They are changing America by changing the people
I should have posted this news here at RRW when I wrote about it two days ago at my other blog. If you aren’t familiar with Temporary Protected Status, go here and follow links to learn more. Essentially TPS is a backdoor amnesty for many ethnic groups including Hondurans, Haitians and Somalis (among others).
I remain puzzled why advocates for refugees seem not to mind that all these illegal aliens are in direct competition for jobs with refugees since those on TPS do get work authorization.
An Australian member of parliament is in the doghouse with the politically correct Australian speech police for suggesting that immigrants to Australia be taught about hygiene and other cultural norms when they arrive in the country.
Here is the story from The Telegraph. Oh, and by the way, I remember hearing similar complaints from refugee hotbeds such as Shelbyville, TN and Emporia, KS. So it must be a worldwide problem (that few are willing to talk about!).
An Australian politician has defended controversial calls for new migrants to be taught to wear deodorant, saying her remarks about cultural awareness of hygiene had been blown out of proportion.
Teresa Gambaro, a conservative MP who speaks about citizenship issues for the opposition, sparked a public backlash for suggesting that immigrants coming to Australia on work visas should be taught about social norms.
Wearing deodorant and standing patiently in queues without pushing in were some of the issues she nominated as important.
“Without trying to be offensive we are talking about hygiene and what is an acceptable norm in this country when you are working closely with other co-workers,” Ms Gambaro told The Australian newspaper.
“Sometimes these things are not talked about because people find them offensive but if people are having difficulty getting a job, for instance, it may relate to their appearance and these things need to be taken into account.”
The remarks were dismissed as “bizarre and silly” by Immigration Minister Chris Bowen who said they “could have been expected in 1952 not in 2012”, and Attorney General Nicola Roxon accused Gambaro of being “patronising”.
“Bizarre and silly”? This woman would not have made up the allegation that some immigrants smell; people surely have brought this problem to her attention, and as their representative, it is her responsibility to address those concerns.
And, I have to laugh about this comment that this “could have been expected in 1952”—YES, OF COURSE, BECAUSE IN 1952 THE POLITICALLY CORRECT SPEECH COPS HAD NOT YET COME INTO EXISTENCE and immigrants were expected to adapt to their new country (and wash)!
It is BOKO HARAM. It is the Islamic group that recently took credit for the Christmas day bombings in Nigeria. The group is looking to establish a shariah government in that country, but they could get in here—into the US.
Recently I picked up the December issue of Government Security News on my kitchen table and noticed this story (below). Turns out that there were hearings in the US House of Representatives on Boko Haram with an emphasis on the possibility that they could be in the US.
Everybody knows Al Qaeda by now, and readers of RRW surely know the name Al Shabaab (or Shabab), so here is a new African Islamic supremacist group:
The Nigerian Islamist sect that bombed the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital on Aug. 26, killing more than 20, could bring its terror tactics to the US, warned a report from members of the House Homeland Security Committee and its counterterrorism subcommittee.
The report, issued by Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence, said Boko Haram could be the next face of terror in the U.S. Their report, issued following a House hearing on the group, said it has quickly evolved and “poses an emerging threat” to the US homeland and interests. They requested the State Department to investigate classifying it as a terror group, saying it could be working with Al Qaeda affiliates in Algeria and Al Shabaab in Nigeria to develop and coordinate on operational plans.
Boko Haram Islamists want to create a Sharia-only nation in northern Nigeria and ignore Nigeria’s constitution and the country’s President Goodluck Jonathan. They also believe western education and any product of it are blasphemous. Experts on the group say the name “Boko Haram” is a rough combination of Arabic and Nigerian words that mean “western education is a sin.”
And, then I note in this report on the hearings, that the report urges the intelligence community to begin work in the Nigerian diaspora in the US. I guess they now realize they were asleep at the switch as Al Shabaab recruited in the US Somali “community” about 5 years ago.
Conduct outreach with Nigerian Diaspora communities in the United States: The US government should develop relationships with Nigerian Diaspora communities in the United States to learn more about Boko Haram and the factors driving its evolution, intent, capability, and targeting. Through familial and personal relationships, Diaspora communities in the United States provide a unique and invaluable perspective on their home country.
