Agents from the Minneapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are collecting information from Cedar-Riverside residents as part of an ongoing investigation spurred by recent allegations of American citizens joining Syrian rebels overseas.
Rumors that neighborhood residents are illegally fighting in conflict overseas prompted agents from the FBI to ramp up their already-existing presence in the neighborhood earlier this month, said Minneapolis FBI spokesman Kyle Loven.
He said agents are actively interviewing residents and informing them about the allegations, while also trying to figure out if anyone in the community is involved.
“We’re looking for information that would indicate that someone intends to travel to a country where there’s armed conflict,” Loven said.
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Citizens are allegedly joining rebel forces in going against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.
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Mohamed Farah, executive director of Ka Joog, a Minnesota Somali youth group, said al-Shabaab’s recruitment efforts are present in the Somali community “24/7.”
See our huge archive going back to 2008 on the ‘Somali missing youths’by clicking here.
Why so many Somalis in Minnesota? Go here for one of our most-read posts of all time (it is almost daily among our Top Posts in right hand sidebar). Thank the US State Department and its contractors for recognizing and tapping into Minnesota’s generous welfare programs.
Just keep it up! “Refugee” will definitely be a very bad word when/if the Obama-generated crisis on the border is ever resolved.
Invasion of America continues….
Mayor Fitch: Yippee! Federal money and federal workers headed our way!
Check out this story by Ryan Lovelace who has been writing some good stuff atNational Review Online (hat tip: Paul). Emphasis is mine:
Oklahomans expect an economic boom as a result of the flood of illegal immigrant children the federal government has begun sending their way.
The Department of Defense has loaned the facilities at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, to the Department of Health and Human Services to house approximately 600 unaccompanied alien children, according to the Department of Defense. Local officials expect the surrounding community to reap the rewards.
“They’re talking about $1.2 million impact for the Lawton-Fort Sill community within the first 30 days,” Lawton Mayor Fred Fitch told KSWO 7 News.
Lawtonwill roll in federal tax dollars/federal workers and the “children” will all be good kids (as long as they are confined)!
The Oklahomanreports the ratio of federal worker to child at Ft. Sill will be one federal worker per every two children. Based on that ratio, the area could expect approximately 300 federal workers.An HHS factsheetindicates such workers would include representatives from the Office of Refugee Resettlement within HHS’ Administration for Children and Families. The kids will be kept in a 200,000 square foot building and kept under 24-hour supervision. Fitch insisted to KSWO that the children will not be allowed to leave the confines of the post and that the influx of children will not have any adverse impact on the local community.
See all of our posts on “unaccompanied alien minors” here. Some go back several years.
Would someone please explain to me how communities are “enriched” by becoming magnets for impoverished refugees, many from Muslim areas of the world. I hear that phrase, or how about this one—“diversity brings strength” —all the time.
A plea to those in the refugee industry—please explain what that means. Are we talking about colorful clothing and foreign foods — what? The taxpaying citizens surely aren’t enriched by the costs involved with social services and education needed by the refugees.
Mustafa allegedly ripped-off his refugee agency and brought cultural enrichment to Kentucky.
Lexington, Kentucky is being “enriched” we are told. Remember “Mustafa” from Louisville, KY who is charged with ripping-off Kentucky Refugee Ministries? Did Mustafa bring cultural enrichment?
And, by the way, readers, it is a good thing we captured some of Mustafa’s facebook page about his travels in recent years to Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and his role “working” with the FBI because all that has been removed since we last visited.
Did the Iraqi refugee terrorists bring enrichment and the joys of cultural diversity to Kentucky, or how about the Congolese woman recently suedby another Congolese “refugee” for human trafficking. Did Sifa bring enrichment to Lexington?
You are going to see fluffy articles like this one all week as World Refugee Day approaches on Friday, the 20th.
Carine [of the Congo*** and star of this story—ed] will talk about that transition at the “World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” at the Central Library June 20.It is Lexington’s celebration of the rich, overlooked pockets of diversity throughout this community.
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations in 2001 to pay tribute to the courage and strength exhibited by those forced to flee their homelands and familiar routines to escape conflict.
Lexington’s celebration has a twist, however.
