Category: Other Immigration

No leading Republican Presidential wannabe willing to tackle “refugee fraud”

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NJ Governor Chris Christie gets an F!

Only one, and she is not a front-runner, has done anything to take on the thorny issue of fraud in the refugee program.

NumbersUSA has ranked some top Presidential contenders for 2012 on their immigration positions.  You can see their scores here.    I argued with NumbersUSA that Palin should be graded higher because she did stand up very visibly in support of Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona Law when that issue burst on the national scene. None of the others said much.

I also argued that Pawlenty, as governor of Minnesota, apparently turned a blind eye to the huge resettlement of refugees into his state, especially presiding over Minneapolis becoming the Somali (crime) capitol of the US and thus should not have gotten the highest grade (C+) of the front-runners.

Today I see that  NumbersUSA has, at the behest of members, given grades to Rep. Michele Bachmann and to NJ Governor Chris Christie, here.  (Neither are considered front-runners at this time.)

Bachmann got a B-.   And, she got a “good” rating for being willing to tackle refugee fraud. (see all ratings here, scroll down page).* I am not surprised to see that Christie, once a favorite of mine, got an F.

Christie also has come under enormous criticism recently (especially among anti-jihadists) for his appointment of a controversial Muslim attorney to a Court position in New Jersey causing this opinion writer at the Star Ledger to question how “conservative” Christie actually is.  He sums up with this:

I wish some of these radio clowns and talking heads on TV would – to put it bluntly – stop kissing his butt and ask the tough question.

If Norquist praises Christie, well then?

It also gave me pause to hear Grover Norquist play the “bigot” card and then praise Christie and former President George Bush as two politicians who court (or courted) the Muslim vote (we know where that got Bush).  From Politico (Right fractures over Islam):

The Republican party chased away the Catholic vote for over a hundred years,” said Grover Norquist, an ACU board member and a tax activist who has tried to bring Muslim voters in to the GOP for more than a decade. “You chase away people politically. The thing about the political effects of bigotry — it can last generations. It’s tough to fix.”  [Here Norquist sounds like he has taken the talking points of the Leftist open borders gang—oh, that’s right Norquist IS OPEN BORDERS!—ed.]

“The answer is some people are and some people aren’t,” Norquist later told POLITICO in response to a question about whether Republicans were making an effort to court Muslim voters. “Certainly, Chris Christie in New Jersey is. George W. Bush was.”

Someone needs to warn Christie to keep his distance from Norquist!

* I wonder does Rep. Michele Bachmann understand that there is an on-going effort to saturate a city in her district—St. Cloud—with refugees, especially Somali refugees?  St. Cloud had been a secondary migration site but is now a primary resettlement city thanks to the US State Department and the federal contractors working there.  Readers, this is how they do it!

Another way for “refugees” to get to the US

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I’ve been reporting on the “refugee” issue facing Europe in the wake of that much ballyhooed revolution going on in the Arab world (recent posts are here and here).   World Net Daily has suggested another problem to guard against and that is that terrorists getting into Europe pretending to be refugees could easily get a fake passport in some European country and just come on over to the US:

Tens of thousands of people from the North African Arab countries affected by demonstrations and revolts are migrating to the open borders of Europe, creating the threat that terrorists could hide among the migrants and infiltrate host nations, according to security analysts…

The potentially dramatic influx of refugees into countries of the European Union – which have no border restrictions – also is posing an increasing security concern for U.S. officials.

Many of the countries in Europe which will be receiving the refugees are under a visa waiver program with the United States. This means that potential terrorists posing as refugees could obtain false passports that will allow them to gain entry into the U.S. without a visa, thereby making it more difficult to have any record of their entry or whereabouts.

Illinois immigrant agitators want their cut!

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Your tax dollars!

The other day I told you about the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and how they were working with the radical Left and Unions to “organize” in Egypt while living off American taxpayer dollars, here.

Now, it appears that the state of Illinois (not unlike its neighbor Wisconsin) is broke and looking to cut its budget.   Immigrant “SERVICES” are on the chopping block and the ICIRR is crying foul—-waaahhhh!  They want to be sure to keep their millions coming from Illinois taxpayers.

So, they are now agitating at their website (I sure hope we aren’t going to see them drag out poor refugee pawns to protest like the immigrant agitators did in Washington State a week ago, here.)  They want people to write and call the governor.

From ICIRR:

On Wednesday, February 16th, Governor Quinn presented a proposed state budget that cuts immigrant services by 74% over the budget two years ago, with a 56% cut proposed for next year alone. Refugee services are scheduled for a 69% cut next year.

