Category: Africa

Center for Immigration Studies: Family reunification proposal flawed

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Author and refugee expert, Don Barnett, writing at the Center for Immigration Studies tells us what is wrong with the US State Department’s new plan for bringing refugee families to the US.

Barnett’s introduction first recaps what we have said previously, here.

Most of the “family reunification” provisions in the U.S. refugee program have been suspended for the past 2 years. The Priority 3 (P-3) resettlement category was closed for refugees since summer 2008 when U.S. officials found that most refugees from Africa using the P-3 program were not related at all. The fraud rate among Somali refugees was reported to be as high as 90 percent.

New regulations to combat fraud in the U.S. State Department program were published in the Federal Register for public comment earlier this month with a 60-day public comment period.

Now, here are two issues Barnett finds problematic (emphasis mine):

There are at least two shortcomings with the proposal.

The initial refugee family unit is not verified for relationship.

The initial family in many cases will come over as a husband with one wife, as required by the U.S., but with children from several wives. Much if not most of the current refugee influx is from polygamous societies.

The children from this original family unit could legally bring in their mothers. Presumably this is not a problem for the planners, who may even have designed the program for this outcome. But, since there is no verification of the original family unit, completely unrelated children will come in who then have the right to put their biological parents into the enhanced priority program. These individuals will then be able to legally bring in their other children and their parents who, in turn, can bring in relatives and so on.

The second shortcoming is that the DNA verification program does not cover refugees and asylees who petition for relatives to come over under the I-730 program or non-refugee immigrant categories. An I-730 petition is the far more desirable avenue as it brings the rights and entitlements of refugee status.

 For more information, please visit CIS here.

 

Somali mother locks kids in closet, two believed to have died from asphyxiation

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Brenda Walker at VDARE has the whole story from Indiana.  Check it out here.  

Be sure to watch the Youtube newsclip linked with Walker’s post.   I wondered as I read the post and watched the clip—where was the father.  The mother is 28 years old with five children already!

At the very end of the clip you learn the answer.  He is on his way back to the US from visiting Africa.  VISITING!  If we are taking thousands of Somalis every year as refugees and asylees because of the horrible and dangerous circumstances in Africa, why is he popping back for a visit?  And, where does the money for such a costly trip come from? As a matter of fact, he is not the first, we hear this is a common practice for Somalis.   Some even returned to join the Jihad.

Unrelated, but here is Walker in a Letter to the Contra Costa Times.

‘Somali woman’ returns: “…a huge storm is coming to small town America”

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We haven’t heard from her in a few months (see previous posts here, here and here).  Regular readers know that she is a young Somali woman who has shed some light on the mindset of Somali refugees she says are here to conquer us.  I welcome her return if not her warning.

This is a comment worth noting in response to my post of last Friday where I said that Somali family reunification is about to be re-opened by the US State Department after a nearly two year moratorium that resulted from the discovery of widespread immigration fraud in the so-called P-3 program.

Somali woman (emphasis mine):

Of course this is a famous and classic lie of Somalis. This [lying about family relationships] has existed and was invented in the first refugee camps in Kenya to go to the U.S, Canada, Europe and elsewhere. Though the discovery was almost 20 yrs later it`s way too late. Somalis might even go as far as claiming that their uncle or brother or cousin that they are married and have family in America and have kids together which is totally a lie. I remember two Somali women claimed that they were Lesbians in Canada and married even though none were just to get a gigantic mansion. The two women were either cousins or best friends and one of them had a husband.

They are using you guys and you need to wake. This is very dangerous and its getting dangerous by the minute. Somalis invented a proverb a 130 yrs ago when the Europeans invaded Somalia in the 1800`s and in their fierce 22 yr long resistance to Britain, Italy, and Ethiopia, and this proverb is so chilling and it is still taught today: ” Only the weak man, seeks help from the European”. This means that they are lying and deceiving the European. A book was also written in the 1800`s called “The Betrayal of the Somalis by Luis Fitz Gibbon which shows that the Somalis merely were using and deceiving the Europeans all along, and didn`t even care if they were trying to bring civility to Somalia. Another proverb is “You can use and learn from the European, but he will never satisfy a Somali”. This means that a huge storm is coming to Small Town America.

Mayfield, Kentucky perhaps?   Lewiston, Maine?  Shelbyville, Tennessee? Ft. Morgan, Colorado?  Jamestown, North Dakota? Lexington, Nebraska?  St. Cloud, Minnesota?  Garden City, Kansas?  Tuulas all!

For new readers: We have admitted well over 100,000 Somali refugees to the US.   To check out the numbers visit this post, probably our most widely read post over the last few years.   In FY2010 the US State Department resettled 3,507 Somalis (as of July 31st) to towns near you.

Somali gang allegedly involved in human trafficking in MN and TN

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Update November 8th:  29 indicted in sex trafficking, here.

Here is another post about Somalis for Allahsoldier to complain about.  Hat tip:  a reader. 

From the Twincities Pioneer Press:

Police are investigating a large Somali gang human trafficking ring that is based in Minnesota and has a Tennessee connection, according to a search warrant affidavit.

A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent applied for the warrant and a St. Paul police officer is the lead detective. Both departments referred inquiries today to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, which is based in Nashville. Assistant U.S. Attorney Van Vincent said he couldn’t “confirm or deny the investigation at this time.”

The warrant was filed in Ramsey County District Court Friday and KSTP-TV obtained a copy of it Monday. The warrant has since been sealed and is no longer available.

KSTP was first to air a story Tuesday night about the investigation and provided a copy of the warrant to the Pioneer Press today.

BCA Special Agent Ann Quinn, who is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement taskforce member, wrote the affidavit in support of the warrant. Her “primary area of responsibility is in the investigation of human trafficking cases, both domestic and international trafficking of persons,” she wrote.

St. Paul Police Sgt. John Bandemer contacted Quinn in July and asked for assistance “in locating a juvenile material witness who was needed in federal court in Nashville … in connection to the human trafficking investigation,” Quinn wrote.

Quinn was given a copy of a material witness warrant for a 15-year-old girl. Bandemer reported that the girl “had a long history of being a runaway and was being victimized by a group of Somalian males who were promoting her into prostitution,” the affidavit said.

We’ve written extensively about Somalis in both Minnesota and Tennessee, use our search function to learn more.

New regulations on family reunification available for comment on Federal Register

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The long-awaited new regulations for the fraud-ridden (P-3) family reunification program of  the US State Department were published in the Federal Register on Sept. 8th.   Concerned citizens have 60 days to weigh in on whether the proposed (limited!) DNA testing will be enough to stem the tide of fraudulent claims for family reunification mostly from Africa.

We first reported the scandal here in August of 2008 after learning about it from the Wall Street Journal.

Almost a year ago we reported that the program that allowed as many as 80% of Somalis claiming to be “family,” but in fact not related at all, to enter the US illegally.  The State Department estimates that from 2003-2008, 36,000 Africans arrived fraudulently and it has no plans to determine who they are.

Again, see the Federal Register notice here.