Hungary: Walls Work as Muslim Migration to Europe Increases post-Chinese Virus Scourge

As the Chinese menace recedes, the invasion of Europe picks up its pace.

My invasion of Europe archive needs some attention and over the weekend Jihad Watch had an informative piece about my favorite country after America—Hungary.  (Poland comes in a close third!)

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and our President. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2020/01/01/leftwing-writer-president-trump-wants-to-be-like-his-idol-hungarys-viktor-orban/

Hungary says border fence worked, urges EU to refocus on migration as illegal Muslim migration attempts triple

 

Hungary has seen a sharp rise in illegal Muslim migrants trying to enter the country over the last year — triple the number than in the previous year. The government now wants to see a refocus on controlling illegal Muslim migration into the EU, since all attention has been focused on COVID.

The border fence was built using prison labor. https://www.businessinsider.com/r-hungary-builds-new-high-tech-border-fence-with-few-migrants-in-sight-2017-3

The influx of illegals has not stopped, and is now escalating even more as COVID recedes. Areas of the EU, especially the UK, Italy, Spain and Greece, have been easy-access target countries. Zoltan Kovacs, the Orban government’s long-serving Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations, stated:

By erecting a border fence along our borders with Serbia and Croatia – again, that’s not only our frontier, it’s an external border of Europe’s Schengen Area – Hungary showed the world in 2015 that it is possible to stop the influx of illegals on land. A few years later, under the leadership of former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Italy effectively put an end to migration at sea. Other member states, and most EU institutions, however, seem hell-bent on turning the other way and letting these immigrants in.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban once said:

We don’t see these people as Muslim refugees. We see them as Muslim invaders…For example, to arrive from Syria in Hungary, you have to cross four countries, all of which are not as rich as Germany, but stable. So they are not running for their lives there already.

The vast majority of Muslim migrants still entering the EU are economic migrants jumping the queue. Migrants have been steadily flowing into Italy, and 8,000 Moroccan migrants swarmed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the space of three days (6,000 in one day alone).

Build more shelters!  Sounds just like what Biden is doing.

Instead of supporting limits on mass migration, politicians from Angela Merkel’s party in Germany instead advised Spain and Italy to build more migrant centers.

Globalists continue to erode their countries’ democracies, neglect national security and demonstrate little regard for the rule of law as they continue to support open-door immigration.

More here.

Unaccompanied Alien Children are NOT Refugees, Tennessee Controversy Highlights “Conflation” Issue

A post for diehard refugee watchers!

For more than a dozen years (that is the time I’ve been following the US Refugee Admissions Program), I’ve watched the Open Borders propagandists and their media lackeys sell the idea that those mostly teenaged illegal alien border crossers that began flooding our southern border in massive waves during the Obama administration are legitimate refugees.

Legal (whether they are legitimate is another question) refugees are selected abroad (supposedly able to prove they are being persecuted) in a process that begins with the United Nations, the US State Department admits them with screening in advance by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services provides funds for many of their initial needs.

Those nine federal contractors*** I’m always talking about are contracted and funded by the US State Department to settle them in your towns and cities and those nine receive additional grants and contracts from ORR to supposedly care for them for an initial three month period.

The ‘children’ we see being flown around the US, the ones who caused that recent uproar in Tennessee, here, came to our border, crossed it illegally and were then turned over to ORR and therein I believe is where the confusion began.

I believe, with no hard proof, that the Open Borders lobby wanted the ‘care’ of the children placed in the Office of Refugee Resettlement to further advance the idea to the media and to you, that the ‘children’ are legitimate refugees who would ultimately be entitled to all of the benefits legal refugees receive and thus ultimately acquire citizenship.

Coming back to bite them….

For all of these more than a dozen years I’ve watched this, the big nine, because they clearly want to see the most third worlders admitted to the US as possible, have supported the influx of UACs.

In my early years this was a surprise to me as I assumed the contractors would put the legal refugees they were committed (and contracted!) to care for ahead of any concerns for illegal aliens, but they don’t.

This year their lack of discernment has come back to bite them as Biden himself recognized (briefly) that funds for legal refugees were being consumed by the expensive care being provided to the illegal alien kids.

