Month: May 2009

Portland, ME: poor Jimmy is now in deep trouble

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Remember Sudanese refugee Jimmy Odong who JUST ONE WEEK AGO nearly started a riot (a melee according to the reporter) in Portland when he was arrested for stealing alcohol.  This is what the PORTLAND PRESS HERALD said then when Jimmy was being arrested for stealing:

A number of other officers were dispatched to the area, which is alongside the Kennedy Park housing development. Members of the gathering group, some of whom are Sudanese, like Odong, and some who are from other African countries, began calling the officers names, including “killers” and “murderers,” in apparent reference to the police shooting of a Sudanese immigrant, David Okot, last month.

When police prepared to tow the car Odong had driven, some of the crowd jumped on the car to try to prevent it from being taken, police said.

Three juveniles eventually were arrested, two of them on charges of assault after they allegedly punched the officers, police said.

Less than one week later an intoxicated Jimmy Odong (must have gotten booze somewhere) led police on a chase that potentially endangered lives in downtown Portland.  There was one injury but it wasn’t serious.   This is what the PORTLAND PRESS HERALD said on Monday evening.  This is the whole story!  There is no reference to Jimmy’s role in the near riot (melee!) less than one week earlier, it is left to the commenters to note that the name sounded familiar.  What, they don’t have google at the paper?

PORTLAND – Portland police said a local man who led them on a wild chase through the city Monday afternoon was intoxicated.

Jimmy Odong, 19, of Portland was arrested on Congress Street after leading police on a two-mile chase through the streets of Portland.

Sgt. Troy Bowden said Odong’s blood alcohol level was .17 percent, or more than twice the legal limit. Odong was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, eluding a police officer, operating under the influence, operating without a license and four counts of leaving the scene of an accident.

Bowden said that during the chase, Odong’s vehicle struck one car on Pearl Street and two additional cars as well as a building on Kennebec Street. He then crashed into a fourth car and nearly hit several pedestrians before jumping out of his vehicle at Congress and High streets.

Officers chased Odong on foot before he surrendered. The incident began around 3:30 p.m.

Bowden said one motorist suffered minor injuries but refused medical treatment.

Odong was being held without bail at the Cumberland County Jail.

I guess somehow the bad police will be blamed by the “Sudanese Community” of Portland, ME for poor Jimmy’s troubles.

Be sure to watch the TV news clip here too.

We have told you on several occasions that Maine is “welcoming” refugees and secondary migrants with its extensive welfare system.

Around the world countries are dealing with refugee issues in one way or another

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Countries around the world are struggling with one issue or another involving refugees—here are 4 stories just this morning.

Canadians are seriously debating to what degree immigrants to Canada should be required to learn either English or French and to become knowledgeable and presumably accepting of Canadian Culture.

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has been raising eyebrows with his public musings about rewriting the rules of citizenship, by tweaking the test new citizens take. He asks ethnic audiences whether we are all on the same wavelength, or even speak the same (official) language, when it comes to citizenship.

“We want to make sure that people have a basic knowledge of our political institutions, our democratic traditions, our values, what some people call civic literacy,” Kenney said recently.

Japan and South Korea are continuing to be lobbied by the United Nations to take more refugees and asylees.

TOKYO, Japan, May 18 (UNHCR) – UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller has applauded Japan’s expanding hospitality towards refugees and called on South Korea to become a leading asylum country during a visit to the two Asian countries last week.

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The Assistant High Commissioner said Japan has a refugee protection system in place, but suggested the country consider improving reception and assistance for
asylum seekers, as well as better integration of refugees.

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Earlier last week, on her first official visit to South Korea for UNHCR, Feller called for more support from both government authorities and the Korean public to become a leading asylum country in the region.

In Denmark, nearly 300 Iraqis who have been ordered deported are staging a protest in a church.

Denmark rejects calls to re-examine the cases of Iraqi asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected and who are staging a sit-in in a Copenhagen church.

Afghan refugees escaped custody in Indonesia after they and some Iraqis were arrested trying to get to Australia.

Head of Malang Immigration Office, Soebroto said on Tuesday (19/5) the refugees were part of the 18 caught early on Sunday (17/5) in Probolinggo on their way to Bali. Eleven among the immigrants were from Afghanistan and the other seven were from Iraq.

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Malang Immigration office said the Afghan refugees entered Indonesia from Malaysia after passing through Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Singapore. No report on where the Iraqi refugees joined the Afghans on their way to Australia through Bali.

And so on and so forth, the list goes on…

Wealthy immigrant couple ripping off Medicaid in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts

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I’m getting somewhat off track this morning but this article popped up in my alerts on Food Stamp Fraud, an issue I’ve written about many times here at RRW.  The basic Food Stamp scam involves ‘mom and pop’ convenience store owners from Middle Eastern countries buying food stamps for 50 cents from the food stamp recipient and then turning it into the federal government for the full dollar.   Thankfully many of those are being busted across the land.

Somehow this case was in the middle of a bunch of Food Stamp Fraud articles.   Although not identified by their country of origin, the paper has seen fit to publish a photo to help the reader understand that these people are immigrants, probably from the Middle East and probably of a certain religious persuasion.