“Unlike New York … and many larger cities with a rich history of immigration, Lexington is not yet used to helping new neighbors resettle,” said Lindsay Mattingly, multicultural liaison at the Lexington Public Library. “We do not yet have a well-developed infrastructure that can support nonnative English speakers.”
Here is an example of a deceptive line (there always are a few in stories like this one):
While the Kentucky Refugee Ministries does a great job, she said, that organization has to adhere to time limits set by the federal government of up to six months.
The only “time limit” is that their federal dole ends at that point. There is no law that says a resettlement agency can’t raise PRIVATE FUNDS to continue to care for refugees they bring to your town. In reality their job for the first six months is to find refugees a job (if they can) and get them enrolled in all the welfare programs available to them. Then they move on to the next paying “client.”
If you are in the Lexington area, you might want to attend Friday’s event:
“World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” begins with a conference at the Central Library, 140 East Main Street, from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
***The Congolese in Lexington:
“Lexington has the third-largest population of resettled Congolese immigrants in the country,” Mattingly said. Phoenix and Houston are ahead of us. And there are more than 90 languages spoken in the homes of students in Fayette County schools.
Bowling Green, KY (more pockets of diversity!): population of foreign born is 10% of the city’s population!
Bowling Green, where those Iraqi terrorists were living when they were arrested, is ahead of the rest of Kentucky in its demographic change (and enrichment!) thanks largely to the resettlement of refugees that has gone on there for decades. See this story (hat tip: Robin). That Daily News story also tells us this:
Whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S., and by 2050, whites are projected to become a minority of the U.S. population,according to the Pew report. U.S. Census Bureau results show that from 2000 to 2010, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7 percent of the nation’s growth. In 2000, 11.1 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born, which increased to 13 percent by 2011. By 2050, 19 percent of the nation’s population is projected to be foreign born, according to a Pew report.
We have been writing about problems that cultural diversity has brought Bowling Green for years, click here for those posts.
It occurred to me over the last couple of days that what we are seeing is the old “Sanctuary Movement” of the 1980’s on steroids.
Update: See also the “Childrens Crusade” with Obama, Alinsky and the “healthiest looking refugees” here, thanks to Judy.
If you don’t remember it, look back at some of my posts on the topic (hereis a pretty good summary with links from 2011). In fact, the Sanctuary Movement was responsible for the birth of the now notorious CASA de Maryland in our home state. (See one of many posts at Potomac Tea Party Report on the “religious LEFT” and CASA, here).
One of the few books written on the “Sanctuary Movement” is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the ‘Religious Left’ and its role with illegal migration. http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/god-and-caesar-at-the-rio-grande
In the early 1980s, churches (mostly Catholic Churches/Chicago Catholics, some protestant churches especially Presbyterians and Lutherans, and the Quakers) helped illegal Central Americans get through Mexico and then across a much better guarded border than we seem to have today.
The churches then hid the illegals and transported them to other church shelters across America, one of those was in Takoma Park, Maryland where CASA was born. And, what a coincidence, Takoma Park is the home of the infamous Obama Labor Secretary Thomas Perez (Maryland! Watch out for Perez when Obama is no longer in office!).
Today, the flow is massive and doesn’t apparently involve dangerous night-time crossings of the border. More importantly, today the ‘churches’ are out in the open and actually being paid by the federal government to take care of the kids (see the Office of Refugee Resettlement and its contractors, here).
But, are those churches (church contractors) actually involved in promoting and busing the illegal aliens through Mexico and to our border—-that is the $64,000 question!
Here is a news account at National Review (Hat tip: Linda) primarily about the gang members (MS-13!) coming across now along with the “kids,” The article contains a little nugget at the end that suggests the churches are once again involved.
Could the Catholic Church need new parishioners this badly? Could they actually be hiring the buses and transporting the “children?”
Border Patrol officials struggling to keep up with the increasing number of minors illegally crossing the Mexican border are not turning away persons with known gang affiliations. Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, explained that a Border Patrol agent he represents helped reunite a teenage gang member with his family in the United States. Cabrera notes the young member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), a transnational criminal gang, had no criminal record in the U.S., but asks, “If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here?”
The government is going to take care of us!
“I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,’”Cabrera says. “Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse.”
