Top Somali admission years are not mentioned…..
While doing a little bedtime reading—2008 Annual Report to Congress on the refugee program—sure to put anyone to sleep, I came across this line in the Admissions section on Page 5:
In FY 1994, 3,508 Somalis fled to the U.S. Admissions reached 6,022 in FY 2000 before plunging to 242 in FY 2002, swelling to 6,958 in FY 2007, and declining to 2,510 in FY 2008.
First, readers should know that the severe decline in refugee numbers in 2002 was because of the major potential security threat refugees and immigrants generally, but especially Muslims, posed to the US, so there was a drastic curtailment of this program that year as new security measures were put in place. I also would like to argue with the choice of the words “fled to the US.” They didn’t flee to the US, most were brought here at the behest of the United Nations and the federal contractors who are paid by the head to resettle refugees.
But, what really jumped off the page was this: “….swelling to 6,958 in 2007.” I think the average reader (some poor Congressional staffer perhaps) would take that to mean that 2007 saw the highest number of Somalis admitted to the US in a given year.
Isn’t that what the words “swelling to” implies?
When I saw that I immediately assumed my early research, and our most widely read post, this one, might have some errors.
It doesn’t!
The Office of Refugee Resettlement failed to tell readers that the “swelling” occurred in 2004, 2005 and 2006. There were 12,814 Somalis admitted in 2004, 10,101 in 2005, and 10,330 in 2006. (All before the State Department confirmed the widespread refugee fraud going on in Africa!)
See the appendix to the 2007 Annual Report to Congress, here. Near the end of the report you will find a chart of Admissions by country of origin (Table 1). See for yourself! And, note also that before 2003 we admitted over 40,000 Somalis.
Thank the US State Department!
Two days ago I told you about Somali food stamp fraud and the tension in Shelbyville, TN with Somali refugees, four days ago it was the tension in Minneapolis between Somalis and Native Americans, also four days ago it was the massive Somali drug bust, before that it was those murder cases in the Dakotas. And, how could I almost forget the Somali “youths” who returned to Africa for Jihad training. Today, later, when I get a minute, it will be a story about the Somali cabbie who might be a terrorist!
Are all these reasons for the federal government to downplay the number of Somalis who have entered the US through the “humanitarian” refugee program? You bet they are!