Category: Africa

Refugee funding to be reduced, but by how much?

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….and what is Samantha Power up to?

Check out the pro-migration blog MicEvHill from time to time to keep up with what is happening with immigration generally in Washington.  A government shutdown has been averted for now and here is what blogger Michael Hill is reporting as of 10:50 a.m. this morning on the status of funding for refugee and other immigrant programs:

Consequences for Fiscal Year 2011 Immigration and Refugee Spending?

At the very least, the deal that Congress and the White House have reached will require that refugee-related programs sustain an across-the-board cut in fiscal year 2011 of a yet-to-be-revealed percentage below fiscal year 2010 spending levels.  However, the full consequences for immigration-, border security-, and refugee-related spending and policy of the full-year fiscal year 2011 deal were not yet known at the time of this writing.

Insiders who are familiar with the details of the deal indicate that it does not include the deep cuts in refugee resettlement, overseas refugee assistance, and refugee admissions funding that were contained in the House-passed version of H.R. 1, a full-year fiscal year 2011 continuing appropriations measure.  Moreover, insiders indicate that the only significant immigration-related policy rider that was contained in the House-passed version of H.R. 1, a provision that would have barred federal funding for immigrant integration programs, also will not be in the final fiscal year 2011 measure.  Notwithstanding the assertions of insiders, however, no firm word on those matters can be relied upon until the text of the measure that the House and Senate will take up emerges.

Samantha Power!  Now, I am beginning to see why it was so important to place the refugee issue with Power in the White House!

Readers may recall that in January 2010 the Obama Administration doubled the funding for the refugee program (so cutting to before 2010 levels would only take it to the amount it was supposed to be before the Obama money bomb).  This increase in spending came as a result of a stepped up PR campaign by federal contractors and was supposed to be part of an overall (and much needed) reform of the Refugee Resettlement Program.

That reform was being coordinated by Samantha Power’s office in the White House.  But, as far as I know Mrs. Cass Sunstein (aka Power) hasn’t accomplished  much in the way of reform (or they’ve been awfully quiet about it).  I suppose Power/Sunstein has been too busy getting us involved in a “humanitarian” war in Libya.

Unleashing the refugee weapon on Europe!

Uh oh, come to think of it, Ms. Power with her ‘humanitarian interventionism‘ has been busy creating more refugees as we just reported here and here.   Scary thought—what if these Marxists are using refugees as weapons to create chaos  behind a smokescreen of humanitarian concern.   First Europe, next stop Israel?

Gaddafi has no weapons of mass destruction, unless you count the refugees unleashed on Europe

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Ed West writing at the UK Telegraph yesterday suggests that the tens of thousands of refugees being pushed out of North Africa will be Gaddafi’s last laugh on Europe as serious commenters begin to wonder if this is what the Fall of Rome felt like.  Thank champions of chaos, Obama and Ms. Power.

Colonel Gaddafi, having foolishly agreed not to arm himself with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons*, a lesson other dictators may heed, has set upon a more surreal but perhaps more effective weapon against the West – refugees.

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One of Roger Scruton’s most original arguments against our asylum policy is that it allows brutal dictators to rid themselves of enemies without having to get their hands dirty. But Gaddafi is now using people-dumping as a weapon of war, and a fairly effective one when your enemy has a free media and a conscience.

Italy opened the door to 20,000 Tunisians and France is freaking out!   France’s Marine Le Pen, a tough anti-immigration/pro-western civilization warrior, is running ahead of Sarkozy in polls.

And Gaddafi is now being aided by Italy’s incredibly short-sighted decision to give 20,000 Tunisians an effective amnesty by allowing them free movement in Europe.

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Most of the Tunisians are heading for France, which has an enormous Tunisian population already, and Italy’s decision, plus the refugees from a war started by Nicolas Sarkozy, will almost certainly influence the 2012 French presidential elections. Marine Le Pen, who is now second in the polls, and ahead of Sarkozy, has made much play of the refugee influx, and has already visited Italy’s refugee island, Lampedusa, for a publicity stunt.

Fall of Europe and America alone!

The Roman Empire comparison may be simplistic, but it’s worth remembering that the empire collapsed not as a result of hostile barbarian invaders, but because of barbarian refugees who wished to become part of the empire.

If the worst comes to the worst then come 2050 we’ll all be claiming asylum in the United States – better start practising your Spanish. [very funny Mr. West!—ed]

Read it all.

France puts checkpoints on Italian border to keep out migrants from North Africa

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It’s amazing how quickly European Union—we are all one big happy borderless Europe—mumbo jumbo is forgotten when serious threats to a country’s sovereignty arise.

From the Wall Street Journal:

VENTIMIGLIA, Italy—The migration wave unleashed by North African unrest has prompted France to resurrect its border with Italy—a barrier that was supposedly consigned to history’s dustbin with Europe’s unified economy.

A couple of miles from the beach town of Ventimiglia, nestled along the Italian Riviera, French police have restaffed a formerly abandoned checkpoint along the country’s Mediterranean border with Italy.

In the nearby French town of Menton, French police in riot gear board trains crossing into France, grilling passengers while other police forces are monitoring roads and foot trails that lead into French territory from Italy.

Fences sure do make good neighbors.

