Month: March 2011

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

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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

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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The system that distributes funds for refugees is out of date and inefficient according to a report released by Peter’s office.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

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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?

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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

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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.”