Month: February 2010

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.

Spencer hails Chris Gaubatz as “more than a hero”

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Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch) writing at Frontpage magazine called Chris Gaubatz a hero for going undercover at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) where he obtained 12,000 pages of documents that help tell the story of how CAIR, a supposed Muslim civil rights group,  is part of the worldwide stealth jihad.   We first told you about the book here, and how CAIR interfered with the FBI here in the county where we live.

This is what Spencer says:

I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth — and yet there are so few heroes.

That is indeed the case, and it means that Chris Gaubatz is something much greater than a hero. In our day when cowardice positively defines our political and media elites, Chris Gaubatz put his life on the line for the defense of free people and free societies against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. As detailed in the breathtaking book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, Chris assumed the identity of a convert to Islam. Posing as a new convert to Islam named David “Dawud” Marshall, he secured a position as an intern in the Washington, DC, office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Hamas-linked pressure group that uses legal intimidation and a marionette mainstream media to dominate the discourse about Islam in the U.S., manipulate clueless government and law enforcement officials, obfuscate the role of Islamic doctrine in recruiting and motivating jihad terrorists, and resist anti-terror efforts.

When CAIR learned about the book, they sued to get the documents back and won in court, but then the FBI stepped in….

A court ruled in CAIR’s favor, but just as CAIR was about to regain control of the documents, the FBI stepped in with a subpoena, taking the documents for its own hitherto unknown investigation of CAIR.

There had been no public indication that CAIR was under investigation at all until December, when the controversy over the Muslim Mafia documents precipitated the revelation. But now it has been revealed that the FBI is indeed finally investigating CAIR, after years of working with the organization and ignoring its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

For Muslim Mafia confirms what veteran CAIR-watchers have long suspected: that CAIR is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparatus in the U.S.

Read it all and buy the book!

On the issue of the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals in the US, see this old article from the Chicago Tribune from 2004.  It was one of the first things I read that helped explain what is happening with the stealth jihad.  Some argue that the article is a bit squishy but it still has enormous value when you think that a major newspaper even had the nerve to publish such an investigation.  I don’t think you could get that much information on the Muslim Brotherhood today from any major news source because CAIR has done such a thorough job of scaring the daylights out of them.  Wishful thinking perhaps, but maybe as CAIR is exposed as the stealth jihadists I believe they are, the mainstream media might just ‘grow a pair!’

CAIR and Somalis

CAIR has been heavily involved with refugee advocacy groups especially helping Muslims sue meatpackers, etc.  Here is our archive of all the posts we’ve written on CAIR.

By the way, a CAIR lawyer was also involved in immigration fraud, here in Virginia.  Did CAIR have any relationship to the Virginia man who admitted he helped bring 270 illegal Somalis to the US (see post yesterday)?  We know that CAIR was involved in hindering the investigation into the Minneapolis Somali missing youth case (here is just one of many posts I’ve written on CAIR’s involvement there), hmmm!

Refugee Council of Australia: we want more refugees!

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Here is a report from the Sydney Morning Herald today (tomorrow for us in the US) where the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is insisting that Australia take more refugees.   Presently Australia takes around 11,000 but RCOA wants the numbers upped to 20,000.

This RCOA is a consortium of NGO’s that have a financial interest in resettling refugees probably very similar to our Refugee Council USA where all the non-profit quasi-government agencies get together on letterheads (trying to look more muscular) and press releases (like the one the Sydney Morning Herald is writing from)  and produce reports advocating for more refugees to be brought to their respective countries—all to keep their member agencies in work.

Shock!  Horrors! Australian refugee intake lowest in 35 years!

The number of asylum seekers that make up the nation’s migration intake has fallen to its lowest level in 35 years, prompting calls for Australia to take a greater role in refugee resettlement.

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) says Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program has dropped to 6.6 per cent of the nation’s total migration program despite a rise in the number of people seeking resettlement around the globe.

In its annual submission to the federal government, the Refugee Council calls for a five-year expansion of the offshore component of the Refugee and Humanitarian Program.

The council wants the refugee component boosted to 20,000 places per annum, beginning with 1000 additional resettlement places in 2010-11 for highly vulnerable refugees in Asia.

Just a reminder, the Obama Administration is aiming to resettle 80,000 refugees in the US during this year of the Great Recession.

For more on refugee problems in Australia, visit our  Australia category with 47 posts on the joys of multiculturalism down under.

Israel wants to bring issue of Jewish refugees into peace talks

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When Israel was founded, hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled from Arab countries, or forced to leave in other ways and their property was seized without compensation. You haven’t heard much about them until recently, but in the last couple of years some groups, individuals and legislators have been bringing this chapter of history into public consciousness. We posted on it here where we discussed the film, The Forgotten Refugees, and here, where we give an overview and more links.

The issue has been in the news lately because the Israeli Knesset (parliament) has been discussing a bill dealing with these refugees. Here’s the most complete report I’ve seen, in the Jerusalem Post of February 18, 2010. It begins:

Israeli lawmakers are seeking a law that will make compensation for Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries after 1948 an integral part of any future peace negotiations.

Lawmakers put together a bill demanding compensation on behalf of current Jewish Israeli citizens, who were expelled from Arab countries after Israel was established in 1948, leaving behind a significant amount of valuable property.

Originally submitted almost a year ago to the Knesset, the bill passed its first hearing two weeks ago. Now various interest groups are pushing the bill with the Knesset’s 120 members before it is subjected to a second and third hearing next week. 

The bill was sponsored by MK Nissim Ze’ev (Shas) and follows a resolution passed in the US House of Representatives in 2008, calling for refugee recognition to be extended to Jews and Christians similar to that extended to Palestinians in the course of Middle East peace talks.

