Australia: Iranian, former illegal alien seeks damages for stress while in detention

In the US, they come across our borders by land, but in Australia they come by the boatload as we have reported many times previously (see our Australia category).  They are illegal aliens seeking asylum status.  Although this article doesn’t say how this particular fellow arrived in Australia, we know he was placed in detention.

Now, however he is free and an Australian citizen yet he is seeking compensation for pain and suffering!  That’s not sitting well with real “victims” advocacy groups.

From the Herald Sun:

AN Iranian refugee who was detained after arriving in Australia has launched legal action for pain and suffering.

Siavash Mossavian, 32, spent four years and five months in detention before being released in April 2005, the Herald Sun reported.

He was granted a temporary protection visa and, later, citizenship.

But he alleges the Government breached its duty to him during his time in detention, resulting in physical, psychological and psychiatric harm.

In documents filed in the Victorian Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr Mossavian say these injuries include post-traumatic stress disorder, a major depressive disorder, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and pain and suffering.

“….they throw dirt in our faces.”

Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara said people who suffered a total disability as a result of crime were not adequately compensated, and it was ridiculous that someone should seek damages over their time in a detention centre.

“It’s a great cheek. We have a habit of pandering to these people,” he said.

“We welcome them, do the best we can by them, and they throw dirt in our faces.”

We are infidels after all.

Endnote:  Be sure to see the related story where “refugees” set fire to the detention center on Christmas Island, here.

Arab American News: Congressman seeking reform of the Refugee Program

I saw the news today about Congressman Gary Peters of Michigan having introduced a “reform” the Refugee Act bill at The Arab American News:

WASHINGTON - Congressman Gary Peters has announced a bill to reform the Refugee Act on its 31st anniversary. The Refugee Act helps assist political, ethnic and religious refugees around the world.

The system that distributes funds for refugees is out of date and inefficient according to a report released by Peter’s office. Refugee advocates have praised Peter’s legislation as an enormous step forward. In 2009 more than 2,300 Iraqi refugees were resettled in Michigan. Earlier this week Peters sent a letter to his colleagues in Congress urging them to support the new bill.

A little checking around produced not much.  I didn’t even see mention of it at the Congressman’s website.

I checked MicEvHill.com but I gotta say that is the most confusing website I think I’ve ever seen, and couldn’t find anything there.

The best information I found was at Friends of Refugees and that just confirmed that Christopher Coen too couldn’t find much about it—calling it a “mysterious bill.”

Church World Service (one of the top federal contractors, don’t be mislead by that label Voluntary Agencies!) put out a press release on it (here).  For new readers, if they like it, it means there will be more bucks flowing their way.

WHERE IS THE ORR ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS?

And the nerve of anyone  proposing to give the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) greater power to distribute your tax dollars when they are now over 3 years behind in producing their LEGALLY MANDATED annual report to Congress, see here (for background go here).   I think I will call Congressman Peter’s office tomorrow and discuss the lack of any annual reporting throughout the entire period of our economic recession.  Maybe the good Congressman can help figure out what the ORR hiding?

I repeat!  Before anyone proposes giving ORR more freedom to spend (your) money, how about we first find out how its been spent over the last three years!  ORR release the last three annual reports to Congress!

Native Americans and Somalis trying to get along with each other

I came across this news in a Native American publication last week about how an effort is being made in Minnesota to bring two ethnic groups together that have been at odds for some time apparently.

From The Circle:

Native American and Somali communities in Minneapolis have lived close to each other ever since the first refugees of war-torn Somalia began to arrive in the early ’90′s. The attraction of jobs and services in the cities has been offset by the conflicts that have arisen between Native and Somali youth. Assault and sexual abuse have been reported in the past, and members of both communities have voiced concern about the safety of their neighborhoods.

A high profile crime in January of last year brought the issue to the wider public [what was the crime, does anyone know?--ed]. Violence, human trafficking, and housing placement are just some of the issues facing both Natives and Somalis in Minneapolis.

