I’ve been saying it for years—that we, taxpaying American citizens, are subjected to unnecessary expense, societal upheaval, and not to mention danger, when the US State Department uses the Refugee Admissions Program for leverage when it wants to pressure (or reward) some other country by ‘welcoming’ the unwanted.
Nezer: “It’s a bargaining tool: We’ll take a certain number of refugees. These are the things you will do for us.”
Earlier this month, I reported confirmation of refugees as bargaining chips—a stunning admission out of the mouth of a refugee contractor.
One such case during the Bush era involved trouble-making Uzbeks.
No one has ever explained why the Bush Administration flew in planeloads of Uzbeks claiming they were refugees—-Muslim ‘refugees’ from a Muslim country (yeah right!).
When Tennessee Governor Bill Lee listened to the religious Left (using carefully parsed words) claiming refugees hadn’t killed Americans on our soil in terrorist attacks, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
I told readers at ‘Frauds and Crooks’ about the Somali Christmas Tree bomberhere, and now I’m going to re-post below the story of Uzbek Islamic terrorist wannabe, Fazliddin Kurbanov, and how he attempted to kill the prison warden where he was incarcerated after being found guilty of planning to bomb West Point (among other places on American soil!).
My mission is to show you what a bunch of liars these Leftwing ‘Evangelicals’ are! Christians my foot!
And again…..
What deal were we striking with Uzbekistan that saw hundreds of that country’s extremist Muslims shipped to America as refugees?
Editor: Before I get to the re-post (Ann’s memory lane!) I want to emphasize again how glad I am that the speech police were not able to completely destroy my 9,000 posts whenthey persuaded wordpress.com to remove RRWfrom the internet. To those who pressured wordpress, you were dumb! I hadn’t been writing at RRW for months and as the expression goes you would have benefited from letting sleeping dogs lie.
Uzbek refugee admits he wanted to kill California prison warden by slitting his throat
This is one of those stories I’m sick of writing about. I’ve followed Fazliddin Kurbanov’s ‘career’ since his arrest in Idahoin 2013.
He is one of those Uzbeks that we have admitted to the US since the Bush Administration who were already radical Islamists back home, and why we took hundreds is still a mystery. Rumor is that the CIA and State Department teamed up to get them here.
By the way, some stories just list him as an “Uzbek national” but others, like ABC here have it right. He was a refugee, now he will cost US taxpayers a fortune as we care for him in prison!
An Uzbek national already serving a 25-year terrorism-related sentence has entered a guilty plea for trying to slit the throat of the warden of the Victorville federal prison in a 2016 attack.
Fazliddin Kurbanov, 34, faces sentencing on June 4 before United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in Los Angeles after he entered a guilty plea Tuesday, March 13, to one count of attempted murder of a federal officer.
Kurbanov attacked then-Warden Calvin Johnson of the Victorville Federal Correctional Institute on May 31, 2016 in a dining facility, where Johnson was standing “near the serving line to be accessible to inmates during the lunch service” court papers said.
Kurbanov, armed with an approximately 4-inch prison-made shank, grabbed Johnson from behind and tried to cut the warden’s throat; when Johnson raised his hands to protect his throat, Kubanov instead slashed the warden on his left side, the document said.
Kurbanov admitted in an interview with authorities that he had made the shank, found a way to conceal it, and intended to kill Johnson with it, the court papers said. The attack took place five months after Kurbanov was sentenced in the terrorism case in Idaho.
Johnson was seriously injured in the attack, but has recovered and is now working at another prison in the federal system, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement.
In January 2016, Kurbanov was sentenced to 25 years in prison for for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and possessing an unregistered destructive device. He was convicted after a trial.
Prosecutors in that case said Kurbanov made contact with a website for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and discussed with the website administrator “his animosity toward Americans, particularly the military; his desire to build a bomb; possible targets in the United States, including military bases in Idaho and Texas; and his need for instruction on how to construct and remotely detonate a bomb,” according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Idaho.
He also discussed possible targets with an FBI confidential source, including the United States Military Academy at West Point, the prosecutor’s office said.
