Food Stamp Fraud: Ahmed goes down and takes illegal alien with him

One more food stamp scam story, this one with a twist.

From KNSS Radio (Wichita, KS):

In federal court in Wichita, the owner of a small grocery store in Wichita has been indicted on federal charges of harboring an illegal alien who worked in the store.

40-year-old Ahmed Ajami Al-Maleki of Wichita was indicted last month on charges of food stamp fraud. The new indictment charges him with knowingly employing an alien who was unlawfully residing in the United States.

The indictment alleges that starting in October 2010, Al-Maleki hired an employee whose initials are P.V.C. to work at the Kansas Food Market in the 2600 block of N. Arkansas in Wichita, and paid her in cash. The indictment alleges Al-Maleki knew that P.V.C. was an alien who was not lawfully present in the United States. After Al-Maleki was charged with food stamp fraud, he stopped paying her in cash and began paying her by check. The checks had no withholdings for state income taxes, federal income taxes or Social Security payments. When P.V.C. told Al-Maleki she could not cash the first check because she did not have proper identification, he cashed it for her and gave her the money.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture – Office of Inspector General and Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated the case.

For new readers, this is one of dozens (heck, we could have 50 or so by now!) of stories on immigrant food stamp fraud involving convenience stores and small grocery stores.  Use our search function for more.

CIS report to be released next week on immigrant welfare use

Your tax dollars:

Everything in the world is happening next week it seems!  Here is one more thing to put on your calendars!

On April 5th, according to a press release yesterday, the Center for Immigration Studies will release the findings of a new report entitled,“Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs.”

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2011) – A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds that, 13 years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes – not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing.

The findings also show wide variation in welfare use by country of origin, with immigrants from some countries making extensive use of such programs, while those from other countries have relatively low use rates. Welfare use also varies by state, with Arizona, Texas, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado having some of the highest levels of welfare use among immigrant households.

The report, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs,” is authored by Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. It will be released Tuesday, April 5, at 9:00 a.m. during a panel discussion at the National Press Club, 14th & F streets, N.W.

I’ll bet you a buck the study will not be encouraging, unless of course you are an advocate of the Cloward-Piven strategy to bring down capitalism by flooding the welfare system.

I know one bit of data that was probably not available—the Office or Refugee Resettlement still has not fulfilled its legal requirement to produce welfare data and other data on refugees for its annual report to Congress now three years late! As a matter of fact, I think one reason a report has not been submitted in three years is because the welfare usage and employment figures are probably so horrible that the refugee industry does not want Congress to know about it.

Take a few minutes and contact your US Congressman and US Senators and ask them to demand that the ORR submit those three (2008,2009,2010) reports to Congress!

Former Vietnamese refugee rips off New York Chinese, says she hates them

I know! I know she clearly has mental problems but once again we have an example of how there is no love lost between immigrants from different cultures.   This is not the first time I’ve heard about conflicts between the Vietnamese and Chinese—heck there are thousands of years of history between the two ethnic groups that the overrated American melting pot can’t completely melt.  To see what I mean about the long history, check out the Trung Sisters who died in the first century AD while waging a battle against their Chinese enemy.  Their bravery is still celebrated in Vietnam today.

From the New York Daily News:

A Vietnamese refugee who claims she steals to give to the poor faces three years in prison – and possible hate crime charges – for a pick-pocketing spree in Chinatown, officials said Tuesday.

Ho Vasko, 67, a wealthy former New York restaurant owner, was arraigned on grand larceny and jostling charges for stealing $350 from the purses and pockets of four victims last week.

Prosecutors told a Manhattan Criminal Court judge they may increase the charges against Vasko because of a hate-filled rant she made after her March 21 arrest.

“I hate the Chinese people, they sell fake stuff,” Vasko told cops, according to court documents.

“They get benefit cards, and they don’t contribute anything back, so I take their money and give it to people who need it,” she said. “I want to die. I hope they electrocute me.”

I should have a category entitled, no bad white people in this story!  Or, maybe tribalism is part of human nature even if you wish it would go away.

Gates of Vienna: The Rhine is freezing…

Last night I was discussing my post about Malta and about the invasion of Italian islands by hundreds, thousands, of immigrants flooding out of North Africa with my friend Richard at Blue Ridge Forum.  I wondered aloud if the Romans knew the empire was falling before it finally did.   Did they see it coming?

I see, thanks to Richard, that others are thinking the same horrible thoughts—two days ago from Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna:

The fall of the Roman Empire was not a sudden event.

The imperial power wielded by Rome decreased gradually over the course of centuries, during which time a steady deterioration was punctuated by repeated barbarian incursions and the sacking of cities. The reach of the empire shrank by fits and starts until it was overthrown entirely and replaced by kingdoms ruled by the Germanic invaders.

In his address to the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome on Friday night, Geert Wilders referred to a significant event during the course of the fall of Rome: the freezing of the Rhine on December 31st, 406. This allowed thousands of Germanic invaders to cross the frozen river and overrun Gaul, after which they were well-positioned to invade the Italian peninsula and sack Rome itself just a few years later.

