Month: January 2013

Brownsville, TX: More OTMs coming across our borders seeking asylum

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

This is a very informative little bit of news from Texas.  We have been told that Middle Easterners, Africans and Asians (Other than Mexicans) are coming across our southern border (probably northern too, we just don’t hear it so often), but this director of a shelter for illegals* in Texas confirms that is what he is seeing.

And, here is the really informative part—-immigration lawyers are apparently ready and waiting to process them as asylum seekers.    I have speculated that not only do these migrants get help once they cross the border, but I’ll bet a buck some in the open borders movement are advising their journey’s across the globe and prepping them to tell their stories of “persecution.”  See my speculation and call for a Congressional investigation here (LOL!  Two years ago this week! You can see how they listen to me!)

Check it out!  Here is the whole short news report (KRGV 5), but be sure to watch the accompanying video.  (Hat tip: Robin)

BROWNSVILLE – The Ozanam Center in Brownsville is experiencing a spike in the number of immigrants from countries other than Mexico, center officials said.

Many of those immigrants are seeking political asylum, Ozanam Center Inc. Director Victor Maldonado said.

Tauhidul Mazumder is one of those immigrants. He arrived in the Rio Grande Valley from Sri Lanka. He was smuggled into the United States trough Reynosa.

“I paid them $2,000 and we crossed the border. I don’t know how I crossed the border. We were in a car and the next time we were in McAllen,” Mazumder said.

Once in the United States, he filed for political asylum. He said he was threatened in his homeland and fears he will be killed if he is sent back.  [Could he be a Tamil Tiger?  That would explain persecution in Sri Lanka!–ed]

“I talked to a lawyer and they got me here,” he said

Mazumder said the lawyer told him the Ozanam Center could give him refuge free of charge for a month.

Maldonado said he has seen an increase in immigrants like Mazumder.

“The shelter has always taken individuals from everywhere in the world, but we have seen that trend from that part of the world. Now we are seeing more and more,” Maldonado said.

Immigration attorneys are sending the foreigners to the center, Maldonado said.

“Many of the individuals that are coming here are educated. They do know English, limited English, but we are able to communicate. We try to assist them and help them if we can with an attorney or someone who can help them,” Maldonado said.

He has money for the smuggler, he is educated and speaks English, is headed for NYC (mentioned in the video clip)….sounds like a legitimate refugee doesn’t he?  NOT!

By the way, we have other posts on Brownsville, here is one where a Somali smuggler was caught there a few years ago.

* Don’t you wonder who is paying for this shelter for illegals???

Speaking of “preferred communities,” Erie, PA is to get 600 more refugees in 2013

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

The FY 2013 refugee spigot is open and we are beginning to see reports about how many refugees might be coming your way this year.  Obama is aiming for 70,000 new Democrat voters in need of social services for FY 2013.   Yesterday I told you that Erie was a “preferred community” for refugee resettlement and has been for over ten years.

Back in 2008 there was some ‘funny money business’ going on with the International Institute in Erie (an USCRI subcontractor) but they must have gotten their problems solved when they canned the director.  And, they must be over the squabbles there between the resettlement contractors.

Below is the short news story that gives us two bits of information in addition to the notice about the large number of refugees the city is expected to absorb.    First, most are Bhutanese which definitely means we have decided to go beyond the original 60,000 Bush-approved Bhutanese/Nepalis we were taking from camps in Nepal.

And, the second thing you should know is that this demonstrates exactly how your city gets overloaded.  The resettlement contractors, here the International Institute of Erie and Catholic Charities, are paid to process-in the family members of the original seed population they initially resettled.  They are paid by the head so there is an incentive to find more family members to import.

“Welcoming” Erie:

More than 600 refugees will start calling Erie home in 2013.

Erie’s two refugee resettlement agencies, the International Institute of Erie and the local branch of Catholic Charities, expect to serve a total of 650 refugees in the 2013 fiscal year, officials with those agencies said.

The vast majority of the new arrivals will be Bhutanese, coming to Erie by way of refugee camps in Nepal, said Nandu Subedi, resettlement program leader for Catholic Charities in Erie.

The U.S. government approved the entry of Bhutanese refugees in 2007, and they started arriving in Erie in mid-2008, Subedi said. They’ve been arriving steadily every year since, about 600 to 800 annually, he said.

Since the start of the 2013 fiscal year in October, Catholic Charities has settled 49 refugees, all but six of them from Bhutan.