We reported on the Congressional effort here. As the updates to that post show, the resolution passed by voice vote on April 1, 2008.

Compensation is not the only issue, according to a Canadian former justice minister who was at the Knesset during the discussion of the bill.

“We’re not just speaking about financial compensation or indemnification,” Cotler said. “We’re talking about justice for Jews from Arab countries. This speaks to the question of, among other things, rectifying the justice and peace narrative of the last 62 years where the question of Jews from Arab countries has not been part of the narrative.”

“There have been more than 160 UN resolutions on the matter of refugees,” he continued. “All 160 dealt with Palestinian refugees only. I’m not saying they shouldn’t address Palestinian refugees, but I’m saying there’s no justice and no truth if it does not also address the plight of Jews seeking justice from Arab countries.”

The bill is specifically directed at any peace talks with Arab countries.

The Israeli bill stipulates that “The state of Israel will not sign, directly or by proxy, any agreement or treaty with a country or authority dealing with a political settlement in the Middle East without ensuring the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries according to the UN’s refugee treaty.”

“In any discussion where the Palestinian refugee issue is brought up in the framework of peace negotiations in the Middle East,” it continues, “the Israeli government will bring up the issue of compensation for loss of property and giving equal status to Arab refugees who left their property after the state was established and to Jewish refugees from Arab countries.”

One website is reporting the bill passed, but as there’s nothing in the Jeruslam Post I’m not announcing that yet.

Update 2/24/10: The World Jewish Congress reports the bill passed in the Knesset. It comments:

Stanley Urman, the head of the advocacy group Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, welcomed the Knesset decision, saying: “The world must realize that Palestinians were not the only Middle‐East refugees; that there were Jewish refugees who also have rights under international law. This recognition is good for the State of Israel and it is good for the people of Israel.”

ICE looking for 270 illegal Somalis who could be connected to Al-Shabaab

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Update June 26th: Tracy appeals his probation, here.

Update June 11th: Two indicted in Kenya for helping Tracy get Somalis to the US, here.

Update June 5th: Tracy walks—he is a free man today!  Read about it here.

Update May 17th: Tracy’s trial opens today in Virginia, here.

Update April 29th: Maybe we found one, here.

Update February 26th: Debbie Schlussel has obtained the affidavit, here.

Update February 25th: Writer asks why you would spend $30,000 just to get a menial job in the US, here.

Update February 24th: Fox News is reporting more details on this case, be sure to read this!

A Virginia man has admitted he helped 270 Somalis, possibly with terrorist connections, get into the US by crossing the Mexican border. None have been found, but all are believed to have blended into states with large Somali or African refugee populations.  Hat tip:  Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum who just yesterday noted that few at CPAC last week discussed National Security.

From the Washington Examiner today:

Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said his agency had yet to locate any of the suspected illegal immigrants.

According to an affidavit filed in Alexandria’s federal court, Anthony Joseph Tracy told authorities that he came in contact with the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, which announced an alliance with al Qaeda earlier this year.

ICE Agent Thomas Eyre testified during a hearing that authorities are “concerned” about the 35-year-old’s dealings with the group.

In an e-mail, Tracy reportedly wrote, “i helped alot of somalis and most are good but there are some who are bad and i leave them to ALLAH,” the affidavit said.

Are they in your state?

Eyre testified that authorities had not yet tracked down any of the Somalis whom Tracy allegedly helped travel to the U.S. The affidavit says Tracy’s e-mails, combined with information on Facebook, show that the Somalis have spread across the country and are living in New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota and Arizona.  [Other states with large Somali populations are California, Ohio, Maine, Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska and Washington state—ed]

A circuitous trip involving Kenya, Cuba and Mexico among other stops!  We reported on this route previously here.

Eyre indicated authorities are trying to find the Somalis and determine whether they’re associated with Al-Shabaab. An ICE spokeswoman said she could not comment on an ongoing investigation. The Somalis are believed to have entered the United States through the border with Mexico after making a circuitous trip from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba to South America to Mexico and then the U.S., Eyre testified.

Then we have the naive (or is it purposefully duplicitous) Refugees International that is complicit in encouraging other illegal Somalis to come here over  many years as part of the now suspended fraudulent Family Reunification program (where the State Department admits as many as 36,000 Africans entered the US illegally) running their mouths about how could those poor people get all that money!   Shut up, would you!  Terrorists have access to money!

Vanessa Parra, a spokeswoman for Refugees International, estimated the trip could cost as much as $30,000. “It would be difficult for most Somalis to get that kind of money,” she said.

Tracy split to Kenya in April.  That means these possible Somali terrorists have had ten months to disappear into a town near you.

Tracy, who moved to Kenya in April from Winchester, is accused of helping the Somalis move to the United States by getting them travel visas to Cuba through contacts he had at the Cuban Embassy, court documents said. The visas were issued using fraudulent information Tracy allegedly provided his contacts. Authorities say Tracy knew that the U.S. was the Somalis’ intended final destination.

For new readers:

For information on Somali missing youths, American citizens who have gone to Somalia to learn the Jihad trade, some leaving through Mexico, use those search words.  We have written dozens of stories on the case.  For more on Al-shabaab (sometimes spelled Al-shabab) also use our search function.

The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US (this linked post continues to be one of the most widely read posts we have ever written) in the last 25 years and then in 2008 had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.  That specific program has not yet been reopened (that we know of), but will be soon.

Nevertheless, thousands of Somali Muslims continue to be resettled as I write this. We recently learned that we will be taking 6000 Somalis this year from one camp in Uganda and as many as 11,000-13,000 total from around the world.