Mr. Wilders finds a parallel to these events in the current decline of Western Civilization. He notes that modern-day barbarians — immigrants from the Islamic world — are anticipating the equivalent of the freezing of the Rhine, after which they will be able to overrun and sack the copious riches of an all-but-moribund Europe.

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This has been the winter of Arab discontent, and as a result of the recent upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East, the metaphorical Rhine may finally have frozen over. Instead of a river, the barbarian invaders are crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Instead of walking, they are cramming themselves into rickety boats and crossing over into Italian territory.

Please read Baron’s whole treatise, and then this from the concluding paragraphs:

The Rhine is beginning to freeze.

The PC-MC impulse is widespread and deeply embedded in Europe. It will take catastrophic circumstances to dislodge it, but a great slow-motion catastrophe is even now unfolding.

Is America far behind?

Poor Malta, here they come!

Only yesterday I reported that Malta’s Prime Minister, Laurence Gonzi, said NOOOO! to taking more African immigrants from Libya or Tunisia.  I also reported that thousands are arriving on Italian islands (here).  Now, hat tip: Charles, we see that two boats packed (packed shoulder to shoulder!) arrived in Malta today with 500 Somalis and Eritreans aboard.

From the Times of Malta:

Two boats carrying some 500 Somali and Eritrean immigrants from Libya entered Malta this afternoon.

The first boat arrived in Dahlet Qorrot, the second at Haywharf at around 5.30 a.m. The Gozo boat was also escorted to Haywharf where it arrived at around 7.30 p.m.

The arrivals were the first in Malta this year and since the conflict between rebels and Gaddafi forces in Libya.

You must watch the film clip of one of the boats being brought in to dock that accompanies the story!  I hate to keep mentioning it, but if you read the almost four decades old French novel, The Camp of the Saints, you have already seen these packed boats in your mind’s eye.

Oh, and one more thing, although the news account says there were women and children aboard, it sure looks like a lot of young men to me.

Canada: Refugees have trouble fitting in and are thus drawn to gangs

Here is a story from Vancouver about the psychological problems related to trauma experienced by some immigrant and refugee youths.

From the Vancouver Sun:

He [Hieu Van Ngo, a PhD candidate with the University of Calgary's Faculty of Social Work] said the numbers of refugee or immigrant youths who get involved in gangs isn’t known because Canada does not keep race-related crime statistics. And while Ngo said he suspects the majority of refugees don’t get into gangs, “We can’t be complacent by bringing refugees in and leaving them to struggle without supports.

“Are we setting up the school system so that it is responsive to students with complex needs? Across the country, a lot of times schools neglect to give ESL [English as a second language] support to young people,” he said.

Giving the example of the 14-yearold, Ngo said the boy didn’t do well in school because English wasn’t his first language and when he acted out, they expelled him.

Read on.

I have absolutely no doubt that this is a growing problem, not only in Canadian schools, but American ones as well.  In my view, first, there needs to be a vigorous debate about how many refugees a western country can handle financially and part of that decision must be made with these troubled youths in mind.

The taxpayers are going to have to decide if these young immigrants who were traumatized and in need of special education should get it—separate from the other students.  That will be very costly, but it’s pretty costly to society to hold back the educational progress of normal kids, and it’s pretty costly to cope with gang violence.

Unfortunately, refugee  and migration advocates won’t even let such a vigorous debate occur because they are too busy calling anyone who suggests a moratorium or a slowdown in the refugee flow to the First World a bunch of  evil hatemonger bigots, xenophobes and racists.

No immigration slowdown, or no special accommodations for troubled youths?  Then the next best thing is to get your kids out of public schools (as a starter)!

Is in-breeding causing a decline in IQ (and other maladies) among Muslims?

This is an interesting study and for posting it I’m sure to be called racist.  Islam permits and indeed encourages in-breeding and this author suggests it’s a growing problem in the West as Muslim immigrants bring the practice with them.  The cost to society is great.

The article made me think of the autism epidemic in Minneapolis among Somali children.  Interesting that two Islamic practices might be at fault and not those vaccines Muslims are avoiding—-lack of sunshine (Vitamin D) as pregnant women are completely covered in a far northern climate and in-breeding.

From Liveleak:

Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the intelligence, sanity, and health of their offspring, and on their surroundings.

Nicolai Sennels’ latest essay concerns the deleterious effects of cousin marriage within the Muslim world, and the impact the practice is having in Western countries with large numbers of Muslim immigrants.

Here is mention of a study from Denmark which is way ahead of the US in trying to cope with a large Muslim population.