Here at the Detroit  News, in an article about the “decimated refugee infrastructure” we learned that indeed money for legal refugees was being shifted to the illegal ‘children’:

When Biden initially announced he would keep the Trump-era refugee admissions cap of 15,000 — before backtracking amid widespread outcry — he hinted that resources needed at the border were being drawn from the refugee resettlement program.

“The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people,” he said in April. “We couldn’t do two things at once.”

Funding for the Unaccompanied Children Program, which manages custody of child migrants at the border, and the HHS portion of the refugee admissions program, which reimburses states for refugee-related expenses, are indeed part of a single appropriation within HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement and can be internally redirected.

Of course, this money shortage won’t last long as the Biden team will simply allocate billions more (and probably already has) to accelerate the process of changing America by changing the people.

Unforeseen consequences of years of conflation….

But, perhaps an unforeseen result of years of selling the media and the public on the false notion that the UACs (Biden says we aren’t supposed to call them Unaccompanied Alien Children) are legal refugees is that furious tax paying Americans are going to (already are!) lump the illegal alien teens in with legal refugees making it much harder for the contractors to sell communities with the idea of welcoming more legal refugees.

In other words, most Americans think too many are coming no matter what category they fall within. 

For those of you who have gotten this far in this morning’s post and are thinking that you don’t give a damn about the bureaucratic details and are saying to yourselves—we are admitting too many migrants of all stripes while paying for them out of our wallets—stop reading now.

Otherwise, know this, and keep reading.

Even our so-called political leaders don’t know what they are talking about and are adding to the confusion, or  dodging and weaving.

In my post on Friday about the Tennessee uproar, the conflation issue raised its ugly head as politicians scurried to look like they were doing something to push back against the Biden migrant dump.

Good for two writers to begin to unravel the mess.

Green apparently fell for the “conflation.” Editor: I sure would like to see a little better preparation by a Tea Party endorsed candidate. Some of the best experts in the country on refugee resettlement are right there in his own back yard. Here is an idea! Call them before looking foolish.

A lack of legal understanding by a lawmaker is of concern.

Jumping on the bandwagon is US Rep. Mark Green who apparently thinks he is doing something with a bill that will go nowhere in Nancy Pelosi’s House.

For politicians, it is the outrage that matters!

Pat Hamsa writing at Tennessee’s Daily Roll Call calls out Green for adding to the confusion by referring to the UACs as refugees!

Is Mark Green Conflating Illegal Aliens With Refugees?

It’s anybody’s best guess why Green’s explanation of his bill, H.R.3500, doesn’t match what he’s telling folks it’s supposed to do.

Green’s press release about his new bill, “Leads Fight to Block Refugee Resettlement Without State Consent”states in part:

Last week, in the dead of night, unaccompanied migrant children were flown into Tennessee without our approval or consent. I am alarmed that the Biden Administration would use taxpayer resources to transport refugees into Tennessee without transparency or coordination with state authorities. This overreach and secrecy has to stop.”

In a recent interview with WRCBtv Chattanooga, Green said that he drafted the bill in response to what happened in Chattanooga and that “this bill would mandate permission of the state before they move illegal migrants to Tennessee.”

Then why does he call them refugees in the headline to his press release?

More here.

Then this….

I am amazed at the amount of real research a writer at a local Tennessee paper put into this story attempting to unravel the conflation confusion.  It is so rare to see links to solid information to back the reporting.

From Wyatt Massey at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Massey points out that Governor Lee is on record supporting more legal refugees to Tennessee while acting outraged by the arrival of the ‘children,’ even as during his tenure, the Chattanooga facility for the ‘children’ was licensed.

Refugee, migrant shelters for children referenced in Tennessee debate are separate under federal rules

Controversy in the past week about the movement of migrant children through Tennessee and into a Chattanooga shelter licensed by the state in May 2020 has led to confusion about the immigration status of the children housed in Southeast Tennessee and those video recorded exiting a plane in Chattanooga.

Gov. Bill Lee opposed Trump’s efforts to give states a greater say when the feds placed refugees in a state. He wants more legal refugees, but is distancing himself from the very unpopular drop-off of UACs, so it is to his advantage to make a distinction between the two programs.

