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Kentucky, a Wilson-Fish state, has had its share of negative refugee news

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Update June 1:  More negative news—refugee charged with ripping off resettlement contractor and a whole lot more, here.

Kentucky isn’t the largest of the refugee resettlement states but falls within the top 20 for the number of refugees it receives.  In a recent 5 year period—2006-2011—Kentucky resettled 7,883 refugees making it the 17th largest resettlement state, of course nowhere near the top two:  California (46,218) and Texas (34,069) for the same time period.

From now to eternity, the poster boys for refugee resettlement in Kentucky will be convicted Iraqi refugee terrorists!

Kentucky (well, not the state itself, but the non-profits) resettled 1,368 refugees in 2011 which moved them to 16th place for that year.  We know this from the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Annual Report to Congress for 2011.  The ORR is two years behind in supplying Congress with legally required reports for 2012 and 2013 which of course makes it hard for Congress (they don’t seem to care) and for you to see what is going on in your state.

In 2012, Kentucky got 1,452 refugees.  Go here to see where they came from.

Kentucky is a Wilson-Fish state. We told you about that here in a FAQ on W-F.

As a Wilson-Fish state, the federal government (the US State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement in HHS) has chosen, in this case, Catholic Charities to administer the program for the state.

That means that state resources are being used to care for refugees, to educate the kids, to provide housing and healthcare, etc. with NO OVERSIGHT or no control from elected officials in Kentucky!

Catholic Charities is the Kentucky Office for Refugees.   According to a recent Form 990 (2011, most recent available at Guidestar) the ‘Kentucky’ office received $13.1 million in revenue that year and $11.3 million came from you, the taxpayer, in the form of Government grants.  About 86% of their funding comes from taxpayer dollars.

To learn more than you ever wanted to know about Kentucky’s program go here (Kentucky Wilson-Fish Policy and Procedures Manual).

But, Catholic Charities isn’t alone in bringing refugees to Kentucky, according to the ‘Manual,’ five of nine major refugee contractors operate in Kentucky.  They like to call themselves “Voluntary Agencies,”  VOLAGs for short.  They are anything but!  Most of them receive as much as 90+ % of their funding from government sources, they are paid by the head to resettle refugees and thus have no incentive to slow the flow to cities and towns they have deemed “preferred.”

In Kentucky right now the “preferred resettlement sites” are Louisville, Lexington and Owensboro.   Bowling Green used to be “preferred” but has had too many problems with refugee overload, crime and even terrorism so the feds have likely stopped highlighting it as a fabulous place to send refugees at the moment (other than family reunification cases that is).

The nine contractors that monopolize the program, along with their hundreds of subcontractors, have America carved up and turf wars are not uncommon! 

But, I had to laugh when I saw the list of contractors operating in Kentucky, heck!  five of the nine are there and I bet competing and squabbling among themselves.    The five helping supply Kentucky industries with cheap labor (chicken plants perhaps?) are:  Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (helping build Kentucky’s Muslim population?), the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (they all bring Muslims, not just HIAS!).

Before we get too far into the weeds of this thing, let me tell you about some news involving Kentucky’s claim to fame in the refugee resettlement world.

This is so ironic!  Our first mention of Kentucky here at RRW was in 2007 when then Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, Ellen Sauerbrey (Bush appointment) went to Louisville and said we need to bring refugees to America to keep them from becoming terrorists!  I think you know where this is going!

Then in 2008, we had the hot news from Bowling Green that a Bosnian refugee teen was shot in the head by a homeowner who was awakened by the kid breaking in.  Thankfully, the homeowner was not prosecuted having every right to protect himself and his property.

In 2009 we learned from a reader who actually went to meet with the Burmese refugees of Bowling Green in their slum apartments about the deplorable conditions in which the International Center there (a subcontractor of USCRI) had placed scores of Burmese families.  We wrote many posts on the controversy at the time and those can be found by going to our Bowling Green archive.  See also ‘Friends of Refugees’ on the International Center’s mismanagement of refugees there.

