We will take Chechens, Somalis and Rohingya Muslims, but not persecuted Christians from Germany who pose no threat to America. Go figure!
We let Saudi students stay, and Somalis who have committed crimes stay, and Uzbek would-be Presidential assassins stay, but not a family like this one!
From The Local (German edition). Hat tip Fjordmanvia twitter:
An American appeals court has denied a fundamentalist Christian family from Germany the right to asylum in the US. The family claimed they were being persecuted for not being allowed to homeschool their children.
In its Tuesday ruling, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, said there was a difference between the persecution of a group and prosecution of violators of a law that is applied across the board – in this case, Germany’s rule on mandatory schooling.
News agency AP reported that the family is planning to fight the decision.
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The Home School Legal Defense Association, which represented the Romeikes in court, said Germany’s policy on homeschooling is tantamount to persecution, and called Tuesday’s ruling “inexplicable”.
“We believe the Sixth Circuit is wrong and we will appeal their decision. America has room for this family and we will do everything we can to help them,” HSLDA founder Michael Farris said in a statement on the organisation’s website.
Thanks largely to the Home School Legal Defense Association, homeschooling (raising children to think independently!) in America is flourishing and is one of our fundamental rights that will help guarantee our freedom into the future. Not permitting it is one more nail in Germany’s coffin.
The changing face of Norway—Asylum child waiting in line. Photo : Julien Harneis
Norway’s Refugee Dilemma!
Holy cow! It’s not just stunning that many towns are saying NO!, it is stunning that they are even given a choice in Norway of whether they want any refugees at all! Even with our Constitutional tradition of “States Rights,” American cities and states are not given an opportunity to say to the US State Department—sorry we can’t afford more refugees!
Aftenposten writes that only 64 of the 368 municipalities agreed to accept as many refugees as the government wants. 27 municipalities simply reject, while 204 municipalities receive less than the government has requested. 73 municipalities have not even responded to the request of Integration and Diversity Directorate, IMDI.
Later in the article we learn this about who is going to Norway—mostly Muslim young men.
The refugee and asylum seeker definitions are similar to the ones used by the US.
There are two main groups of refugees who come to Norway. The first group consists of asylum seekers who come to Norway on their own initiative, and the second group consists of resettlement refugees. Resettlement refugees are refugees who cannot return to their home country and cannot be granted residence in the country in which they are staying. Resettlement refugees’ cases are processed by and, they are recognised by, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) before they arrive in Norway.The Norwegian parliament, the Storting, stipulates a quota for the number of resettlement refugees Norway accepts each year. In 2010, Norway accepted 1,300 resettlement refugees. Most of the 2010 quota was reserved for Eritrean, Afghan, Palestinian, Burmese and Iranian refugees. Minimum 55 per cent were to be women and girls, while 15 per cent of the places were for vulnerable female refugees.
Also, there are asylum seekers who come to Norway on their own initiative and apply for protection from the Norwegian authorities. In the end of September, the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) had received 7,299 asylum applications. Many of these applicants come from countries badly affected by war or previous conflicts. The biggest groups of asylum seekers come from Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan. Not everyone who applies for asylum in Norway is entitled to protection or a residence permit.
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A total of 163 500 persons with a refugee background were living in Norway on 1 January 2012. These persons accounted for 3.3 per cent of the Norwegian population, and 30 per cent of all immigrants in Norway. The two largest groups were persons with a refugee background from Iraq and Somalia.
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Male refugees were overrepresented, with around 10 200 more men than women as at 1 January 2012.
The anti-immigration class across Europe has found many new adherents as of late, especially in the most economically devastated countries, like Greece and Italy. But now these Europeans might themselves become the unwelcome migrants, at least in Switzerland.
As I happened to be standing in the most intolerable immigration line* that I’ve ever faced – more on that later – I read on my Twitter account that the Swiss government on Wednesday announced a new policy to cap residence permits for all of Western Europe. Switzerland, which is not part of the EU but joined the Schengen bloc that allows freedom of movement of people across European borders, says that it is being overwhelmed by arrivals from across the continent, to the tune of 80,000 people each year.
So it is invoking a “safeguard clause” it negotiated during the 1999 Schengen treaty talk, which it already implemented for eight Central and Eastern European states. Now, as of May 1, residence permits for the citizens of 17 older EU states, from Germany to Spain, will be capped at 53,700 for a year.
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The move drew immediate criticism from Brussels. ”The measures disregard the great benefits that the free movement of persons brings to the citizens of both Switzerland and the EU,” Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, said in a statement.
Is this a new manifestation of intolerance in Europe? The levels of resentment continent-wide against the migrants from Africa and the Middle East are already clearly documented, but in the midst of crisis, is Europe even excluding Europe? And what does that mean for identity and equality moving forward?
It means that one country may survive the onslaught, but what good will it do the Swiss (do they even have an army?) when Europe becomes a Muslim continent by 2050?
By the way, European countries are struggling with the problem of asylum shopping where so-called “refugees” move from country to country looking to get in.
* Ms. Llana reports that she was standing in an intolerable immigration line in Paris with Moroccans, Romanians, Malians, Senegalese, Tunisians, and Peruvians.