So far we aren’t taking Nigerian refugees (that we have been told!), but plenty get into the US through the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, here (6000 in 2011).
I’m sure you will be hearing much more about BOKO HARAM!
A few noteworthy Republican members of Congress are backing the idea—-Senators Scott Brown and Marco Rubio and Representative Illeana Ros-Lehtinen.
One of the primary reasons they say they want to speed up the migration—the immigrants will work (and maybe not work) and send lots of money back to Haiti. Florida’s unemployment rate is still above 10%, so how much working will they be doing? Massachusetts’ unemployment rate is much better at around 7%, so I suppose they can all go live there.
From the Palm Beach Post:
MIAMI — With the two-year anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaching next week, members of Congress are joining Haitian-American community leaders to push the Obama administration to help more Haitians get visas to live and work in the U.S.
They want to fast-track visas for tens of thousands of Haitians whose petitions to join relatives in this country already have been approved. A cap on the number of visas that the U.S. grants each year, though, means it can take a decade for a visa to be issued.
It’s estimated that more than 100,000 Haitians are on the waiting list for visas to join their families in the U.S., and more than 15,000 of them are the spouses and children of U.S. citizens, according to the Dec. 22 letter sent by eight members of Florida’s congressional delegation to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio both signed, as did six U.S. representatives, including Democrat Frederica Wilson, whose Miami district represents more Haitians than any other in Congress, and Republican Illeana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Some members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, including U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown, and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick sent similar messages to Napolitano in the fall.
Read it all.
Readers: This is cross-posted from Potomac Tea Party Report and I thought some of our readers here might find it interesting. TPS is another “legal” immigration program that has gone wrong.
TPS is Temporary Protected Status and is perhaps the ultimate scam and backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens in the US. Whenever you are tempted to say that “legal” immigration is a good thing, think about TPS. It is legal alright but truly a scandal.
I’ve told you about this on many occasions, but Salvadorans who got into the US illegally decades ago can continue to stay and work (and receive all the benefits of an American citizen short of voting) when TPS is extended for them every few years.
It works like this: illegals (like all the Leftists, including Sandinistas, who got in here in the 1980’s with the help of the “sanctuary movement”) got lucky when either hurricanes or earthquakes, or sometimes political unrest, hit El Salvador and the US government said, oh poor babies, we can’t send you back right now because it would be a hardship on El Salvador—you can just continue to stay!
Salvadorans make up perhaps the largest segment of the so-called “Hispanic” population in the Maryland/DC area.
I’ve been expecting this—the big political push for another extension (the present TPS expires in March for Salvadorans).
And, by the way, they now have the far Left government in El Salvador they have longed for, and as far as I know there are no natural disasters happening at the moment—-IT’S TIME TO SEND THEM HOME!
Here is the news yesterday:
San Salvador, Jan 4 (Prensa Latina) Salvadorean Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez will travel on Friday to the United States to promote the extension of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants.
The TPS was adopted after the 2001 earthquakes and its validity expires on March 8 this year. It covers the stay in that country of some 215,000 Salvadoreans so far.
[This 2001 TPS designation was not the first one!—please search PTPR (or here at RRW) for ‘Temporary Protected Status’ and ‘Sanctuary movement’ for the many posts I’ve written on this because I’m too tired to pull all the links tonight.—ed]
Martinez said the U.S. government could announce the extension between January 6 and 9.
We have always said that we have great and very positive expectations that the announcement is positive, but it corresponds to U.S. authorities to make that decision, said Martinez.
*Martinez met in Washington in November with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to request an extension of the TPS.
According to U.S. officials, some 2.5 million Salvadoreans live in the country, mostly undocumented, and Martinez said that the Foreign Ministry is ready to help their compatriots to register with the TPS.
So why do you think Martinez wants so many of his countrymen to stay in the US, besides the fact that this is part of the Marxist infiltration of the US? Because El Salvador wants all the US dollars the illegal aliens send “home”! And, remember that Montgomery County set up special banking arrangements with El Salvador—there are bucks to be made all around.
And, what do you think the chances are that Obama will deny this extension in the election year (or ever for that matter)—zilch, zero, nada!
*An afterthought this morning: Martinez isn’t coming here to lobby, it’s probably a done deal. He will be here to be seen in some photo-op when the deed is accomplished in a few days.