The most stunning refugee news to hit Kentucky and the Nation in 2011 was the arrest of two Iraqi refugees on terrorism charges.  They have since been found guilty and are in prison.  Think about it, US taxpayers paid an enormous sum to bring them here and now we get to care for them for life behind bars.  We wrote extensively on the news as it developed, click here to see all of our mentions of the KY Iraqi refugee terrorists.

So what do you think Ellen Sauerbrey would say now when it appears we did bring Iraqi refugees to America and they still wanted to be terrorists!

Senator Rand Paul

Initially we were surprised and grateful that Senator Rand Paul took an interest in the refugee program that had brought those Iraqis to his home town of Bowling Green.  The Senator spoke up several times demanding to know why we were bringing Iraqis and other refugees to America.  Here (in June of last year) he was roundly criticized for saying (correctly!):  ‘we bring’em in and sign them up for welfare.‘

In the nearly seven years we have written about refugees, he is one of only a handful of Senators or Members of Congress to question the program, but unfortunately we haven’t seen much from him on the subject lately.   Gee, I wonder why?

Congolese human trafficker?

And, as we run out of steam on Kentucky, we can’t forget the news last month about accusations that a Congolese refugee could be charged in a human-trafficking case.  Sifa Ndusha’s alleged victim has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was trafficked by Ndusaha.  This is happening in Lexington (a preferred community!).  Read all about it here.

A recommendation to readers in Kentucky and every other state:

If you are troubled by what you see with this federal program, a program we obviously believe has gone completely off track by becoming a money-making scheme for the religious right on the backs of US taxpayers when we have our own poor people in need of “services” and is bringing large numbers of culturally incompatible people to targeted cities, please take the initiative and find out what is going on in your city or in your state.

And, by he way, when you begin following the activities of your local resettlement contractors, they aren’t just using your money for the “refugees,” they also use it for “advocacy” for political issues locally and nationally.  They are all advocating for the Obama amnesty plan.  So do your sleuthing and then…..

….. PUBLISH YOUR FINDINGS so that others may learn from you because the mainstream media is either too lazy or in the tank for the program.   Take some lessons from the political Left and begin agitating your elected officials starting on the city and state level to do something about it.  Some aspects of this program are, we suspect, being administered illegally, so be sure to let your local elected officials know that and perhaps you will find a few of them with some guts willing to fight to protect Americans first.   You might even get really lucky and find some pro bono lawyer willing to take them on.

Don’t let the contractors trap you in their humanitarian do-gooder mumbo jumbo pitch either—remember this is a business they are in and the only difference is that their product is moving immigrants around and finding them “services” with money from you!  They are also busy turning red states blue.

Let your representatives in Washington know too what you have learned, but don’t hold your breath that your solution rests in DC.   We have visited Congressional aids there who tell us they are too scared to take this one on.  Why?  Fear of being called racists?  Fear of the lobbying power of entities like the Catholic and Lutheran Churches?  Fear of the loss of campaign donations from big corporations looking for cheap legal labor? Maybe all three?

 

 

Turkey: We don’t want those Syrian refugees either!

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At least not permanently.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu: Maybe in a couple of years Hillary could be persuaded to take a hundred thousand or so! http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/2009a/06/124413.htm

The UN has been falling all over itself praising Turkey for months for its acceptance of an estimated 1 million Syrians who have streamed across the border to escape the Syrian civil war.  Most of those leaving Syria are Muslims.

Now, we learn that  Muslim Turkey will not accept any Syrian asylum claims and says the Syrians must be resettled in a third country.   Third country:  France?  UK? Germany? Canada? US?  Which?

From Press TV.   So much for Muslim charity!

Senior authorities in Ankara have ruled out refugee status for Syrian nationals who are seeking shelter in Turkey.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday that his country has limited the right only to asylum seekers from Europe. [So what does this mean?  If you are seeking asylum from say France, Sweden or the UK, Turkey will take you?  I bet there is a long waiting list for that!  Not!—ed]

Non-European refugees are now granted a temporary stay in Turkey, pending their resettlement to a third country.