Radio and television commercial spots ran in Central America telling migrants to go to the US now (if anyone in America helped pay for this, they have committed treason!):
Cueto (Art Del Cueto, president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2544 in Tucson) says when he asked a group of children about their motivation, they spoke of the “announcer on the radio” who encouraged them to head for the United States.Cueto says Central American radio, television, other media, and religious groups have all encouraged people to move north to the United States.
Did any of your tax dollars go into this campaign directly or indirectly through the federal ‘refugee’ contractors?
Here (below) for your review are the refugee contractors—the religious LEFT! (USCRI, ECDC and the IRC are secular contractors).
We know that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service are being paid to ‘service’ the “children.” Are they involved in encouraging the mass migration of ‘unaccompanied alien minors’ as well?
And, for any of you do-gooders concerned for real refugees, thank the contractors for helping label these illegal aliens, including the gang bangers, as “refugees.”
Refugees or criminals? http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/05/Leaked-Images-Reveal-Children-Warehoused-in-Crowded-US-Cells-Border-Patrol-Overwhelmed
Ever since we started writing this blog in 2007, the open borders agitators (including the refugee contractors) and immigration lawyers have been attempting to expand the definition of “refugee” for the purpose of bringing in anyone in the world who is fleeing crime (or says they are fleeing crime).
Fleeing one’s home country because the country is overrun with gangs and drug dealers, and where the government there is unable to protect its citizens from crime generally, does not make one a “refugee.” And think about it, wouldn’t that make half the world eligible for asylum in America? Or, is that what Obama wants?
…. is a person who is outside their home country because they have suffered (or feared) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because they are a member of a persecuted ‘social group’ or because they are fleeing a war.
Either the “refugee” has been chosen by the UN and admitted to the US by the US State Department and flown here, or in the case of asylum seekers who got here on their own (crossed a border illegally or overstayed a visa), they must first be judged to be legitimately escaping persecution before they are declared a refugee.
The big push to find the kids lawyers is to attempt to prove that they are legitimate asylum seekers and for the US to ultimately grant them asylum which would make them refugees and thereby make them eligible for all of the taxpayer “services” available to any American citizen. See our fact sheet!
An “economic migrant” is an alien who is seeking a better life—he or she wants a job or welfare. They are also NOT refugees.
The recent “unaccompanied minor” border invaders may be “economic migrants,” but they definitely are illegal aliensand therefore criminals.
Here is Patrik Jonsson reporting at the Christian Science Monitor (hat tip: Joanne).
I’ve communicated with Jonsson. He has exposed some secrecy in the “refugee” program before so I would urge him to help figure out who are the instigators of this invasion, it isn’t the kids (who are being used, in my opinion, by those who are attempting to bring on the revolution)!
Who are those shadowy players? Or is it the White House itself?
The growing crush of vulnerable migrant children crossing the Rio Grande and entering the US through south Texas has put urgency to a vexing question for the US immigration system:
Are children fleeing Central American violence refugees who need asylum or illegal gold-diggers who need to go home?
The rush on the border has created what the White House and many others have called a humanitarian crisis. But it has also pushed Washington into finger-pointing mode, with politicians and commentators trying to pin down why children, often guided by “coyote” smugglers, are traveling hundreds of miles across Mexico into the US.
BTW, I heard a scary prediction yesterday—-that after the 2014 election, Obama plans to pardon all illegal aliens in the US. Is that what the “kids” know?
With all of this horrific news about the invasion of America by mostly teenaged boys from Central America, I see a bright side!
Those who have brought this nightmare (including the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services***) to the front pages have succeeded in making the word “refugee” a very dirty word in homes across America after years and years of building up “refugees” as wonderful, deserving, industrious and grateful NEW AMERICANS. Keep it up!
Come to think of it, maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to say they aren’t refugees!
See our complete archive on “unaccompanied minors” and the refugee contractors by clicking here. Learn more about where your $2 billion for the kids will be going, here.
***Why do I keep naming those two refugee contractors (of the nine), because they are two that have had contracts from the ORR to care for the “kids.” But, I expect all of the contractors to be scrambling for the $$$$$ and a piece of the action now that more of your tax dollars (billions in fact!) may soon be flowing their way.
As a matter of fact, the contractors all lobbied for the ‘gang of eight’s’ so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” bill because it contained provisions for them to gain more “clients” and more federal grant and contract money. Since that hasn’t gone through, and likely won’t anytime soon, this windfall—to care for the kids—is the next best thing for them!