Update May 14th: More sharia creep in Ireland, here.
Or, so we are told by the media. For a quick departure from the news-rich Boston refugee terrorist story, here’s an article making the rounds over the last few days—republished here at CathNews New Zealand:
They even have their own magazine! Cool huh?
Muslim immigrants are finding a much more welcoming atmosphere in traditionally Catholic Ireland than in Europe or America, according to an article in The Atlantic magazine.
Muslims make up just 1.1 per cent of the 4.5 million people in Ireland, but their ranks are swelling due to immigration, births and, in some cases, conversion.
The 2011 census recorded 49,204 Muslims, nearly a quarter of them school-aged children, but the number is projected to reach 125,000 by 2030.
However, not everything is so peachy as the Irish Refugee Council just yesterday blasted the government for keeping ‘asylum seekers’ in temporary “institutionalized accommodation.” (Watch the film!). In the US we let most asylum seekers join their family members already here and they live among us. Come to think of it, maybe Ireland has a better idea?
THE State could be left apologising for another national scandal if asylum seekers are kept institutionalised, it was claimed.
Retired Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness also warned Justice Minister Alan Shatter “could be chased through the courts” if the youngsters of immigrants are not treated as equals in line with the children’s referendum.
Up to 300 people marched through Dublin to his department as part of a national day of action to end Direct Provision, the hostel-style accommodation for asylum seekers.
Ms McGuinesss said the institutionalised accommodation was created as a “panic reaction” to the large number of asylum seekers who arrived in Ireland during the boomand has been allowed to drag on with no outside observation.
So-called “asylum seekers who arrived during the boom” were most likely ECONOMIC MIGRANTS and not true REFUGEES SEEKING PROTECTION.
See our entire archive on Ireland, here, and you will see there have been many problems with the mostly Muslim migrants going to Ireland. They even took Rohingya Muslims! Poor Ireland they thought their Catholic/Protestant “troubles” were bad.
Steve Sailer has a very good post on Chechens,here (read it), in which he directs us to a USA Today story on Chechen “refugee” numbers.
Here is how USA Today begins (emphasis mine, and when I use red I really mean it!):
Glen Howard looks like a nice guy, maybe I shouldn’t say he is lying. But no city in America gets to pick its refugees!
There are probably fewer than about 200 Chechen immigrants in the United States, and most of them are settled in the Boston area, as many U.S. cities have refused to accept asylum applicants from the war-torn area of southern Russia,says Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation.
Glen Howard is flat out lying! First, we really don’t know how many Chechens are in the US (heck, clearly this family was moving back and forth to Russia), but more importantly I am unaware of any city in America given the opportunity to say “NO ” to any particular ethnic refugee group. Indeed, this is one of the most serious complaints about refugee resettlement (which includes asylees)—states and cities are not consulted in the resettlement process, and once the migrant has a foot in the door, they can move anywhere.
The decision about which cities get refugees and from where is made mostly by unelected federal contractors (the volags) in collaboration with the State Department. This is a Tenth Amendment States Rights issue that hardly any state has ever raised (except maybe Tennessee). Only when there has been a complete breakdown in the city due to refugee overload is there ever a hiatus for a city once it’s been deemed “welcoming” by the resettlement industry.
***Update*** A reader this evening sent this comment in response to the above point:
Not only do states and cities not have a choice to say no, but when and if they try to, the federal government simply contracts with a private non-profit to bring them anyway.
Should there ever be any peep of objection by the “native population”, they are then accused of being unwelcoming.
USA Todaycontinued with this:
About 70% of the Chechen immigrants are women, Howard says. Very few men are granted asylum because of U.S. anti-terrorism policies and because Russia often protests when ethnic Chechens try to settle in the U.S., he said. The U.S. admitted only 197 refugees from all of Russia in 2012.
This is how they twist the numbers. There might have been only 197 from Russia proper in 2012, but that is meaningless! Go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement Annual Report to Congress for 2009 (published three years late btw) and go to Appendix A. Note that refugees are listed as from THE FORMER USSR! (not just Russia).
From 1983 to 2009 we resettled 526,308 from THE FORMER USSRwhich includes Russia AND all of those countries that split off—all of the ‘stan’ Muslim countries. Someone at the State Department might be able to tell us how many are Chechens, and indeed how many are Muslims!
In 2005 we resettled: 11,272
In 2006: 10,452
In 2007: 4,583
In 2008: 2,390
In 2009: 2,022
After that the numbers are hard to find (and I’ve got other things to do today!). But, if the ORR wasn’t breaking the lawby not providing annual reports to Congress for 2010, 2011 and 2012, we could easily find numbers.
And, then this! We are expected to assume the US has only 200 Chechens when Austria has 30,000. Last I checked you could come to the US easily from Europe once you were in the EU.
That contrasts with many European countries, especially Austria, where many Chechens who want to leave difficult conditions at home settle. Austria has about 30,000 Chechen immigrants, Howard said.
For additional edification, readers might want to search RRW for all the problems poor Austria is having with its large and ever-growing Muslim population. Just type ‘Austria’ into our search function and see if you want that here!
