Where have all the Somalis been resettled in the US? Minnesota takes the prize!

02/24/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

My plan (ha! ha! if I don’t get distracted!) is to try to do a series of posts to answer the many questions I’m getting from the media in recent days. The US State Department has an extensive data base called the Refugee Processing Center. Sometimes you can access the data and sometimes you can’t!

First a few basic points: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees chooses most of our refugees. The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for screening them. The US State Department sends them out via contractors they euphemistically call Voluntary Agencies (VOLAGs). They are not voluntary—you pay them through your tax dollars to place the refugees through their offices in 180 cities across America. The nine major VOLAGs have 350 subcontractors to form an extensive network. The contractors spread the refugees out to surrounding towns if the main resettlement city gets overloaded (especially if ‘pockets of resistance’ form).

Reporters! Find the resettlement contractor contact information in your city by clicking here.

The Department of Health and Human Services (Office of Refugee Resettlement) makes sure the nine contractors are well paid for myriad activities.

Back to the data…

Minnesota ‘welcomed’ 17% of all Somalis resettled in the US since 2005. Three resettlement agencies were responsible: Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services of MN, and World Relief MN (aka Arrive Ministries).

I searched this morning for Somali refugees resettled to which states from February 1, 2005 to February 1, 2015 and here is what I learned: The US State Department distributed Somalis to 45 states and the District of Columbia basically establishing “seed communities” or colonies.

Remember though that this is America and people can move without permission so some originally resettled in one place may have long-since moved. The professionals in the refugee industry call those who move “secondary migrants.” The state receiving the most secondary migrants is Minnesota-–why? because Somalis want to live with their kind of people.

Here is the link for the data base I used for the following information. You will need to put your own search parameters in.

From February 1, 2005 to February 1, 2015 we brought a total of 64,332 Somalis to the US from all over the world!

By the way, our Somali refugees don’t come directly from Somalia, but we pick them up all over the world including from Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia, Malta and even it appears Saudi Arabia (more on that later).

The states not (yet!) getting Somali refugees resettled directly are: Delaware (LOL! Joe Biden was one of the original sponsors of the Refugee Act of 1980), Arkansas, Montana, Wyoming, and West Virginia. We know that ‘secondary migrant’ Somalis are going to Wyoming.

(Any state over 1,000 is in red)

Alabama: 207

Alaska: 224

Arizona: 3,727

California: 2,375

Colorado: 1,803

Connecticut: 696

District of Columbia: 1

Florida: 274

Georgia: 2,720

Idaho: 733

Illinois: 1,284

Indiana: 374

Iowa: 395

Kansas: 254

Kentucky: 1,631

Louisiana: 118

Maine: 1,181

Maryland: 371

Massachusetts: 1,936

Michigan: 1,316

Minnesota: 10,804

Mississippi: 3

Missouri: 2,132

Nebraska: 322

Nevada: 331

New Hampshire: 270

New Jersey: 41

New Mexico: 161

New York: 3,721

North Carolina: 1,212

North Dakota: 690

Ohio: 5,439

Oklahoma: 76

Oregon: 1,492

Pennsylvania: 1,053

Rhode Island: 136

South Carolina: 94

South Dakota: 635

Tennessee: 2,091

Texas: 4,716

Utah: 1,990

Vermont: 368

Virginia: 939

Washington: 3,182

Wisconsin: 813

That should total: 64,332

If you are visiting RRW for the first time, you might want to visit this 2008 post where we did an original accounting of the Somalis resettled in the US going back to the early 1990’s.

Berlin, Germany traces latest measles outbreak to refugees; toddler dies

02/24/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

More news that unvaccinated refugees are helping spread measles in Germany. No surprise as Germany has virtually opened its doors to refugees from throughout Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. If anyone dares challenge the government on this open door policy, one is immediately labeled a Nazi. Wave bye-bye to Germany?

Refugees headed west from the former Yugoslavia. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-31154596

From The Local:

There have been 447 cases of measles confirmed in the first seven weeks of 2015, as Berlin comes to grip with the biggest measles outbreak since 2001, reported the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) earlier this month.

The outbreak is being traced back to a community of refugees from Serbia as well as Bosnia and Herzogovina, where routine vaccinations were not carried out during the Yugoslavian civil war.

Earlier this month we told you that massive numbers of refugees are on the move from the former Yugoslavia and are headed westward toward Germany and other ‘welcoming’ countries. And, a week ago we reported on the German measles outbreak, here.

See our extensive archive on Germany by clicking here. Our category on health (physical and mental) involving refugees is here.