“A lot of their relatives are already settled here and the others like to move to where their friends and family are,” Subedi said.  [And the US taxpayer pays us to accommodate the refugees’ desires and bring in the families, including the old grandmas in need of social security—ed]

Is yours a “preferred community” for refugee resettlement?

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Your tax dollars!

Yesterday I opened an alert in my in-box telling me that a new set of grants had been awarded for the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s “preferred communities.”    They intimate that these grants are for communities that are somehow special and welcoming, but they are really communities in refugee overload.

Here are the grants (tax dollars) awarded this week to NON-PROFIT government contractors which give you some hint as to the location of refugee overload.    Note that these grants are not awarded to say local government to deal with some refugee expense, but are administered by contractors who surely must be using some of these funds for office overhead.

Here are the cities:

Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Delray Beach, FL, Atlanta, Wichita, KS, Bowling Green, KY, Malden, MA, Grand Rapids, MI, Lansing, MI, Greensboro, NC, Las Vegas, NV, Buffalo, NY, Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, OH, Dayton, OH, Erie, PA, Philadelphia, Memphis, TN, Nashville, TN and Newport News, VA.

Only contractors need apply!

Here is what the ORR says about its “preferred community” grants (these are grants beyond what the contractors already get on a per head basis for the refugees they resettle).

Since the early 1990s,* preferred communities have provided resettlement services to newly arriving refugees. Preferred communities allow ample opportunities for early employment and sustained economic independence. In addition, they support special needs populations.

Two types of preferred communities programs are available.

*Programs that receive a minimum of 100 new refugees annually.
*Programs that receive a proposed number of cases that will need intensive case management.

These programs require a history of qualifications and experience in serving special needs cases.

Then they go on to make clear that ONLY the contractors who have a monopoly on the program can apply.   That would be THE Nine!   (when you look at the list I linked above, in some cases you will see some of THE Nine listed, but in fact those others listed are THE Nine’s subcontractors).   Again, say you are with a local government agency and need help with your health department because you got an overload of refugee TB cases, forget it, these grants are not for you!

ORR continues:

Applicants

Nine national voluntary agencies** currently resettle refugees under a Reception and Placement Cooperative Agreement with the Department of State or with the Department of Homeland Security. The Preferred Communities program is restricted to the following agencies because placements of new arrivals occur under the terms of the cooperative agreements, and no other agencies place new arrivals or participate in determining their resettlement sites. [Note that these un-elected government contractors are choosing resettlement sites!—ed]

~Church World Service/Immigration and Refugee Program, New York NY

~Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., New York, NY

~Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc./Refugee Resettlement Program, Arlington VA

~HIAS, Inc. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)/Refugee and Immigrant Services, New York NY

~International Rescue Committee/Resettlement, New York NY

~Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Baltimore MD

~U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington DC

~U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Arlington VA

~World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals/Refugee & Immigration Programs, Baltimore MD

Here then is another list of grants (larger grants) received for “preferred communities” by The Nine.  I wonder how much they skim off the top for their office overhead before any grant money flows to a subcontractor or a locality?

Oh good! an annual report!  At the bottom of the list I just re-produced is a link to a PDF document entitled “annual report for 2011.”  As I clicked on it, I thought well maybe we have some serious documentation about how these funds were used in FY2011.  Alas, that is not to be.  It is a less than 2-page superficial (mumbo-jumbo) description of what the purpose of this grant program is, and what they “accomplished.”   Here is how it begins:

The purpose of the Preferred Communities Program is to support the resettlement of newly arriving refugees with the best opportunities for their self-sufficiency and integration into new communities; to support the development of the national voluntary agencies’ capacity to address refugee cases with special or unique needs that require more intensive case management; and to develop new capacity and provide resources for national voluntary agencies to cover the costs of changing community placements so that refugees, including those with special or unique needs, are placed in a particular site where they will have the best chance for integration.

Preferred Communities are proposed for selected localities that have excellent opportunities for newly arriving refugees to achieve early employment and sustained economic independence without public assistance.  Preferred Communities should have a history of low welfare utilization by refugees.  In addition, refugees should have the potential for earned income at a favorable level relative to the cost of living and to public assistance benefits.

Does your community have these amenities for the new immigrants?  If not, too bad for you then because your community will not be “preferred!”   I especially thought #5 was really important!  And, the way things are going, you better have “excellent medical facilities” (#8).  And, come to think of it, how is your labor market?

Characteristics of these communities include:  (1) A moderate cost of living; (2) excellent employment opportunities in a strong, entry-level  labor market; (3) affordable housing and transportation accessible for employment; and (4) low secondary out-migration rates for refugees; (5) communities that meet the religious needs of arriving populations; (6) local community support and positive reception for the refugees; (7) receptive school environments; and (8) other related community features that contribute to a favorable quality of life for arriving refugees, such as excellent medical facilities.

