The Mexican border and the OTMs

OTMs are Other Than Mexicans coming across our southern border.  Most of the media is trying to spin the border issue as simply a case of economic migrants wanting jobs and a better life, however thousands of Other Than Mexicans from Muslim countries are also coming across the border each year—some are caught and some aren’t.  Some may just want jobs, but some may have intentions to do us harm. We have told you on several previous occasions (including here and here) about Somalis who are believed to have entered the US and likely have blended into Somali refugee communities.

Yesterday a reader sent me these Atlanta WSBTV Channel 2 investigations (here and here) into the issue of OTMs.  Watch them!

No private charity in Hitler’s Germany

Hitler controlled the churches through government funding.  I know it’s terribly unfashionable to write about Hitler and the NAZIs, but until I read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism I didn’t know that fact about the National Socialist German Workers Party.

On many occasions on these pages I’ve told you about how much federal funding ‘religious’ groups receive from the taxpayer to resettle refugees and for other ‘charitable’ purposes including things like Head Start.  Indeed the following ‘church’ groups are deep into the federal dole:  US Conference of Catholic Bishops, World Relief, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, Church World Service, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and Episcopal Migration Ministries.   Somehow it just seemed morally corrupt to me and now I see from Goldberg’s writing why it strikes me as so creepy and what it can lead to.  

Like the engineers of that proverbial railway bridge, the Nazis worked relentlessly to replace the nuts and bolts [one piece at a time] of traditional Christianity with a new political religion…The German historian Gotz Aly explains how Hitler purchased popularity with lavish social programs and middle-class perks, often paid for with stolen Jewish wealth and high taxes on the rich. Hitler banned religious charity, crippling the churches’ role as a counterweight to the state.  Clergy were put on government salary, hence subjected to state authority.  “The parsons will be made to dig their own graves,” Hitler cackled.  “They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.”

Now consider House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s admonition to the Catholic Bishops over the weekend in support of open borders.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is telling Catholic bishops who want her to pass immigration reform that they must speak out in favor of the reform in their churches.

“The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops come to me and say, ‘We want you to pass immigration reform,’” Pelosi, who is Catholic herself, said Thursday at the Catholic Community Conference.

“And I say, ‘But I want you to speak about it from the pulpit.’”

Do you think they will tell her ‘no’ in light of the fact that a large part of the USCCB’s (US Conference of Catholic Bishops) budget is paid for by the federal treasury.   Some readers may see her request as innocuous (if you are an open borders advocate), but what might government ask of them the next time in exchange for 30 pieces of silver?

Malkin: “Jihadists gaming sham marriage racket”

In the wake of the latest attempted Islamic terror attack, Michelle Malkin reminds us in a good piece yesterday about how many convicted Jihadists had long stays in the US because of student and work visas programs and sham marriages.

America’s homeland security amnesia never ceases to amaze. In the aftermath of the botched Times Square terror attack over the weekend, Pakistani-born bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad’s U.S. citizenship status caused a bit of shock and awe. The Atlantic magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg’s response was typical: “I am struck by the fact that he is a naturalized American citizen, not a recent or temporary visitor.” Well, wake up and smell the deadly deception.

Shahzad’s path to American citizenship — he reportedly married an American woman, Huma Mian, in 2008 after spending a decade in the country on foreign student and employment visas — is a tried-and-true terror formula. Jihadists have been gaming the sham marriage racket with impunity for years. And immigration benefit fraud has provided invaluable cover and aid for U.S.-based Islamic plotters, including many other operatives planning attacks on New York City.

Read it all.

Large Immigrant drug bust in No. Virginia

The Washington Examiner has the story yesterday of two Muslim men busted in Alexandria, VA as they received shipment of an estimated $90,000 worth of khat.  Previously we told you about a khat bust in Tennessee.  There is no  mention of whether these guys are Somalis or anything about their immigration status.

Two men were arrested as they tried to pick up more than $90,000 worth of Middle Eastern drugs at an Alexandria mall parking lot, authorities said.

Sharmarke Mohamed Ladane and Ali Ali Hussein were charged with possession and intent to distribute khat, a narcotic used commonly throughout East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, according to U.S. District Court records.

