salt Lake City: A murder involving rival immigrant gangs perhaps?

Posted by acorcoran on January 29, 2011

This is a story I missed last Sunday.  Two Sudanese refugee gang members were arrested for killing another former refugee Mohamed Hassan (name sounds Somali not Sudanese ).  So do we have Sudanese-on-Sudanese crime or Sudanese gangs fighting Somali gangs now?  If anyone learns more about this story, send it my way.

From Deseret News:

SOUTH SALT LAKE — Police have arrested two Sudanese refugees in connection with the fatal shooting of a Salt Lake City man late Friday.

There were several people in a white Dodge Durango eastbound on state Route 201 near 1100 West when Mohamed Hassan, 22, was shot in the head at point-blank range shortly before midnight following a dispute, according to Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Ted Tingey. Troopers questioned some occupants of the vehicle, but several others scattered, Tingey said.

One of those who fled the scene, Akol Gabriel Joker, 20, a Sudanese refugee living in Salt Lake City, was later arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of murder and possession of a firearm by a restricted person. Tingey said he was believed to be the shooter and was well known to law enforcement.

A second suspect, Idrees Adam Idrees, 21, of Salt Lake City and also originally from Sudan, was arrested and booked for investigation of murder. Tingey did not specify his alleged role in the killing.

Hassan was also a Sudanese refugee, Tingey said.

We’ve written a lot about refugees in Salt Lake City, a major resettlement city.  To learn more about refugee problems in Salt Lake, use our search function.

Posted in Africa, Changing the way we live, Crimes, diversity's dark side, Refugee Resettlement Program, Resettlement cities | Comments Off

A recommendation to Birm and Allahsoldier (Somalipirate)

Posted by acorcoran on January 29, 2011

How about you guys join forces and write your own blog!   We have suggested this many times before to our critics.  Instead of you getting to freely (and lazily) criticize here every day while we do the work of research and writing—you guys have a blog of your own.  You can call it Refugee Resettlement Watch Watch, criticize us all day (we will even link it) and I’ll come visit you.

Or, you could write a blog to put down America (it’s a free country you know!)  You can write about all the evil things white Tea Party (there is a black Tea Party now in Houston if you didn’t know) people do.  You can write about white-on-white gang criminal activity, you can write about all the Americans on welfare and all those scamming food stamp programs.  You can denigrate white old people (interesting that its o.k. for Leftists to do that, but not o.k. too denigrate immigrants or blacks language errors).  You can write about how Americans are going across borders to sneak into other countries in order to be taken care of by the taxpayers of that country.  The list goes on of potential stories for you to research and post.

Just a suggestion.  Let me know when it’s ready to unveil.

Oh, shall I give you each other’s e-mail address?  Or, do you already know each other (no need to answer).

Posted in blogging, free speech | 2 Comments »

Crime rate up in Omaha Somali neighborhood

Posted by acorcoran on January 28, 2011

Gee, I wonder who the criminals are if they could communicate with the Somali refugees?  This story on the heals of the Minneapolis Somali crime story, here, yesterday.

From Action 3 News:

Omaha, NE- New steps may help keep Somali refugee families, who came to Omaha to find safety, safer. Some have said the crime in South Omaha is so bad, that they don’t even feel safe stepping outside or sending their kids to school.

There were six attacks in two days near the Southside Terrace Apartments, run by the Omaha Housing Authority. The attackers told the families they would come back and kill them if they talk to the police. The families are afraid to open the door, never knowing if the attackers are coming back for more.

I wonder if its going to be “chaotic anarchy” like it already is in another Nebraska city, Grand Island, here.

Who is the resettlement agency in Omaha that is placing refugees in a dangerous neighborhood?

Posted in Crimes, diversity's dark side, Muslim refugees, Refugee Resettlement Program, Resettlement cities | 4 Comments »

Somali “kids” shooting each other in Minneapolis (again)

Posted by acorcoran on January 27, 2011

We’ve written before about the Somali-on-Somali violence at the Brian Coyle Center in Minneapolis. It’s the local “community” center where Somali “kids” hang out (they always call young Somalis well up into their 20′s “kids”).   Here is the latest story this week about another shooting there.

From the Star Tribune:

A shooting at a Minneapolis community center that left two men wounded Monday evening renewed frustrations in the local Somali community about safety and crime at the center, a heavily used facility in one of the city’s more densely populated neighborhoods.

Some said the shooting was proof that nothing’s changed at the Brian Coyle Community Center since the fatal shooting of a Somali college student there in 2008. Some advocated even more security measures at the site, such as closing a street that runs past it.

Pillsbury United Communities runs the center and one local Somali woman tells us it is a dangerous place.

“This is a blow because we’ve done everything we know how to do,” said Tony Wagner, president of Pillsbury United Communities, which runs the center. “There’s lots of frustration.”

