….invoke Pope Francis’s name in their appeal. Does the Pope have this huge number (100,000 mostly Muslim Syrians) in mind for America? Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Kentucky is the President of the USCCB and is advocating for 100,000 Syrian, mostly Muslim, refugees to be placed in your parishes!
We know that the Bishops are pushing for this outrageous number already, but many good Catholics may not. A Catholic reader directed my attention to the Bishops’ website, here.
Our reader, Mark, says he received an e-mail with a link to this site, which among other things, urges faithful Catholics to write a letter to Obama to try and persuade him to admit 100,000 Syrians PLUS another 100,000 refugees in one year.
The Bishops surely are not telling local priests and parishioners that they are raking in millions of dollars of cold hard cash from federal taxpayers for refugee resettlement activities. And, they aren’t telling them that they are NOT advocating to save the persecuted Christians of Syria through this program. From the USCCB:
The political and humanitarian crisis in Syria is a serious concern for the Catholic Church and the bishops of the United States. In the past five years, at least four million Syrians have fled their country as a consequence of the civil war and the rise of ISIS. Most have fled to surrounding countries, especially Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, and many others have moved on to Europe with the hope of finding a place of peace and safety. Pope Francis and the Catholic bishops have called on the U.S. government and the international community to provide support to both Syrian refugees fleeing violence and to countries that have been at the forefront of this humanitarian effort. These recommendations include:
*Providing 100,000 annual resettlement slots for the most vulnerable refugees fleeing the Syria conflict.
*Designating an additional 100,000 refugees to be resettled in the U.S. from other countries.
See the Archbishop’s statement here.
The USCCB needs to admit loud and clear to every Catholic in America how much money they get from the taxpayers for their “Migration Fund!”
See here, over $80 million in one recent year. This is NOT Christian charity!
And, one more thing, we are hearing rumors that various Catholic Charities are gearing up in parishes across the country to increase their refugee load to your town or city this year. More later….
The federal fiscal year ended on September 30th. We are now beginning FY 2016 (Obama says we will admit 10,000 Syrians who cannot be thoroughly screened according to the FBI). That is UNHCR Antonio Guterres on the left. He chooses our refugees and Anne Richard, Asst. Secretary of State for PRM does what he says!
Because the UNHCR is choosing our Syrian refugees from its camps dominated by Sunni Muslims, you can expect the numbers (the percentage) of Muslim refugees to continue just about as they have been this past fiscal year.
I’m sorry if this news is repetitive for our regular readers, but I want the mainstream media to stop being so lazy (or duplicitous) when reporting on the Syrians who have come so far.
I repeat, these numbers will not change going forward unless we get the UN out of the business of picking refugees for us!
This data is directly from the US State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. I thought if I did the research maybe reporters wouldn’t be so lazy in reporting it!
In fiscal year 2015 we admitted 1,682 Syrians through the Refugee Admissions Program. Religious affiliation is as follows:
Atheist (2)
Bahai (2)
Christian (29)
Moslem (53)
Moslem Shiite (10)
Moslem Suni (1,537)
No Religion (1)
Orthodox (1)
Other Religion (5)
Zorastrian (6)
That makes it 97% Muslim!
When you see politicians like Senators Mikulski, Cardin, Graham, Blumenthal and others we have mentioned this past week advocating for more Syrians, remember they are advocating for more MUSLIM Syrians to be admitted and placed in your towns, not truly persecuted Christians!
Update October 8th: Reader Greg sends us this update postfrom Welcoming America (see it for more cities).
I missed this White House news last month, so thanks to reader Greg for sending it. And, note to Miranda Blue, here, who seems to think I am making this all up—-that Obama is diversifying your towns and cities and using government goodies to do it!
This is about changing America by changing the people!
Go here to learn more about Welcoming America, which I first mentioned on these pagesin June 2013. By the way, they have long since taken down the discussion on their site about how they got Soros seed money. Obama’s Task Force on New Americans is here.
Be sure to see also—Obama, big smooch for Lubell, here. Lubell’s Welcoming America began first in Tennessee as Welcoming Tennessee and with the help of seed money from George Soros expanded to become a national organization and a federal contractor (they get $$$ from the Office of Refugee Resettlement). They ‘community organize’ to push back where ‘Pockets of Resistance’ form.
From Welcoming America:
The White House today launched the Building Welcoming Communities Campaign, accelerating the growing movement of communities that are becoming more prosperous by embracing immigrants and fostering opportunity for all. Launched during National Welcoming Week, the Campaign is part of a broader package of announcements made by the White House Task Force on New Americans.
