Category: Asylum seekers

Some asylum seekers in Europe pretend to be Rohingya

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Here is a new twist in the asylum racket.

Since Rohingya Muslims from Burma/Bangladesh are being promoted as the most persecuted people on the planet (a claim we have challenged here for years), some illegal immigrants are claiming they are Rohingya Muslims in Europe and in Canada in hopes of getting the much-coveted refugee status.

From WeeklyBlitz.net:

Following publication of the report titled ‘Fake Rohingyas entering Western countries’ in Blitz, we have been receiving specific information from various sources from a number of Western countries, where Bangladeshi nationals have already sought political asylum pretending to be Ronhigyas born in Arakan. According to our sources, only during 2011-2012, a few thousand fake Rohingyas already sought political asylum only in the European nations, while a significant number of so-called Rohingyas are also reportedly seeking asylum in Canada.

That is the important news.  Most of the remainder of the story is pro-Rohingya propaganda being promoted by the ‘humanitarian’ lobby.

For new readers, this is the 124th post in our Rohingya Reports category.

Thousands of Syrians apply for “temporary” stay in the US

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We reported earlier this year that the Obama Administration had granted “Temporary Protected Status” to Syrians already in the US.  They could be here for any of a myriad reasons, or indeed be here illegally, but now they won’t be required to return to Syria (forever!).

One could argue that we do need to give temporary asylum when there has been a war or a huge natural disaster, but the problem with TPS is that we never send them home—they stay for decades and then the argument becomes, well, they have roots here now, we can’t uproot their families and businesses.   See Mark Krikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies 13 years ago—-there is nothing quite so permanent as a temporary refugee!

Here is the latest on TPS for Syrians from the Paramus Post:

As of October 13, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received 2,614 applications for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Syrian nationals in the U.S. On March 23, 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano approved the status for Syrian Nationals already residing within the U.S. In the registration period that lasted from March 29, 2012, to September 25, 2012, USCIS has so far granted 273, only denying five applicants.  [gee wonder what terrorist/crime connections they have?–ed]

On December 19, 2011, AAI [Arab American Institute] sent a letter to President Obama asking for TPS to be granted to Syrians living in the U.S.

Six US Senators helped make this happen:

Then, in a letter dated March 1, 2012, U.S. Senators Durbin (IL), Leahy (VT), Feinstein (CA), Menendez (NJ), Cardin (MD) and Casey (PA) offered their support to granting TPS to Syrian nationals at the time it was under review.

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“When we originally made this request to the President, it was because we knew the importance of protecting Syrian nationals from what was deteriorating into a full-blown humanitarian crisis,” said AAI president James Zogby.

Zogby, a powerful Democrat, is the brother of the pollster John Zogby and according to his wikipedia page their father got into the US illegally.

To learn more about Temporary Protected Status, here is an archive of our posts on the topic.

Number of “unaccompanied” youths cared for by ORR skyrocketing

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Regular readers know that the Office of Refugee Resettlement has an ever-expanding role in taking care of illegal alien kids who get into the US without parents (or whose parents ‘abandon’ them once they cross the border).

The minors may be up to the age of 18 as we learned in the curious criminal case of Galveston “George” here who was basically set free in America once he reached that magical milestone.

A new report says the number of kids in detention and under the care of ORR is growing exponentially and that in some cases their living conditions stink (so send more money!).

The Women’s Refugee Commission* says that violence south of the border is driving kids to come to America.  The Federation for American Immigration Reform disagrees and says that the Obama policy of letting kids stay, go to school and get work visas is serving as a magnet drawing the ‘youths’ to America.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Gang violence in Central America has led to a startling increase in the number of children who make the dangerous journey across the Mexican border alone in search of asylum in the United States, according to a report by the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit that advocates for displaced women and children.

The number of unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. detention centers grew nearly 50%, from 6,854 in fiscal 2011 to more than 10,000 in the nine-month period ended June 30, according to federal statistics cited in the report, titled “Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America.” With three months left in the latest reporting period, the fiscal 2012 figures are expected to rise further.

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Most of the growth came from three countries: El Salvador, with 68% more unaccompanied minors; Guatemala, with 72% more; and Honduras, with the number more than doubling, from 1,201 to 2,477. The number of Mexican children crossing the border alone fell in the same period.

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The children travel on their own because their parents are already in the U.S., because they are fleeing domestic violence or because the family cannot undertake the journey together, said advocates who work with them.

ORR doing a lousy job say the “women:”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, were criticized in the report for operating substandard detention facilities. Officials from the two agencies were unavailable for comment.

FAIR:  Obama created a magnet!  They are coming for their taxpayer-funded goodies and their work visas.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform, an anti-immigration group, blamed the influx of Central American children on a new federal program granting a two-year reprieve from deportation to some young immigrants.

“The Obama administration has made it very clear — if you get your kids to the U.S. and keep them here for a while, they can stay,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the group. “That’s the unmistakable message he’s sent around the world. Not surprisingly, you have parents who say, ‘Let’s do that.'”