The cognitive consequences of Muslim inbreeding might explain why non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to fail the Danish army’s intelligence test than native Danes: “19.3% of non-Western immigrants are not able to pass the Danish army’s intelligence test. In comparison, only 4.7% of applicants with Danish background do not pass.” (TV 2 Nyhederne, 13/6 2007 “Immigrants flunk army test”). It probably also explains — at least partly — why two thirds of all immigrant school children with Arabic backgrounds are illiterate after ten years in the Danish school system: “Those who speak Arabic with their parents have an extreme tendency to lack reading ability — 64 percent are illiterate… No matter whether it concerns reading ability, mathematics, or science, the pattern is the same: the bilingual immigrants’ skills are exceedingly poor compared to their Danish classmates.” (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit [pdf], May 2007 “Ethnic students do not make Danish children worse”). The high expenses of special education for slow learners consumes one third of the budget for the Danish schools. “Immigrant children are clearly overrepresented on Copenhagen’s schools for retarded children and children with physical handicaps… 51 percent of the children in the three schools in Copenhagen for children with physical and mental handicaps have an immigrant background, and in one of the schools the figure is 70 percent… These amounts are significantly higher than the share of immigrant children in the municipality, which is 33 percent. The many handicapped children are clear evidence that there are many intermarried parents in the immigrant families.” (Jydske Vestkysten, 4/4 2009 “Tosprogede i overtal på handicapskoler”).

They have been in-breeding for 1400 years!   Ban first-cousin marriages.

There is no doubt that the widespread Muslim tradition of first-cousin marriages has harmed the gene pool among Muslims. Because Muslims’ religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevent them from adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago are most likely massive. The overwhelming direct and indirect human and societal consequences have been explained above.

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A legislative ban on first cousin marriages is a logical and compassionate imperative for the Muslim world, the EU, and our Western national governments.

Read the whole article.

Immigrant food stamp scammer sentenced in Gary, Indiana

Wouldn’t you think that eventually the word would get around to the food stamp fraudsters that their fellow scammers were being busted from coast to coast.  Nevermind, I take that back, only if they happened to read RRW would they know because no one in the old media ever puts these stories together.

Today’s scam comes from the Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana:

A Gary man will have to pay back almost $290,000 along with serving 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to food stamp fraud, according to court records.

Husein Kanakrieh was sentenced Wednesday in the U.S. District Court after pleading guilty last year to charges of lying on his income tax filings and abusing food stamps.

Kanakrieh ran a store, Jordan Foods, 4272 Georgia St., Gary, and would buy food stamps for less than their real value, according to his plea agreement. He would then redeem the stamps through his store for full value, the agreement said.

This last line is deceptive.  He redeemed his stamps from the taxpayer!

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UK: Brutal Somali gang violence revealed in murder trial

Thirty gang members attacked one Somali young man and beat him to death in front of passersby.   Five years later, some of the perpetrators are being sentenced to long prison terms, some to life in prison.

From the Camden New Journal:

A FOURTH man has begun a life sentence for the “brutal and senseless” public execution of a teenager in Camden Town.

Gang warfare between rival groups of young Somalis led to the “shocking” death of Mahir Osman, an Old Bailey judge said on Friday. Judge Richard Hone, QC, sentenced his “cowardly” killer, Ahmed Farah, to serve a minimum 16 years following his conviction by a jury after a two-week trial for the 2006 murder.

Farah, 24, from Islington, played a leading role in the attack on engineering student Mahir, 18, from Taplow, Adelaide Road, who was known as “Smiley” to his friends.

A mob of more than 30, all heavily armed, ambushed the 18-year-old on the evening of January 28, a Saturday, and killed him within sight of hundreds of stunned passers-by.

One of those serving a lesser sentence is the son of Idi Amin!

Three have been given life sentences and the ­others various prison terms on lesser charges. One of them, Faisal Wangita, serving five years, is the son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Diversity is strength!

Africans from Libya and Tunisia land by the thousands on Italian islands

From AP:

ROME (AP) — Boatloads of illegal African migrants have resumed setting sail from Libya for Italy, authorities said, overwhelming tiny islands and towns in southern Italy already struggling to host thousands fleeing unrest in Tunisia.

Before dawn Sunday, Italian coast guard vessels escorted a boat crowded with 284 Somalis, Eritreans and Ethiopians to shore, the first boat to resume the long-established routes of smugglers’ boats toward Italy from Libya’s long coastline.

They are sleeping on the docks and in the fields.

Since Lampedusa, a tiny island off Sicily, is already straining from sheltering the thousands of Tunisians, who have taken to sleeping on docks and fields after housing space ran out, the boat from Libya was diverted to Linosa, an even tinier island in the Pelagie archipelago south of Sicily.

Authorities said at least two other boats coming from Libya with hundreds of migrants aboard were spotted by fishing boats or coast guard air and sea patrolling the southern Mediterranean Sunday.

What are they doing here, they have freedom now in Tunisia?

Sen. Maurizio Gasparri, a close conservative ally of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said the migrants should be transported back to Tunisia rather than to the mainland.

“They are clandestine (migrants) who ran away from a country where there is no war — on the contrary, there is now more freedom than before,” the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Gasparri as telling reporters.

Over 600 land within a 24 hour period.

Italian border police said in the 24 hours ending at midnight Sunday some 625 migrants, aboard five separate boats landed on Lampedusa. And hundreds had arrived earlier in the week on the island, which is closer to northern Africa than to mainland Italy.

Amazing how prescient Jean Raspail was over 35 years ago when he wrote The Camp of the Saints.