Already, 40 early acceptor US cities and counties have already signed on to the campaign, from Pittsburgh to Boise, Atlanta to Detroit. The groups include cities and counties big and small from across the country.
The campaign will help better connect federal resources with local communities in order to expand immigrant integration efforts.It calls on local communities to commit to and act on a set of principles that focus on building inclusive communities that enable all residents to thrive, while advancing immigrant civic, linguistic and economic integration.
Said Welcoming America Executive Director David Lubell, “Communities across the country are already recognizing that they gain an economic edge and invigorate their communities when they create environments where everyone can participate and thrive. We applaud the White House and the New Americans Taskforce for this major boost to the movement of Welcoming communities during National Welcoming Week, and look forward to supporting the federal taskforce and communities in this effort because we know it will help jumpstart economic growth and vitality.”
In November 2014, President Obama created the White House Task Force on New Americans which in April released a federal strategic action plan, Strengthening Communities by Welcoming All Residents: A Federal Strategic Action Plan on Immigrant & Refugee Integration. The Building Welcoming Communities Campaign is a key element of this action plan and the federal government’s strategy to support immigrant integration. As part of this campaign, federal agencies will be leveraging their resources in support of communities to help foster greater civic, economic and linguistic participation. [“Leveraging resources” is code for giving your tax dollars to local governments who toe-the-line on diversifying your town—ed]
Participating communities will also demonstrate their progress along a Welcoming Communities Roadmap, and depending on their level of commitment, will be assisted through a public private partnership which will offer technical assistance and support from federal agencies, as well as from national non-governmental partners led by Welcoming America. The initial national partners for the campaign include National Skills Coalition, NALEO, Cisneros Center for New Americans, World Education Services – Global Talent Bridge, IMPRINT, Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Partnership for a New American Economy, World Education, YMCA of the USA, NCLR, and the National Partnership for New Americans.
Is your city following the Obama roadmap to diversity?
Allegheny County, PA, Denver, CO, Oakley, CA, Atlanta, GA, Detroit, MI. Philadelphia, PA, Austin, TX, Dodge City, KS, Pittsburgh, PA, Baltimore, MD, Grand Forks, ND, San Francisco, CA, Boise, ID, High Point, NC, San Francisco County, CA, Boston, MA, Houston, TX, San Jose, CA, Buffalo, NY, Lincoln, NE, Santa Fe, NM, Charlotte, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Schuyler, NE, Chicago, IL, Louisville, KY, Seattle, WA, Clinton Township, MI, Macomb County, MI, St. Louis, MO, Columbus, OH, Montgomery County, MD, St. Louis County, MO, Crete, NE, Nashville, TN, Sterling Heights, MI, Dayton, OH, New Orleans, LA, Toledo-Lucas County, OH, Decatur, GA, New York, NY, York, PA.
Here (below) is what they say about me, and they got it right! They quoted me accurately and by snipping the interview, they made me sound more articulate!
“Obama is changing America by changing the people!”
Although they mean to jeer about what I say, I am so thrilled to have this information get out to an even wider circle. Thank youRight Wing Watch!
Thank you Miranda Blue!
(By the way, I see my little youtube is now at almost 1.7 million views! Ms. Blue will you help it reach 2 million people!)
Update August 2020! Wow! Haven’t looked back but that video is now over 3.6 million views!
Here is Right Wing Watch (emphasis is mine):
Ann Corcoran, the head of Refugee Resettlement Watch and the leading voice against efforts to settle refugees in the United States, warned last month that President Obama is using Syrian refugees as part of his plot to “diversify every town in America” as he goes about “changing America by changing the people, literally.”
Corcoran, who has previously warned that refugee resettlement is being used to “rub diversity in the noses of conservative communities” and push “the whole multicultural meme,”told the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney on his “Secure Freedom Radio” program, “There’s going to be a demographic examination of your town to see how diverse you are, and you will be rewarded if you’re sufficiently diverse and you will be not rewarded with government grants and so on and so forth if you’re insufficient in the diversity area. It is really, he is changing America by changing the people, literally.”
Gaffney shared Corcoran’s concerns, saying that Obama “was about the fundamental transformation of America, and a key element of that strategy, it certainly seems, through the refugee resettlement and other techniques … has been to change the population, change the demographics of our society.”
Right Wing Watch previously mentioned me here(only 3 times so far). Go here and have fun looking at who else makes the news there.
