We have Mayan Guatemalans flooding into the US into such cities asLynn, Massachusetts saying they are persecuted back home (and Obama letting in Guatemalan women who claim domestic abuse) and we are expected to welcome them.
Then we have Mayan Guatemalans forcing Jews to leave their town fearing that the Jews would destroy their “religion and customs” (and drive tourists away) and everyone seems fine with that!
Why aren’t we permitted to fear Guatemalans changing our customs?
Members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect have been expelled from a lakeside Guatemalan village after clashing with the local Mayan population.
Around 230 members of Lev Tahor, an intensely religious Jewish group that rejects the state of Israel, moved to Guatemala earlier this year after fleeing amid allegations of child abuse in Canada.
Jews given the boot in Guatemala
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“We felt intimidated by them in the streets. We thought they wanted to change our religion and customs,” said Miguel Vasquez Cholotio, a member of the elders’ council.
As I read this story I wondered if the Guatemalans, or the US and Canada before them, would have had the nerve to throw out an Islamic sect with similar views and attire.
And, how come these Jews aren’t being championed as “stateless” by the international ‘humanitarian industrial complex?’ And, where is the UN with its condemnation of Guatemala?
Secondary migrants are the refugees who were resettled in one state and decided within a few months that they want to move on to another more attractive state—the attraction is usually that they want to live with their kind of people (and have heard that jobs and welfare are good). That is something ethnic minorities can do and no one says boo—they can live with their people! But just imagine some white ethnic European saying ‘I want to live with my kind of people’ and all hell will break loose!
Minneapolis Somali neighbors listen to police statement on that mysterious New Years Day explosion and fire. So whatever happened with that investigation? http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_24835039/body-found-wreckage-minneapolis-building-fire
Anyway, as part of that Key Indicators for refugee placementthat the ORR is now spearheading (we mentioned the latest reporthere), they have a section on ‘secondary migrants’ and by a wide margin Minnesota leads the nation in attracting refugees who didn’t want to be where they were initially placed by the US State Department and its contractors.
These numbers are somewhat useful, but I doubt the feds can track the movements of the over 100,000 refugees/asylees etc. arriving in America each year.
They don’t give nationalities, but I will bet a buck that most of those heading to Minnesota are Somalis. (page 9)
Minnesota: 2,496
Ohio: 881
Florida: 603
Iowa: 381
Oklahoma: 235
So what states are refugees leaving? Arizona, Texas, New York, California and Georgia top the list. (page 9)
Minnesota topped the list last year as well, here.
Could Minnesota one day be the first Muslim-majority state in America?
New Somalis on the way from Africa: In ten months of fiscal year 2014 we have resettled another 7,326 Somalis to your towns and cities.
Now it is being reported that several Somali ‘refugee’ women have left Minneapolis and the ‘good life’ to join the Jihad in Syria. Hey Jamal, this woman does not sound like she has “limited opportunities.”
Minnesota Senator Al Franken is on the case!
“Troubled” funny-man Franken campaigning at the Somali Mall in Minneapolis.
A 19-year old Somali woman from St. Paul left for Syria two weeks ago to aid fighters for a terrorist group, according to a family member with direct knowledge of her departure.Her disappearance marks the first time that family members have confirmed that a Somali-American woman has left the country to support terrorists in the Middle East.
The woman used a borrowed passport that her family believes was provided by a recruiter, according to a relative who spoke Wednesday to the Star Tribune on condition that his identity — and hers — be withheld. He said that the family found a copy of the passport used by the woman to leave the country, reportedly on Aug. 23. The next night, the family contacted the FBI and police to report her missing, and told authorities the identities of those they believe recruited her locally.
He said the FBI told the family that two other local women had also gone to Syria.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken said over the weekend that the FBI has told his office “in the nature of about a dozen” people from Minnesota have left the country to join the terror group operating in Syria.
Franken talking tough in election year?
Franken on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to commit resources to address the threat by Americans, including Minnesotans, who have traveled to the Middle East to fight with ISIL.
In the letter, Franken also said that he was “troubled” by President Obama’s recent statement that his administration had not yet put together a comprehensive strategy to address the growing threat posed by ISIL.
“We must act diligently and responsibly to prevent Americans from taking up arms with ISIL, or from re-entering our country if they do.This requires that the Justice Department use all relevant legal authorities and all appropriate resources at its disposal,” the letter said.
This is so funny to me because six years ago, then Senator Norm Coleman and challenger Franken were falling all over themselves courting the Somali vote (amid swirling allegations of voter fraud).
I distinctly remember Coleman, at the time, putting pressure on the State Department to re-open the fraud-ridden family reunification program for Somalis which the State Dept. had halted with the discovery of the lies Somalis told on resettlement paperwork.
All of our coverage in 2008 of their kissing-up to Somalis campaign is archived here.
By the way, when we attended a 2009 Senate Homeland Security hearing on the earlier departure of Minnesota Somalis to join Al Shabaab, neither Coleman or Franken attended (locked in a recount where some believe the Somali vote cheered on by Rep. Keith Ellison was pivotal in Franken’s victory). The other Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobucher, did not attend either although she had constituents testifying.
That is what Breitbart is reporting (posted at Drudge). This news does not surprise us because we know that Somali refugees, in addition to the taxi business, are employed at airports nationwide. A few years ago a reader from Washington State expressed concern to us about the number of Somalis employed at Seattle’s Sea-Tak Airport.
So if the avowed Jihadist Muhumed worked for Delta, why the whining from apologists about “vulnerable kids”?
Abdirahmaan Muhumed, one of the refugees we welcomed to America recently died as an ISIS fighter. Photo: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26399854/challenges-lack-of-opportunity-drove-suspected-isis-fighter
According to a report from Minnesota Twin Cities FOX affiliate KMSP that aired Tuesday night, Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second known American killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, previously worked for Delta Global Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.
KMSP noted that according to sources, Muhumed’s position with Delta Global Services required a security clearance at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in order gain access to the tarmac and unfettered access to planes.
Muhumed’s employment with Delta Global Services was confirmed by two former employees that acknowledged working with Muhumed.
Muhumed died in the same battle as Douglas McCain, an ISIS fighter also from Minnesota.
For the first time, New Zealand officials have accepted a refugee application by a family from Tuvalu that cites global warming as the reason they can’t return to their sinking Pacific island nation. Although there are other reasons why their application was accepted, including their previous time spent living in New Zealand, it is a significant first step towards countries dealing with climate change refugees. “I do see the decision as being quite significant,” Environmental law expert Vernon Rive told the New Zealand Herald .
The International Refugee Convention still does not recognize climate change as a legitimate cause for displacement, though some have seen the Tuvalu family’s acceptance as a sign that things might be about to change.
We have 36 previous posts in our ‘climate refugee’ categoryfor your further reading pleasure. You should know that environmentalists are at loggerheads with the “humanitarians” on the issue of changing international refugee law to add the weather as an excuse for the creation of more refugees in need of placement in the first world.
The international Left is jumping for joy because New Zealand has recognized a first “refugee” family to escape global warming.