Gov. Bill Lee has previously been criticized for his strong words against President Joe Biden administration policies related to the unaccompanied minors after announcing in 2019 the state would continue resettling refugees.

[….]

The governor faced criticism from some conservatives at the time for continuing to accept refugees. Lee cited his Christian faith, calling it a “moral obligation” and a “biblical mandate” for the state to remain in the program.

This is a separate program from federal efforts to care for unaccompanied children who, after they cross the border, are initially in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. ICE and CBP have three days to move the children away from a temporary border shelter to a shelter run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Children stay in ORR shelters, like the one in Chattanooga, for about a month while caseworkers locate and vet a sponsor, usually a relative, to take custody of the child until immigration proceedings can begin.

[….]

On May 19, WRCB aired video of children getting off a plane at the Wilson Air Center to be transported to shelters or placed with sponsors throughout the region. The video sparked outrage from members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation and Lee, who said he had declined a Biden administration request to house unaccompanied minors in the state.

However, documents from the state show Lee’s own Department of Children’s Services licensed the shelter near downtown Chattanooga to house “unaccompanied minors” in May 2020.

On Monday, the Times Free Press asked Lee why his administration approved the license for the facility, conducted monthly inspections and issued monthly reports if the governor was then raising concerns about a lack of transparency over migrant children and saying he declined a federal request to house unaccompanied children.

Although the Times Free Press asked specifically about the migrant children, the governor said the Times Free Press was conflating unaccompanied minors with refugees.

Keep reading. Massey even digs into the finances of the contractor, the Baptiste Group from Georgia, that is housing the UACs in Tennessee.  Good work!

Now, after all that, if you made it this far, I suspect you are saying:

Conflation or not there is just too darn much poverty, cultural conflict and potential crime and terrorism being brought into the country and I don’t want to pay for it!

 

***In case you are new to RRW, here are all of the nine contractors that have monopolized all refugee distribution in the US for decades.

They worked to ‘elect’ Biden/Harris and lobby for open borders.  As taxpayers you pay them millions annually to change America by changing the people.

Two of the contractors, the USCCB and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service are also paid to find locations for the Unaccompanied Alien Children.

At this very moment they are all out scouting for new, fresh territory in which to place their refugee clients.  See Winchester, VA.

Foreigners First! is their motto!

Tennessee Republicans Blustering about UAC Drop in the State

It is no wonder that citizens throw their hands up in disgust with their so-called leaders in the GOP.

I can’t take the latest from the Tennessee Republicans seriously because for years they have been making the right noises about states rights when it comes to Washington dumping refugees and illegal aliens on the backs of their taxpayers, but somehow never make any headway.  Why is that?

It is impossible for me to go back over the leadership Tennessee did display for a brief period when the legislature filed a Tenth Amendment case against the federal government, but then after backing away from it, watched their Republican Governor, Bill Lee, stick his finger in Trump’s eye when Trump attempted to give the states a modicum of say in the distribution of refugees.

For ambitious readers, see my Tennessee’ archives.

Last week we reported on the news from Chattanooga:

Tennessee Proof: Planes Land in Dark of Night Loaded with Migrants

 

The story caused a ripple of angry political posturing that has resulted in this—a study committee has been formed!  Whoop-de-do!

From The Tennessean:

Tennessee legislature forms GOP committee to take on unaccompanied minors, refugee resettlement

As recent news stories continue to highlight the arrival of unaccompanied migrant youth in Tennessee — a practice that has gone on since before President Joe Biden took office — top Republicans in the state are seizing on the issue to call for more transparency from the federal government.

On Friday, the Republican speakers of the state House and Senate announced they were forming a legislative study committee to determine how many migrant children are being permanently relocated to the state.

Apparently conflating the recent influx of migrants with refugees, a separate category of individuals Tennessee has for years received following a vetting process, the legislature has formed a “Joint Study Committee on Refugee Issues.”  [The UACs are NOT refugees. They are illegal aliens!–ed]

McNally

[….]