To stop the violence, and begin a dialogue between the two communities, the Native American Somali Friendship Committee (NASFC) was formed.

I know there have been plenty of conflicts between American blacks and Somalis, and we have written plenty about Hispanic-Somali clashes especially in the workplace, but I didn’t know that Somalis and Native Americans were clashing.

Looks like they are trying to work out their differences.  Yippee! No bad white people in this story!

That reminds me, I wonder what happened with that case of the Minnesota Somali man held as a person of interest in the murder of four Native Americans in North Dakota?  Does anyone know?

Judicial Watch asks: How many terrorists get across southern border undetected?

Tom Fitton President of Judicial Watch reported this past week at Big Government on a report obtained through the  Freedom of Information Act from Customs and Border Enforcement on the possible number of suspected terrorists getting into the US across our border.  Read it here.

I’ve told you I suspect some of our “humanitarian NGOs” may be helping would-be “asylum seekers” get across the border here.  And, they couldn’t possibly know who the Somalis and others from terror-sponsoring countries really are and who they are affiliated with.

Two Somalis dropped from sex-trafficking case

I guess this is going to be Somali news round-up Saturday.   I just told you about Somali kids not being vaccinated in Minneapolis and this is news from Nashville updating that huge Somali sex trafficking case we first reported here.

Two have been dropped from the case not because they have been exonerated, but because they can’t be found.  One is believed to have skipped the country.

From the City Paper in Nashville:

The government has dropped the names of two defendants from a case of alleged juvenile sex trafficking so that the case may move forward.

U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. signed an order Friday severing Abdikarim Osman Ali and Abdigadir Ahmed Khalif from the list of 29 individuals indicted last fall on a variety of charges including juvenile sex trafficking, credit card fraud and obstruction of justice involving members and associates of three Somali gangs.

Last November, law enforcement officials arrested two dozen suspects allegedly involved in the sex trafficking ring with connections between Nashville and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Van Vincent, the order granting a motion states that Ali and Khalif were removed from the indictment “to avoid necessary delay as these defendants have not been apprehended.”

Somalis avoiding vaccinations, children developing measles

Two readers sent this story from Minneapolis today.

From MSNBC:

MINNEAPOLIS — Three more young children in Minneapolis have contracted measles, including two who were not immunized because of fears about the safety of the vaccine.

The Minnesota Department of Health is working closely with Hennepin County Public Health staff in their investigation. The three new cases were reported in children between 23 months and 4 years of age, living in Minneapolis who likely acquired their infections in Minneapolis.

The children became ill between March 1 and March 9. Two of the three new cases were hospitalized, and all are recovering.

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Two of the four children are Somali. They had not been vaccinated because of parental concerns about the standard vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In recent years, MMR vaccination has dropped in the Somali community because of concerns about safety.

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“It is every parent’s responsibility to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella to protect them against these deadly diseases,” said Dr. Abdirahman D. Mohamed, Chief of Staff of Axis Medical Center, Minneapolis. Dr. Mohamed said he knows of four unvaccinated Somali children (two in the U.S. and two in other countries) who have died from measles. He stressed the importance of reaching the community with the message that vaccination is important.

They don’t say it in this story but Somalis got the erroneous idea that American medical requirements—vaccinations—were responsible for an epidemic of autism in Minneapolis among Somali children.  However, studies on autism are increasingly pointing a finger to a Vitamin D deficiency in northern cities exacerbated by dark skinned women covering themselves from head to toe and thus not getting any sunshine during pregnancy.  I told you about the latest research here.

And, you wonder why our health care costs are skyrocketing……

Europeans freaking out over African exodus

Bloomberg has titled the story “Biblical Exodus.”   It begins here:

As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.

“They cannot be allowed on the shore,” Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. “Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land.”

Camp of Saints anyone?

