Category: Other Immigration

Emporia, KS has more immigrant issues cooking

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Emporia, KS was embroiled in the Somali refugee issue for months (see our whole category here), now comes news that workers brought in to do welding and other work on the construction of an energy plant may have been here illegally.  One hundred Filipino workers have headed who knows where, to a town near you maybe, after the whistle was blown.  Hat tip:  Bluelitespecial. 

I guess some cities just can’t get a break!

This brings to mind a point I’ll make in the next post too.  I cringe now when I hear people say, I’m fine with legal immigration it’s the illegal that I have a problem with.   Bottomline, all immigration needs to be reformed in the United States.   Ostensibly these workers were here legally, until someone thought to check it out.   If we have a shortage of welders in the US, why aren’t we making a push to get more young people into welding and pay them well?

Check out the latest from Emporia here.

This story reminds me of the 100 Nepalese workers missing in Alabama last winter.  I wonder if they were ever found?

Islamic Danger to Americans: Muslim Immigration

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I just discovered a new blog, new for me at least, entitled “Islamic Danger to Americans.”   Today it posts an article written by Debbie Schlussel about Muslim Immigration.    Check it out here:  http://islamicdanger4u.blogspot.com/2008/04/muslim-immigration-americas-biggest.html

(still have not figured out how to insert links in this new WordPress)

For Debbie Schlussel’s blog see our blogroll at left.

 

 

Laughing out Loud over Food Stamp fraud comments

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I know the Food Stamp fraud going on in the US is no laughing matter, but comments by a spokesperson for the Michigan Attorney Generals Office are just too funny to believe.    We have written a few times on Food Stamp fraud always with the disclaimer that as far as we know it doesn’t involve refugees, but since it’s allegedly occuring in Hagerstown, MD, it’s of interest to us.

I’ve also told you before that we can see what people are searching for that brings them to RRW and lately there have been a spate of searches for the Food Stamp fraud issue.    I decided then to see what all the interest is and came upon this article from The Arab American News in mid-March.   They are referring to this case that Debbie Schlussel posted on in February.

Read this amazingly hilarious demonstration of political correctness:

DEARBORN — Twenty seven people arrested by state police in February for alleged food card fraud all seem to be of Arab descent, judging by their names—all recognizable Arab family names.

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But a spokesperson for Attorney General Mike Cox’s office said that doesn’t necessarily mean there is a problem specific to the Arab American community.

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“Folks who commit crimes together usually have a common link,” said spokesman Matt Frendewey.

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Sometimes that link, he said, is a common ethnicity. He compared it to biker gangs, often made up entirely of white males, who might commit crimes together.

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“It would be very inaccurate to say that it speaks to the Arab American community.”

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Frendewey said it was never even apparent to the attorney general’s office that that all those involved were Arab Americans until pointed out by The Arab American News.

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The 27 suspects — owners and employees of eight Detroit party stores and gas stations — are accused of engaging in more than $1.5 million worth of illegal dealing in food card benefits

To the person who asked me last night why our government is so obtuse to the Muslim problem, this demonstrates one reason.

I will say it isn’t all Arab names, in some cases the names are Pakistani.  Now, going back to the biker gang analogy, what would Arabs and Pakistanis have in common?

Homeland Security Secretary testifies to Congress on immigration

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The Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, yesterday told a Senate panel that his department had made great strides to protect the American public from “dangerous people.”    Most of his testimony centered around measures to control illegal immigration, but emphasized near the end of his statement that immigrants must “assimilate” and he lists in Part V of his testimony what measures are being taken to accomplish that goal. 

I was happy to see that the word “assimilate” had not become a dirty word over at Homeland Security.  Read his whole testimony here.