Thus, it is not possible for Syrians who have taken shelter in Turkey to obtain refugee status, the foreign minister noted.

[….]

In late April, Ankara put the number of Syrian refugees in the country at almost one million. Turkey is viewed as one of the regional supporters of foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria.

Just a couple of months ago, David Miliband, the CEO of resettlement contractor the International Refugee Committee, was kissing up to Turkey too.

Norway accepting fewer asylum seekers, Canada too!

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….but, what is the US Justice Department hiding?

This is a long article published on the same day as the European Union parliament elections (surely before the results were in)—elections which clearly demonstrated that Europeans from various countries are beginning to stand up and demand that Europe put its own ethnic people first.   See French police storm migrant camp yesterday.

One has to wade through many many column inches of text about “Ismael” the Somali poster boy for Northern Norway to find a few interesting facts.

Ismael, a Somali in Northern Norway, tells a heartwarming story and the reporter laps it up.

I’ve often laughed over the years about reporters who write ‘refugee-sees-first-snow-stories,’ and this one actually did that!

From the Barants Observer:

After two weeks Ismael was accepted in Norway and soon thereafter he boarded a plane to a place where he would buy his first ever winter coat, see snow for the first time in his life and have to learn a new language and way of living – one he never could have imagined before.

The five Nordic countries received 76,400 requests, in total in 2013, with Sweden accepting 70 percent of these applications. This equates to accepting 9 percent of the total global asylum seekers. Norway received 11,500 claims in the same year – a two percent share of the global total. This is down from the over 17,000 Norway accepted in 2009 and up from the all time low of 9,050 in 2011.

For the last three years Europe has been the primary region sought by asylum seekers – in 2013 Europe received 484,600 asylum claims from across the globe. The US and Canada are second.

Canada approved a paltry 10,400 new claims in 2013. That’s a 50 percent decrease from the 20,500 accepted in 2012. They now match Norway in accepting only two percent of asylum seekers who apply to “industrialized countries” as defined by the UN.

The Breivik factor is mentioned near the end (after you feel all warm and fuzzy about Ismael and his Muslim friends).

Norway, like many other countries, is becoming more closed off to refugees. The country has been accused of ignoring its racist undertones, but events like the brutal shooting rampage of Anders Behring Breivik three years ago have forced Norwegians to contemplate the place of race in their society.

In the middle of all the mushy stuff about Ismael, the reporter did direct us to this handy report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees—Asylum Trends for 2013.

Here are a couple of interesting facts reported by UNHCR:

*An estimated 612,700 asylum applications were registered in 2013 in the 44 industrialized
countries covered by this report, some 133,000 claims more than the year before (+28%). This is the third consecutive annual increase and the second highest annual level of the past 20 years.

* With 109,600 new asylum applications registered during 2013, Germany was for the first time since 1999 the largest single recipient of new asylum claims among the group of industrialized countries.

* The United States of America was second with an estimated 88,400 asylum applications, followed by France(60,100), Sweden(54,300), and Turkey (44,800).

What is Obama’s Justice Department hiding?

Since I didn’t see any bullet-point telling us how many of the 88,400 US asylum applications were approved (as the Norway and Canada stats do), I went back to the report to see if I could find the number.  However, look at this disclaimer on the report’s first page!

*The United States Department of Justice,
Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
has temporarily suspended the dissemination
of asylum statistics. As a consequence, the
information available is limited to the number
of asylum applications lodged between January
and August 2013 (17,892). Data from September to
December have been estimated by UNHCR using
a statistical model (seasonal ARIMA). Because no
information is available on the country of origin
of asylum-seekers during this period, its analysis
should be considered as indicative only.

We know some Mexicans are now making bogus asylum claims, but this would indicate that there are a hell-of-a-lot of OTMs (Other than Mexicans) coming across the US border.

And, just a reminder, successful asylum seekers (claims are approved) become full-fledged “refugees” and are eligible for all the same benefits that refugees get in America.  However, keep in mind that they never get the security screening that refugees identified abroad receive.  Remember the Tsarnaev Boston bomber family!

