In a few weeks Donald Trump and Sec. of State Tillerson will be announcing how many refugees could be admitted in FY18 which begins on Oct. 1. If they announce 50,000 or up then you will know Trump is not serious about reforming the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program. Obama himself had two years under 60,000.
So far the total number of refugees admitted to the US in FY17 is 51,024.
For the first time in the history of the over 3-decades-old program, we have surpassed the CEILING.
(Thank the Supreme Court for that—for writing law!)
And, since inauguration day we have admitted 21,007 refugees according to data stored by the US State Department at Wrapsnet.
83% of the 51,024 come from 8 countries (see below).
Here is a map showing where the 51,024 have been placed:
Alaska is 68 and Hawaii is 3 (since they have been begging for more diversity this isn’t going to cut it!)
Top five ‘welcoming’ states are California, Texas, New York, Washington and Ohio.
Here are the eight countries which dominate the refugee flow to America this fiscal year (from October 1, 2016 to today):
DR Congo (8,927)
Iraq (6,701)
Syria (6,463)
Somalia (5,905)
Burma (4787)
Ukraine (4,030)
Bhutan (3,030)
Iran (2,423)
Total for those eight is 42,266
In the 51,024 there were 22,156 refugees of various Muslim sects making the total Muslim percentage in this year’s flow 43% as of this writing.
Northern Maine Community College and Maine Community Foundation are partnering to bring Somali immigrants to Aroostook County to explore agricultural opportunities.
Officials from the college and foundation were joined Saturday by 45 Somali immigrants, including children, from southern Maine on a tour of farm operations in Aroostook County held on Saturday.
NMCC Pres. Timothy Crowley
The purpose of the tour is to introduce the Somalis to smaller-scale agricultural prospects in the region.
This effort stems from ideas germinated at a March 2016 conference at the college in which local business and civic leaders spoke about being more proactive in the face of a continuing decline in Aroostook County’s work force.
In his zeal to show what a caring humanitarian he is, the boy prime minister of Canada literally airlifted tens of thousands of Syrians to Canada in the year after being elected.
His reckless impulse is now resulting in story after story about how the Syrians are not faring well.
More than a year after arriving on Canadian soil, thousands of Syrian refugees are still struggling to make ends meet and provide for their families.
Alberta welcomed nearly over 5,100 refugees between Nov. 26, 2015 and March 2017, with 2,100 settling in Edmonton.
A report prepared by city staff and presented to the community and public services committee Monday shows the biggest challenges are in health, housing and employment. [So what else is there besides those three biggies?—ed]
“It’s just the demand is so high,” Ricki Justice, with the Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, told the committee.
Justice said refugees dealing with complex trauma from the Syrian war are having a tough time accessing psychological services.
“Six-week wait times to see a counsellor,” she said.
Catholic Social Services, a group responsible for settling the government-assisted refugees in Alberta, has held a series of forums since the first refugees arrived last year. In May 2017, it compiled the information delivered in the report.
Lots of children per family—demography will be the death of Canada (after Europe):
The province came out with an affordable housing strategy earlier in the summer and Huque hopes some of it will address the need for larger units for bigger families.
“I don’t think it was expected the sizes of some of these families,” he said. “Six, seven, eight people are just not going to fit into a two- or three-bedroom unit.”
He said moving to a bigger place is beyond many refugees’ means. They end up relying on food banks and other charities.
“Then a person ran towards us shouting ‘He has a knife’, and everybody from the terrace ran inside. Next, a woman came in to the cafe. She was crying hysterically, down on her knees, saying someone’s neck has been slashed open.”
(A witness)
Surely you know what happened in Finland on the heals of Barcelona, but here from Reuterswe get more facts on the killer and the poor innocent women who were sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Over the years we have written a few posts on Finland, but it isn’t as easily accessible (or slovenly welcoming) as other Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway.
