Category: Other Immigration

Europeans freaking out over African exodus

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Bloomberg has titled the story “Biblical Exodus.”   It begins here:

As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.

“They cannot be allowed on the shore,” Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. “Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land.”

Camp of Saints anyone?

More on trafficking illegal alien Somalis to Malta

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This would be funny if it weren’t so serious.  The Times of Malta reported yesterday that a Somali has been sentenced to four years in prison for bringing boatloads of illegal aliens from Libya to the island nation of Malta (for a handsome profit of course).  But, here is the hitch and the funny part.  He was turned in by a “client” for cheating the client (the illegal alien) because he didn’t get the illegal alien to the illegal alien’s hoped-for destination.

So did he go to jail for trafficking or lying to his “client?”   And, can the illegal alien “client” now stay in Malta or will authorities and the US Ambassador to Malta move the guy on to a town near you as the Ambassador and the US State Department have done with hundreds of other Somalis who have managed to get to Malta over the last few years!

From The Times of Malta:

A man found guilty of organising boat trips to get illegal immigrants from Libya to Europe was this morning jailed for four years and six months and fined €270.

Mohamed Muhudiin Dhiblaawe had been reported to the police by Somali Omar Hasan Nour in March 2009, who ended in Malta after paying Mr Dhiblaawe $900 for the trip.

Mr Nour reported Mr Dhiblaawe to the police because he felt robbed as he did not intend his destination to be Malta.

Following investigations, the police found that the accused transported people from Libya to Europe because of the massive profits involved. The accused had spoken to Mr Nour and others in Libya and offered to help them travel to Europe for the equivalent of €600 each.

The accused had promised to make all the necessary arrangements and gave the Somalis all the necessary instructions for the escape.

For more of this sort of humor, check out my post on Malta in January to see how one Somali traveler through Malta got sent to the US and is complaining about it!   The post also has some links on our precedent-setting arrangement to scoop up illegal aliens in Malta and transform them into refugees for resettlement in your neighborhood.   This practice has been going on since at least 2007 when I started to follow the issue during the Bush Administration.  Bush started it, and Obama continues it.

Human Rights First: Bring them over from Libya ASAP

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It was just a matter of time for the drums to begin beating—bring the North African refugees to America by expediting the resettlement process!

Human Rights First in a press release yesterday stressed the “urgent need” to begin resettling refugees from Libya to the United States.

Don’t be taken in by this, this is what the refugee industry loves—an emergency that allows them to bring more of the third world to America and skip the normal resettlement process.  I warned here a few weeks ago to be on the look-out for the PR lobbying campaign to begin.   Next thing you know they will be demanding an airlift as the Center for American Progress did here with Iraqis in 2009.  Thank goodness, even Obama didn’t fall for that outrageous demand.

From Human Rights First (emphasis mine):

As the international community responds to migrants and refugees fleeing Libya, the particular resettlement needs of refugees in Libya must also be prioritized through emergency resettlement to third countries including the United States.

[….]

To make resettlement an effective solution for this population, the United States should immediately remove unnecessary processing delays in the resettlement program that continue to hinder the resettlement of refugees from different parts of the world to the United States.

So what do they have in mind for removing processing delays?

Improve the timeliness of resettlement processing, including through reducing unnecessary delays in the security clearance process.

[….]

Develop and implement an emergency resettlement procedure for refugees facing imminent danger.  [airlift?]

Speed up the security process and haul them in here fast!   I’ll bet at this very moment refugee industry insiders are plotting with our Ambassador to Malta to get as many as they can to Malta and make that the springboard to the US.

NumbersUSA working on five immigration reduction bills

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This is very cool.  It’s a chart at NumbersUSA showing the five bills they believe are gaining momentum in the US House of Representatives.  The chart tells us which legislators are signing on to each.  See if your Representatives are brave or too chicken to reduce immigration numbers, here.

Of course the refugee program is never on the hit list—it’s a bridge too far for most of the politically correct in Washington, DC.  However, I think there is one major step that could set the refugee program on a more sensible footing—REQUIRE ALL REFUGEE FAMILIES TO BE INDIVIDUALLY SPONSORED BY PRIVATE (TRULY CHARITABLE) GROUPS AND GET THE VOLAG (CONTRACTORS) MIDDLEMEN OUT OF IT ALTOGETHER!

Deported immigrant returned to US and ripped off over a million $ from food stamp program

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As some of you know, I started following food stamp scams back in 2007 when our local convenience story owner, a Pakistani, was investigated and ultimately convicted on food stamp fraud, and I think I’ve seen it all.  But, this story takes the cake.  This guy had been deported tens years ago for food stamp fraud, got back into the US, and now is busted again in Connecticut.

Oh, and I keep begging for some other enterprising blogger or would-be-blogger to start a blog just to follow the immigrant food stamp scammers and maybe those ripping off medicare and medicaid too.  You would be busy every day!

For those new to food stamp fraud, most of it where large sums are involved, works like this:   the store clerk, owner, manager exchanges cash for stamps usually at a rate of 50 cents on the dollar.  The store clerk gives the “customer” the 50 cents and then turns around and is reimbursed a dollar out of your (taxpayer) pockets.

From the Hartford Courant:

A Dominican citizen, convicted and deported from Hartford about a decade ago for food stamp fraud, sneaked back into the city and set up a new network of bodegas that he used to swindle an additional $1.6 million from the food stamp program, authorities said.

Apolinar E. Collado, 43, who lived most recently in Wethersfield, reached a plea bargain deal with federal prosecutors in the new fraud case and on Friday pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a single count of food stamp fraud that could send him to prison for up to 20 years.

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Collado is accused of illegal practices such as trading cash for food stamp benefits at discounted rates and selling prohibited items like cigarettes and beer at inflated rates to food stamp holders.

After being deported about a decade ago, authorities said, Collado, also known locally as Jose Adams, David Martin and “Polo,” returned to Hartford illegally in 2003 and began an “extensive scheme” to steal money from the food stamp program through a succession of four stores…

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Because his first conviction and deportation in the 1990s barred Collado from participating in the food stamp program, he used nominee, or straw, owners to sign checks, open bank accounts, and otherwise act as proprietors of the new chain of stores.

There is more, read it all.

Just a reminder to refugee agencies, I have started to see arrests of those SELLING their food stamps as well as the buyers.

For much more on food stamp fraud, use our search function.  I wish I had set up a category for it, but had no clue it would be so extensive.