Malta illegal alien pipeline still flowing to America I see

Longtime readers know we have followed this story from our early days of writing this blog in 2007.  Illegal aliens (ECONOMIC MIGRANTS!) arriving on the tiny island nation of Malta are transformed into “refugees” and shipped off to your town in the US.

Our US Ambassador to Malta during the Bush years started this precedent-setting scheme in motion.  (Here is just one post on Tea Party Molly.)   Legitimate refugees are to seek asylum in the first nation in which they arrive.  By creating this new model, we have opened the door to other countries asking that they too transit illegal aliens through their countries to the US.   Also, note in this story the role the UN is playing.  It was only a week or so ago that someone commented here that the US does not do the bidding of the UN.  Hmmm!

This is funny, go read this post from January where we learned that the migrant Africans really prefer the more generous welfare states of Europe to the US!   Little do the migrants know that there is fierce competition going on in the US to get their bodies to America so that federal contractors will survive financially (and Democrats will get more voters!).

Thanks to reader Charles for the latest pipeline news from Malta.   The first story below is from two weeks ago today and I should have posted it then because it ties in very nicely with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops whining about not having enough bodies to resettle for cash from you—the taxpayer.  Don’t worry USCCB because the Jesuits in Malta are sending more your way!

From the Times of Malta:

Nine refugees from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia left Malta to begin a new life in the United States in the past week.
The United States has been actively engaged in refugee resettlement from Malta since 2006 and has resettled 654 refugees in this period.

The refugees will be resettled in several different cities across the US.

Ambassador Douglas Kmiec hosted a reception at his residence to welcome the refugees to their new lives in America. He remarked:

“The U.S. Refugee Resettlement programme represents a small contribution by the people of the United States to help alleviate the world’s suffering.

“This programme is a success thanks to the collaboration of the Malta government and the hard work of the staff at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organisation for Migration and the people of the United States of America.

“It is hard to imagine a responsible programme dealing with migrants without UNHCR, IOM and dedicated non-governmental organisations like the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Emigrants Commission.

Once they arrive in the US, each refugee will be assigned a sponsor agency that provides initial services such as housing, food, and clothing, as well as referral to medical care, employment services, and other support during a transition period lasting up to two years in order to ensure integration and assimilation.

Readers, this last paragraph is incorrect, the transition period lasts only a few months and then the refugees are basically on their own with food stamps, subsidized apartments and health care (and desperately looking for work!).

Charles has sent us another news item from Malta yesterday!  Just a ‘small contribution by the US to alleviate the world’s suffering!’

Times of Malta:

Another 35 refugees from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia left Malta for the US this week bringing the number of resettled refugees from Malta in the US to 689 since 2006.

The latest group of refugees will be resettled in several different cities across the US.

Chargé d’Affaires Richard M. Mills hosted a reception* for the refugees at the ambassador’s residence in Attard to welcome them to their new lives in America.

He remarked: “The U.S. Refugee Resettlement programme represents a small contribution by the people of the United States to help alleviate the world’s suffering.”

Once they arrive in the US, each refugee will be assigned a sponsor agency that provides initial services such as housing, food, and clothing, as well as referral to medical care, employment services, and other support during a transition period lasting up to two years to ensure integration and assimilation.  [Same disinformation as the previous piece—there is no ensuring integration and assimilation!–ed]

* We heard a while back that Republican for Obama, Ambassador Douglas Kmiec, was getting the boot (they say he resigned).  So, I am guessing that’s why the send-off party-giver has changed.   Here are two views on the controversial Kmiec:  no surprise that the Catholic Reporter says he is great, while Swampland had this to say.

Oh, and by the way, Germany will take 150 of Malta’s largely Muslim illegal aliens this summer, here.

For more on Malta, just type the word into our search function and I bet I’ve written maybe 50 posts over the years on the Malta illegal alien pipeline.

