Category: Africa

UN to help Somali government evacuate Somalis from unstable countries

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But, the question this short piece doesn’t answer is where are they going to evacuate the Somalis to—back to Somalia?  If so, does that mean Somalis are ready to go back and get their own country straightened out?  Or is this just one more of those exercises, paid for with the help of the US taxpayer, to move people around the globe?

From Mareeg Online:

MOGADISHU (Mareeg) – The transitional federal government of Somalia said the United Nations is to help the evacuation of Somalis in troubled and unstable countries in the Middle East and North African countries.

In an exclusive interview with Shabelle radio, Osman Mohammed Adam, the general director of Somalia’s foreign ministry said they are planning to evacuate Somali nationals from unstable nations like Yemen with the help of the UN agencies concerning refugees’ issues.

Mr. Adam disclosed before doing any step the ministry of foreign affairs will hold discussions with the Somali embassies in those countries.

He spelled out the government is committed to destitute Somali refugees in middle east and north African countries where violent protests still going on.

In the past, Somalis in Yemen started to return home after the situation has exacerbated.

UN refugee agency controlling European borders

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Gradually the UNHCR, and its NGO buddies are telling sovereign countries in the European Union who they must admit across their borders.

Here is a little article from the UNHCR’s blog that I found interesting and am posting because I want to save it for future reference (beware USA):

Budapest, Hungary/Lyubimets, Bulgaria, June 9 (UNHCR) – “Crossing a border irregularly, is not a crime for a refugee”, explains UNHCR´s Regional Protection Officer Igor Ciobanu.

He is one of the speakers at the International Border Police Conference that brought together hundreds of border guards and experts in Budapest from 8 to 10 June. Ciobanu was not speaking about how to best control a border. “This is a perfectly legitimate concern of the States”, he says, “but there are not only economic migrants and smugglers entering countries irregularly. There are also people seeking asylum, and it is crucial that the border guards can handle their claims according to international standards.” Therefore, he explained in his presentation to the plenary in the Hungarian capital, “we as UN Refugee Agency do not leave border guards alone. Through training and constant cooperation we and non-governmental organizations can help them identify asylum seekers and help them get access to the asylum procedure”. Also victims of human trafficking or torture, women at risk, elderly refugees or unaccompanied minors deserved their special attention, stressed the UNHCR expert.

All this is coming to a head now as thousands escape Muslim countries in turmoil (including Obama’s war in Libya) and are looking to get to the West.

Malta illegal alien pipeline still flowing to America I see

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Longtime readers know we have followed this story from our early days of writing this blog in 2007.  Illegal aliens (ECONOMIC MIGRANTS!) arriving on the tiny island nation of Malta are transformed into “refugees” and shipped off to your town in the US.

Our US Ambassador to Malta during the Bush years started this precedent-setting scheme in motion.  (Here is just one post on Tea Party Molly.)   Legitimate refugees are to seek asylum in the first nation in which they arrive.  By creating this new model, we have opened the door to other countries asking that they too transit illegal aliens through their countries to the US.   Also, note in this story the role the UN is playing.  It was only a week or so ago that someone commented here that the US does not do the bidding of the UN.  Hmmm!

This is funny, go read this post from January where we learned that the migrant Africans really prefer the more generous welfare states of Europe to the US!   Little do the migrants know that there is fierce competition going on in the US to get their bodies to America so that federal contractors will survive financially (and Democrats will get more voters!).

Thanks to reader Charles for the latest pipeline news from Malta.   The first story below is from two weeks ago today and I should have posted it then because it ties in very nicely with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops whining about not having enough bodies to resettle for cash from you—the taxpayer.  Don’t worry USCCB because the Jesuits in Malta are sending more your way!

From the Times of Malta:

Nine refugees from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia left Malta to begin a new life in the United States in the past week.
The United States has been actively engaged in refugee resettlement from Malta since 2006 and has resettled 654 refugees in this period.

The refugees will be resettled in several different cities across the US.

Ambassador Douglas Kmiec hosted a reception at his residence to welcome the refugees to their new lives in America. He remarked:

“The U.S. Refugee Resettlement programme represents a small contribution by the people of the United States to help alleviate the world’s suffering.

“This programme is a success thanks to the collaboration of the Malta government and the hard work of the staff at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organisation for Migration and the people of the United States of America.

