VDARE: Call Your “State Refugee Coordinator” And Ask How Many Phony Refugees From The Southwest Border Are Coming To YOUR State!

07/07/2014 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

VDARE posted a call to action last night for you to contact your state refugee coordinator this week and ask: are the unaccompanied alien minors (UACs) coming to your state?

And, by the way, the federal refugee contractors have action alerts out this week to their open borders activists to call Congress for more money for them (the children and the contractor)!

Protesters turn back Homeland Security buses in Murietta, CA last week. http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2014/07/01/protesters-turn-back-busloads-immigrants-murrieta/11945751/

VDARE (emphasis mine):

Hard information on the phony refugee (“The children!”) surge at the Southwest border is hard to come by. This is true even if you’re a congressman—when Jim Bidenstine (R- OK) showed up at a holding camp in his home state he was stonewalled.

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Between the ballot boxes (months away) and “the streets” (rare to nonexistent in American history) there’s citizen pressure on our despotic elites and their kept bureaucrats.

This is where VDARE.com readers come in. Are swarms of “The children!” coming to your state?

If they are, your state’s refugee coordinator will probably be among the first to know. So phone “your” coordinator – contact information is below—and, politely, ask basic questions such as Where? When? How Many? and What’s it going to cost state and local taxpayers?

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The week starting Monday, July 7 is the time to phone, as VDARE.com has learned that at least some of the coordinators will be on a conference call with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement during the week. It will help if the coordinators are made to understand that many of their fellow citizens are very concerned.

Read it all for more information and to follow the links!

Here and below is a complete list of Refugee resettlement employees in your state, if you can’t get the coordinator, try one of the others especially see the contact information for “regional reps.” Even those “health coordinators” are going to be informed in light of the health issues the “children” will be bringing to the state.

Alabama

State Refugee Coordinator: Jana Curran 251.432.2727
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Catherine Potter 251.432.2727
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Alaska

State Refugee Coordinator: Karen Ferguson 907.222.7376
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Gulnora Kiyamova 907.222.7339
ORR State Analyst: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Arizona

State Refugee Coordinator: Charles Shipman 602.542.6614
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Zachary Holden 602.364.3592
ORR State Analyst: Goran Debelnogich 202.260.7143

Arkansas

State Refugee Coordinator: Lorie Williams 501.682.8256
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Leonard Ntaate Mukasa 501.280.4106
ORR State Analyst: Ramon Colon 202.401.5085

California

State Refugee Coordinator: Thuan Nguyen 916.654.4356
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Marisa Ramos 916.552.8252
ORR State Analyst: Goli Bellinger 202.401.5144
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Colorado

State Refugee Coordinator: Paul Stein 303.863.8217
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Colette Logan Schantz 303.692.6441
ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933
Connecticut

State Refugee Coordinator: David Frascarelli 860.424.5387
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Alison Stratton 860.509.7375
ORR State Analyst: Bill McPherrin 202.401.9324

Delaware

State Refugee Coordinator: Thomas Hall 302.255.9605
ORR State Analyst: Makda Belay 202.401.5087

District of Columbia

State Refugee Coordinator: Debra Crawford 202.299.2153
State Refugee Health Coordinator: MuLunesh Wolermarian 202.698.4325
ORR State Analyst: Rezene Hagos 202.205.8051

Florida

State Refugee Coordinator: Hiram A. Ruiz 786.257.5189 or 305.763.9040 (mobile)
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Kelly A. Browne 850.245.4444 x2306
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

Georgia

State Refugee Coordinator: Michael Singleton 404.657.5118
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Monica L. Vargas 404.679.4981
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

Hawaii

State Refugee Coordinator: Lola Salimova 808.586.8699
ORR State Analyst: Pierrot Rugaba 202.401.6891

Idaho

State Refugee Coordinator: Jan A. Reeves 208.336.4222
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Collin Elias 208.334.0696
ORR State Analyst and Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Illinois

State Refugee Coordinator: Edwin Silverman 312.793.7120 (*departing SRC) / Ngoan Le 312.793.7120
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jenny M. Aguirre 312.814.1538
ORR State Analyst: Goli Bellinger 202.401.5144

Indiana

State Refugee Coordinator: Matthew Schomburg 260.599.0120
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Meredith Upchurch 317.234.7252
ORR State Analyst: Goli Bellinger 202.401.5144

