Your tax dollars!

Yesterday I recommended saving US taxpayers almost $4 million by gutting the Refugees must have rotten marriages program, here.   Today we can save some air traffic controller jobs by cutting over $5 million for ethnic groups who have set up their little ACORN-like fiefdoms across America.

They used to be referred to as ECBOs (Ethnic Community Based Organizations), now the bureaucrats in Washington call them Ethnic Community Self-Help organizations. 

Why do we even need these?  They are non-profits set up for specific ethnic groups (funded by you) that help THEIR people (their ethnic group!) get signed up for welfare, find jobs, learn English, register to vote, demand THEIR rights and are the voice of THEIR people in your city.  In short, they promote balkanization. 

The federal government already contracts nine major contractors who in turn contract hundreds of sub-contractors whose job it is to get new immigrants settled.   And, if we need anything further besides local government, then the group in a city whose job it would be to get stuff for refugees should be multi-ethnic!  (a few are).

Furthermore, why do these ECBOs even need to be involved in teaching English?  Can’t the state and feds contract a local college to teach English to all immigrants and at least those tax dollars could be monitored.

Center for Prevention of Hate Violence got a grant

Before I get to the list, there is one listed in 2009 that caught my eye—-The Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence in Maine won a grant for $184,719, but is now defunct.

I wrote about them here in 2010 when they were going to take their Lewiston model of how great the Somalis had been assimilated there (they haven’t been) on the road and make some cities feel guilty—three of the cities were refugee over-loaded cities that we write about here all the time, the fourth was Frederick, MD!  Frederick, MD!  They were going to do a PR campaign about the hateful people in Frederick, MD!   Of course, if you live in Maryland you know why—they wanted to discredit Sheriff Chuck Jenkins.  As far as I know it didn’t happen and I’ve wondered if a call made by then Congressman Roscoe Bartlett’s Office to the Maine office of the Center had anything to do with it not happening?

Here is that gold-mine of information, the 2009 ORR Annual Report to Congress that has just been released four years late on the funding for ECBOs (p.49).   Let’s save the taxpayer $5 million!

Ethnic Community Self-Help Program In FY 2009

ORR supported 32 single and multi-site ethnic community integration projects through competitive awards totaling $5,028,696. The host organizations provided self-help networks, and various in-house and referral services to enhance refugee integration. In addition, they conducted community outreach, coalition building, self-assessment, strategic planning, resource development, and leadership training activities. The active grantee organizations for FY 2009 are listed below.

The Southern Sudanese American Association, $100,000, AK
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Boat People, SOS, Inc., $100,000, AL
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Somali Bantu Association of Tucson, $197,688, AZ
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Horn of Africa Community in North America, $135,000, CA
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California Health Collaborative, $141,682, CA
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Lao Family Community Development Inc., $198,154, CA
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Merced Lao Family Community Inc., $183,381, CA
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Merced Lao Family Community Inc., $180,891, CA
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Colorado African Organization, $197,308, CO
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ISED Solutions, $121,764, DC
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Refugee Family Services, $154,430, GA
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Pan African Association, $177,555, IL
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Catholic Charities of Louisville, $196,267, KY
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State of Maine Dept. of Health and Human Services, $168,059, ME
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Center for Prevention of Hate Violence, $184,719, ME
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Minnesota African Women’s Association, Inc., $123,758, MN
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Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment, $168,370, MN
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Karen Community of Minnesota, $169,000, MN

Montagnard Human Rights Organization, $181,390, NC
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Asian Community & Cultural Center, $125,000, NE
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Southern New Hampshire Services, $118,420, NH
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The International Rescue Committee, $199,962, NY
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Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, Inc., $
107,590, NY
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Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, Inc., $152,056, NY
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Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, Inc., $79,226, NY
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US Together, Inc., $141,572, OH
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IRCO-Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization, $200,000, OR
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Center for Refugees and Immigrants of Tennessee, $195,608, TN
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Somali Bantu Association of San Antonio, $174,345, TX
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Somali Bantu Community of Greater Houston, $125, 695, TX
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Association of Africans Living in Vermont, $165,531, VT
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Pan African Community Association, $166,824, WI

We have a whole category on ECBOs, here.   By the way, if you have one or more of these groups in your city or state, please look into their activities and their finances.  They should all be filing Form 990s and reporting how much of their funds come from the government (you!).