“It is hard to imagine a responsible programme dealing with migrants without UNHCR, IOM and dedicated non-governmental organisations like the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Emigrants Commission.“

Once they arrive in the US, each refugee will be assigned a sponsor agency that provides initial services such as housing, food, and clothing, as well as referral to medical care, employment services, and other support during a transition period lasting up to two years in order to ensure integration and assimilation.

Readers, this last paragraph is incorrect, the transition period lasts only a few months and then the refugees are basically on their own with food stamps, subsidized apartments and health care (and desperately looking for work!).

Charles has sent us another news item from Malta yesterday!  Just a ‘small contribution by the US to alleviate the world’s suffering!’

Times of Malta:

Another 35 refugees from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia left Malta for the US this week bringing the number of resettled refugees from Malta in the US to 689 since 2006.

The latest group of refugees will be resettled in several different cities across the US.

Chargé d’Affaires Richard M. Mills hosted a reception* for the refugees at the ambassador’s residence in Attard to welcome them to their new lives in America.

He remarked: “The U.S. Refugee Resettlement programme represents a small contribution by the people of the United States to help alleviate the world’s suffering.”

Once they arrive in the US, each refugee will be assigned a sponsor agency that provides initial services such as housing, food, and clothing, as well as referral to medical care, employment services, and other support during a transition period lasting up to two years to ensure integration and assimilation.  [Same disinformation as the previous piece—there is no ensuring integration and assimilation!–ed]

* We heard a while back that Republican for Obama, Ambassador Douglas Kmiec, was getting the boot (they say he resigned).  So, I am guessing that’s why the send-off party-giver has changed.   Here are two views on the controversial Kmiec:  no surprise that the Catholic Reporter says he is great, while Swampland had this to say.

Oh, and by the way, Germany will take 150 of Malta’s largely Muslim illegal aliens this summer, here.

For more on Malta, just type the word into our search function and I bet I’ve written maybe 50 posts over the years on the Malta illegal alien pipeline.

Somali family reunification halted in Scandinavia

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Here is a short piece from YLE News in Finland.  (emphasis mine)

Just a reminder that the US cut off most family reunification (called the P-3 program) from Africa in 2008 after discovering the widespread fraud involved and supposedly has not restarted it.   I say supposedly because Somalis have bragged here that it is open and their “families” are getting in.

Family reunification policy has been under discussion in Finland for some time. The Somali community in Finland is now worried that Finnish policy could be influenced by changes in nearby countries.

YLE reported yesterday that family reunifications in Sweden had effectively ended. Swedish authorities now demand identity documents that are very difficult for Somalis to obtain in Somalia given the country’s lack of a functioning government.

”Immigration is quite young in Finland, so we wonder why the Finnish policy often follows those in Sweden and Denmark,” says the vice-chair of the Somali League in Finland, Abdiaziz Godah.

Finnish policy is also expected to tighten yet further after additional restrictions were introduced in the last parliament. Travel expenses are now only be reimbursed for quota refugees accepted by Finland, and DNA testing to ensure family members are related will continue.

”If the goal is to have a coherent policy, then the reference point will be the other Nordic countries,” said Heikki Taskinen, head of the Finnish Immigration Service. “Presumably, further tightening could still happen.”

Much depends on the programme of the next government, after immigration became a key issue for some successful candidates in campaigning ahead of the last parliamentary election.

Twenty Somali refugees have now been indicted on terror charges

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Update June 10th:  A Canadian Somali is believed to have been killed in the Jihad in Somalia, guess he wasn’t interested in the Canadian Dream either.

The twentieth man to prefer Jihad over the American Dream was arrested in Columbus, Ohio today.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

An Ohio man who once lived in Eden Prairie was arrested Thursday morning in Columbus, becoming the 20th person of Somali descent charged in Minnesota for allegedly supporting the terror group Al-Shabab.

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 26, made his initial appearance Thursday morning in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio. He is on his way to Minnesota to face charges that he provided money and personnel to Al-Shabab, a group defined as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Al-Shabab is fighting a civil war for control of Somalia. A Minnesota man was killed last week while attempting a suicide bombing on behalf of Al-Shabab. His family believes the man is Farah Mohamed Beledi.

Beledi was one of 19 people who have been indicted in Minnesota for allegedly providing material support to a terrorist organization. Mahamud, who was indicted last week but whose indictment was sealed until his arrest Thursday, becomes the 20th.

We told you about #19, here, last week.

We first began reporting the Somali missing “youths” story in 2008, here.  (I got tired of the updates by July 2009!)

How did we get so many Somali refugees?   The US State Department brings them by the thousands each year, here.