Every Governor in Illinois from Governor Jim Edgar forward has supported increases in the Immigrant Services Line Item within the Illinois Department of Human Services. This line item is the only part of the State of Illinois budget that specifically assists immigrants to become full contributors in Illinois, with U.S. citizenship assistance; emergency food, healthcare, and domestic violence assistance to immigrant families in crisis; and economic development, English, and welcoming, and volunteerism programs.

This year the State proposes to slash the immigrant services line item 74%: from $8.6 million in FY10 to a proposed $2.5 million in FY12.

By the way, ICIRR notes that funding for the generic (genuine) poor was not cut.

Immigrant SERVICE agencies may go bankrupt, moans ICIRR.  But here is my question, why do we need immigrant services geared to various ethnic groups in the first place? Or, is ICIRR (and its compatriots) afraid they will lose some of their funds that are used for political activism (maybe they won’t get to go to Egypt in September and meet their friends with the Muslim Brotherhood)?

With the proposed cuts some 11 small immigrant-serving agencies will collapse in bankruptcy, and another 34 immigrant service agencies will be crippled.

Then ICIRR has the audacity (gee, someone else from Illinois has that too) to make the claim that the high number of immigrants in Illinois (US Census showed a dramatic 32.5 increase since 2000 in the Hispanic population in Illinois) has helped the Illinois economy and kept it from collapsing as the population of the state declines and American born residents move elsewhere.

Josh Hoyt (agitator in chief at ICIRR) then throws in this line:

Immigrants are 50 percent more likely than native-born Illinoisians to start their own businesses.

Readers, that is because immigrants and refugees get special treatment through government grants and micro-loans with banks to set up businesses.  Did you ever wonder how all those Somali trinket and food shops are popping up in places like Lewiston, ME while in the back room they send money abroad.  You helped with their start-up funding.  It is a lucrative business.

So then my question is this:  IF IMMIGRANTS ADD SO MUCH TO THE ECONOMY OF ILLINOIS, WHY DO THEY NEED TAXPAYER FUNDED SERVICES SPECIALLY FOR THEM?

This isn’t about helping the poor, this is about getting your money for their political purposes.

Some countries calling for emergency EU meeting on illegal immigrants

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As unrest continues across North Africa and the Arab world, some European countries are worried enough to call for an emergency meeting next week to discuss defending Fortress Europe.

From RIA Novosti:

Europe’s pain is even worse[the author said America’s pain is its split personality on the uprisings]. It is worried that the instability across the Mediterranean will unleash a flood of illegal immigration to the Old World. They fear a repeat of what happened right after the collapse of communism in1989.

The first alarm bell went off when Italians detained 4,000 Tunisian refugees on a boat in the Mediterranean in early February.

Italy and Malta were the first to respond to the alarm. They are now calling for an emergency EU summit on illegal immigration and defending Fortress Europe from an onslaught from the south. A conference of foreign ministers is scheduled for February 24-25 in Brussels, although EU officials insist that it is all but impossible to prepare a summit so quickly. Moreover, Berlin, Paris and London are not as worried as Rome about the scale of the “invasion.” Silvio Berlusconi demanded that Italy receive an additional 100 million euros for “processing” the detained illegals and sending them home, or 25 thousand euros per capita so far, which seems a tad excessive. But Rome and Valetta are now supported by other countries on the front line, such as Spain and Portugal, which are the closest to Africa. The EU has already outlined measures to protect its borders.

Imagine if we started talking about defending Fortress America!

House voting today on cuts to immigration programs and cuts for refugee funding

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Action Alert!

This is a day for any of you who are concerned about your tax dollars going to federal contractors like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops I told you about earlier this morning, here, to contact your Congressman and let him or her know what you think about spending for more immigration and more immigrants.

MicEvHill (for February 16th) has a whole list of items to possibly be cut and I am overjoyed to see that there is a move to stop all funding for the Diversity Visa Lottery.  I just mentioned this incredible program recently that allows tens of thousands of immigrants to simply enter a lottery to add more diversity to America.  Just look at the countries sending us DIVERSITY!

Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA) has proposed an amendment #225 to kill the funding for the Diversity Visa!  Tell your Congressman to vote for the Goodlatte Amendment to HR 1 (the continuing resolution for FY2011 funding).

See MicEvHill here for more possible amendments seeking to cut refugee program funding.

Numbers USA is urging action on these immigration funding issues today (green is good, red is bad).