That is the title of a round-up of sorts by Soeren Kern at the Gatestone Institute yesterday.
My inbox is filled every morning with stories from around Europe about the ongoing invasion by mostly Muslim migrants arriving on the Continent from North Africa and from throughout the Middle East.
I call our series on the crisis—the ‘Invasion of Europe.’ I tell people wherever I speak that Col. Gaddafi was right. Europe will be conquered and overrun with migrants and not with guns and swords.
Scratching my head this morning about how I could possibly pull the many stories into one post when I was relieved to see that the Gatestone Institute has already done the work.
Please read it here!
Not in the round-up is the latest from Poland. After refusing to admit Syrian Muslims, they are resettling a small number of Syrian Christians.
If you love Europe (Western Civilization!) and plan to visit sometime in your lifetime, go now. I’ll be going in late August.
Category: Africa
Africans fastest growing immigrant group in America
So says The Economist in an article entitled: ‘Building Afromerica.’
This is an article meant to put your mind at ease by suggesting that a large percentage of the Africans arriving in America are well-educated and live in the suburbs when they get here, thus not adding to inner-city poverty.
We don’t believe that is the case for the refugee portion of the flow (so far!).
However, if Obama gets his way, more will be in suburban towns, see here (educated, or not! impoverished, or not!).
I’m posting this because it includes a statistic I was interested to see—the percentage of legal Africans arriving as refugees and those arriving via the Diversity Visa Lottery.
If you don’t know about the so-called ‘Green Card Lottery’ you need to learn about it!
The Economist:
Relatively few Africans are illegal immigrants (those who are have almost all overstayed their visas). Instead, they have particularly benefited from the Refugee Act of 1980, which brought more refugees to America, and the Immigration Act of 1990, which created special diversity visas, issued by lottery, for people from under-represented countries. According to analysis by the Pew Research Centre, 28% of legal African immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2013 came as refugees; 19% of them arrived on diversity visas. For all legal immigrants, the equivalent figures were 13% and 4%.
We learned in the first year of writing this blog that one reason the refugee resettlement program shifted to include large numbers of Africans was revealed in a 2007 report:
According to Heidi Boas in her lengthy 2007 paper entitled, “The New Face of America’s Refugees: African Refugee Resettlement to the United States:”
….several of the individuals interviewed for this paper identified the Congressional Black Caucus as one of the most influential groups advocating over the past decade for increased African refugee resettlement to the United States.
Back to The Economist…..
So what legal programs admit the other 47% of Africans? I would like to know!
Then there is this….
African migrants stand out from American-born blacks. Indeed, on most measures, they have little in common but their colour.
And, that is why there are conflicts when Somalis especially are resettled by federal contractors into African-American neighborhoods naively assuming (we can only guess) that since they are the same color they should all just love each other! Not!
Renewed warning that ISIS plans to infiltrate 'refugee' flow to Europe
This is not new, but just this week an EU agency is warning (again!) that the invasion of Europe could include ISIS terrorists among the illegal aliens arriving in Europe from North Africa (thanks to Hillary and the girls, here).
From Israel National News:
ISIS members could infiltrate Europe together with masses of refugees from Libya, Syria, and Iraq – ironically fleeing ISIS terror in their homelands, said Michele Coninsx, head of the EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust.
Speaking Monday in Brussels, Coninsx told reporters that the EU was working together with other countries to prevent the migration of ISIS terrorists. She declined to specify exactly what steps were being taken.
A video released last week by ISIS in Libya and published by the Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat shows the two perpetrators of a deadly attack on the Corinthia Hotel in January threatening that ISIS’s newly-established presence in the country would be used as a springboard to invade Europe.
For more and to see the many links, go here.
To learn more about the ‘Invasion of Europe’ see our extensive archive here.
Sudanese refugee killed in Kentucky wanted to go home to Africa
This is something you rarely hear about because those in the refugee industry don’t want you to know that refugees sometimes just want to go home to their homeland, to their own culture, when they find out that America can be a tough place in which to live.
Apparently that was the case for Deng Manyuon shot last Saturday when he attempted to assault a police officer in Louisville, KY. We reported the story here yesterday.
Munyoun’s is not the first case I’ve heard of. I had a back-and-forth discussion a few years ago with Iraqis who found that America’s streets were not paved with gold and they wanted to return to Iraq. But they were unable to get the money together needed for a move back to the Middle East. Even airfare was too much for out-of-work refugees. Honestly it’s almost like slavery, they’ve been brought here largely to supply big business with cheap labor or as voters for the Democrats and can’t go home!
