They are changing America by changing the people
As you know, the fiscal year ended on September 30th and the numbers are in. Go here (Refugee Admissions Report as of Sep 30, 2013) and see for yourself. For fiscal year 2013 the Obama Administration wanted 70,000 refugees (the same number they are shooting for in 2014***) and came awfully close with 69,930. The … Continue reading Iraqis top the list of refugees admitted to the US in FY2013
Update June 4th: KY Senator Rand Paul calls for hearings, here. Update June 2nd: Why take any Iraqis at all? here. Update: Louisville Courier-Journal is reporting they are refugees, here, thanks to a reader for sending it! Here is my post on the Courier-Journal investigation. More questions being asked, here. Here is the story yesterday … Continue reading Two Iraqis, most likely refugees, have been arrested on terrorism charges in Kentucky
This is your standard refugee news story, but I’m posting it so I have some statistics for our home state of Maryland. And, because we rarely hear any refugee news from Maryland! From Southern Maryland OnLine: Although Iraqis make up only 2.5 percent of refugees and asylum-seekers in Maryland, in the past decade, Iraqi refugee resettlement … Continue reading Iraqis are largest group of refugees coming to Maryland right now
What! Here we have a gang of Catholic leaders, including Bishops from North America, who visited Syria recently ostensibly to see the plight of Iraqi Christians who have been persecuted in Iraq (by Muslims) and with a pat on the head and an offer to pray for them basically brushed them off. Bishops: Gee, isn’t it … Continue reading Catholic leaders to Iraqi Christian refugees: sorry we aren’t political
Once again using a favored method of putting something through the Senate (and House), we have the Defense Authorization legislation that passed in the Senate on December 19th (during the great Washington snowstorm of 2009) with an amendment that puts Iraqis entering the US with Special Immigrant Visas on par with impoverished refugees from all … Continue reading Iraqis with SIVs get same welfare perks as regular refugees