Month: September 2014

Mississippi governor wants “refugee” program put on hold in his state

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Wow!  Another ‘pocket of resistance!’

This is mostly about the ‘Unaccompanied alien children’ which I am shocked to report Catholic Charities (in this news account) is already calling “refugees!”  They are NOT refugees until they are legally determined to be asylum seekers who have been granted asylum through an administrative or court proceeding!  (These religious Leftists are pretty sneaky with the language they choose!)

Mississippi Governor Bryant: I want to be convinced we are not a gateway. Photo: http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2013/02/feds-blame-mississippi-governor-for-exchange-denial/

From MS News Now:

JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) –

“Over 200 young adults and children that have been sent to this state by the Obama administration and we have no idea where they’re at.”

That concern has shifted Governor Bryant’s focus to the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program. Catholic Charities Executive Director Greg Patin says his organization has been running it for more than 30 years now.

“They are certified by the office of refugee resettlement as refugees,” Patin explained. “So they are legally here in the united states and we help them acclimate to their new country.”

The Department of Human Services distributes the federal dollars to the organization to help with the program. [For new readers the money goes to these federal contractors***.—ed]

“Roughly 1.7 million dollars a year,” said Patin.

Now, the Governor has given this message to the Obama administration and DHS.

“I told them to stop every program dealing with refugee children until we can sort this out,” explained Bryant.

The religious leaders described their Thursday meeting with Bryant as “gracious and cordial.” In a statement they said the Governor has promised to carefully consider the situation.

“I’m not critical of these religious leaders,” Bryant said. “Catholic Charities doing a very good job and that’s a legal program. My concern is it will be taken advantage of by the Obama administration to bring hundreds more into that state.”

See our growing archive on “pockets of resistance” here.  And, all of our coverage of the “unaccompanied minors” going back several years is here.

*** The federal migrant resettlement contractors which we have followed for years (Grant recipient big dogs (devouring federal cash) Baptist Child and Family Services and Southwest Key Programs  are new on the scene in recent years.):

 

US State Department: UN has chosen several thousand Syrians for resettlement to America

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And so it begins!

Marie Harf at the US State Department sending out the first signals! The Syrians are coming!

As I predicted yesterday, it is coming—the announcement that we will be taking several thousand Syrian permanent refugees starting in a few weeks.  The new fiscal year begins on October 1.

I’m using the word “permanent” for a reason.  Some of the Syrians going to Europe are only going to be allowed to stay until the conflict is resolved, but our refugees are permanent.

From Middle East Monitor.  State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said this apparently in response to a question:

The United States has resettled 166 Syrians since the outbreak of the Syrian Revolution in 2011, a State Department official said on Thursday.

Marie Harf, US state department deputy spokeswoman, said during her daily press briefing, “The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) began in mid-2014 to refer Syrian refugees in large numbers to the United States.”

She pointed out that there are several thousands of Syrian refugees waiting to gain entry into the US, noting that the number will continue to increase.

And, we are expected to pony-up another $2 billion for the Syrian refugee crisis by the end of the year.

Don’t forget!  Back in February, the Obama Administration bowed to pressure from “human rights” lobbyists/federal contractors to relax security screening so as to accommodate a Syrian migration to America, to your towns and cities.  I can assure you that most of the Syrians admitted to the US will be Sunni Muslims.

Human Rights Watch: US must take Syrian refugees in order to help out Syria’s neighbors

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Why should we? They are all Muslim countries and should take care of their own kind of people! Right?

Every day I look for the news that will come inevitably—the news that the US has opened its doors to Syrians in a big way.

Bring in the Syrians! Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch is getting impatient with the Obama Administration.

And, every day for months I’ve noticed that not a word of complaint has come from the “humanitarian industrial complex” after a PR flurry earlier in the year where the contractors made it clear (and here) that they want 12,000-15,000 Syrians sent to your towns and cities each year going forward.

This Human Rights Watch writer is voicing the first complaint I’ve seen in awhile.

(I have a theory that the US State Department told its contractors to shut up or else they would stir up even more opposition to the resettlement of what will be mostly Sunni Syrians.)

Bill Frelick in a piece entitled, ‘US to Syrian Refugees: We’ll Give You Money But Stay Away, Please,’ at the Huffington Post says:

With the number of Syrian refugees in the Middle East hitting 3 million, it’s worth examining how the United States and other countries not on the frontline of the conflict have stepped in to help countries like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey. These countries have the misfortune to be neighbors not only of Syria, but of Iraq and Israel/Palestine as well, other places that have been the source of millions of refugees.

Consider this: Lebanon is hosting 1.14 million refugees from Syria, the equivalent of 83 million refugees in the United States — or the combined population of California, Texas, and New York. And what has the United States done to relieve the human burden on Lebanon and Syria’s other neighbors? In the first 10 months of fiscal year 2014, the US admitted a grand total of 63 Syrian refugees.