Right Wing Watch is a project of ‘People for the American Way,‘ one of many of George Soros’ pet projects. ***Update***More on People for the American Way was just brought to my attention, here.
Next! I will reach the pinnacle of my career if the Southern Poverty Law Centerlists me on their ‘haters’ list….
Addendum: Have you been noticed by Right Wing Watch, if so, consider it an honor. If you or your group haven’t been mentioned yet, that is a goal to work toward! Please let us know if you have joined this august body!
And thanks to reader Robin for letting me know that the Southern Poverty Law Center does mention me several times: here and here (they say “people take me seriously” imagine that!).
For all of you who had to do something productive yesterday afternoon, like go to work! here is a link to the C-span videoof the hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest that ran a little over two hours. Senator Jeff Sessions, Chairman Judiciary Subcommittee Immigration and the National Interest As far as we can tell this is the first Congressional oversight hearing held on the refugee program since 911!
Everyone in ‘Pockets of Resistance’must watch it! You will learn so much!
See our post hereon the hearing so you know the background and who the players are.
I’ve got way too much to do before I leave for travel today, but there are a few things that interested me (among many!) that I want to draw your attention to when you watch the video.
If any readers would like to write a short commentary on what you found most informative/shocking or whatever, please send it my way and I’ll post when I return from Tennessee.
Below, not necessarily in order either time-wise or in importance. (If anyone has time to send me the time stamps for these exchanges, I would be very grateful.)
Somali fraud!
Witness Barbara Strack (USCIS) actually mentioned the widespread fraud discovered in the family reunification portion of the program back in 2008. She deserves credit for mentioning it, but of course most listeners probably did not know what she was talking about. This was in response to Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) suggesting family reunification be expanded.
Here is the background! First revealed by the Wall Street Journalin 2008, the US State Department learned that thousands of Somali refugees had entered the US by lyingon their applications about family relationships. The so-called P-3 program was suspended for years as a result! None of the fraudulent entrants were ever deported. Go hereto see links for the news.
So all the discussion about “interviews” as part of the process of gaining entry into the US is suspect because, guess what! They lie!
Consultation is a joke!
Near the end of the hearing, Senator Sessions asked about whether there was consultation with the communities that would be receiving the refugees, and Lawrence Bartlett (US State Department) said with a straight face that there are quarterly consultations with stakeholders and elected officials.
He did not mention that the taxpaying public is prohibited from attending! He did not mention that if elected officials are hostile, they aren’t invited. He did not mention that in many communities there is no quarterly meeting. He did not mention that the meeting usually only involves ‘stakeholders’ that are friendlies. Go here to a post we wrote in May about the efforts by citizens in St. Cloud, MN to get into a ‘quarterly consultation’ (while ‘leaders of the Somali ‘community’ had been invited), but were told initially that they were not permitted to attend. (After a public outcry, a few representatives of the concerned public did eventually gain entry to a sanitized meeting.)
They really don’t know who the Syrians are!
Perhaps the most embarrassing moments of the hearing for witnesses were when Mr. Matthew Emrich (Associate Director, Fraud Detection And National Security Directorate of the USCIS) could not tell Senator Sessions how they could possibly collect data on the Syrians who have left their failed state. When we get a bit of the video pulled for that exchange, we’ll link it. ***Update*** here(thanks to reader Robin) is the exchange between Senator Sessions and Mr. Emrich.
Boston Bombers exchange
If you were confused by the exchange on the Tsarnaev (Boston Bomber family) and Ms. Strack’s assertion that they were not “refugees,” she was technically correct. We bring refugees into the country after we/UNHCR select them.
It was widely reported after the bombing that the family had been granted asylum (under the provisions of the Refugee Act of 1980). That means that one of them (the Dad we suspect) got into the US through some other means (perhaps overstayed a tourist visa) and applied for asylum and was successful and thus was allowed to bring in the family. As asylees (successful asylum seekers) they are then generally referred to as ‘political refugees’ and can (and did!) avail themselves of all the same welfare goodies that refugees receive.
The fact that they were travelling back and forth to their place of supposed persecution should have been a red-flag to immigration officials.
Senator Sessions needs to press Ms. Strack further in follow-up questions to identify the exact LEGAL program the Tsarnaev’s used to enter the country, unless, and this would be headline news, they were here illegally (and being supported on the taxpayer’s dime).
See also, Brenda Walker’s take on the hearing, hereat Limits to Growth (she posted Senator Sessions wrap-up statement).
I’ll add additional media reports here as they come in today (before I leave if possible).
Be sure to see Leo Hohmann at WND here on the hearing.
