RRW weekly roundup for week ending July 25, 2015

07/27/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

I’m late, I know, but I just got lazy this weekend. This is my charitable work after all, so I figure I can goof off now and again. Right!
This morning I’m waking up to news that Donald Trump may have shot his campaign in the foot when he slipped into the mumbo-jumbo about pathways to citizenship for illegals last week. See Daniel Greenfield here. It is one thing to stand up for the American people with his broad brush approach up to now, but he must begin to understand the issues in a deeper way (pretty quickly) or his lack of understanding will show on the debate stage on August 6th.
If I could tell Mr. Trump what to do, I would tell him to consult the experts and study—morning, noon, and night—from now until August 6th!
I’m digressing. Here are our Top Three Posts of last week (Top daily posts are in the right hand side bar).

1) How did Chattanooga shooter’s family get here?

2) Center for Security Policy releases ‘Red-Green Axis: the agenda to erase America!’

3) Refugee Resettlement Fact Sheet

I’m interested to see that our Fact Sheet is back in the top three, but we really need to update it …one of these days!
Here are our Top Ten Countries from which readers arrived at RRW last week (excluding the US):

Canada

Germany

Australia

New Zealand

India

Norway

Turkey*

Austria

* Last week I commented about Turkey making the top ten and a reader from Turkey, who says he/she is interviewing prospective refugees to be sent to the US, commented saying he/she is responsible for some of those visitors from Turkey. I think you should read the comments and my responses, here. It became pretty clear that whoever this is working for a non-profit contractor interviewing refugees to come to America holds a low regard for Christians as he gloats:

(Btw, Christians make up about 30% of Middle Eastern refugees I currently process. Bad newz for you though: Above half are illiterate and suffer from congenital diseases observed in much higher frequencies than in rest of Iraq and Syria. Hold on to your local health budget folks! Fellow Christians are coming!)

For new readers, please visit a recent roundup here for instructions on how to make the most out of your visits to RRW.
One last thing, follow me on twitter. I am trying to use that social media format to get stories out that are related to this issue which I don’t have time to post on, and I also tweet all of my posts if you don’t want to subscribe. I’m here @refugeewatcher.

RRW Weekly Roundup for week ending July 18, 2015

07/19/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

From the editor (from Ann): it occurs to me that new readers coming to RRW may not know that Refugee Resettlement Watch is a blog and not an organization with staff! I say this because I get so many requests from people to speak around the country, to speak on radio shows and conference calls, to read reports, news articles and documents, to help people find other activists, etc. as if I had staff here to help me stay organized. I don’t!
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful for the interest, but it is just me here! I know I should be glad the issue is finally becoming a serious national issue, but I can’t answer everyone’s requests and still get the news out!
And, I especially don’t want to look rude by not responding to my hundreds of e-mails every day!
I think we will have some reinforcements on the way soon, and I will definitely be the first to tell you when they have arrived. In the meantime, please don’t take it personally if I miss your requests!
By the way, the radio interview requests are probably the most productive and least time-consuming, and I try to do those as much as possible! It is a way to reach many many people without having to get on a plane!
Sincerest thanks for your continued concern for this critical issue at this pivotal point in US history (world history!).

Here then are the Top Three Posts of the week (daily Top Posts are in the right hand side bar):

1) “Pockets of Resistance” growing and spreading

2) Trump speaks out on Syrian refugees: we aren’t saving Christians, just the Muslims

3) Comment from refugee insider: it is all about the money as US refugee program imports Muslims

I’m happy to report that my first Youtube video is now above 742,000 views as we try to reach the 1 million mark! The second one may be even more important to send around because if we get 65,000 Syrian mostly Muslim refugees before Obama leaves office it will be disastrous for hundreds of US towns and cities.

The Top Ten Countries from which readers arrived this week are here in descending order (excluding the US):

Canada

Australia

Germany

South Africa

France

New Zealand

India

Turkey (this may be the first time Turkey is in the top ten)

For New Readers
For those of you who subscribe, I try not to write too many posts a day (sometimes I don’t have the time to write many!), so as not to overload your e-mail inbox (e-mails are automatically generated by wordpress). However, with everything happening now, I might be at least trying to get more news out. If it is too much, then simply unsubscribe and visit here every day to see what is new. Or, better still, follow me on twitter where I am tweeting all of my RRW posts as well as other articles that interest me and are related to the topic.
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Calling all activists (again!)