Other countries are responsible for ensuring the safety of their own citizens, Mehlman added. Asylum should be reserved for a select few cases, or “the potential is you could have billions of people qualifying for political asylum in the U.S.”

By the way, we learned here that the growing cost of caring for the illegal minors is cutting into funds normally allocated to counties which have been overloaded with refugees in the primary resettlement program run by the ORR. It’s my opinion that this report is designed as a PR gimmick to pressure Congress into appropriating more money from Congress for the suffering kids (and the contractors!).

* The Women’s Refugee Commission is an offshoot of the largest federal refugee contractor the International Rescue Committee (IRC).  They are just looking to get more federal tax dollars.   George Soros was on the board of the IRC at one point and he probably taught them how to set up all sorts of groups to make it look like there are tons of people interested in the problem.  Coincidentally (not!), Samantha Power also sat on the board of the IRC.

Swedish mansion purchased to house refugees in small town

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Readers here know that large numbers of refugees/asylum seekers from mostly Muslim countries are flowing into benevolent Sweden,* but up until now it has been a problem of the cities.  This story is about the tiny town of Glava where a local mansion has been purchased by a hastily organized ‘business’ to house 200 refugees.

The author of the piece posits that an industry has cropped up around refugee resettlement where what we would call crony capitalists (LOL! I guess in Sweden this should read crony socialists!) have figured out how to make money off the Swedish welfare system—and at the expense of Sweden’s elderly.

Here is the story from Dispatch International (Hat tip: Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum):

Anxiety has been rising in Arvika municipality after it became known a few weeks ago that the old and stately mansion of Björkåsen in tiny Glava would overnight be turned into a settlement for refugees, for as many people as there are inhabitants in the entire village – 200.

On a daily basis, the Swedish people receive confirmation that mass immigration brings about a rapid dismantling of the Swedish welfare state. Hospital waiting lists are long, with patients sleeping in the hallways; support for private associations is being reduced; summer camps and recreation centers will close down and municipalities reduce the number of places in nursing homes, to name just a few examples. Few local politicians admit that people vote with their feet to show their true feelings about forced multiculturalism: They flee.

Local governing council member who is afraid to speak up by name:

In Arvika, a deeply upset member of the city council only agrees to talk to Dispatch International if we ensure that we will not disclose his/her identity.

– We are living in a refugee industry camouflaged by words without substance, about humanitarianism and anti-racism. In essence, it is a corrupt trade with human beings that is being paid for by stolen funds. The evidence for this we can see in burnt-out, ruined cities, and now the problems have also found their way to us in the countryside. It’s accelerating. One procures buildings everywhere and then use allowances from the Swedish Migration Board – the taxpayers’ money – to get repaid in a matter of weeks, giving the owners billions in profits. There’s a word for this: looting!

Another resident:

– The idea of importing an entire village of refugees from Iran, Syria, Macedonia, Somalia and Afghanistan is likely to go down in Swedish history as one of the most destructive exploits in living memory, says one of the customers.

The author tells us about the hastily formed business, Clt Care AB, that stands to profit from its arrangements with the Swedish Migration Board in these transactions to house refugees in the Swedish countryside.  Read it all.

There is something positive in this story for us in the US—maybe as we see Sweden’s socialist ‘safety net’ collapse under the weight of mass immigration we can stop the collapse here in America before it’s too late.

* Our archive on Sweden can be found here.

Asylum seekers plan march in Germany today—to demand their rights

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Update October 14th:  The invaders arrive at the Brandenburg Gate, here.

By the time we read this the demonstration may well be underway in Berlin.   Asylum seekers, who refuse to say where they are from, have arrived and set up tents in the German capital to demand that they be allowed to stay and get stuff.  And, ultimately to turn Germany into Greece. (they aren’t saying that, but I am!)

From The Local:

What the group wants, and why they want it, is clear. An end to obligatory limited residence, to deportation and to close, or at least improve, the notoriously bad housing complexes that the government provides those fleeing their homeland, and often political or religious persecution.

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Beneath the headline “Asylum applications climbing rapidly,” the Bild daily published figures from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) saying that 3,744 requests for asylum have been filed this month alone. If the trend continues, the paper said, there should be 11,700 new bids by the end of October – a quarter of the entire figure for 2011.

Imagine this, they get less welfare than Germany’s own poor people!

Hundreds are expected to march across the capital on Saturday, demanding the government think about how they tackle incoming asylum seekers. Until recently, those arriving received less financial support than people on basic state welfare.

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“We want the public to hear our demands,” she explained. She, like her fellow unnamed protester, refused to say which country she had fled. Neither of them could say what should happen or where refugees should be housed if their current accommodation were to be shut down.

In respone, the German government recently revamped its resettlement programme, which now grants 300 refugees a year of full residence and financial support.

As we watch Europe disintegrate, maybe we can learn from it.