Go herefor my complete file on Fazliddin Kurbanov.
His Idaho trial came at a time when tensions began to rise in that state about the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program. The US attorney and others went to great lengths to minimize the news about the trial.
As you know Republican governors*** are turning against the President on the issue of refugee admissions and the President’s Executive Order that permits governors and county commissioners to say no thanks to refugee resettlement later in 2020.
‘Send us more poverty we have run out of poor people for the churches (and taxpayers!) to care for,’ said Tennessee Governor Bill Lee when he said his Christian faith led him to decide to reach out with open arms to the third world in order to move more poverty closer to home.
“Bill and Pompeo working on the refugee resettlement issues.”
Thanks to the ever-watchful dailyrollcall.com, a website in Nashville, we learned that Secretary of State Pompeo visited the governor (dubbed ‘Biblical Bill’) in October to “canoodle” about the refugee program. That was only a few weeks after the release of the President’s EO.
Because Tennesseans are better organized to resist refugees and have maintained strong and vocal support for a state’s rights lawsuit the state filed against the federal government, citizens are alert and learned of Pompeo’s visit to the governor.
Frankly I smell a rat! Was Pompeo looking for a key governor (some might argue the most important governor because of the lawsuit) to lead other Republican governors to consent to refugee placement in their states?
Or, is it possible that Pompeo was out having additional chit-chats with governors that we don’t know about.
By the way, any Republican governor who jumps on the consent bandwagon this early is dumb, because according to the Funding rulesthat are the guidance for the President’s concept to allow governors to opt-in or opt-out, they have well into 2020 to decide because of the leeway granted by the loose language of the guidance.
The big lie!
Could the Secretary of State be telling Lee andhis ‘evangelicals’ that they will be admitting mostly the persecuted Christians of the Middle East to your towns and cities?
Does the President know what Pompeo is doing?
Because I’m sick of hearing that we need refugee resettlement to save Christians, I had a look at the numbers this morning.
If you thought the Trump State Department was saving Christians in the Middle East, you are wrong!
I checked the Refugee Processing Centerdata and learned this about the three major Middle Eastern Islamic countries from which we admit refugees. I went back to Trump’s inauguration day to today, Christmas eve 2019, and learned this:
Afghanistan
We admitted 2,831 refugees. 2,714 of those are Muslims (96%)
In addition to the regular refugees we admitted 37,570 Special Immigrant Visas(get the same benefits as refugees) for those who supposedly helped us there since Trump came into office. They would naturally all be Muslims, but there is no data on those (that I know of).
Iraq
We admitted 2,944 refugees. 1,891 of those are Muslims (64%)
In addition we admitted 3,341 SIVs from Iraq.
Syria
We admitted 2,674 refugees. 2,549 are Muslims (95%)
If Gov. Lee thinks we are saving Syrian Christians, we are not! And, I sure hope that Pompeo wasn’t telling him that we are!
And, by the way, there is a bipartisan effort in the Senate that includes Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to expand the SIV program to Syrians and Kurds (Muslims),see here.
Over the years, Blackburn has talked big about slowing the flow of refugees, so why has she now done a 180?
A story for another day! At least the State Department is putting on a show of opposing it!
*** So far besides Lee, that we know of, REPUBLICAN governors of Utah, New Hampshire, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Nebraska have abandoned Trump. The official list of governors who have consented is here. Clearly many governors have not gotten their consent letters into the State Department.
Do you remember this headline only four short years ago? Probably not. I hadn’t, although I surely wrote about it at the time. It was right after one of those horrible Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe and it woke from slumber some Republican governors for a few minutes.
30 Governors Call For Halt To U.S. Resettlement Of Syrian Refugees
My how things have changed.
They talked tough then (mostly because Obama was in office and they knew they had no voice), but now when the President has actually presented them with an opportunity to put up or shut up and go on record saying NO to more refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere, well now they are worried about their “workforce” and they tuck their tails and run fearing they will be perceived as mean and unwelcoming by the Dems.