Iowa

State Refugee Coordinator: John Wilken 515.283.7904
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Allan Lynch 515.281.7504
ORR State Analyst: Ramon Colon 202.401.5085

Kansas

State Refugee Coordinator: Lewis A. Kimsey 785.296.0147
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Cyndi Treaster 785.296.8113
ORR State Analyst: Makda Belay 202.401.5087

Kentucky

State Refugee Coordinator: Becky Jordan 502.873.2560 x250
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Allison Pauly 502.873.2560 x116
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

Louisiana

State Refugee Coordinator: Julie Ward 225.242.0311
ORR State Analyst: Pierrot Rugaba 202.401.6891
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Maine

State Refugee Coordinator: Catherine S. Yomoah 207.797.2938
Refugee Health Coordinator: TBD
ORR State Analyst: Goli Bellinger 202.401.5144

Maryland

State Refugee Coordinator: Ann Flagg 410.767.2346
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Dipti D. Shah 410.767.6664
ORR State Analyst: Rezene Hagos 202.205.8051

Massachusetts

State Refugee Coordinator: Josiane Martinez 617.727.7888 x303
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jennifer Cochran 617.983.6596
ORR State Analyst: Pierrot Rugaba 202.401.6891
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Michigan

State Refugee Coordinator: Al Horn 517.241.7819
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Al Horn 517.241.7819
ORR State Analyst: Goran Debelnogich 202.260.7143

Minnesota

State Refugee Coordinator: Gus Avenido 651.431.3837
State Refugee Health Coordinator (Acting): Blain Mamo 651.201.5535
ORR State Analyst: Lorraine Berry 202.401.5532

Mississippi

State Refugee Coordinator: Lorraine Hunter 601.359.4585
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

Missouri

State Refugee Coordinator: Steve Milburn 573.751.6789
State Refugee Health Coordinator: David Oeser 573.751.6411
ORR State Analyst: Lorraine Berry 202.401.5532

Montana

State Refugee Coordinator: Katherine Buckley-Patton 406.444.5288
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Steven Helgerson 406.444.1286
ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147

Nebraska

State Refugee Coordinator: Karen Parde 402.471.9264
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Kristin Gall 402.471.1372
ORR State Analyst: Goran Debelnogich 202.260.7143

Nevada

State Refugee Coordinator: Carisa Lopez.Ramirez 702.387.2266
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Camalla (Camy) Retzl 702.387.2225
ORR State Analyst: Pierrot Rugaba 202.401.6891
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

New Hampshire

State Refugee Coordinator: Barbara Seebart 603.271.6361
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Laura McGlashan 603.271.2688
ORR State Analyst: Bill McPherrin 202.401.9324

New Jersey

State Refugee Coordinator: Annette Riordan 609.631.4534
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Anne Fox 609.588.7500
ORR State Analyst: Goli Bellinger 202.401.5144

New Mexico

State Refugee Coordinator: Kresta.Leigh Opperman 505.827.1328
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Karen Gonzales 505.476.3076
ORR State Analyst: Ramon Colon 202.401.5085

New York

State Refugee Coordinator: Dodie Wheeler 518.402.3096
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Eric Cleghorn 518.474.4845
ORR State Analyst: Bill McPherrin 202.401.9324

North Carolina

State Refugee Coordinator: Marlene Myers 919.527.6304
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jennifer Reed Morillo 919.733.7286 x112
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

North Dakota

State Refugee Coordinator: Laetitia Mizero 701.235.7341
ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Ohio

State Refugee Coordinator: Jennifer R. Johnson 614.644.1174
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Sandra Hollingsworth 614.752.2953
ORR State Analyst: Goran Debelnogich 202.260.7143

Oklahoma

State Refugee Coordinator: Melanie Silva 405.521.4402
ORR State Analyst: Makda Belay 202.401.5087

Oregon

State Refugee Coordinator: Rhonda Prodzinski 503.945.6108
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Deborah Cockrell 503.988.3601 x24231
ORR State Analyst: Makda Belay 202.401.5087

Pennsylvania

State Refugee Coordinator: Norm.Anne Rothermel 717.787.8608
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Asresu Misikir 717.787.3350
ORR State Analyst: Ramon Colon 202.401.5085

Rhode Island

State Refugee Coordinator: Frederick Sneesby 401.462.1669
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Stella Kiarie 401.222.5952
ORR State Analyst: Rezene Hagos 202.205.8051