“When the federal government abdicates its responsibility to control our borders, states must step in,” Lt. Gov. Randy McNally said in a statement.

“With this study committee, we affirm that there is a clear and compelling state interest in a sane immigration policy.” 

[That is really some tough talk wouldn’t you say! Do you feel better now?—ed]

[….]

Good ol’ country boy Bill Lee turned Trump’s offer down! Said the state wants more refugees. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2019/12/20/tennessee-republican-governor-bill-lee-caves-says-tennessee-will-invite-more-refugees/

It’s unclear when the committee will begin meeting or whether legislators intend to take any binding action during a special session or during the next legislative session in January.

Gov. Bill Lee’s announcement in December 2019 that Tennessee would continue accepting refugees, despite former President Donald Trump saying states would not have to do so, created tension with some Republican members of the legislature.

[….]

WCRB-TV in Chattanooga reported earlier this month that a group of migrant youth flew into Wilson Air Center in the early hours of May 14 before boarding buses to various Southeastern cities.

After outrage from Republican leaders about the news, The Times Free Press reported this week that the Lee administration had approved a residential child care license in May 2020 for an organization contracting with the federal government to house unaccompanied minors in Chattanooga.

[….]

Mostly teenagers headed to buses in Chattanooga.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, 717 unaccompanied children were brought to Tennessee between Oct. 1 and March 21, a period that spans both Biden and Trump’s time in office. In Nashville, that number was 290.

The office did not provide to The Tennessean information on how many unaccompanied minors were brought to the state since March 21, nor did it answer questions about reports of unaccompanied minors flying into Chattanooga.

There is a lot more, click here.

See also Tennessee’s US lawmakers “fuming,” here.

As for the transparency issue, I have been reporting for years about the UAC (Unaccompanied Alien Children, a term the Biden team has dropped) data housed at the Office of Refugee Resettlement for all to see.

Demanding transparency (while fuming!) is a wonderful way for politicians to make their constituents think they are doing something without really doing anything!

The Tennessean might want to have another look today because the latest data has been posted.  Tennessee is now up to 1,111 from 717.

Just a reminder to one and all, as much as it pains me to say it, Biden is no where near Trump’s levels of UACs sent out to states.  See the data for yourself, here.  Tennessee received over 2,000 in Trump’s worst year.

Top County data is here.  Again, these are just sponsored UACs.  The numbers do not reflect all of those still in custody.

And, if you are keeping track, here are the top ten states welcoming the Unaccompanied Alien Children, who will be ‘sponsored’ until they are 18 at which time they disappear into the woodwork of Anytown, USA, never to be heard from again unless and until they commit a crime.

Texas (3904)

Florida (2845)

California (2700)

New York (2323)

New Jersey (1470)

Maryland (1357)

Virginia (1340)

Georgia (1119)

Tennessee (1111)

North Carolina (1066)

 

Biden Administration Media Message: Periodic UAC Surges are Expected…

….so let’s build more bureaucracy to support them!

The headline at Pew Research is this:

Biden Wants to Prepare for Future Surges of Unaccompanied Minors

Okay, that news is bad enough, but it gave me a chuckle to see how they are spinning the present surge of illegal alien kids with the arrival of Biden in the Oval Office—just happens from time to time, move along, nothing to see!

It is just a normal cycle and we must be better prepared by spending more of your tax dollars for housing for the mostly teenaged boys. That apparently is the talking point coming from this White House.

If you missed my post the other day about planes landing in the night in Tennessee, check it out here:

Tennessee Proof: Planes Land in Dark of Night Loaded with Migrants

 

One good thing about the Tennessee expose’ is that the secrecy angle has brought the Administration’s movement of the ‘children’ to the media’s attention, but it has been going on for years.

We see that WRCB-TV in Chattanooga has an update. I’m happy that they are trying to get more accurate information on the Tennessee situation by using data at the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, but I have a bone to pick with them about their headline.  Here is my complaint:

The Unaccompanied Alien Children are illegal aliens NOT REFUGEES. 

I’m sure that the plan all along, when in 2003 the ‘children’ were first assigned to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, was to make the uninformed media, and you, think that they are legitimate refugees when they aren’t!