During a routine cargo check last week, border officials found 175 kilograms of khat in a shipment labeled “Filters and Paperboard,” slated for delivery to the parking lot of Alexandria’s Landmark Mall.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arranged the delivery of the drugs, during which they watched Ladane and Hussein unload them and put them in Hussein’s Chevrolet Tahoe at the mall parking lot. The truck driver delivering the drugs to the men had agreed to wear a wire for immigration agents.

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The amount of khat seized annually in the United States has grown nearly four-fold during the past decade, as more immigrants have sought to continue using what they consider a harmless morning ritual.  [And, as more refugees and other immigrants arrive from the Middle East and Africa–diversity is strength, right!–ed]

Many khat users say the drug is no worse than coffee, but the drug has been banned by federal law since 1993.

Volcanic ash halted shipments to the UK

I meant to post this story a few weeks ago about how the Somalis in the UK were all messed up when the disruption in air freight caused their khat to rot in Africa.

From Medeshi:

Thousand of kilos of Khat have been wasted at airports in Kenya and Ethiopia after flight cancellations to UK as a result of the volcanic ash that spread across Europe from Iceland, according to our sources. Khat is a mild drug consumed by Somalis, Yemens and Ethiopians* as well other nationals in UK .

The price of a knot of Khat which is usually called ‘Majin’ by the users soared to £10 from £2.5 yesterday and that price is still going up.Some of the users are drying up the leaves to conserve its effectively so that it could be eaten with sweet tea sometime later. Places like Southall green, Wembley Park and Whitechapel high street which are frequented by Somali Khat users have seen people standing and gathering outside shops and restaurants idly as they could not find the khat drug that has always kept them busy indoors. Some of them have even flocked into pubs which is quite un-common among Muslim Somalis.

This drug which has a devastating effect on the social well being of the Somalis worldwide is legal in the United Kingdom, although it is banned in the US and Canada as well as in most European countries. Khat causes family break downs among the Somali population in UK as consumers spend much time in chewing the leaves which cause sleeplessness and lack of appetite. Khat consumers usually chew the drug all night while sleeping all day, therefore , making them less able to look for work or look after their children. Khat also causes mental illness, paranoia [does that explain this Somali rant!] and anxiety as well dental plague [placque?] and mouth cancer.

It sure is a good thing they live in the UK and have all that free medical care!   Isn’t multiculturalism beautiful!

*I’m now wondering if the Ethiopian guy who murdered his wife and daughter in Alexandria was using khat.

Church World Service anti-Arizona too!

Not only did the USCCB and the Catholic Church support this past weekend’s anti-Arizona demonstrations, so too did federal refugee contractor Church World Service.

Here is what John L. McCullough, Executive Director and CEO, Church World Service, said about the law in Arizona that simply mimics what is already federal law—-legal immigrants who have not yet become citizens must carry identification as to their immigration status.  No ID and they are turned over to ICE (by the way, this is how the legal 287g program works too).

McCullough:

“We are deeply concerned about the enactment of SB 1070 as it goes beyond anti-immigrant sentiments and supports racial profiling. This legislation feels reactionary and hateful.

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As a 63-year-old faith-based humanitarian organization working with 34 refugee resettlement affiliates across the United States, Church World Service understands first-hand the impact this legislation will have on communities. We do take heart that President Obama has strongly condemned this legislation, and urge his administration to do everything in its power to prevent its implementation and the consequences it will have for human rights.

The legislation “feels” hateful.  I wonder do the residents of Arizona who have suffered due to crimes committed by illegal aliens “feel” scared?  Do those Arizonans have “human rights?”  How about that murdered rancher’s family, how do they feel?  Do blacks and legal immigrants “feel” they are being shut out of jobs because an illegal alien will do the job more cheaply?  Where are their human rights?

I guess I will be asking this question forever:  how do refugee resettlement contractors, like the USCCB and Church World Service, square their support for illegal immigrants and by extension their support for businesses that hire them with their contracted DUTY to find work and help legal refugees get a start in America? 

Forget about feelings for a minute and please answer me with logic because the impact on the community is pretty clear to me—-less illegal immigrants looking for work equals more jobs for poor black and white Americans as well as more jobs for refugees!

Lacking any logical explanation (I’m not holding my breath waiting for one!), the only conclusion one can draw is that this is all about Leftwingers beating Rightwingers and creating a one world socialist government where immigrants are merely the pawns!