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More on that Columbus, OH FBI probe of Somalis there

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This is just an update of the terror investigation story I posted two days ago from Columbus, Ohio. It seems there has been a federal grand jury convened.

Check out the latest at the Columbus Dispatch:

A Columbus man who says he was elected the leader of a region of Somalia in 2009 apparently is the target of a federal terrorism investigation into his activities in that country.

If the feds are looking into Sulieman Ahmed’s activities, it could be the first such examination of the local community.

Ahmed said FBI agents stopped him at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Jan. 30 and told him they had reviewed information on the Internet that indicated he was engaged in fighting in Somalia.

“I told them that was not true,” Ahmed said.

And, he said, a number of people in Columbus’ Somali community recently have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Columbus about Ahmed and his regional administration.

Read it all.

Sounds like a lots going on in Columbus, right Rowana!

Comment worth noting: Rowana returns!

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Readers, take a few minutes and read my previous post on Australia.  There you have a well-known, well-educated editor of a major paper, a world away, who has come to the same conclusion as an elderly lady from Columbus, Ohio.  Wake up America!

I posted a comment from Rowana as a ‘comment worth noting’ here two days ago.  Now Rowana is back warning of the end to a great American city—Columbus (emphasis mine).

I had four uncles in WWII who fought to maintain freedom in this country. You young people can wuss out all you want and be “politically correct,” and be afraid to speak the truth. I will not. What exactly are you afraid of in not speaking out? That a group of people who do a stupid, inconsiderate, unAmerican thing might be mad at you? England was mad at some of my ancestors in a revolution, too, but it did not bother them. Duh!

Jewish Family Services (and any other agency or group) had NO BUSINESS bringing all those Somalians into central Ohio. TENS OF THOUSANDS of them! The Columbus Dispatch said the Jewish Family Services brought those Somalians to Columbus and that is a fact. I can’t figure out why Jews would bring in Muslims. They are in a nasty war with them over in Israel. Duh!

I wonder, could it have had something to do with all those grants and all the money they possibly got? Some Somalians told me personally that the grants allowed about one million dollars per 50 Somalians imported, and they placed them in government housing, gave them a bag of groceries, and left.

Why not demand an accounting for how much money in grants the people who brought these Somalians over here, received?*  How about a FOIA public records request? (Freedom of Information Act) Did they line their pockets while taxpayers paid to bring those people here, and then taxpayers have to pay to keep them? I suppose we are not “allowed” (snort) to even ask that? (Do not even go there with an old lady.)

A little Nation within a Nation

And many are not the poorest Somalians. Some came with African gold, one group bought their own radio station, they have their own little government, and their own paper, but all work the system and cling together as a little nation within a nation. They were already talking about carving out their “own section” of Columbus to be “theirs to govern.”

Some were the elite who abused their own people, and were thrown out of power. They provided a huge billboard in the courthouse translating everything for them (not even the Mexicans got that)as well as instructions and brochures for government offices.

I will speak about facts and if that includes Jewish people (or any other group who comes forth to claim this travesty on taxpayers) bringing this plague upon Columbus and the Ohio taxpayer, so be it. They did not ask the local residents if they wanted those people or discuss all the problems the people would bring, or who would pay for it, on and on. They just dumped them.

Columbus was a better place before they arrived and you would think that local Jewish people would appreciate that and not bring this mess to the area. Oh, I forgot to note, they did not dump them in the Jewish suburb back yards of wealthy Bexley. They dumped them everywhere else!

Incidentally, young people, hate, dislike, contempt, anger, frustration, irritation are all EMOTIONS. We as a free people can feel all we want, and when our survival is threatened, emotions tend to protect us and get us into a survival mode. The first part of feeling that your own survival is threatened, is to figure out who and what the threat is. To an old traditional American, anybody telling me I can’t question them or raise issues or ask for an accounting of how tax dollars were spent, is threatening the First Amendment, not to mention my tax bill.

Incidentally, Columbus is becoming a dead zone with about 40% of downtown businesses vacant. Even F. & R. Lazarus Co. (old traditional Jewish family in Columbus since the 1800′s) left Columbus! Maybe it will become “New Somalia.” And if you think I am just an isolated grump, guess again. Every native of the area that I know personally “feels” the same way.

If what Rowana describes is not happening where you live, I assure you it is happening throughout America.  The reason you don’t see it, is that the old media and even Fox News doesn’t go near this issue to pull it together into a national news story.  Perhaps they fear being labeled racists, Islamophobes and so on for even noticing the takeover of sections of some cities by Muslims who have no intention of assimilating.

But, the fear could be another sort—if they report on what is happening and really see it, then they must also be afraid to their very cores for the future of Western civilization.  So, it’s best not to mention it and maybe the monster will go away—maybe it will then only be the imaginary boogy man behind the closed door in their childhood closets.

LOL!  Thank God for people like Rowana who are not afraid to open the closet!

* It is very hard to track the finances of these resettlement agencies.  We’ve done it on many occasions but no one seems to pay attention to the flow of taxpayer dollars to non-profit groups.    Oh, people are starting to notice thanks to the much-publicized NPR sting or the Planned Parenthood travesty, but most don’t fully understand how the Hard Left has its dirty hands in the pockets of taxpayers.   Our money is funding Western Civilization’s and capitalism’s demise.