There is no actual accounting of how your money was used, just a glowing list of “accomplishments.”

* The redistribution of your wealth started way before Obama!

** It is still funny to me that they call these contractors voluntary agencies (VOLAGS for short) when in fact they are mostly now funded by you, the taxpayer.

Comment worth noting: expert on Texas border comments on Greek landmines post

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Readers:  Comments worth noting is a category here at RRW where we post comments that interest us and are informative that you might have missed at the time they were posted in response to a story.

Here is ‘Freshideaguy’ on the Greek border security strategy (my title for this comment—Saving lives with landmines!):

The landmines did it!

Sounds kind of cruel, but when you are trying to prevent the collapse of your country, it’s economy and the very ability to continue to exist, some type of control over your borders is a necessary restriction that must be made.

In Texas, for instance, the Rio Grande Valley area is a hotbed infiltration point for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, (read that “gimmie-grants”) that storm into the USA annually, and for those who think that we are talking about Mexicans and Central and South Americans, think again!

At last check, there are more people now coming through the Texas border turnstiles from China, India, Africa, Middle East, Asia than are arriving from Latin America!  [Then they seek asylum!—ed]

What would be the impact if it were possible to stop that flow? In Brooks County, Texas, in 2012, there were more than 120 bodies found in the ranchland, most dying a cruel death in the monstrous Texas heat and buried in mostly anonymous pauper’s graves. All were autopsied and buried at county expense, (Texas State Law), and consider what that does to the county budget. Brooks County is a very poor area.

With landmines, virtually no one would have died trying to enter the USA in this area. Lives saved, money saved, and the enormous resources necessary to service illegals could be applied more appropriately to increasing the support for needy American citizens of all colors.

Right now the “landmines” are sprinkled all over the USA in the form of 1000+ cartel drug distribution centers, and the attendant turmoil created in our towns and cities by the marketing of illegal substances made available to our young people of all colors and millions of other Americans.

Tens of thousands of Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens, killed by drunk driving illegal aliens. Millions of Americans have been victimized in many ways by the presence of the drug infrastructure, countless sex offenders, thieves, burglars, to say nothing of the tens of billions in welfare support for these criminals, money drained from the “empty” pockets of American taxpayers.

Landmines may not be your cup of tea, (they would represent a harsh, but more humane solution), and I don’t recommend them. But enforcement of our immigration laws and the penalties for hiring illegals, (and stop the Obama Cartel from encouraging illegals to come here), would go a long way towards reducing the problem by stopping the illegal immigrant flow before it enters the USA.

Next week: Iran to bully Burma over Rohingya

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Update January 6th:  Iran sending humanitarian aide to Rohingya in Burma, here.  I have a better idea, Iran should just take them home to Iran as refugees and care for them there.

I’ve been telling you lately that Iran and the OIC are pressuring Burma over the Rohingya Muslim issue.  Here is just one more story about a trip by Iranian legislators planned for next week.

I have an idea!  Why don’t all those Muslim countries including Iran just divvy up the Rohingya and take them to their Muslim countries instead of pressuring Buddhist Burma to break their country’s bank by caring for all the destitute Rohingya.  Everyone will live happily ever after!

Hey, isn’t that a good plan all around?  Rich Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia could set an example of Muslim charity both with the Rohingya and with the Palestinians and take them in. *

From Iranian news agency Ahlul Bayt News Agency:

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The representatives of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Imam Khomeini’s Relief Committee and the Iranian Red Crescent Society will accompany the lawmakers in their two-day visit, which is scheduled to start on January 9, deputy chairman of the Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Mansour Haqiqatpour said on Thursday.

He added that Iran has recently dispatched the first consignment of humanitarian relief aid to Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and noted that the second batch of aid would be sent to the country within the next days.

Some 800,000 Rohingyas are deprived of citizenship rights and suffer from a policy of discrimination that has denied them the right of naturalization and made them vulnerable to acts of violence and persecution, expulsion and displacement.

On December 25, the United Nations General Assembly issued a resolution expressing concern over the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar. The resolution called on Myanmar’s government to “protect all their (the Muslims’) human rights, including their right to a nationality.”

Watch for it!  The US refugee contractors will soon be clamoring for their share of Rohingya.  They already are!  The US Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbied the State Department for more Rohingya to come to the US, here last May.

* Silly me, I forgot Saudi Arabia imprisons Rohingya who have gotten in there.