Category: Africa

No wonder the UK is such a mess: Somali family gets taxpayer-funded 7-bedroom home

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This can’t be true, but here is the story posted (with photos of the mansion) in The Mail yesterday.

That Somali family of 12 we told you about a few days ago in Memphis, TN only got a 3-bedroom apartment.

From The Mail:

They say beggars can’t be choosers.

But in the case of jobless Somali refugee Saeed Khaliif and his family, it seems they can.

The Mail yesterday revealed how the Khaliifs have been given a £2million home in one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, with taxpayers funding their £8,000-a-month rent.

[….]

The family had rejected a previous six-bedroom home in Coventry – where the bill for the public would have been a more reasonable £1,000 a month – simply because they wanted to live ‘closer to their friends’.

[….]

On top of their free accommodation, the family is also thought to be eligible for a raft of benefits including incapacity benefit, income support and child benefit, which could potentially add many thousands of pounds to their monthly haul from the taxpayer.

The Khaliifs and their brood of children – eight youngsters have been seen at the property – fled war-torn Somalia and arrived in Britain about three years ago as asylum-seekers.

Since then, they are believed to have been granted refugee status, allowing them to claim benefits. Speaking via his children, who act as translators, Mr Khaliif said he had not worked since arriving in the UK and admitted he was on benefits.

I think the Brits need a TEA Party!

For more information, readers might want to revisit this June post about how some Somalis cheat their way into the UK.

Somali family of 12 arrives in Memphis, TN

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….and we are assured by Michael Allen of Catholic Charities of West Tennessee that the oldest son in the family (a 20 year old) will get a job (maybe a menial job) and provide for the family of TWELVE!  Who is he kidding!    (Dad will arrive from Africa at a later date we are told).

Watch the clip from WREG News-3 here.

The mother of the family is 39 years old and the children range in age from a 1 year-old to the 20-year-old.  (maybe Dad should stay in Africa!).   All 12 live in a 3 bedroom apartment (probably a city housing code violation, but at least a violation of the contract Catholic Charities signs with the US State Department that funds Catholic Charities).

New readers:  these Catholic agencies are not paying for most of this out of the kindness of parishioners’ charitable pocketbooks—they are paid by the US taxpayer and within a few months this family of 12 will be cut loose to sink or swim in the welfare system of Tennessee.   Here is the most recent Form 990 for Catholic Charities of West TN.   Their gross receipts were $4,269,096 and $2,112,095 came from government grants.  Over $2 million goes to salaries and benefits for employees.

Edmonton, Canada to throw money and programs at the immigrant crime problem

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We have so many posts on Somali murders in Edmonton that I’ve lost track of them (check our Canada category if you are interested).

And, I don’t want to make this the Canadian refugee watch blog, but it’s just that lots of interesting news is coming from Canada these days.

I could barely stand reading this story in the Edmonton Sun, because it’s the typical leftist solution to crime—let’s throw money and create task forces to create programs to prevent crime.

Here is one bit:

More than 120 members are a part of REACH that emerged out of the mayor’s Taskforce on Community Safety back in 2009.

There are 30 initiatives in the works through the program to support those in the community that need it most – specifically, youth and immigrant families who may be struggling.

“If you spend on prevention, then you save huge down the road,” said Daniller. [Really? Got some facts on that?—ed]

“We have a goal of making Edmonton a safe community. Our mission is to do it in one generation by focusing on crime prevention.”

I have an idea, why not simply try swift criminal justice—prosecutions and long prison sentences (or that novel idea Canada already has—deporting to places like Mogadishu—that might scare them straight!)—to deter crime.

We know how that government “programs” and public funding has worked out for the UK, right?

In Canada refugee criminals to be tracked down with the help of the media; deported

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I guess they really are getting serious north of the border!   Below is a story about the Winnipeg Sun helping to track down a criminal refugee by publishing his photo.

By the way, deporting someone to Somalia is a big deal!  We reported on one such case here where a Somali convicted as a gang member in Canada was just dropped off in Mogadishu.  Did you know the US doesn’t deport to Somalia?  We just keep them in prison, like the Minneapolis rapist we reported yesterday, at taxpayer expense.

Or, like Omar Jamal we just let them stay (with no jail time) to become community agitators for the Somali “community.”  For fun I checked to see how many times we discussed Jamal (the Somali Jesse Jackson) over the last 4 years and it’s 60 times (see our Omar Jamal archive here.)!  Jamal had been convicted in Tennessee of immigration fraud after sneaking in here from Canada.  I wonder if we can give him back to Canada?  But I digress….

From the Toronto Sun:

WINNIPEG – Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says refugee criminals on the lam in Canada could soon face the same wrath as suspected war criminals who are being arrested after QMI Agency began publishing their names and pictures this summer.

And the Winnipeg Sun has played a key role in making that happen, says Toews.

He credits the paper for its series of stories last year on refugee criminal Mohamed Said Jama, who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant and eventually captured after his name and picture were featured in the Sun. [We reported on Jama here in 2010]

Jama — who had a lengthy violent, criminal record and has since been deported to his native Somalia — was caught shortly after his name and photograph was published.

Toews said that opened his eyes to how powerful a tool the media can be in capturing refugee criminals and suspected war criminals on the loose in Canada.

The minister said his department is now looking at expanding that program to help track down convicted foreign criminals like Jama who are hiding out in Canada.

Go for it!

P.S.  I note they don’t mind using the “r” word (refugee)  in conjunction with criminal activity either.

Three refugees arrested in Sky Harbor fake bomb incident

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This is a very strange story—three African refugees involved in transporting an apparently harmless item that was made to look like a device that could have been detonated.  I’m struck by the use of the word “refugee” since most of these stories don’t identify a criminal suspect’s immigration status.

Here is the story from the  Crisis Jones Report:

Three African refugees have been arrested after a recent Phoenix airport security check uncovered what appeared to be an explosive device, police said Tuesday.

A U.S. Transportation Security Administration employee discovered a cellphone attached to a container holding an organic material while performing a security check on carry-on bags at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Friday, according to Sgt. Steve Martos, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. Police have not yet determined what the organic material is.

Authorities said the Police Department’s bomb squad and the Fire Department’s hazardous-materials crew determined the device was not an explosive.

Officials said the owner of the device, 51-year-old Luwiza Daman, a refugee from Ethiopia, told investigators that an acquaintance had given her the device and asked her to deliver it to an unknown person in Des Moines, Iowa.

Later Friday evening, investigators found a second individual involved in the incident, 25-year-old Shullu Gorado, a refugee from Eritrea, at his residence near 19th Avenue and Camelback Road, Martos said.

Investigators said Gorado told them he gave the device to Daman after a third individual, 34-year-old Shani Asa, a refugee also from Eritrea, gave him the device.

Investigators found Asa on Monday afternoon at his residence near 43rd Avenue and Osborn Road, Martos said.
Asa said he attached the cellphone to the container housing the organic material and gave the device to Gorado, Martos said.

All three individuals were arrested on suspicion of having a hoax device and conspiracy to obtain a hoax device.

Then this reporter at AP wonders how long the three refugees have been in the US.   Dear Reporter: Contact the US State Department for the answer.  While you are at it find out which federal contractor(s) resettled them (start with the Phoenix contractors).

Martos did not know how long Daman, Gorado and Asa have been living in the U.S. He said Gorado and Asa most recently were living in Phoenix but did not know where Daman was living.

I mentioned Sky Harbor here in 2008 when a cleaning service that employed Somali women was told the women could wear their Somali clothes instead of the required uniform.   I wondered about the wisdom of hiring Muslims to clean airports and planes in the first place.