An inside look at the Shelbyville film propaganda team

I’ve written many many times about the propaganda film that has been created to tell the world that even in the heart of redneck country (Tennessee) that local folks are coming around to embrace their Somali neighbors (who arrived there to work for the meatpacker Tyson Foods) and welcome them to Bible-belt America.  But, as with any film of this kind, it all depends on who edited the film and what the propaganda goal is that is being promoted.   I suspect I could have taken the same footage and created a film with the exact opposite message.

This film has a two-fold purpose.  It was shown in Africa to assure Africans that its just hunky-dory fine to live in America (the power structure in the refugee program and their friends in big industry need reliable Democratic voters and cheap labor).  And, the film is being shown to shame other towns and cities should anyone question a large influx of African Muslims to their neighborhoods.

So check this out! It is a rare inside look into how the film is being canned and promoted through a multi-media effort to manipulate public thinking on a very important immigration issue.  There is even a photo of the young socialists sitting around a conference table planning their next moves.

See my most recent post on the “welcoming” Shelbyville mind-meld campaign here and follow links back.

More on trafficking illegal alien Somalis to Malta

This would be funny if it weren’t so serious.  The Times of Malta reported yesterday that a Somali has been sentenced to four years in prison for bringing boatloads of illegal aliens from Libya to the island nation of Malta (for a handsome profit of course).  But, here is the hitch and the funny part.  He was turned in by a “client” for cheating the client (the illegal alien) because he didn’t get the illegal alien to the illegal alien’s hoped-for destination.

So did he go to jail for trafficking or lying to his “client?”   And, can the illegal alien “client” now stay in Malta or will authorities and the US Ambassador to Malta move the guy on to a town near you as the Ambassador and the US State Department have done with hundreds of other Somalis who have managed to get to Malta over the last few years!

From The Times of Malta:

A man found guilty of organising boat trips to get illegal immigrants from Libya to Europe was this morning jailed for four years and six months and fined €270.

Mohamed Muhudiin Dhiblaawe had been reported to the police by Somali Omar Hasan Nour in March 2009, who ended in Malta after paying Mr Dhiblaawe $900 for the trip.

Mr Nour reported Mr Dhiblaawe to the police because he felt robbed as he did not intend his destination to be Malta.

Following investigations, the police found that the accused transported people from Libya to Europe because of the massive profits involved. The accused had spoken to Mr Nour and others in Libya and offered to help them travel to Europe for the equivalent of €600 each.

The accused had promised to make all the necessary arrangements and gave the Somalis all the necessary instructions for the escape.

For more of this sort of humor, check out my post on Malta in January to see how one Somali traveler through Malta got sent to the US and is complaining about it!   The post also has some links on our precedent-setting arrangement to scoop up illegal aliens in Malta and transform them into refugees for resettlement in your neighborhood.   This practice has been going on since at least 2007 when I started to follow the issue during the Bush Administration.  Bush started it, and Obama continues it.

Finns backlogged on Somali refugee cases

It seems Finland is running a backlog of family reunification applications from Somalis.

From YLE.fi:

The Finnish Immigration Service is swamped with family reunification applications from Somalis. About 5,600 such applications are being processed, with the oldest dating from the start of 2009.

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The Finnish Immigration Service says that the handling of Somalis’ applications for a residence permit on the basis of family ties takes longer than average for such applications.

There are two reasons for the hold-ups, according to the authority. Firstly, the numbers of applications from Somalis have rapidly grown. Secondly, it is usually impossible to obtain documents proving a familial relationship from Somalia, which means that the interested parties have to be interviewed in person.

Most frequently, applicants are interviewed at the Finnish mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Gee, can you tell us if you are related to so-and-so!---ed]

Two words for Finland:   DNA TESTING!

For new readers: In 2008 the US State Department shut down the entire family reunification program for Africa mostly because they found that as many as 80% of the applications were fraudulent.  Back in November of 2010 the State Dept. was about to re-open the program with some DNA testing required.  I frankly don’t know what happened with it, they have probably quietly re-opened Somali family reunification to the US and are operating on a backlog as well.