07/15/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Since your numbers are growing so rapidly, I can’t keep track of you all; and because we now need to step-up the resistance by becoming better organized locally and within states, the Center for Security Policy has offered to help me/us find you. Right now we just want to locate those of you wishing to get more deeply involved in this all-important issue.
We have had a very good response and hope to soon be able to start helping you find each other. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do!

Here is the Center for Security Policy:

In response to growing interest in spreading knowledge about our deeply flawed refugee resettlement policy, and building resistance to it, we have started to collect contact and geographical data from those who wish to stay engaged. Fill out only the fields you are comfortable filling below. At this time we are collecting data to gauge interest and we will keep you updated with news and action items as they come in. In the near future we hope to use this data to connect activists in their local areas to run with their own initiatives going forward. In the meantime, take advantage of the following resources:

Ann Corcoran’s Refugee Resettlement Watch blog, monograph Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America and YouTube videos on the subject.

Also check out Jim Simpson’s drill-down on the topic on Kindle: The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America. A paperback version of the book and a promotion YouTube video will be available very soon. Thank you so much for your interest.

Now please go to the website and send us your contact information. Please know that this is not for fundraising purposes. It is to facilitate organizing on a state-by-state basis. We will never begin to reform or roll-back this out-of-control immigration program without your help, so please step up and join the fight!

Traveling again!

I’ll be away from my computer tomorrow and Thursday (sorry won’t be able to post your comments). If you are arriving here for the first time, just use our search bar in the top left hand side bar, enter a few key words (you might try your state or city first) and see what we have said over the last eight years on that topic.

Catch me on Cleveland radio tomorrow morning!

07/13/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Tomorrow morning at just after 9:30 a.m. Eastern you can listen to my live interview with Bob Frantz at The Bob Frantz Authority 1420 AM. I’ll be talking about how ‘Welcoming America’ has targeted Cleveland (and really all of Ohio) as a prime refugee resettlement site as well as other news about how the Obama Administration is changing America by changing the people!
As time goes on, I’ll try to be better about letting you know about interviews in advance.

RRW weekly roundup for week ending July 11, 2015

07/12/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Perhaps the most interesting thing (to me anyway) that we reported this past week was yesterday’s post on “Pockets of Resistance.”
However, we’ll see if it turns up in the Top Three Posts next week.
In the meantime, here are the Top most-viewed posts this past week. Top daily posts are in the right hand sidebar.

1) Aljazeera article about Temporary Protected Status for Syrians tips us off—thousands of Syrians in US illegally

2) St. Cloud residents hammer Rep. Emmer on Refugee Program; Somali teen murders African American

3) African population booming in Minnesota; sending millions of dollars back to Africa

Also, much to my surprise, my introductory Youtube video is now over 700,000 views, help it reach 1 million!

For new readers!

Since we get new readers every day, here is my usual spiel with two points I need to continue to make:
First, we do screen our comments (sometimes I don’t get to them right away!) and I don’t post any that threaten any kind of violence or ones filled with foul language. An occasional expletive might slip in if the comment is otherwise a good one. You are always free to disagree with our point of view if you follow those two simple rules.

And the other thing I want to mention is about e-mails that come to you every time we post. They come directly from wordpress to subscribers. We don’t send out e-mails. So, if we are posting too much for your e-mail inbox, then just unsubscribe and visit RRW when you have the time. I understand completely about too many e-mails! You might want to simply follow us on twitter or on facebook (below).
This is where you can find information (in addition to our fact sheet). We have over 6,700 posts.

* See our categories (left hand sidebar, now a drop-down)
* Also, we have a great search function and since the categories go all the way back to our first posts more than eight years ago, use the search window with a few key words. You might want to first try your city, state, or country to see what we have reported from there over the years.
Readers from Europe should search for key words ‘Invasion of Europe’ for all of our many posts on the migration crisis on the Continent.
By the way, our category entitled ‘where to find information’ is filled with reports and documents, but with 358 posts archived there, it is pretty unwieldy now.
Past weekly roundups can be found in our category entitled ‘blogging.’
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