Is it time for a Repatriation Fund?
In fact, reader CW suggested in January that a new contractor (call it “Repatriation Services”) could be incorporated and it would apply for federal grants for airfare and start-up money for immigrants and refugees who want to go home, to their own culture.
Israel is doing something like that now and offering start-up funding for Africans to voluntarily repatriate.
From WDRB.com (hat tip: Robin):
LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) — Thousands of people have watched the video.
It shows LMPD Ofc. Nathan Blanford and 35-year-old Deng Manyuon at the corner of 4th and Oak in Old Louisville on Saturday.
When Manyuon walks away, he grabs a flag pole and charges back at Blanford, wildly swinging the flag pole.
Blanford shoots Manyuon twice, killing him.
For those who knew Manyuon, the video is tough to watch.
“It’s really painful,” says Matur Reclow, chairman of the South Sudanese Community of Kentucky.
Since his death, we’ve learned Manyuon was one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan”.
He came to the U.S. in 2001 amid his country’s civil war. Reclow says Manyuon had hopes of getting an education and having a life here.
[….]
“He didn’t have mental problems but was depressed and give up the life,” he said.
They made a deal in the hospital that day that if Manyuon would try to get back on track, Reclow would arrange a one-way ticket for him back to Sudan for a fresh start in his home country. He says Manyuon wanted to escape his life of homelessness and alcoholism in Louisville.
The idea of a “Repatriation Fund” is a serious one and it would save taxpayers a bundle. Surely a few thousand dollars of airfare and a little cash to get started back home would be small in comparison to years of welfare payments and medical care.
In fact, if such a fund had existed right along with the resettlement program all these years, Deng Manyoun might be alive today.
Sudanese refugee shot and killed in Louisville; why are we colonizing America with people like this?
Update June 17th: He had wanted to go home to Africa, here.
You’ve probably already seen the news here at WND , but thanks to reader Robin for sending this AP story posted at the Daily Journal about the Sudanese refugee shot by police on Saturday as he attacked an officer with a flag pole.
Everywhere I travel in America, people tell me some story about how hard it is for a decent/educated/deserving European or Canadian to get into the US as an immigrant, yet here we are taking the mentally ill from Africa who will never benefit from a life in a first world country.
By the way, note that the USCIS would not discuss his immigration status (even after he is dead?). One more story for Ann Coulter’s ‘Adios America’ where she very meticulously (and humorously) discusses the secrecy the media tolerates (promotes!) when reporting on the immigration status of criminal aliens.
You see, reporting about immigrant criminals does not fit the message the Leftwing media wants you to get! However, I am starting to see a change, and at least this AP reporter used the “R” word!
From the Daily Journal:
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Deng Manyuon stood in the middle of an intersection on a 33-degree morning in March 2013, wearing just shorts and a T-shirt and shouting at passing cars.
The Sudanese refugee, “manifestly under the influence of alcohol,” then kicked a police officer in the rib cage, according to court records. Officers subdued him safely that morning.
But on Saturday, he swung a 7-foot flagpole at Louisville Metro Police Officer Nathan Blanford and the officer shot him dead, sparking a debate in the city about officers’ use of deadly force and their sensitivity when dealing with the mentally ill or intoxicated.
Court records that chronicle Manyuon’s seven years in Louisville describe a troubled man with mental illness and alcoholism, who routinely lashed out at the officers who tried to rein him in.
Manyuon, alternatively spelled Manyoun in records, was in and out of jail and downtown homeless shelters, and was a familiar presence on the streets around the Old Louisville intersection where he was killed Saturday.
He spoke Dinka, a language of southern Sudan, according to court translation records. He struggled to communicate in English, his friends said. [He lived here since 2001 and could not speak English!—ed]
Manyuon fled war-torn Sudan in 2001 and settled in Nashville, according to Bart Weigel, communications director for Catholic Charities of Louisville, which offers resettlement services to refugees.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declined to discuss his immigration status, citing privacy concerns.
It all started here on Saturday:
On Saturday, Manyuon allegedly attacked a stranger on the street, grabbed her purse and threw it, then punched her in the face.
There is much more, read it all.
By the way, Louisville is turning into a big resettlement site including a leading site for Syrians. See our Louisville archive here.