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You've been funding 'healthy marriage' grants to non-profit resettlement contractors

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Your tax dollars: I’ve been meaning for awhile to give our new readers some information that we have written about over the years, and, for longtime readers, this is an update. We talk all the time about how non-profit refugee resettlement agencies are paid by the head, by the US State Department, to resettle refugees … Continue reading You've been funding 'healthy marriage' grants to non-profit resettlement contractors

Oregon: Ho hum! Another convenience store, another Burmese criminal….

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….and further confirmation that we are admitting Burmese Muslims to the US (and dumb ones to boot!). In our previous post we reported Burmese in Michigan ripping off the food stamp program, a few days ago it was a Burmese murder in Pennsylvania, and now it’s a murder-for-hire plot in Oregon in the busy (and … Continue reading Oregon: Ho hum! Another convenience store, another Burmese criminal….

Tampa: Could you make 6 acres productive if you had an $85,000 gift?

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Maybe, maybe not!  I know a little about farming and I’m not sure even with an $85,000 grant from the US government, refugees in Tampa will be able to support and maintain much food production on 6 acres of land. This is yet another feel-good story about refugees with no work “finding” satisfaction and “community” … Continue reading Tampa: Could you make 6 acres productive if you had an $85,000 gift?

Unemployed Americans competing with immigrant labor for jobs

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Here is a story, thanks to Blulitespecial, from the Wall Street Journal about how Americans are now competing for work—any kind of work—with immigrants.   Although the article is mostly focused on Hispanic immigrants, we have been reporting regularly about the difficulty refugees are having finding jobs in the present economy.   Here is one of many … Continue reading Unemployed Americans competing with immigrant labor for jobs