Month: May 2010

IOM pouring refugees into the US from Asia; still no jobs

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Here we have the International Organization for Migration trumpeting that 11,000 refugees from Asia have been resettled (mostly in the US) in the first 4 months of 2010 (in the middle of the great recession).  Jobless claims continue to rise.

From IOM:

Thailand – IOM’s major Asian refugee resettlement operations in Thailand, Malaysia and Nepal resettled nearly 11,000 refugees in the first four months of 2010 – over 80 per cent of them to new homes in the United States. [That means that 8800-9000 came to the US-ed].

Of the total, some 4,550 were Bhutanese from camps in eastern Nepal, 3,900 were Karen and Karenni refugees from Myanmar from camps in northwestern Thailand, and the remaining 2,400 were refugees from Myanmar living in Malaysia.

Over the period, IOM Nepal moved 3,830 Bhutanese refugees accepted for resettlement to the US, 374 to Australia, 239 to Canada, 108 to New Zealand, 7 to the Netherlands and 2 to Denmark.

Almost all them were Bhutanese of Nepali origin, known as Lhotsampas, who have lived in camps in the Jhapa and Morang regions of Nepal for nearly two decades, following Bhutan’s decision to revoke their citizenship and expel them in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

[…..]

While IOM plays no part in selecting which refugees* are accepted for resettlement, its global responsibilities in refugee resettlement include medical screening, pre-departure cultural orientation and travel arrangements.

*The United Nations picks most of our refugees.

Help Save Maryland meeting very informative

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Last night I traveled to Rockville, MD for a public meeting hosted by Help Save Maryland—a citizens group attempting to bring immigration sanity to Maryland (a tall order!).   I didn’t count the attendees but I think about 100 people listened to a powerful speaker line-up introduced by Help Save Maryland’s director Brad Botwin.

Roy Beck of NumbersUSA gave us some shocking statistics on the growth of the immigrant population in the US and noted that the federal government continues, without any abatement in the number of legal immigrants entering the US even in the continued dismal economic climate, to grant more visas.  Near the end of the program the audience, which by the way was made up of  people of many different races and hues, chuckled when he said the Arizona law isn’t draconian, but what is making it more powerful than it is is the volcanic eruption of the political Left over its passage.   For more on Beck, see our Numbers USA link at the top of the page, here, and see my account of Beck’s stellar presence among the hostile  Open Border marchers on the mall in March, here.

I was particularly impressed with speaker Leah Durant of Progressives for Immigration Reform a Democrat whose group is against the Open Borders movement with a primary concern for labor issues.  It is obvious to any thinking person that flooding the job market with illegal immigrant labor hurts mostly minorities and other low income Americans.  She reported that she and her fellow “progressives” had been in to see Rep Maxine Waters that very day to impress upon her the horrible statistics involving black unemployment in the US.  She said her group is also concerned with the environmental impact of the exponentially growing immigrant population.

Mike Hethmon, an attorney from the Immigration Reform Law Institute, spoke and answered questions about the Arizona law and gave the audience some background on how long and what it took to bring that bill literally up from the grassroots to passage—it was in the making for years.

There was lots of good back and forth between audience members and speakers (there were other speakers in addition to the three I’ve mentioned), but another highlight for me was to hear from four candidates running for public office in Maryland who shared our views on immigration.  There were both Republicans and Democrats represented.

Comments worth noting: “what stays between Somalis, stays between Somalis”

~ Ann Corcoran

Update: Please click on comments below and see ‘Somali woman’s’ response to this post.

I was away yesterday, but when I came home I found lots of comments that needed posting—two in particular were intriguing.  They are in response to my post on the trial opening for the Virginia man accused of smuggling Somalis into the US and they both came in near each other timewise.

The commenters Abdi and ‘Somali woman’ claim to be Somalis and she says “what stays between Somalis, stays between Somalis.”   So, if they are really Somalis, why then did they say so much to RRW.

Here is Abdi:

Oh yeah you are very right actually thats not it only Hispanics are also more friendly to Somalis or Ethiopians than they are to white Americans. Somalis also speak a variety of languages that can help them like: Somali, Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian makes them able to communicate with the outside world and they actually handle it very well. For ecxample the Refugee Settlement Program fraud that they discovered recently has been existing among Somalis ever since for the past 20 yrs not only that but also in other countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, and Yemen. For example the femenist atheist Somali activist Ayan Hersi Ali has been in the Netherlands illegaly with a fake identity, passport and false story for the past 20-25 yrs and has reached the hieght of a parliment member in the Dutch government with this false identity. She actually handeled it very profressionally till discovered in 2007. So don’t be surprised if Somalis live here with false identities and passports I mean they can really trick the F.B.I for God sakes and the F.B.I are very slow since they were alerted very soon. I know many Somalis who live here with false identities. So if they lie to the Refugee Settlement Program (because they bring more Somalis who are their friends or from the same tribe) and come through the border to the U.S and Canada and other stuff is not something new it is something very old but hidden till those sell outs blurted and babbled to the feds. We are taking over America and since you have a Black president who doesn’t seem to care its a piece of cake for us.

Abdi is not the first to tell us they are taking over America, here another Abdi (a common Somali name) says the same thing.