They aren’t even legitimate asylum seekers unless, and until, they file an asylum claim.

WRBC-TV:

What happens next in the refugee resettlement process of migrant children?

It’s been more than a week since four planes carrying migrant children landed in Chattanooga.

Similar operations are happening across the country. Some of those children are being cared for in a group home, but hundreds of others left the airport on a bus.

Channel 3 learned what happens next in the refugee resettlement process, and the number of children relying on sponsors in Tennessee.

From October to March, 66 unaccompanied children were released to a sponsor in Hamilton County.

While the federal government looks for a sponsor, children are taken to one of about 200 facilities across twenty-two states. A child therapist says this process can take a toll on the children involved.

There are about 200 facilities across the country where unaccompanied children are being housed.

One of them is in Chattanooga, which can house between 30 and 50 minors.

As of May 13, there are around 20,000 kids in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, nationwide. Their average stay is 31 days.

More on that shortly…

But, back to the Pew article I mentioned above.  Get ready for another federal agency for the ‘children.’

The Biden administration wants to create a permanent federal workforce to provide housing for unaccompanied migrant children during surges like the one that began in January and continues to overwhelm authorities.

Mayorkas is not wrong. Surges have occurred periodically, but Trump did get a handle on the problem toward the end of his presidency.

“We all know that surges arise periodically,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a congressional hearing earlier this month. “They arose in 2019. They arose in 2016, in 2014 and well before that. Migration is a very dynamic and fluid challenge that we have faced for many, many years.”

Mayorkas said during the hearing that DHS is exploring options, but the agency did not respond to a Stateline request for more detail.

Currently, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, houses the children by relying on state-licensed contractors. But Republican governors in Iowa, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming recently blocked contractors in their states from taking in the children, claiming that the unaccompanied kids would displace those already in state foster care or limit states’ ability to make new placements.

However, there currently are no federally funded long-term foster care providers for unaccompanied minors in any of those five states.

The Pew article goes on to say that Senator Rob Portman said the previous administration had no surges, but I am sad to say he is wrong.  They might not have had a surge at the end of Trump’s time in office, but they sure did have a surge earlier as you will see below.

See the data compiled by the Migration Policy Institute.

I know it isn’t what we want to see, but Donald Trump presided over the largest surge year so far.

 

For perspective, in 2003, when ORR became the agency in charge of UACs, there were 8,000 arriving illegally that year.

And, so here is my big question:

Since over 70% of the ‘children are ages 15-17, what happens to them when they age-out as they turn 18?   Tens of thousands of Trump’s UACs likely already aged out. Where are they? Why does no one ask? Are they simply loose in your towns and counties?  I think so!

Don’t miss our friend Don Barnett’s  UAC Op-Ed at the Tennessee Star.

And, see that the Left-leaning Migration Policy Institute is critical of the Biden team’s handling of the mess.  Are they helping set the narrative that an entire new bureaucratic structure is the only answer to the border crisis?

There is another answer—close the border!

Twenty Governors to Biden: Don’t Send the Illegal Alien Children to Our States

“We have neither the resources nor the obligation to solve the federal government’s problem and foot the bill for the consequences of this Administration’s misguided actions.”

 

Maybe you have already seen reports where you live that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (within HHS) is out scouting locations to shelter Unaccompanied Alien Children (mostly teens and mostly males!) in unused facilities such as old schools.

Well, twenty Republican governors are saying Not in My State!

Presumably this demand by the governors applies only to shelters for UACs.***

Here is the opening salvo in their letter yesterday:

 

Here are those who signed:

 

Although it didn’t involve illegal alien ‘children’, I am reminded that many of the governors above did not support President Trump’s efforts to strengthen their states rights when Trump proposed a plan to give them a greater say in refugee placement in their states.

There are twenty-seven Republican governors, seven did not sign the letter.

Missing are the REPUBLICAN governors of Alaska, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont and West Virginia signaling that it is hunky dory to send illegal aliens to shelters in their states.

***UACs are being placed with sponsors in most states.

You can see, by clicking here, where some of the mostly teenagers have been placed with sponsors through the end of March.