Day: February 25, 2010

Update on those 270 Somali illegal aliens roaming America

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No, they haven’t been found (that we know of), but Michael Cutler writing at Family Security Matters makes a very good point.  If indeed, as the International Rescue Committee estimated (see original story), it would cost upwards of $30,000 each for Somalis to take a circuitous route to the Mexican border, would that make any sense?

$30,000 is a significant sum of money for the average American. For an alien from Somalia, this amount of money is stratospheric. It would be hard to imagine that someone who simply seeks to work illegally in a menial job would be able to put that sort of money together or that it would be financially sensible to do so. The question is, “Who paid for the travel expenses for these illegal aliens and why?”

Wouldn’t we all like to know the answers!

Comment worth noting because we have to laugh sometimes

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Yesterday we received this comment to my post on Australia from reader ‘Ciccio.’    For longtime readers, you know that we have constantly criticised Arab governments, especially the Saudi government, for having no Muslim charity toward their co-religionist refugees (Palestinians being prime examples!).  Ciccio has found they do have compassion afterall!

Ciccio:

You keep accusing the Muslim countries of not doing anything for their own, I can now prove you wrong. They do not wish to see their own persecuted and are more than willing to see them repatriated to their homeland when they are no longer welcome in their country of adoption. One would have thought that Australia would have learned about import of non-indigenous from past lessons but it seems politicians never learn.

Here is the link that Ciccio provides to make his/her point.   Saudis do have compassion—for camels!

In January Arab News reported on some Saudis who initiated an Internet campaign calling for the transportation of Australian camels to the Kingdom.

The campaign followed an announcement by the Australian government that it would use helicopters and marksmen to corral and kill 6,000 feral camels in a small northern town.

Days later Australians welcomed the proposal to send their wild camels to Saudi Arabia instead of shooting them.

 Then this:

Glasson however said in an interview with a local news agency that the main objective of the culling program is to reduce the growing numbers in some areas and reduce environmental pollution.

She also pointed to the fact that gases emitted by the camels are equivalent to the polluted smoke coming out of nearly 300,000 cars.

Since we know we are all one big happy interconnected world, this begs the question, won’t the camels be producing just as much gas in Saudi Arabia as they did in Australia?

Zogby survey: minority (likely) voters say immigration levels too high

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The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has an interesting report today on a recent Zogby survey on immigration.  It seems that the majority of minority likely voters think enforcement of immigration laws is important in curtailing illegal immigration and a majority believe immigration numbers across the board are too high.  CIS points out that that is in direct opposition to positions taken by the leadership of immigration advocacy groups.

While it is sometimes assumed that minorities, particularly Hispanics, favor increased immigration and legalization for illegal immigrants, a new Zogby survey finds that minority voters’ views are more complex. The poll of Hispanic, Asian-American, and African-American likely voters finds some support for legalization. But overall each of these groups prefers enforcement and for illegal immigrants to return home. Moreover, significant majorities of all three groups think that the current level of immigration is too high. These views are in sharp contrast to the leaders of most ethnic advocacy organizations, who argue for increased immigration and legalization of illegal immigrants. The survey used neutral language, avoiding such terms as “amnesty,” “illegal alien,” or “undocumented.”

Read CIS’s whole analysis.

I know why the leaders of advocacy groups are pushing for more immigration.  The answer is twofold.  Advocacy groups such as Church World Service, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, International Rescue Committee, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, World Relief, US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the rest of the gang make their living off immigrants, plain and simple. 

Then you have the other reason:  most of the leadership (I am not referring to decent employees and volunteers) of the above named groups and groups like LaRaza and the Southern Poverty Law Center  are not interested in the human aspect of immigration (although they hide under their faux humanitarian white hat), they are working to change America by creating a socialist form of government.  They need masses of immigrants to be dependent on government and thus in order to keep the taxpayer goodies flowing they expect immigrants to vote on the far left.   The leaders (inside and outside of government) are also in cahoots with people like George Soros and the one-worlders, but that’s too much to get into here.

So, although it’s very interesting and useful to see statistics like those Zogby has collected, until we are brave enough to stop dancing around the subject and speak the truth about the agenda of the immigration advocates and speak it loudly, not much will change.

Greensboro, NC Update: Lutheran agency given the heave-ho

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Update:  New information is available here and Friends of Refugees asks additional questions, here.

I doubt this will be the end of the sordid tale from Greensboro, NC which we reported in a three part series last month (link to part III, here), but it’s a step in the right direction.  Lutheran Family Services came under fire in the so-called Triad area of North Carolina when one story after another emerged of refugee neglect.  I’m guessing this action, the cessation of refugee placement by LFS in the Greensboro area, is because the US State Department has pulled the plug on their funding after LFS committed the ultimate sin—they brought negative media scrutiny to the Refugee Resettlement program!

