They are changing America by changing the people
The July 20th issue of Newsweek magazine reports on a poll about attitudes toward Muslims in the US.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19874703/site/newsweek/?from=rss
Here are the results of a question of interest to RRW: Do you think the United States allows too many immigrants to come here from Muslim countries? 46% say we allow too many
Check out the blog Vanishing American on the subject of Refugee Resettlement. I wish I could be so articulate!
Please read:
‘Especially people who care about strangers…‘ July 20, 2007
http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/07/especially-people-who-care-about.html
Your tax dollars:
ORR, short for Office of Refugee Resettlement, is located in the federal Health and Human Services Department and is the primary agency that hands out money for refugees through contracts and grants to the 10 major volags (voluntary non-governmental agencies) that run the resettlement programs for legal immigrants in your cities and town.
Apparently ORR is also contracting to non-profit groups to run special schools for the children of illegal immigrants, as reported in this AP story yesterday:
Immigration reform advocates say foster programs encourage fraud
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=6818186
They [children in Brownsville Texas] are enrolled at International Educational Services — which is 1 of more than 30 nonprofit agencies under contract with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.
This ORR program is described here:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/programs/uac.htm
It would be helpful to get a list of the 30 non-profit agencies running this federal program.
The Detroit News has an update today on the Iraqi Refugees coming to Warren, MI and the Detroit area soon, “Area preps for Iraqi refugees”
Go here to read the entire article: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/METRO/707210374
But, this caught my eye:
The refugees’ arrival has been delayed this summer because of extensive security screenings.
The latest National Intelligence Estimate said that al-Qaida terrorists would likely try to use Iraqi refugees to infiltrate the United States to carry out acts of terrorism.
Anyone seen the whole report? Can you help us find this reference in the National Intelligence Estimate released during the last week?
Federal officials have “interviewed more than 1,500 Iraqis in the region since March and have plans to interview 4,000 more by the end of September,” said Janelle Hironimus, a spokeswoman for the state department. “The United States government expects the pace of Iraqi refugee arrivals to increase significantly.”