Day: February 12, 2010

Congolese refugee murdered in Portland, ME

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And, it appears it is likely African immigrant on African immigrant crime.  What the heck is going on up in Maine?  (Just a couple of days ago we had this from Lewiston.*) And, today’s story is not the first violent crime we’ve reported in the immigrant community from Portland, the Peoples Republic of Maine (now that Massachusetts seems to be coming to its senses).     Hat tip: Susan, an irate Mainer

Check out these refugees from the Mulongo family at today’s Portland Press Herald and be sure to see the comments!

PORTLAND — Serge Mulongo, who escaped civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eventually found refuge in Portland, was gunned down Wednesday night at the corner of Park Avenue and Weymouth Street, police said.

Investigators interviewed people who were in the area at 11:15 p.m., when residents reported hearing shots fired in quick succession. No arrests were made Thursday.

Police say they are particularly interested in two men who were seen running from the area right after the shooting. They have not been able to identify the pair, and aren’t positive that the men were involved in the killing.

Mulongo, who was 24, could have a hot temper and had a circle of friends who made it hard for him to stay out of trouble, said his brother Yannick Mulongo.

Yannick Mulongo is in the Cumberland County Jail, awaiting trial on charges of manslaughter and aggravated drunken driving in a crash in September that killed Guy Kitoko, 18, a relative by marriage.

Thank Catholic Charities, the only refugee resettlement agency in Maine, and Maine’s welfare magnet.

* Come to think of it maybe Portland’s Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence needs to clean up its own nest before it runs off to Frederick, MD,  Boise, ID, Fort Wayne, IN and Manchester, NH to tell citizens in those cities to be nice to immigrants!

12,000 Haitians apply for Temporary Protected Status, so far

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That is what the Washington Post is reporting today.  We told you about Temporary Protected Status here.

WASHINGTON — More than 12,000 Haitians have applied for the chance to stay and work legally in the U.S. while their country struggles to recover from last month’s earthquake.

The applications have rolled in, even though the July 20 application deadline is months away, said Bill Wright, spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Homeland Security Department.

The chance to work is critical for many of the immigrants who are hoping to help families trying to overcome the magnitude-7 earthquake that leveled parts of Haiti.

Because it is unsafe to return the illegal immigrants to Haiti, DHS said it would grant eligible immigrants temporary protected status. Successful applicants can remain and work for 18 months without fear of deportation or detention.

Estimates range from 100,000-200,000 for the number who might ultimately be eligible to stay and work in the US.  What do you think the odds are that once granted TPS they will ever go home to Haiti?

NumbersUSA: Half of immigrant families in US on welfare

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Your tax dollars:

Wanting to be sure that all those Tea Party activists understand that immigration is a fiscal issue as well, NumbersUSA has begun a petition campaign to urge the government to reduce all immigration.  Here is the appeal from Roy Beck:

For those of you whose primary political interest is stopping the growth of government or even shrinking it, you have to contend with national leaders who say they agree with you but who refuse to deal with immigration. They say immigration is a “social” issue that isn’t related to government spending and deficit issues. They couldn’t be more wrong. . . .

Let’s start with this tidbit from government data provided by the Center for Immigration Studies (Table 13: “Immigrant Households with Children Under 18”):

Roughly ONE-HALF of all immigrant households with kids are accessing the welfare system, especially food and Medicaid welfare.

In this case, “immigrant” includes both authorized and illegal foreign citizens allowed by the federal government to settle in our country. Since 2000, that number each year has averaged around 1.3 million a year — plus another 1 million births to those immigrant households.

With one-half of those households being poor enough to use the federal, state and local welfare systems, is there anybody blind enough to think that adding 2.3 million people a year to immigrant households is not driving huge increases in government?

Read on and learn what you can do!

Cloward and Piven

For new readers, we have written ad nauseum about the Cloward-Piven strategy to bring down our form of government by overwhelming the welfare system.  To better understand that strategy use our search function for ‘Cloward-Piven’ or at minimum read this post.

Cloward has gone to his maker, but Frances Fox Piven is still kicking and stirring rebellion.  Here she is this week at Big Government advising people whose homes have been foreclosed to join in civil disobedience by refusing to move or to break back into their homes.  There is no doubt in my mind that the housing crisis was brought on using this same strategy—overwhelm the system until it crashes.  And, that is what is happening with welfare as well!  The immigrants are just a means to an end for these despicable people.