This Reuters story is surprisingly unrestrained and relatively free of whitewash (or is that because those quoted weren’t pulling punches and speaking in politically correct terms?):
HELSINKI/TURKU, Finland (Reuters) – Finnish police said on Saturday that an 18-year-old Moroccan man, arrested after a knife rampage that killed two people and wounded eight, appeared to have targeted women and that the spree was being treated as the country’s first terrorism-related attack.
Finland’s loss of innocence. Photo: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/924140/asylum-seeker-targeted-women-in-finland-terror-stabbing
The suspect arrested following the attack on Friday after being shot in the leg by police in the city of Turku had arrived in Finland last year, police said. They said they later arrested four other Moroccan men over possible links to him and had issued an international arrest warrant for a sixth Moroccan national.
Finnish broadcaster MTV, citing an unnamed source, said the main suspect had been denied asylum in Finland. The police said only that he had been “part of the asylum process”.
The case marks the first suspected terror attack in Finland, where violent crime is relatively rare.
“The suspect’s profile is similar to that of several other recent radical Islamist terror attacks that have taken place in Europe,” Director Antti Pelttari from the Finnish Security Intelligence Service told a news conference.
[….]
Both of those killed in the Turku attack, and six of the eight who were wounded, were women, the police said. The two who died were Finns, and an Italian and two Swedish citizens were among the injured.
Ville Tavio (Finns party): Asylum system is primary means of entry for terrorists.
“It seems that the suspect chose women as his targets, because the men who were wounded were injured when they tried to help, or prevent the attacks,” said Crista Granroth from the National Bureau of Investigation.
“The act was cowardly … we have been afraid of this and we have prepared for this. We are not an island anymore, the whole of Europe is affected,” Prime Minister Juha Sipila said. [Well, maybe not Poland and Hungary that have closed their borders to Muslim migration!—ed]
[….]
Some members of the nationalist Finns party, which was kicked out of the government in June for their new hard-line anti-immigration leadership, blamed the government for what they said was too loose an immigration policy.
“The asylum system is the primary road for illegal immigration, used also by the terrorists.Harmful immigration can be controlled only by reducing Finland’s attractiveness, or by border controls,” said Finns party lawmaker Ville Tavio.
What is asylum? (As opposed to refugee resettlement)
In the refugee resettlement process, wannabe refugees must prove they are persecuted, the UN screens them (supposedly!) and a country accepts them and flies them in.
For asylum, the wannabe refugee makes his or her way to a ‘safe’ country and then applies for asylum (or often called political asylum). They are supposed to make a case that they would be persecuted if returned home. Europe is dealing with mostly asylum seekers (many are phony and are really economic migrants) who are basically loose in the country until their cases can be processed.
And, are often loose because they have been rejected and no one has made them leave!
So, it is a misnomer when you hear the Left and political leaders refer to asylum seekers as refugees. They are not legitimate refugees until their cases have been processed and the governmental body responsible has granted them asylum.
See my Finland files here. Invasion of Europe archive is here.
It is demography stupid! And, they get it. So why don’t European leaders do something about it?
Gatestone Institute posted another story with the statistics yesterday, you can read it here.
We can see what the problem is, so why the hesitancy in finding a solution?
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban: We must solve our own demographic problems.
What I want to know is aren’t there smart people in governments that see it coming and are encouraging Europeans (and the Japanese in their case) to have more children.
Find tax incentives, find more ways to make it easier for Europeans and for the Japanese to support more children in large families, create media campaigns/TV shows about the joy of large families—make it cool to have babies!
And, expose the big money globalists (and chamber of commerce types) who see numbers of people in terms of consumers of their products. Maybe someone needs to be thinking in terms of smaller economic growth and how to get used to that for awhile as Europeans kick-start their production of their own babies.
And, of course, most of all stop the importation of Middle Easterners and Africans who will be outproducing those of European heritage. Let them stabilize their populations in their own parts of the world.
This post is filed in my ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive, click hereto access.
***Update***
It begins! A few minutes ago I posted this story on twitter with a photo of some cute babies. Look what twitter did. Since when is RRW “sensitive content?” And, who decided?