South Carolina

State Refugee Coordinator: Dorothy Addison 803.898.0989
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Kate Habicht 803.898.0575
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847

South Dakota

State Refugee Coordinator: Tim Jurgens 605.731.2015
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Kristin Rounds 605.773.4470
ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Tennessee

State Refugee Coordinator: Holly Johnson 615.352.9520 x222
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Michael Evans 615.352.9520 x224
ORR Regional Representative: Faith Hurt 404.562.2847
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Texas

State Refugee Coordinator: Caitriona Lyons 512.206.5076
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jessica Montour 512.533.3161
ORR State Analyst: Ramon Colon 202.401.5085

Utah

State Refugee Coordinator: Gerald Brown 801.526.9787
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Amelia Self 801.538.6221
ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147

Vermont

State Refugee Coordinator: Denise Lamoureux 802.871.3162
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Susan Schoenfeld 802.863.7247
ORR State Analyst: Pierrot Rugaba 202.401.6891
ORR Wilson/Fish Program Manager: Carl Rubenstein 202.205.5933

Virginia

State Refugee Coordinator: Kathy Cooper 804.726.7927
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jill Grumbine 804.864.7911
ORR State Analyst: Rezene Hagos 202.205.8051

Washington

State Refugee Coordinator: Tom Medina 360.725.4636
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Jasmine Matheson 206.418.5603
ORR State Analyst: Makda Belay 202.401.5087

West Virginia

State Refugee Coordinator: Suzanne Howard 304.356.4628
ORR State Analyst: Bill McPherrin 202.401.9324

Wisconsin

State Refugee Coordinator: Mette J. Brogden 608.267.9705
State Refugee Health Coordinator: Savitri J. Tsering 608.267.3733
ORR State Analyst: Lorraine Berry 202.401.5532

Wyoming

ORR Regional Representative: Dee Daniels Scriven 303.844.1147

Refugee contractors have organized campaign to get more tax dollars due to border invasion; Tennessee this time

07/06/2014 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Here is one more in a spate of stories ginned-up by the federal refugee contractors*** and their 350 subcontractors to bring media attention to their supposed plight. Waahhhh! We are going to lose funding because of the flood of illegal alien teens (unaccompanied minors) now being treated as asylum-seekers by the Obama Administration (which by the way, the contractors helped encourage to come to America!).

Our solution as I said here yesterday:

Not enough money, stop bringing refugees into the US this year (and next year too).

These people remind me of animal hoarders with a psychological ailment who fill their homes with cats, don’t have the finances to care for them properly, and don’t know when to stop!

From The Tennessean (hat tip: Joanne). LOL! You can always count on The Tennessean to help Catholic Charities whine! Emphasis below is mine:

A surge in children illegally crossing the southwestern U.S. border in recent months may soon have an unexpected impact on refugees living in Nashville.

Last week, President Barack Obama asked Congress for more than $2 billion in emergency funds to help address a growing crisis along the Rio Grande, where more than 52,000 children traveling alone and 40,000 women with children have been apprehended illegally crossing the border since October.

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Holly Johnson, Catholic Charities of Tennessee, decides which ethnic groups and how many refugees will come to the state. The state has no say in the matter. http://www.cctenn.org/node/531

The president’s solution would involve redirecting funding already budgeted for refugee programs across the country. Tennessee stands to lose more than $1.6 million of its annual $11 million budget. The cuts would hit programs designed to serve elderly refugees, children in schools and preventive health care for refugees, according to Holly Johnson, state refugee coordinator for the Tennessee Office of Refugees.

The president’s proposal puts refugee advocates in an uncomfortable position, pitting the needs of the population they serve against those of the newly arrived children…. [Too bad! Maybe the Catholic priests and lobbyists who went to Central America late last year shouldn’t have encouraged the migrants to start moving north!—ed]

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Tennessee accepted more than 1,600 refugees in the last fiscal year. Most of the refugees arriving in Tennessee come from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Somalia and Iran. Refugees, by definition, have fled or been forced to leave their countries to escape violence, persecution or natural disaster.

Definition of a Refugee

Tick me off! Note how reporters just parrot what the contractors tell them about the definition of a refugee. This has been going on for years—the open borders lobby re-defining “refugee” until it means anything they want, including kids who supposedly are fleeing gang violence.

Here is the definition of a refugee as updated in 1967 (from the original 1951 UN Convention):

“A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it..”[8]

Do you see anything in there about wars, violence or natural disasters? Refugees and asylum seekers are supposed to be able to prove they are being persecuted! Economic migrants and people who claim they are fleeing crime are not refugees!