Nothing has changed by the way! We bring fewer Syrians these days, but the vast majority of Syrians who do come are Muslims.
And, not just Syrians, but Iraqis, Somalis, Burmese Rohingya and literally tens of thousands of Afghans.
The vetting can’t really be improved because as Senator Marco Rubio said at the time:
“There is no background-check system in the world that allows us to find that out, because who do you call in Syria to background-check them?”
That same common sense applies to most places in the Middle East, Asia and Africa—who you gonna call?
Although I should be writing on all sorts of things on this subject, not to mention that my other blog ‘Frauds and Crooks’ is suffering from lack of attention, I found myself rummaging around Wrapsnet (the Refugee Processing Center) and holy cow!
Four years: 19,514 Syrians!
In the 4 years since NPR posted their story (from November 17, 2015 to today December 11, 2019) we admitted 19,514 Syrians—19,514! 19,195 of those are Muslims!
Although most of those came as Obama was leaving town, 6,413 of the Syrian Muslims came in Trump’s first (partial) year with 602 since.
Here is where the nearly 20,000 Syrians were placed:
GOP governors betraying constituents by pushing refugee resettlement
He linked a list of today’s Republican Governors and so far that we know of (some might be hiding!), Republican governors of Utah, New Hampshire, Arizona and North Dakota are opposing the President (and America Firsters) on the issue of Refugee Resettlement.
Just so you know—most of the country ‘welcomed’ some refugees in the first group of arrivals for FY2020.
Resettlement will continue as it always has until June 2020 when supposedly the Trump EO will be in effect.
As Open Borders Inc. continues on its quest to turn Texas blue, Texas is again numero uno in ‘welcoming’ Africans, Asians and Middle Eastern impoverished refugees to its towns and cities.
If (when!) the contractors convince Texas Governor Abbott to send a permission letter to the US State Department, the contractors will achieve a great victory. So, I sure hope you Texans are working hard!
(See previous post Kansas has thrown in the towel! Taxpayers will pay the price just so some meatpackers will get cheap labor!).
Below is where the US State Department and its nine contractors*** placed 1,488 refugees in the last month.
Nothing I can do about the tiny type. Itold you all herehow to use the Refugee Processing Center data.
The top ten ‘welcoming’ states have a few additions. I haven’t seen Indiana or Minnesota in the top ten in recent times, and Kentucky is climbing up the ladder.
Texas, California, New York, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Florida are the top ten in that order.
Here is the map where 1,488 refugees were placed between November 1 and December 1, 2019:
Below are the top sending countries (in parenthesis after each is the number of Muslims in the group). Take note of the fact that we are only bringing in a tiny number of Middle Eastern Christians from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
There is no Muslim ban.
DR Congo 509 (M: 17) It is maddening when you consider that Obama said more than six years ago that we wouldlimit our intake of DR Congolese to 50,000 and we are now at or near 60,000!
Burma 337 (M:37)
Moldova 94 (M: 0)
Afghanistan 91 (M:82)
Ukraine 78 (M: 0)
Iraq 50 (M: 35)
Syria 37 (M:32) So much for saving the Syrian Christians!
Somalia 31 (M: 31) Sixteen of these went to Minnesota over the last 4 weeks.
*** These are the nine federally funded contractors, all political Leftwing organizations, that at present are deciding where the UN-chosen refugees are being placed in America.
If you didn’t know, I have a category entitled, ‘where to find information.‘ You might find it useful to follow some of my recent posts on the President’s Executive Order.
You may remember Democrat Governor Northam because of the “blackface” scandal he endured earlier this year, one which would have driven a Republican governor from office and into political oblivion.
Gov. Ralph Northam—we want more third worlders for Virginia!
And, surely you recall his cruel words during an abortion debate about letting babies die post-birth.
So it should be no surprise that one friend quipped when told the news, “yes, kill the babies to make room for the refugees!”
Unless I have missed some, Virginia becomes the 5th state to tell President Trump that the state wants MORE third world poverty (eventually more voters for the Democrat party)!
In the right hand side bar here at RRWI’m keeping track and so far we have PA, OR, UT, and WA as states where the governor has said, send us more!
