Month: September 2012

Clarion hotels in Kansas and Missouri harboring Pakistani illegal aliens

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This is a story about illegal aliens, not refugees, but it comes to us from the Garden City Telegram a paper we have often quoted from that generally reports only stories about how diversity strengthens the heartland.*

You know it isn’t just hapless Mexicans coming across our borders, but the numbers of OTMs (other than Mexicans) are on the rise.  What!  Are people like the two arrested hotel owners putting out the word to illegals to come to Kansas and Clarion hotels will hire them?

From AP at the Garden City Telegram:

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City couple could lose their two hotels and their bank accounts and spend decades in federal prison if they’re found guilty of knowingly employing illegal immigrants over the last four years, a federal prosecutor said.

Munir Ahmad Chaudary, 51, and his wife, Rhonda Bridge, 40, both of Overland Park, were charged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday with one count of conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens for personal gain, five counts of harboring undocumented aliens for personal gain and four counts of wire fraud.

The indictment said about half of the employees at the couple’s two Clarion hotels — one in Overland Park and the other in Missouri, near Kansas City International Airport — were neither lawfully in the U.S. nor authorized to be employed in the U.S.

Kansas U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday’s arrests should send a message to companies that try to gain a competitive advantage by hiring illegal workers, paying them less than other employees and failing to pay income taxes or Social Security for them.

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A third person, Syed Naqvy, 34, of Overland Park, was charged with one count of making a false statement to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and one count of failing to deport from the U.S. as ordered. Two companies owned by the couple also were named in the indictment.

Prosecutors said Naqvy, a Pakistani national, worked as a desk clerk at the Overland Park hotel and lived there as part of his compensation.

* Just for fun, I typed ‘Garden City’ into our search function and found lots of previous posts on the multicultural mecca the city has become thanks primarily to meatpacker Tyson Foods.   Here is one 2010 post where local Somali Muslims asked the town fathers for a special taxpayer funded cemetery because even in death they don’t want to be near infidels.  And, here , one year ago this month I posted that Finney County, KS where Garden City is located is one of the first counties in the US where people of white European heritage are now in the  minority.

Refugees with TB being readied to enter the US

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Readers, I just wrote a post where a federal contractor tells us ‘what is working with refugee resettlement’ and here we go I have the perfect story about what is emphatically not working!

This film from the International Organization for Migration (a federal contractor that prepares refugees to travel to the US) will blow you away.  (Hat tip: Mars)

You may have heard that refugees with inactive Tuberculosis can come to the US (I know that is bad enough), but the IOM is running a facility in Thailand (presumably mostly for Burmese, those same refugees gardening in NYC) where they are treating people with active MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT TB and attempting to get them well enough to come to your hometown!

Watch the film here (the music is lovely and the nurse is pleasant, but the news is frightening).  And, consider these questions:  who will monitor the refugees to assure they will stay on a prescribed drug regimen?  What if they stop taking drugs, will they become active carriers again?  Who will pay for all this (Obamacare?)?

New web series on ‘what is working with refugee resettlement’

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And, of course the title begs for an explanation—-so what is not working with refugees?

The International Rescue Committee (the granddaddy of the federal contractors) is planning to use the series to link “foodies” (Is that what Michelle Obama is, I never knew it had a name!), environmentalists and refugees in this latest political ploy.

We’ve told you many times about the refugee gardening projects you’ve been paying for with your tax dollars.  Looks like the IRC got $70,000 of federal grant money for this, here.  I guess you could buy a lot of veggies with that, but for propaganda it’s a steal!

From Mashable US & World:

A new web series from the International Rescue Committee follows refugees resettled in New York, who work in a community garden in the Bronx.

“New Roots in the Bronx” follows refugees from Myanmar and Cameroon as they acclimate to life in the U.S. while working in urban community gardens, harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables for their families and communities. These represent some of the thousands the IRC resettles in 22 U.S. cities each year.

“We’ve taken something that can sometimes be an impersonal topic and really personalized it,” Ruth Fertig, online community builder for the IRC, told Mashable. “Through the refugees stories themselves, we get to see how the IRC does its work. We’re hoping to raise awareness for the IRC’s work for a younger audience, as well as among foodies and environmentalists.”

The web series, which will be released one episode at a time through mid-October, features cooking demos from celebrity chefs David Burke, Michel Nischan and Marco Canora, who use the crops from the community garden. The IRC highlights the recipes cooked in the episodes alongside the webisodes.

The series also includes the option to take a pledge of solidarity with the refugees as they rebuild their lives in the U.S., a recipe sharing tool and a supporter page.   (Wow!  And, you paid for this!–ed)

How’s that Arab Spring working out for Obama and the “weird sisters” this morning?

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In light of the tragic news from Libya and Egypt today, here, looks like Obama, Hillary, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power picked the wrong side in their rush to embrace the phoney-baloney “democracy movement” in North Africa.

No time to write this a.m. but check out our previous posts on the “weird sisters’ responsibility to protect” and what it has come to.

Note that one year ago, almost to the day, the Israeli Embassy was attacked by those Muslim Brotherhood “democracy advocates” in their enthusiasm to show how democratic they can be.

I guess the White House’s Samantha Power gets her wish—no “rinkey-dink do-gooder stuff “ like protecting Christians in Iraq for her.  The Muslims in Libya have now declared war on us by their murderous act.  So much for the “humanitarian vulcans” gamble.