This is ‘Somali woman/’ yesterday:

Its ok we have known this for years you guys have just discovered illegal Somalis entering the U.S from the south they’ve been entering the U.S and Canada ever since I can remember. This isn’t something new at all it was known but kept secret there are many secerts held in Somali communities all around North America just not told to the world. Like the young Somali boys who left America for Jihad in Somalia it was known but some Somalis who were very worried about their sons blurted to the F.B.I but many other Somalis knew about this before even before it was said Somalis began leaving the country for Jihad in Somalia. They began leaving in many numbers around the world starting from 2006 you guys are very late in your discovery Somalis hold many dangerous secerts and if the governments of the Western world found out there would be trouble for them. Its the saying “what stays between Somalis, stays between Somalis” and that is why Omar Jamal * of the Advocacy Somali Center is considered a sell-out by many Somalis in Minneapolis except for a very few, most Somalis don’t trust him either. Just a little update on this border thing Somalis began entering from the Mexican border to Arizona, Texas, and California starting from 2004 not now its not something new at all it is just a discovery from the feds thats it, and they are very late.

So to recap:

* ‘Somali woman’ says Somalis have been coming across the southern border since 2004.  The information only seems new because our incompetent law enforcement has just figured it out.

* ‘Somali woman’ says Somali youths have been leaving the US for Jihad training since 2006.   She/he says we only figured that out recently because of blabbing parents in the Somali ‘community.’

* ‘Somali woman’ basically says Omar Jamal is a traitor to Somalis.

* Abdi says the fraud in the refugee resettlement program has gone on for 20 years.

* Abdi says the FBI is very slow to act on this because they have known about it for a long time.

* Abdi says they are taking over America and that is now a piece of cake since Obama is President.

All of this rings true, but I’m not sure the authors of these comments are really Somalis or simply people who have read up on the issues.  Readers, what do you think?


For new readers, more Somalis are already on the way (in addition to the illegal ones cited above):

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 by the State Department 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.

Through the Refugee Resettlement program alone 2141 legal Somalis have already arrived in this fiscal year (2010) as of April 30th with an unknown number arriving through other legal programs and  illegally across both our borders.


* Learn more than you want to know about Omar Jamal by searching for his name here at RRW.  We have written dozens of posts on his comings and goings.  At one point he was convicted of immigration fraud and should have been deported—-kind of like the Aunt Zeituni case.

Republican Rep. Mark Souder resigns over affair with staffer…

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Ho hum, why can’t these guys on both sides of the aisle control themselves when they get to Washington?  Check out the stories.  Here is one from Fox News, he is some ‘pillsbury dough boy’ middle-aged guy with a sick wife at home .  Where have I heard that before?  Oh yeh!  Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards (sans the double chin)!

So why am I mentioning Souder?  He was a squish on immigration—one of many Republican squishes.   Here is a story on Monday where he was asked about the possibility of Indiana following Arizona with a state law to clamp down on illegal immigrants in the state.  Read the whole thing, but note this quote:

Souder says, “This is so divisive, and the Hispanic community is so large. And in our area, quite frankly, people just don’t understand… many who are legal. It leads to a tinge of sounding racist and biased. People need to be very careful. This is not about immigrants. This is about illegal immigrants.”

Why is that so interesting besides being a squishy answer?  His district includes Ft. Wayne where a huge public controversy erupted recently over a spitting incident in a laundromat (start reading here and follow links back for full story) which caused an employee to post a sign that read essentially —no Burmese permitted!   That is why Souder is so concerned about distinguishing legal vs. illegal immigrants in that quote.  He is pandering to his large immigrant/refugee population and just wants the tension gone without taking on the issue head-on.

In fact Souder has done virtually nothing over the years to solve the tension in his district except bring more federal tax money to Ft. Wayne for refugees which in essence keeps the fires of controversy burning over the ever-growing refugee community there.

Unfortunately, I haven’t the time to do this post justice, but use our search function for Souder and note that we have written about him on several occasions over the years.  Be sure to especially see this post from January 2008 where I criticized Souder on his handling of the mushrooming refugee situation.

Maybe the folks of Ft. Wayne can now elect someone who has at least the intestinal fortitude to address the immigration problems in that city!

Michael Posner puts foot in mouth by apologizing to China

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You’ve probably heard about it, it’s been all over the news.  The State Department’s Michael Posner APOLOGIZED to China for our human rights abuses.  What were our abuses?  Arizona passed SB1070!  Think about it APOLOGIZING TO CHINA.  Here is Sarah Palin blasting the Obama apology tour at Gateway Pundit (one of my favorite blogs by the way and Sarah Palin is one of my favorite people!).

Posner, before going through the revolving door  to the State Department, was the well-paid head of Human Rights First.  I told you about  him here when he was pushing for more Iraqi refugees to be admitted to the US and promoting Samantha Power as the Iraqi refugee czar in the White House.    Surely as head of Human Rights First for decades he knew about this:

North Korea pays China a bounty of around $300 for each North Korean caught and returned to North Korea. Returned escapees will typically be prosecuted, then imprisoned, or, if it is their third attempt, summarily executed, for the crime of betraying the fatherland by leaving.

And, he must have known about this:

They have to be careful and alert – North Korean refugees looking for a better life in South Korea run the risk of being rounded up by Chinese troops. But there are groups and organizations who try to help. They call themselves the Catacombs, a reference to early Christians who fled underground to avoid Roman persecution. This group of Korean and foreign Christian human rights activists, along with the refugees they are helping, are trying to avoid being detected by China.

These groups help refugees by giving them shelter and food during their escape. They also assist them in moving on to South Korea. To them it is clear that China puts the lives of North Koreans fleeing across the border at risk.

Now, go here to the Office of Immigration Statistics Annual Flow Report, and take note that we granted asylum to 10,000-11,000 Chinese nationals who sought asylum each year for the last 3 years.  Indeed the Chinese top the list of those seeking asylum here.  How many Americans sought asylum in China during those same three years?  I bet the number is zero!  Case closed.