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Welcoming Communities Campaign announced by White House, government goodies for your "welcoming" town

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Update October 8th:  Reader Greg sends us this update post from Welcoming America (see it for more cities). I missed this White House news last month, so thanks to reader Greg for sending it.  And, note to Miranda Blue, here, who seems to think I am making this all up—-that Obama is diversifying your towns … Continue reading Welcoming Communities Campaign announced by White House, government goodies for your "welcoming" town

Senate Oversight hearing on Refugee Program very revealing! Senator Sessions did a masterful job

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For all of you who had to do something productive yesterday afternoon, like go to work! here is a link to the C-span video of the hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest that ran a little over two hours. As far as we can tell this is the first … Continue reading Senate Oversight hearing on Refugee Program very revealing! Senator Sessions did a masterful job

Will your town/city get Syrian refugees? Have you gotten them already?

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Yesterday, someone sent me a link to a news story that reported that some small town in Michigan was going to ‘welcome’ 4,500 Syrians in the coming year.  Sounded preposterous to me, but it did spur me on to do something I’ve wanted to do for the last week and that is find out exactly … Continue reading Will your town/city get Syrian refugees? Have you gotten them already?

MN: Another one of the Somali "children" pleads guilty to terror charges

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As we focus on Syrians, let’s not forget the Somalis! Ho hum! We have been following the ‘careers’ of the Somali “youths,” here referred to as “children,” since 2008 (see early posts by clicking here) when we first learned about Somali refugees thumbing their noses at the good life we gave them in America and … Continue reading MN: Another one of the Somali "children" pleads guilty to terror charges

Cool map tells us which immigrant ethnic group holds demographic dominance in each state

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A reader, Phillip, sent us this very interesting map.  It is a little annoying to have to figure out in some cases which flag is depicted on certain states, but it is nonetheless informative.  States with dominant populations of Burmese, Bhutanese, Somali, Cuban, Ethiopian, Iraqi or Vietnamese got that way through the Refugee Admissions Program … Continue reading Cool map tells us which immigrant ethnic group holds demographic dominance in each state