Joseph Youshaei owned 19 businesses and properties, from commercial office space in Downtown Crossing to three local Honey Dew Donut franchises. He drove a Mercedes and lived in a $650,000 Chestnut Hill house with his wife, Jila, and three children, whom the couple sent to a pricey private school. 

Yet the couple claimed just $475 of weekly income from 1999 to 2005, an amount that allowed them to collect Medicaid benefits under MassHealth.

The Youshaeis pleaded guilty Monday in Suffolk Superior Court to charges of fraud and larceny for illegally obtaining those health benefits, according to a statement from the state auditor’s office.

“This is truly an unbelievable example of fraud,” said state auditor Joe DeNucci in a statement. “A wealthy family that could afford to pay for its own health insurance took money from a taxpayer-funded program meant to help those people who are truly needy and cannot afford health insurance.”

There must be some kind of worldwide underground hotline that tells people to go to America and rip off the system.   Imagine what will happen if Obama-care comes to pass and the feds manage everyone’s health care from Washington.

Reform suggestion #4: Get rid of the entire refugee resettlement program

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Two weeks ago we asked readers for their suggestions for reforming the Refugee Resettlement Program of the US State Department.  Today we heard from reader Paul Nachman of  Bozeman, Montana who suggests doing away with it altogether. 

Ryan Mauro wrote a brief article, appearing today in FrontPage Magazine, about the wonderfulness of having Somalis in Tennessee. Near its conclusion he wrote:

These issues, of course, do not mean that all Somali immigrants are problems, but it is clear that the government needs to find better ways to assimilate those who travel to the U.S. in large numbers as refugees.

I think the logical solution is to end immigration of Somalis and deport those who aren’t yet citizens.

Maybe my suggestion will surprise people, but why shouldn’t we be thinking along the line I suggest? Our basic question should be: Does their (or any immigrants’) presence do the U.S. any good? If not (and generally one’s answer, after thinking about it, will be “No”), then why permit their immigration in the first place?

There’s an even more basic question out there: What is the purpose of the United States? The answer is “To benefit the citizens of the United States.” Authority for this conclusion is found in the Preamble to the Constitution, where it says “.. to ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity …” So the benefit to our citizens should be the starting point for all U.S. laws, including immigration laws. (This doesn’t mean we should run roughshod over the rest of the world. But **benefits** to the rest of the world should be decidedly secondary or tertiary motives.)

Some folks will probably come back with pleadings about “refugees.” Please don’t. I put the word in quotation marks for a reason: Back in 2003, I had an in-person conversation with Prof. Jan Ting of Temple University Law School. Upon learning that he’d been Assistant Commissioner of the INS during the senior Bush’s presidency, I asked him, “Is it true that 90% of all refugee and asylum cases are fraudulent?” Without missing a beat he replied, “95%.”

Let’s think outside the box of cliches and slogans: It’s time to shut down the refugee program in its entirety. The few people who really need refuge or asylum can be handled on a case-by-case basis. As it stands now, “refugees” and “asylees” are almost entirely gamers of our immigration system, using a back-door route to get legal U.S. presence.

There’s plenty more to be said on that subject … writings at VDARE.com by Thomas Allen, Roy Beck’s book The Case Against Immigration, various articles at the Center for Immigration Studies web site by Don Barnett, Mark Krikorian’s recent book The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal …

The federal contractors responsible for resettling refugees want reform too—but their idea of reform is more taxpayer money and a speedier arrival of refugees.  Please send us your ideas.   Write to Ann@vigilantfreedom.com.

More evidence of a connection between Rohingya and Islamic terrorism

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This is a follow-up to a couple of my previous posts (especially this one) in our Rohingya Reports category (72 posts!) and probably only will hold interest for readers who have been diehard followers of the Rohingya issue.   To make a long story short, this ethnic group—Burmese Muslim Rohingya—is agitating with help from their friends in the NGO community to be resettled in the West.  As far as we know, they are not officially in the US (yet!).  I suspect, however, that some have come in with the Karen Christians*.    They have begun to be officially resettled in the UK and Canada.

This is from the Daily Star in Dhaka (the Capital of Bangladesh).  The Daily Star says it is “journalism without fear or favor.”

Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had close links with Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), an insurgent group in the Arakan state of Myanmar, JMB’s explosives expert ‘Boma’ Mizan revealed in interrogations.

Sources close to Rab interrogators said Mizan and some other JMB operatives received training from RSO arms experts in a camp near Myanmar border in 2002.

Now executed JMB chief Shaekh Abdur Rahman sent them for the training. In exchange for the firearms lessons, JMB trained Rohingyas to improvise and set off bombs.

Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) Bangladesh, another outlawed Islamist outfit, too had strong connections with RSO. 

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Lately, some individuals claiming to be former Huji men told this correspondent that in the late 80s and 90s many of their fellow operatives took arms training from Rohingya rebels.

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Sources said Huji took RSO help also in securing weapons and funds. The Rohingyan group had extensive supplies of arms, and for funds it would count on a number of Muslim-majority countries especially those in the Middle East.

* We have resettled 8,149 Burmese refugees this fiscal year already (that is from Oct. 1, 2008-April 30, 2009).  That number is second only to the number of Iraqis resettled in that time period (9,581).  We have heard from sources that “Burmese Muslims” were getting into Karen Christian camps and getting into the US.