Obama will make an announcement soon! 

Or, at least the US State Department will.  The annual Presidential Determination letter will be sent to Capitol Hill sometime in the coming weeks (it has to because the new fiscal year begins October 1), and in it the Administration will spell out its refugee wishlist for the coming year.  There is no way they aren’t going to bring in thousands of Syrians, it is just a question of how many thousands.

The Economist: The ‘melting pot’ works! American Muslims assimilating beautifully

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Yet, using The Economist’s own supporting numbers….

Approximately 12% of US Muslims believe suicide bombings of civilians can be justified—that means 360,000 American Muslims can justify suicide bombings of innocent men, women and children!

Boy did this unnamed reporter from The Economist drink the Kool-Aid.   In attempting to tell us why the US was better off than Europe with its “integration” of Muslims he/she sure revealed some scarey numbers.

Obviously The Economist attended the Islamic Society of North America’s annual shindig and although admitted we had a few “bad apples,” America’s Muslims are just like you and me, peace-loving people who want to attend liberal arts colleges, have their kids join the Boy Scouts and build mosques.

Before you proceed, be sure to see this post from last year where we reported that Pew (Forum on Religion and Public Life) says there were 2.75 million Muslims in the US in 2011.  That would jibe with this Economist report which puts the number at 1% of the US population (around 3 million Muslims).  Although looking around we see there are estimates ranging from 2 million to 7 million.

The Economist (opinion piece!) sets the stage to show how we are better off than Europe:

THE State Department estimates that up to 100 American jihadists are fighting in Iraq and Syria. A video appearing to show a second American journalist being beheaded by the Islamic State is circulating. You might think this would be a difficult time to hold the annual conference of America’s largest Muslim organisation.

Yet the Islamic Society of North America’s gathering, which took place in Detroit over the Labour Day weekend, served as a reminder of how well America is assimilating a religious minority that has often struggled to feel at home in Europe.

The Economist gushes about how well American Muslims are integrating, but admits that the US is at 1% with its Muslim population, while some European countries have reached 4-5% in Muslim population.  So, what will the US Muslims be like when there are five times as many of them?  More aggressive?

O.K. so using The Economist’s own estimate of 1% (let’s round that to 3 million Muslims in the US).

Now look at this chart The Economist has published! 

Granted Europe is worse off, but something stinks in America’s “melting pot.”

Clarifying numbers!

38% (est. from the graph) of America’s Muslims think life is not worse for women in Muslim countries:  so that is 1,140,000 who believe women are just fine in Muslim countries?

Approximately 49% of America’s Muslims are not concerned about Islamic Extremism:  1,470,000

48% feel they are Muslim not American: 1,440,000 are Muslims first!

60% do not believe Arabs carried out 9/11 attack:

Approximately 1.8 million American Muslims believe Arabs did not carry out 9/11 attack.

And the stunner!

Only! approximately 12% admitted that they believe suicide bombings of civilians can be justified:  360,000 American Muslims believe this?

If 360,000 American Muslims right now believe that suicide bombings of civilians can be justified, how are we going to feel when the Muslim population reaches 5% in America–-when 1.8 million Muslims believe in such violence?

Time for a moratorium on Muslim immigration to America!

Someone check my math please!

Come on Gateway Pundit, you should know about refugee resettlement by now!

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This plan by a local Catholic group is NOT a plan to accommodate “illegal aliens!”   (See Gateway Pundit here)

 

Jim Hoft in a post entitled: Update: Officials Discuss Housing Syrian & Iraqi Refugees in South St. Louis.

“A local St. Louis Catholic church closed it’s school last year and now wants to use it to house illegal aliens.”

(hat tip: Julia)

Iraqis and Syrians are/will be LEGAL immigrants.

This is all legal and has been going on for over three decades. I can’t recreate all of Refugee Resettlement Watch for Gateway Pundit, so someone please tell some of the big conservative bloggers that it’s time they paid attention to LEGAL immigration especially as this is all being paid for out of the federal treasury!

It is not charitable Catholics passing the collection plate!  Catholic groups are federal contractors!

Iraqis are the largest group of refugees we are bringing to the US this year and in fiscal year 2015 (which begins in 4 weeks), Syrians will be pouring into your cities!   16,159 Iraqis have been brought to the US in the first ten months of this fiscal year.  A large percentage of them have been resettled by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (as the largest contractor) and its subcontractors.

The feds and their refugee contractors*** are scouting out new locations as we speak.

*** The federal migrant resettlement contractors which we have followed for years (Grant recipient big dogs (devouring federal cash) Baptist Child and Family Services and Southwest Key Programs  are new on the scene in recent years.):