Wagner said the center installed additional lighting and video cameras after earlier incidents. Some of those cameras captured images of the shooter’s car in Monday’s incident — video that the police now have, he added.

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That place is dangerous anyway,” she said of the Coyle Center. “He shouldn’t be there. That’s a place where families and kids hang out, but there are some bad kids over there.”

One Somali activist said one solution is for the Community Center to be turned over to Somalis to run.  Incidentally this center is located in close proximity to the Cedar/Riverside section of town “Random Reader” told us about here the other day.

[Abdirizak] Bihi [described as a local activist] said several people contacted him Tuesday asking that he help set up a Somali community meeting to discuss the future of the Coyle Center. Some said it’s time for someone from the Somali community to run the center, he said.

What is the Pillsbury United Communities?

Check out their history here. One gets the impression from their website that they are a Leftist non-profit do-gooder outfit, but there is also lots of government (taxpayer money) involved.

One way to get a feel for a “non-profit” is to visit their IRS Form 990 and see how independent they are from government.   Here is the most recent one available.

Note the following:   Their overall revenue for 2009 was $12,577,428.  Of that $7,923,270 is from grants and contributions.  It used to be very simple to see how much of the grant money came from taxpayers, but the IRS has changed the form so you have to go to page 9 for their GOVERNMENT grants (that’s the money they get from you).  In this case PUC got $3,406,012 from government (taxpayers).

They receive $4,632,186 from “program services” some of which may include contracts with local and state government.

They pay out almost $9 million in salaries and Mr. Wagner made $215,603 in salary and compensation in 2009.  There is lots of money involved.  So what do you think the chances are that the Brian Coyle Center will be turned over to Somalis anytime soon?

Dangerous year ahead? If winter is bad, summer will be worse.

Some also worried that the shooting heralded a dangerous year ahead, extrapolating that if kids were getting into gunfights in the dead of winter, that warmer months will be filled with gunfire.

Oh, great.

Posted in Crimes, diversity's dark side, Muslim refugees, Refugee Resettlement Program, Resettlement cities | 1 Comment »

Fake university busted by ICE

Posted by acorcoran on January 27, 2011

This story isn’t about refugees but for two reasons I’m posting it.  First, I am fascinated by the large number and variety of scams and frauds perpetrated by people trying to get into the US (or who are ripping off welfare such as the food stamp program), and because it might help explain the mystery of a so-called Indian “university” that purchased a major piece of property in my county but split the scene almost immediately thereafter.

Here is the story from the Economic Times.* Hat tip: Ed.

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of Indian students , mostly from Andhra Pradesh , face the prospect of deportation from the US after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud .

The Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, a major suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, has been charged by federal investigating authorities with being part of an effort to defraud, misuse visa permits and indulge in money laundering and other crimes.

According to a federal complaint filed in a California court, the University, which was raided and shut down last week, helped foreign nationals illegally acquire immigration status.

The university is said to have 1,555 students. As many as 95 per cent of these students are Indian nationals, the complaint said.

Investigations by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) found that while students were admitted to various residential and online courses of the university and on paper lived in California, in reality they “illegally” worked in various parts of the country as far as Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

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ICE has called it as a “sham university.” The ICE investigations found that more than half of these students were reported to be residing in a single apartment located in Sunnyvale California.

So the “sham” university was used to bring “students” to the US on Student Visas only to let them roam throughout America taking jobs, what!, that Americans won’t do!

Now to Maryland. In 2008 an Indian “university” purchased the property (buildings and 40 plus acres) that had been the original local headquarters of Allegheny Energy in Washington County.   There was much fanfare in the local paper (where the worship of diversity is a driving force and anyone questioning anything about immigration is a racist bigot who kicks kittens) about how wonderful it was that this foreign university wanted to be in Hagerstown.

However, the mystery is that the Indians never did anything with the property and that it is now on the market again and I can’t find a single word about it in the Herald Mail archives (not even the original article with all its gushing excitement).    I know I wasn’t dreaming about their arrival in Washington County because I found this story about Vinayaka Missions University in which the Herald Mail story is mentioned.  Maybe it’s me, but see if you can find a word about the “university” in the local paper.

LOL!  I bet its this motto of Vinayaka that mesmerized the grand poobas at the Herald Mail:

Vinayaka Missions University’s motto is the school, “strives to spread the cerebral VISION to impart knowledge that is WISDOM which is achieved in the spirit of UNITY.”  [huh?]

Oh, I did find lots of fraud claims throughout the world about Vinayaka Missions University.

*Just like the previous story on Somalis swarming a UN office in South Africa, funny how we have to read these stories in foreign publications.

Posted in Crimes, diversity's dark side, Other Immigration | 1 Comment »

 
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