Click here for more of our ‘invasion of Europe‘ posts.  This post is also archived in our ‘where to find information’ category.

 

Elections have consequences! French riot police storm Calais migrant camps

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The invasion of Europe hits a road block!

French police search for illegal migrants at Calais, France earlier today. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4102229.ece

Wow!  That was fast.  Not even a week has passed since the European Union was turned on its head by a stunning victory for immigration control candidates in EU parliamentary elections.

If you don’t know about Calais, please visit our many previous posts by clicking here.  Like migrating birds, the faux asylum seekers were looking for a better deal in the UK and thus were camped at the English channel crossing just waiting for the winds to change (an opportunity to arise) so they could slip into Great Britain where the welfare is reportedly top notch.

Legitimate asylum seekers would have applied for asylum in the first safe country they reached.

From Reuters:

CALAIS France (Reuters) – French riot police started evacuating three campsites housing hundreds of immigrants in the northern port town of Calais on Wednesday, days after the anti-immigrant National Front party hammered the ruling Socialists in a European election.

The evictions, denounced by local rights organizations, had been announced by a local government prefect a week earlier – before Sunday’s election drubbing – on the grounds that the makeshift camps posed problems for public health and safety.

Calais has for years attracted floods of immigrants who flee poverty or conflict in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, many of them hoping to cross the narrow sea channel to Britain by ferry or the sub-sea train tunnel.

[….]

The operation came on the heels of the European Parliament elections, where the National Front took one in four votes to come first ahead of the mainstream centre-right opposition party and, in third place, the ruling Socialist Party.

Pas-de-Calais lies in north-west France where the FN won 34 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, one of its best tallies and a tripling of its score from the 2009 EU election.

The FN has long campaigned for a dramatic reduction in immigration and opposes the “Schengen” borderless zone at the heart of the 28-member European Union.

The invasion of Europe is well-advanced compared to the invasion of America and thus naturally the growth of its immigration control political movement is ahead of ours.  If the Democrats and the Republicans keep pushing high levels of immigration, it will come here too—it is just a matter of time.

See our rapidly expanding ‘invasion of Europe’ archive.

Lackland Air Force base to house illegal alien kids

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This is a story I missed last Friday while away.  Readers (thank you) have been sending me links for days of other recent news accounts of the boom in illegal alien kids coming across the border alone.  They are officially known as unaccompanied minors and come under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.  It is a topic we have discussed here on innumerable occasions.   (click here)

What really frosted me about this story is that the “humanitarians” act like they have no idea why the kids are coming in such great numbers when there have been so many stories about the dreamers! coming now in anticipation of amnesty before Obama leaves office!

Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, TX

From the Houston Chronicle via Stars and Stripes:

Record-breaking numbers of children and teenagers caught in the U.S. illegally and alone have overwhelmed the federal government’s detention network, prompting officials to start housing up to 1,000 on a San Antonio Air Force base.

Kenneth Wolfe, an Office of Refugee Resettlement spokesman, said Friday that the Department of Defense has agreed to start temporarily housing children at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland starting on Sunday.

Resettlement agency officials used the base temporarily as an emergency shelter once before, in the spring of 2012, when the numbers of children caught crossing the border jumped sharply, leaving the federal government scrambling to find adequate bed space.

Since then, their numbers have continued to grow exponentially, driven by what advocates are calling a “humanitarian crisis” in Central and South America. Some 60,000 unaccompanied children and teens are expected this year – up from about 6,560 in 2011, according to the agency.

Give me a break! Stumped academics!

The exact cause of the influx has stumped academics, government officials and advocates. They describe a “perfect storm” of factors: lack of opportunity at home; family ties in the U.S. pulling them north; and the overriding factor – the rise of violent drug cartels and gangs in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.

Not one peep about the pull of Obama Administration goodies to “dreamers” and prospects for amnesty.

And, of course, no mention of the federal contracts to resettlement contractors (the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services) to help take care of the youngsters (most are older teens of course).

So, what has been happening to the “kids” who have turned 18 in the care of contractors in recent years?  They have simply been released into America.  Remember “George” in Galveston!