Is Zeljko Causevic a refugee? Only the US State Department and his federal resettlement contractor know for sure!
We brought tens of thousands of Bosnians into the US in the wake of Bill Clinton’s phoney-baloney war and they keep turning up in the most interesting places (check our archive on Bosnians, here, and see what I mean!).
This storyfrom Jacksonville, FL yesterday is another good catch by ‘pungentpeppers.’ From AP at NPR:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities said a man arrested at Jacksonville International Airport told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack but they only found a luggage scale with a microchip inside, along with a remote control device he called a “detonator.”
Zeljko Causevic, 39, was booked into jail early Wednesday and was being held without bond on charges that included making a false report about planting a bomb or explosive and manufacturing, possessing, selling or delivering a hoax bomb, according to an arrest report.
The arrest report indicates Causevic approached a TSA agent Tuesday and said he had a bomb in his bag. The TSA agents notified authorities. Airport spokesman Michael Stewart said Causevic was detained between 5:30 and 6 p.m. The airport was evacuated and flights were stopped before reaching the gates. Passengers were displaced for nearly five hours.
Causevic was scheduled to appear in bond court in Jacksonville at 1 p.m. An arrest report indicates he is originally from Bosnia.
All I can say is, it is a good thing we have Obamacare and it will take care of all these mentally ill immigrants and refugees.
Update and correction! I had originally read about 4 reports calling this family “refugees” (I guess they are in a sense!), but reader ‘pungent peppers’ has found a lengthier story about them and they do appear to be American “refugees” from Chicago. Here is the link. It is still worth noting that nothing has improved for the South Side since Obama began his political career there, and the US State Department is still pouring refugees into crime-ridden Chicago neighborhoods.
This is a strange story. A family of ten “refugees” was found by police under a pile of blankets in Madison, Wisconsin. Communication with the police was difficult, but adults related to the officers that they had to leave Chicago (aka the murder capital of the USA) because of the gun violence in their South Side neighborhood (Englewood).
Obama running for State Senator in Chicago’s South Side—goin’ to improve the neighborhood! Guess not!
No report on how the four adults and six children traveled the 150 miles to Madison. And, there is no mention of what nationality they are—only their resettlement contractor knows for sure!
During morning patrols, a police officer discovered a family of 10 huddled under a makeshift shelter of blankets on the street. They were war refugees in a way, but this sad story doesn’t come from Syria… it comes from Madison, Wisconsin.
The Smoking Gun reports that the group were “shocked” by the officer’s concern for their well-being, though possibly not as shocked as he was to hear their tale. This group of four adults, a five-month-old baby, several toddlers, and two older children had been on the Madison streets for two weeks, camping near the State Capitol.
And they came from Chicago.
“They explained they had escaped the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side,” the police said.
The group explained that they had “fled Chicago from where a lot of shootings and deaths were occurring.” The officer added, “It was just too dangerous to stay; some people they knew were killed.”
Police added that the group had not been panhandling or asking for handouts.
The family received immediate aid from the police, including food, money and short-term housing provided by three local churches. The report concludes that while the family’s “future still holds many questions,” they are now “away from the bullets.”
The report neglects to describe how the family managed to make the 150-mile journey from Chicago to Madison.
Chicago is a major resettlement city. According to stats at WRAPS.net, since 2001, the US State Department has resettled 11,406 refugees in the impoverished neighborhoods of the city. 1,023 new refugees were resettled there this year. Here is one story we posted in 2009 about Chicago’s Heartland Alliance placing refugees in slum neighborhoods—guess the beat goes on! Be sure to read that 2009 post to the end for Obama’s own connection to Heartland Alliance and Bill Ayers.
Readers I hope you won’t be too disappointed that I didn’t get around to reporting earlier that this was NATIONAL WELCOMING WEEK in America and that today Obama recognized ten “champions” who are bringing the joys of immigrant diversity to your cities and towns. I had this news yesterday, thanks to a friend from Tennessee, but I couldn’t get excited about posting it sooner.
Regular readers will recognize the group “Welcoming America” and its head honcho David Lubell from a couple posts we wrote earlier this summer, here and here.
Check out the ten CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE here. We only have room to show three, so I’ve chosen three that I know some of our readers will recognize.
By the way, when is someone going to create a NATIONAL TAXPAYER APPRECIATION WEEK where all of those living on social services (including all of the refugee contractors making six-figure salaries) provided by hardworking American taxpayers would hold events, give awards and thank the taxpayers for their service to them.
Here is the Press Release (again sorry you missed hearing about the event earlier):
White House Recognizes Welcoming America Champions of Change
Immigrants Want to Contribute; White House Recognizes Leaders Who are Helping their Communities Seize that Potential During National Welcoming Week
(Washington, D.C.) September 18, 2013 – As the debate in Washington on
Kasar S. Abdulla: Nashville, TN
immigration moves forward, local community leaders across the country are recognizing that immigrants make us stronger and are working in their communities to create welcoming climates that harness the economic and social potential that newcomers bring.