Salim nabbed in Norristown on Food Stamp Fraud; Congress considers cuts to program

Regular readers know that immigrant food stamp fraud is something we follow at RRW mostly because no one else does!

I don’t know that I’ve had a case in Pennsylvania before this one.   Check it out here in the Times-Herald.  One thing different about this story is the detail given of how Salim worked the scam.

NORRISTOWN — A Norristown merchant faces multiple charges for allegedly stealing federal food stamp funds, selling food stamp benefits for cash and making fraudulent transactions through the federal food stamp electronic access system called “SNAP.”

Modar Nazem Salim, 41, of the 700 block of Kohn Street was arrested June 3 at his market on Kohn Street, police said. Moe’s Market is owned by Salim and Janet Forves-Salim, according to state records. The market building was purchased by Salim for $59,900 in December 1998.

Salim was charged with fraudulent traffic in food orders; dealing in the proceeds of illegal activities; buying or exchanging federal food order coupons, stamps, authorization cards or access devices; access device fraud; corrupt organizations; theft by deception and receiving stolen property, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Federal Department of Agriculture Special Agent Charmeka Parker and Norristown Ptl. Nicholas Dumas started an investigation in early 2011 because the food stamp transaction activity at Moe’s Market exceeded the normal activity of other area markets and convenience stores, police said.

Read it all.

Congress considers cuts

Meanwhile, here is a story I’ve had kicking around for ten days about how Congress is considering cutting the behemoth program.   Personally, I think the reason the program has grown so rapidly is not so much the economy but the understanding that it has become a major source for the redistribution of wealth through fraud.  Convenience stores like Salim’s are distributed from coast to coast and are busy giving your tax dollars away while owners enrich themselves.

From ABC News:

ABC News’ Huma Khan reports: Congress is under pressure to cut the rapidly rising costs of the federal government’s food stamps program at a time when a record number of Americans are relying on it.

The House Appropriations Committee today will review the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture that includes $71 billion for the agency’s “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.” That’s $2 billion less than what President Obama requested but a 9 percent increase from 2011, which, critics say, is too large given the sizeable budget deficit.

A record number of Americans — about 14 percent — now rely on the federal government’s food stamps program and its rapid expansion in recent years has become a politically explosive topic.

More than 44.5 million Americans received SNAP benefits in March, an 11 percent increase from one year ago and nearly 61 percent higher than the same time four years ago.

Nearly 21 million households are reliant on food stamps.

For more on food stamp fraud, just type those words into our search function—dozens and dozens of cases like Salim’s are archived at RRW.

Somali family reunification halted in Scandinavia

Here is a short piece from YLE News in Finland.  (emphasis mine)

Just a reminder that the US cut off most family reunification (called the P-3 program) from Africa in 2008 after discovering the widespread fraud involved and supposedly has not restarted it.   I say supposedly because Somalis have bragged here that it is open and their “families” are getting in.

Family reunification policy has been under discussion in Finland for some time. The Somali community in Finland is now worried that Finnish policy could be influenced by changes in nearby countries.

YLE reported yesterday that family reunifications in Sweden had effectively ended. Swedish authorities now demand identity documents that are very difficult for Somalis to obtain in Somalia given the country’s lack of a functioning government.

”Immigration is quite young in Finland, so we wonder why the Finnish policy often follows those in Sweden and Denmark,” says the vice-chair of the Somali League in Finland, Abdiaziz Godah.

Finnish policy is also expected to tighten yet further after additional restrictions were introduced in the last parliament. Travel expenses are now only be reimbursed for quota refugees accepted by Finland, and DNA testing to ensure family members are related will continue.

”If the goal is to have a coherent policy, then the reference point will be the other Nordic countries,” said Heikki Taskinen, head of the Finnish Immigration Service. “Presumably, further tightening could still happen.”

Much depends on the programme of the next government, after immigration became a key issue for some successful candidates in campaigning ahead of the last parliamentary election.