Month: July 2011

Bowling Green City Commission to vote on holding terror trial in their town

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According to this little news story, the Bowling Green City Commission plans to vote today on whether to ask the US Justice Department to move the trial of two Iraqi alleged terrorists from their town.

From WBKO:

A vote is scheduled for Tuesday by the Bowling Green City Commission.

The vote is on a resolution urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to move the case of Waad Alwan and Mohanad Hammadi.

What, Bowling Green, KY doesn’t want to deal with an Islamic terror trial in their backyard?  Too much excitement?  Bad publicity for refugee resettlement? Safety of citizens?  I’ll see if there is more news on this today and report back.  If anyone sees the full story before I do, send it my way.

For new readers, here is the original story about the arrest of two Iraqi refugees on terrorism charges.

Just ‘marry’ a gay or lesbian and stay in the USA

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One more backdoor amnesty from the Obama Administration—they were busy last week.  One day we had Janet Napolitano telling Congress that any illegal alien kid in school wouldn’t be deported, and at the same time, with the decision in this case, seems all you have to do is ‘marry’ someone gay and you are in!  Problem is that most states do not recognize gay marriage.

From Fox News:

The federal decision to stop deportation proceedings against a Venezuela-born New Jersey man who legally married his same-sex partner in the United States — effectively recognizing gay marriage — is an “abuse of executive authority” by the Obama administration, immigration experts told FoxNews.com.

Henry Velandia, a 27-year-old professional salsa dancer from Caracas now living in New Jersey, legally married U.S. citizen Josh Vandiver, 30, in Connecticut last year, but due to the Defense of Marriage Act — a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman — Vandiver was not allowed to sponsor Velandia for a green card in the same way a heterosexual person could for his or her spouse. The Department of Homeland Security nevertheless decided to drop deportation efforts against him Wednesday.

Velandia told FoxNews.com that Wednesday’s ruling was a “big, uplifting moment” and the product of a year’s worth of hard work on behalf of the couple’s attorney, Lavi Soloway.

“I can now be with Josh, my husband, in this country without fear of being torn apart,” he said on Friday. “It’s like our first day building up our life together. But we know the fight is not over. We’re going to keep fighting for marriage equality for all the couple who are in the same situation.”

CIS:  Obama Administration abusing executive authority

But Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, said the decision is misguided prosecutorial discretion that could “destroy the credibility” of immigration law in the United States.

“This is another instance of the Obama administration’s abuse of executive authority on behalf of select groups of removable aliens that it thinks are sympathetic to make a run around Congress and provide amnesty to as many illegal aliens as possible,” Vaughan said. “These people are props for the administration, which is uncomfortable in its mission to enforce immigration laws. What they’re really doing here with this policy of discretion is giving a free pass to huge numbers of people who have been living here illegally.”

By the way, this whole LGBT business is now the next big asylum excuse!  What! Do we just take peoples’ word for it that they are homosexual, or bi-sexual or transgender?

Oh, and did you see that the Pakistanis are p*****-off at the US State Department for an Embassy LGBT pride event; they called it cultural genocide by the US against Pakistan.

UN says more refugees need resettlement

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So, what else is new?

I’ve been writing this blog since 2007 and I have never seen the UN say anything other than—take more, take more!

Since the US has a goal of 80,000 this year, this would indicate that the US is taking the lions share—again.

From the UN News Service:

4 July 2011 –

The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries to offer more resettlement places for the world’s most vulnerable refugees, warning that unless a deal is reached this year nearly 100,000 people will be left “in an agonizing limbo.”

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said 80,000 places for resettlement – offered to refugees who cannot return to their home countries or settle in the countries where they first claimed asylum – are currently available each year.

But as many as 780,000 refugees are estimated to be likely to need resettlement in the next five years, the agency warned in a press release issued from its headquarters in Geneva.

[…..]

Last year UNHCR presented more than 108,000 refugees for resettlement, and about 73,000 were eventually resettled with the assistance of the agency, with the most going to the United States.

Obama’s war in Libya isn’t helping the situation either.

Muslim charter school closing in Minnesota

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This is one of those rare occasions when the ACLU has done something I agree with.  This school in Minneapolis was getting taxpayer funded support AND teaching Islamic doctrine throughout its program until the ACLU stepped in with a lawsuit.  We’ve written about Tiza on previous occasions (here is one post in 2009, follow links back to older posts for the full story).

It is now officially closing.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (Hat tip: Lynn):

A day after state officials e-mailed him shutdown instructions, the director of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) advised parents to find new schools for their children while holding out hope that, “by some miracle,” the charter school can stay open.

Standing beneath a basketball hoop Friday evening, Asad Zaman faced a crowd of more than 100 parents in the gym of the school’s Inver Grove Heights campus. Mothers and fathers sat apart on either side of an aisle, at this meeting of a school where the vast majority of families are Muslim.

“I have to tell you, most likely the school will not survive,” Zaman said, estimating that TiZA has a 10 percent chance of staying open.

In the eyes of the state, it has already ceased to exist as a public school. Left without legally required oversight when a new state law took effect Friday, the school has been told that it will no longer receive state aid.

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In the petition, the school reported receiving about $4.4 million in state and federal funding for 2010-11.

The school accommodated hundreds of mostly Somali Muslims who came to Minnesota for its “welcoming” welfare, however, in recent days we see the state is strapped for cash so I’m wondering if that cash shortage will result in closing the refugee spigot for the state as well.

‘Brains’ behind phony Chinese Army unit pleads guilty in yet another immigrant scam

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His victims were either in the US illegally or asylum seekers (otherwise they could have joined the real Army for real money), but just didn’t want to let this opportunity pass to let readers know about one more novel immigrant scam.  Yesterday, it was the asylum applicant who was raped (well, maybe not so much) by the rich and powerful, here.

From the Los Angeles Times:

An El Monte man was sentenced to three years in state prison Wednesday in connection with a scheme to recruit 200 Chinese nationals and charge them for joining a phony Army Special Forces unit that he led as “supreme commander,” Los Angeles County prosecutors said.

Under the deal with prosecutors, Chinese national Yupeng “David” Deng pleaded guilty to three felony charges including false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of a government seal, said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. As part of his sentence, he will be required to pay restitution to the victims.

Separately, Deng pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography stemming from a search warrant executed at his home in connection with the phony Army unit investigation.

Read it all.