This Thursday, September 19th, the White House will recognize ten individuals and their innovative efforts to lift up newcomer contributions and involve the whole community in supporting successful immigrant integration. *Ten Welcoming America Champions of Change will be honored in
an event that will be streamed live starting at 1pm EST at
www.whitehouse.gov/live. *
[Again, sorry for any disappointment you are feeling because I didn’t alert you to this live streaming event.—ed]
The Welcoming America Champions of Change include local leaders from across
Jan Reeves: Boise, Idaho
the country whose cutting edge initiatives – from Nashville to Detroit –
demonstrate the growing interest among local communities to ensure that
everyone – including immigrants – have the opportunity to contribute and
succeed. As the country is reshaped by demographic change, these leaders offer a fresh vision for how communities can make the most of their diversity.
Says Welcoming America Executive Director David Lubell, “At a crucial moment in our history, the Welcoming America Champions of Change serve as amodel for what we can achieve when we recognize the tremendous contributions that immigrants make to the social and economic fabric of American communities. These champions are innovators who are building
stronger communities by helping newcomers succeed, and inviting longer-term
residents to contribute to and share in that success. “
Brenda Zion: Ft. Morgan, Colorado
Welcoming America Champions of Change are being recognized for their
piooneering practices to advance immigrant inclusion in ways that involve
U.S.-born residents and the community as a whole.
The Champions are being honored by the White House during National Welcoming Week, a nationwide event taking place September 15th-22nd with more than 100 events across the country that underscore the contributions of immigrants to local cultural and economic life.
We have written a lot here at RRW about all three of the immigrant-overloaded “diverse” cities of Nashville, TN, Boise, ID and Ft. Morgan, CO and if you use our search function for those cities you will see what I mean. I know we have posts mentioning Reeves and Zion for sure.
Abdulla is the former director of advocacy for the open borders lobbying group which we have mentioned here dozens of times—Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
For new readers, we have a fact sheet about the Refugee Resettlement Program which is largely responsible for changing Nashville, Boise and Ft. Morgan, here, just below our header.
However, Obama has a chance in just a few weeks to redeem himself with the Muslim world and open the gates wide.
Watch for it! Syrian refugees to get big boost in FY2014 Presidential determination?
What Arab News is referring to here (below) is that by the end of September Obama will submit to Congress his annual determination letter which will lay out his Administration’s wishes for which refugees and how many will be admitted to the US in FY2014. Here is information on his FY2013 request. By the way, for those of you who sent testimony to the State Department in May this is the culmination of that process.
We will be watching for it. And, we are told that Members of Congress “NEVER” make changes—too preoccupied, too lazy or too chicken to do so?
Should Western governments get a free pass on accepting Syrian refugees? Certainly not, although they will find it politically hard to accept large numbers of Muslim refugees*.Nevertheless, the West must demonstrate its willingness to bear part of the burden. So far this fiscal year, the US has admitted just 33 Syrian refugees. The new fiscal year will permit President Barack Obama to provide for a significant number of Syrian refugees within the 70,000 total allotted to the US refugee program. In turn, the US willingness to accept more refugees can also help accelerate resettlement efforts by other Western countries. Under normal US procedures, resettlement could take a few years. So as the United States has done with Indochinese and other refugee groups, it must expedite processing.
The President also has the authority to go well beyond 70,000. That number just happens to be the number they have been stuck on for several years.
* Note that there is never any suggestion of saving the Christians!
One more headache for those trying to figure out how to run Obamacare—-federal law requires foreign language interpreters for government health care.
So how are they possibly going to get the information to the millions of Americans who don’t speak English? And, yikes! how much will it cost?
To add to the chaos, the US State Department’s Refugee Resettlement Program is every day adding to the potpourri of obscure languages they will need to be ready for.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Set on a gritty corner of Oakland’s International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam.
It also provides a window into one of the challenges for state officials who are trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul.
Understanding the law is a challenge even for governors, state lawmakers and agency officials, but delivering its message to non-English speakers who can benefit from it is shaping up as a special complication. That is especially true in states with large and diverse immigrant populations.
For Zaya Jaden, a 35-year-old from Mongolia, getting free care for her sister’s persistent migraine was a much higher priority than considering how the expansion of the nation’s social safety net through the Affordable Care Act might benefit her.
The sisters crammed into the clinic’s waiting room, sandwiched between families chatting in the indigenous Guatemalan language Mam, and discussed whether enrolling in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act would work for the family’s finances.
“It was a good idea that Obama had, but I don’t know if it will work for me,” said Jaden, who gets private insurance for her family through her job as a laundress at an Oakland hotel and currently makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid. “If I make less than what I make to try to qualify for the government program, how could I pay my rent?”
Jaden’s ambivalence demonstrates the cultural and language hurdles that California and several other states are facing as they build exchanges — or health insurance marketplaces —and try to expand coverage to ethnic and hard-to-reach populations.
[…..]
The U.S. Census estimates that more than 55 million people speak a language other than English at home. Nearly 63 percent of those are Spanish-speakers, with the highest concentrations in Texas, California and New Mexico. Chinese was the third most commonly spoken language, with large populations in California, New York, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
Five other languages have at least 1 million speakers: Tagalog,* French, Vietnamese, German and Korean.
Glad it’s not me figuring out how to make this work! And, imagine what it will cost. In one of the first posts I ever wrotehere at RRW (July 2007) I reported that the Montgomery County Court (MD) system was shelling out a $1 million a year on interpreters for immigrant court cases. I wonder if the CBO figured interpreter costs into the taxpayers’ bill for Obamacare?
One more headache for those trying to figure out how to run Obamacare—-federal law requires foreign language interpreters for government health care.