As I said here, the Open Borders Refugee Contractors are organizing nationally to pressure the President and to get ready for the flood of migrants they expect once Trump is no longer standing in the way.
Gov. Northam: ‘We welcome refugee resettlement in Virginia’
RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Governor Ralph Northam sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday confirming Virginia will continue to welcome refugees fleeing danger and persecution.
“I have read federal Executive Order 13888, and I write to reaffirm Virginia’s position that we welcome refugee resettlement in the Commonwealth,” he wrote in the letter.
President Donald Trump signed the order in September explaining that the Federal Government will only resettle refugees in those jurisdictions in which both the state and local governments have consented to receive refugees under the Department of State’s Reception and Placement Program.
Two things that jumped out at me from the Governor’s letter indicating that he doesn’t understand the program as it is being carried out by the contractors in the state:
Because of our proximity to Washington, D.C., we are a preferred location for many Special Immigrant Visa holders – Iraqi and Afghanistan refugees who provided services to the U.S. military in those countries, and whose lives and families are in danger because of that service.
What the heck is he talking about? Why do previous employees of the US military have to live in proximity to Washington, D.C.? We have brought tens of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi SIVsas separate from the Refugee Admissions Program over the last ten years.
We are never told how the SIVs are divvied up among the contractors and clearly if it is true that more of the Muslim Afghans and Iraqis are being placed near DC (Northern Virginia is mosque-central after all), the contractors have a hand in making that decision along with the feds. The Governor is out of the loop!
If the governor is telling the truth, Virginians should be asking why they are getting a disproportionate share of SIVs.
Virginia Community Capacity Initiative?
And then this:
Virginia helps refugees settle into new homes only in those localities that participate in the Virginia Community Capacity Initiative, which ensures that a community’s elected officials, faith leaders, schools, and other stakeholders are committed to helping refugees build new homes and lives. We work with resettlement agencies that have deep ties to these communities.
“Resettlement agencies” are of course the federal refugee contractors. LOL! and I bet a contractor drafted the governor’s letter.
I had never heard of this Virginia Community Capacity Initiative and when I searched around I found very little, just some verbiage at some Catholic sites about finding housing for refugees.
I doubt the program has any statewide application so for the governor to suggest that all of the communities in the state that receive refugees have already said they can handle more refugees is a stretch (well, a lie!).
I decided to see just how many ‘welcoming’ communities existed in Virginia and so naturally went to the Refugee Processing Centerdata base.
I limited my search to the last ten years of refugee placement in the state and compiled this list (below) of cities/towns that had refugees placed in their community.
And, you should know that the Afghan/Iraq special refugees are not included in this database. Indeed, I have never found any database which tells us where the SIVs are sent.
Some locations may have only received a handful of refugees, but nonetheless, the list is extensive. I’m just wondering if the Virginia Community Capacity Initiativewas at work in all of them.
Virginia ‘welcoming’ communities:
And, while I was having fun with the data last night, here are the top ten ethnic groups resettled in Virginia in the last ten years.
11,800 regular refugees (not including SIVs) have been placed in Virginia since October 2009 (a small number compared to some other states). But, again we don’t know how many of the special refugees, SIVs, were provided housing, medical care, and other welfare services in the state.
Virginia’s top ten:
Iraq (3,438)
Bhutan (2,294)
DR Congo (1,328)
Iran (642)
Burma (636)
Afghanistan (536)
Somalia (436)
Eritrea (406)
Syria (361)
Sudan (275)
As Isaid yesterday at ‘Frauds and Crooks’ …. as Virginia turns blue, we see some very disturbing criminal cases involving ‘new Americans’ of all stripes in the Old Dominion. Check out my posts there.
I checked the Refugee Processing Center data and learned this about the three major Middle Eastern Islamic countries from which we admit refugees. I went back to Trump’s inauguration day to today, Christmas eve 2019, and learned this:
Nothing has changed by the way! We bring fewer Syrians these days, but the vast majority of Syrians who do come are Muslims.
