Steve Sailer has a very good post on Chechens, here (read it), in which he directs us to a USA Today story on Chechen “refugee” numbers.
Here is how USA Today begins (emphasis mine, and when I use red I really mean it!):
There are probably fewer than about 200 Chechen immigrants in the United States, and most of them are settled in the Boston area, as many U.S. cities have refused to accept asylum applicants from the war-torn area of southern Russia, says Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation.
Glen Howard is flat out lying! First, we really don’t know how many Chechens are in the US (heck, clearly this family was moving back and forth to Russia), but more importantly I am unaware of any city in America given the opportunity to say “NO ” to any particular ethnic refugee group. Indeed, this is one of the most serious complaints about refugee resettlement (which includes asylees)—states and cities are not consulted in the resettlement process, and once the migrant has a foot in the door, they can move anywhere.
The decision about which cities get refugees and from where is made mostly by unelected federal contractors (the volags) in collaboration with the State Department. This is a Tenth Amendment States Rights issue that hardly any state has ever raised (except maybe Tennessee). Only when there has been a complete breakdown in the city due to refugee overload is there ever a hiatus for a city once it’s been deemed “welcoming” by the resettlement industry.
***Update*** A reader this evening sent this comment in response to the above point:
Not only do states and cities not have a choice to say no, but when and if they try to, the federal government simply contracts with a private non-profit to bring them anyway.
Should there ever be any peep of objection by the “native population”, they are then accused of being unwelcoming.
USA Today continued with this:
About 70% of the Chechen immigrants are women, Howard says. Very few men are granted asylum because of U.S. anti-terrorism policies and because Russia often protests when ethnic Chechens try to settle in the U.S., he said. The U.S. admitted only 197 refugees from all of Russia in 2012.
This is how they twist the numbers. There might have been only 197 from Russia proper in 2012, but that is meaningless! Go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement Annual Report to Congress for 2009 (published three years late btw) and go to Appendix A. Note that refugees are listed as from THE FORMER USSR! (not just Russia).
From 1983 to 2009 we resettled 526,308 from THE FORMER USSR which includes Russia AND all of those countries that split off—all of the ‘stan’ Muslim countries. Someone at the State Department might be able to tell us how many are Chechens, and indeed how many are Muslims!
In 2005 we resettled: 11,272
In 2006: 10,452
In 2007: 4,583
In 2008: 2,390
In 2009: 2,022
After that the numbers are hard to find (and I’ve got other things to do today!). But, if the ORR wasn’t breaking the law by not providing annual reports to Congress for 2010, 2011 and 2012, we could easily find numbers.
And, then this! We are expected to assume the US has only 200 Chechens when Austria has 30,000. Last I checked you could come to the US easily from Europe once you were in the EU.
That contrasts with many European countries, especially Austria, where many Chechens who want to leave difficult conditions at home settle. Austria has about 30,000 Chechen immigrants, Howard said.
For additional edification, readers might want to search RRW for all the problems poor Austria is having with its large and ever-growing Muslim population. Just type ‘Austria’ into our search function and see if you want that here!