This is what the News-Record said Tuesday:

GREENSBORO — Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas halted its refugee arrivals to the Triad on Tuesday, citing economic conditions.

The announcement by the nonprofit, which has operated in the Triad since 1979, comes after a spate of problems in serving clients. “This is a financial decision driven by the current economic conditions,” stated an unsigned statement on the LFS Web site, “that have affected the program’s sustainability at this site.”

Neither the agency’s executive director, the Rev. Laura Benson, nor Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Gibson-Wise, could be reached for comment.

Existing refugee clients will be “transitioned” to other resettlement agencies in the Triad between now and June, the statement says. At that point, LFS refugee work in the Triad will cease and will be limited to Raleigh and Columbia, S.C.

Wealth of knowledge!

“It’s going to be devastating,” Heather Scavoni, an immigration lawyer for LFS, said Tuesday. “Between Miami and here, the wealth of knowledge is concentrated in the Greensboro office.”

It is a scary prospect if this mismanaged office in Greensboro contained LFS’s “wealth of knowledge.”

Then get this answer to the refugee ‘chicken or egg’ question!  The refugee agencies arrive first and bring the refugees to your town.  So, that Greensboro will still see a large flow of refugees because there remain three other government contractors looking to resettle refugees especially since the amount of money they receive from the taxpayer has just jumped 100%.

About one-third of all refugees coming to North Carolina come to the Triad, the state refugee coordinator has reported, because of the concentration of resettlement agencies here.

Iraqis going to West Virginia meat packing plant.   This little bit in the News-Record story caught my eye.  West Virginia takes only a tiny fraction of refugees that enter the US.  My guess is that Democratic Senator (“sheets”) Byrd has managed to keep the multiculturalism in his state under control.  But, here come Iraqis from North Carolina.

By last week, some Iraqis whom LFS resettled to Greensboro last summer had become so desperate for work that a few had signed on with a staffing company, Labor Solutions,* to work at a poultry plant in Moorefield, W.Va., by arrangement with LFS.

*Check out Labor Solutions, here.  They call themselves a “progressive” company.  That is code for Left Wing.  They find immigrant labor for big business and I will bet you a buck they are all for Open Borders!  I continue to maintain that the resettlement agencies are head-hunters for big employers with nasty work—like meatpackers.  And, I wouldn’t be surprised if the resettlement agencies get some sort of kick-back when they sign up refugees for Labor Solutions or for the big business itself.

For more on the Greensboro story see Friends of Refugees here.  Also, you might want to revisit the Waterbury, CT post, here, where the State Department pulled the plug on the International Institute in May 2008 when that agency came under media fire for refugee neglect.

Malta citizen: send them all to Sweden!

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We’ve been following the sad tale from Malta since we first began RRW in 2007.  The tiny island nation is taking the brunt of the illegal immigrant flow out of countries such as Libya.    Here is the latest update.  Apparently the EU border agency, Frontex, is to be beefed up but it continues to be squishy on the issue of returning illegal aliens to their country of departure.  Citizens of Malta are fed up as many of the comments attest:

From Charles Sammut:

With liberals like Cecilia Malmström* calling the shots, Malta is doomed to be part of the African Union in 5 years’ time.

What about our human rights? Or are we not human any more and the right to live peacefully in our country amongst our kith and kin and decide our future for ourselves has been devolved to the eurobrats in Brussels. Do we have to wait until there is serious civil unrest to wake up? By which time it will be too late.

*Cecilia Malmström is the Home Commissioner of the EU and obviously is Swedish.

And here is commenter Louise Vella:

Malta’s security and social cohesion should not be left in the hands of Swedes who do not care about Malta. The Maltese, especially the common people of Malta, are the best judges of what is best for Malta. Nobody has consulted them to see if they want an unending influx of African boat people settling in Malta as illegal immigrants with the excuse that they are refugees. We know the story and we know that asylum applicants have a long history of telling untruths to increase the likelihood of their acceptance. See the reports of the Refugee Commissioner and of the Refugees Appeals Board.

If the Swedes want to turn their country into an African colony it’s up to them. They can take all of Africa’s 1 000 million inhabitants, especially as they have enough space for them in Sweden. But they should not try to off-load them on to Malta.

As we reported many times, Sweden is already busy destroying itself with its immigration policy, see this post just a few days ago.

The Malta Magnet

The US State Department has exacerbated Malta’s problems by providing a carrot for illegal immigrants to try to reach Malta—they might be magically transformed into “refugees” and moved to a town near you.  You can thank Bush Administration Ambassador Tea Party Molly (that is not tea party as in the new political movement in the US) and now the Obama Ambassador to Malta, Republican traitor, Douglas Kmiec, here.