In Sweden, job training program may be ISIS recruitment opportunity

02/23/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Sigh! Sweden (apparently using a Marie Harf counter-terrorism job training program) runs into a little problem! The program is being shut down while authorities investigate if the unemployed ‘refugees’ were being recruited for ISIS.

Someone tell Obama! Takfiris believe in Islam strictly according to their interpretation of Muhammad’s and his companions’ actions and statements, and do not accept any deviation from their path; they reject any reform or change to their interpretation of religion as it was revealed in the time of the prophet. Photo: http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/02/13/397358/Norwegians-among-top-ISIL-cmdrs

From Press TV:

Sweden has cancelled a job training program for new immigrants following reports that the program coaches were recruiting people for Takfiri terrorist groups.

“We have been alerted by participants that coaches have tried to recruit them to terrorist organizations,” Patrik Svensson, spokesman for Sweden’s National Labor Agency, said on Friday.

Svensson added that the agency had informed Sweden’s security service about the suspicious activities in the training program.

According to the Swedish official, the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group might be behind the recruitment.

The program was initiated in 2010 to tackle the high unemployment rate among new immigrants in Sweden.

For more on what the word Takfiri means, see wikipedia here. That is where we found the photo caption.

See our extensive archive on Sweden’s death spiral, here.

Somali Islamic terrorists threaten attack on Mall of America; we are bringing in over 800 Somali refugees a month right now!

02/22/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Update February 24th: Have Somalis been resettled in your state, go here to find out!

The news comes from the Somali capital of America—Minneapolis! And, LOL! one of three cities that the Obama Administration touts as an example of how Muslims are happily settled in!

From Twincities.com:

Mall of America officials increased security on Saturday after a terror group linked to al-Qaida released an online video that appears to call for an attack on the popular shopping destination.

Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab specifically named the Mall of America, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta and London’s Oxford Street in the more than hourlong video that was being circulated on Twitter.

Federal law enforcement officials told CBS News that they are investigating the video.

Mall of America officials released a statement Saturday saying that they were aware of the video that mentions the megamall and shows an image of it and its GPS coordinates.

“We will continue to monitor events with the help of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies,” according to the statement.

[….]

The video posted Saturday shows six minutes of graphic images celebrating the Westgate Mall attack. Near the end of the video, a masked man wearing a camouflage jacket appears on screen.

“If just a handful of mujahedeen fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week then imagine what a dedicated mujahedeen in the West could do to the American or Jewish-owned shopping centers across the world?” he asks.

See our coverage of the carnage at the Westgate Mall in Kenya, here.

Come on mainstream media—you are fixating now on the Syrian Muslims who might come to the US—but never focus on the number of Somalis we are admitting every single month!

For new readers (and hopefully media types!)

Look at the numbers! Here is our post which chronicles the over 100,000 Somalis we have admitted as refugees to your towns and cities. Then be sure to see that in 2008, the State Department uncovered widespread fraud in Somali family reunification (P-3 program)—thousands, possibly 20,000 Somalis, got into the US by lying on refugee applications.

See, ‘Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis‘, here.

And, then see that in FY2014 we admitted 9,000 additional Somalis to the US. This is huge pool of potential jihadists!

In the first 4 months of FY2015 we admitted 3,536 new Somali refugees to America! That is 884 a month! If that large stream continues it will put us at over 10,000 Somalis in FY2015!

Al-Shabaab must feel confident that they have operatives in the US Somali community.

An after thought! Don’t you think the timing of this video release is interesting—right after the Obama/Biden ‘hug a Muslim’ conference. It is almost as if the terrorists are making fun of the O-man!

Let Muslim nations take the Muslim refugees!

02/22/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

As I have been saying, here and here, everyone is talking about the Obama plan to admit Syrian refugees to the US.

Maybe Obama could persuade the new Saudi King, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, to “welcome the stranger”—co-religionists from Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Burma.

No truer words (more logical words) could be spoken than these by Bryan Fischer writing at ReNew America:

If President Obama and former President Bush are right, that Islam is a wonderful religion of peace, then each of the other 56 Muslim nations around the world ought to be havens of tranquility and stability. Let’s use our resources to help Syrian Muslims find a home in one or more of these other nations which are guided by the “religion of peace.”

Of course, the resettlement industry types would be quick to say that Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan already have tens of thousands of temporary Syrian refugees, but you should know that the rich oil states, like Saudi Arabia, take zero!

We are even bringing Muslim ‘refugees’ from Malaysia to the US!