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Mayor Bloomberg, super rich, pushing the meme that immigrants are responsible for large percentage of new American businesses

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When you read a story like this one in the New Pittsburgh Courier (Hat tip from Tennessee), you know that something stinks. It makes absolutely no sense that poor refugees and other immigrants are the driving force for the small business community.  The truth is that this is just political spin and new “entrepreneurial” immigrant … Continue reading Mayor Bloomberg, super rich, pushing the meme that immigrants are responsible for large percentage of new American businesses

Gang of Eight has included Refugee Resettlement in its 800-plus pages

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Strip it out! Readers, I’ve mentioned previously that the Senate amnesty draft bill has language making it easier for more refugees/asylum seekers to enter the US, but I haven’t had a minute to study the half-a-dozen or so references to refugees scattered throughout the bill. So, thanks  to citizen activist Joanne Bregman of Nashville, TN … Continue reading Gang of Eight has included Refugee Resettlement in its 800-plus pages

Refugees “just dumped off” in Chattanooga; try to communicate with neighbors

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This must be refugee-news-story-dump day.  Just when I have other things I have to do, and thought I could get away from the computer, along comes one more story that should be posted today (hat tip to a friend from TN). From the Times Free Press: Evariste Simbananiye lives in a fully furnished apartment in … Continue reading Refugees “just dumped off” in Chattanooga; try to communicate with neighbors

Another suggestion for the sequestration budget cutting ax: IDAs

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Your tax dollars! IDAs—Individual Development Accounts! What is that?  It’s a fancy name for your tax dollars matching a refugee’s savings.  For every dollar a refugee saves in this program (administered not by a government agency, but laundered through a non-profit), he or she is matched a dollar from the federal treasury.  I am not … Continue reading Another suggestion for the sequestration budget cutting ax: IDAs