See, US Catholic Bishops call the illegal aliens, refugees, here.

For our growing readership, all of our posts going back several years on ‘unaccompanied minors’ are here.

***The contractors

Unaccompanied alien teenagers could be sent to Michigan; Republican governor not saying No!

07/05/2014 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

US Rep Miller: Send them back and redirect foreign aid to Detroit! Wow!!! Now there is a commonsense proposal! http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/06/congresswoman_suggests_redirec.html

Update July 6th: Looks like Michigan will get those teenaged illegal alien boys after all, here.

The Governor could object, but typical pol is sidestepping the issue!

Michigan is on the map!

From the Detroit News (hat tip: Joanne):

The Snyder administration and a member of Congress from Macomb County are calling on the federal government to solve the crisis of tens of thousands of undocumented children entering the U.S.

But the two differ on what should be done with the refugees who make it into the country, some of whom could end up at a private facility in the Thumb-area community of Vassar.

The governor’s office is not involved in deciding whether children might end up being housed at a Wolverine Human Services facility in the community southeast of Saginaw, Dave Murray, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Snyder, said Thursday. The detainees are paid for and cared for by the federal government, he said.

“We all want to help people. We are a welcoming state,” Murray said. However, “this really is a federal government matter.”

The office of refugee resettlement through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is handling the refugee issue and is seeking facilities across the country that have empty, available beds, Derrick McCree, a senior vice president of Wolverine Human Services of Grosse Pointe Park, said this week.

One of Snyder’s initiatives is to welcome more skilled, legal immigrants to Michigan with the expectation they will help the state’s sluggish economy by establishing businesses and creating jobs. [The kids aren’t skilled, remember this about the Governor’s plan for immigration to Michigan!—ed]

The Republican governor has called for immigration reform, Murray said, adding the situation of undocumented children certainly needs to be addressed.

U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, on Friday said the federal government immediately should return those who recently arrived in the U.S. illegally to the country from where they came.

“It is imperative that the people being apprehended at the border not be released from custody because if they are, it is very unlikely they will ever return for immigration hearings on their status, and they will disappear into society,” Miller said.

Click here for all of our previous coverage of the ‘unaccompanied minors’ invasion.

Go here for contact information and ask your state refugee coordinator if your state is being targeted for a refugee camp!

Catholic Bishops’ report months ago: we lobby for ‘unaccompanied minors’

07/04/2014 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Last night when I wrote about Laura Ingraham’s tweet, here, about the fact that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services program is 98% funded by you (the taxpayer), I should have linked this post that I wrote back in February.

See the whole thing but note what the Bishops said in their November 2013 Report on their “mission” to Central America:

At the national level, the USCCB department of Migration and Refugee Services lobbies to improve options and services for undocumented minors, and oversees a country-wide network of mostly Church-affiliated agencies that administer foster care programs.

With their trip to Central America and the follow-up report one wonders if the Bishops were prescient in predicting 60,000 invaders or were they helping to make it happen?

The Bishops last week called the illegal alien teens “refugees,” here. Indeed the Bishops and the other eight contractors are paid by the head to care for refugees.

One commenter asked last night—when did they become paid functionaries of the government?

For our many new readers, all of our posts on ‘unaccompanied minors’ are here.

See NumbersUSA map! Where feds are trying to relocate ‘unaccompanied minors’

07/04/2014 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

This is probably the most pressing question for readers here at RRW as the immigration apocalypse continues on the border—are they coming to my town?

NumbersUSA has created a cool map to show where some (“refugee children”) will go or have already gone. It also shows where sites have been blocked by local controversy.

Numbers:

Since the border surge gained coverage from the mainstream media last month, the Obama Administration has tried to relocate tens of thousands of newly-arrived illegal aliens to communities across the country.

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NumbersUSA is daily updating this interactive map to show which communities are under threat of the federal government moving large numbers of illegal aliens there from the border.

Go here for the interactive map! And note that there is contact information to report if you hear that a new site is being considered where you live! ***Update*** 7:50 p.m. July 4th: Don’t forget to sign the petition to your members of Congress, at this time 58,822 have signed!

And, if you have never watched:

See Roy Beck at NumbersUSA explaining how America, or civilized nations generally, cannot solve the world’s poverty by moving the overflow to the first world.