Big surprise, Not! How many times over the years have I posted on violence against refugees who were placed in bad neighborhoods and substandard housing by the ‘religious charities’ that the US State Department hired to take care of them.
The ‘charities’ will claim in their defense that they don’t have the money to place refugees in better housing which begs the question:
Then why are you advocating for more refugees to be brought to America if you can’t take care of them?
Just the other day I told you about Church World Service‘s subcontractor in Columbus looking for more refugees to be brought to Columbus:
So either the subcontractor working for Church World Service or the one working for HIAS is responsible for the unhappy Bhutanese refugees’ living conditions!
If you were to challenge them on their responsibility, they would likely say they aren’t responsible after the refugees have been here three months—an outrage in itself—because they are only paid to take care of them (their “clients”) for three months!
The Bhutanese are mostly Hindu and Buddhists and a small percentage are Christians. Peaceful people who you can imagine are targeted by a certain element of city dwellers. Hint! they are not terrorized by white nationalists! But, the diversity-promoting resettlement agencies apparently figure they can just mix minorities together in ‘melting-pot’ America and everyone will live in multi-cultural Nirvana..
After reported rape, refugees say living conditions at Columbus apartment are unsafe
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — After fleeing horrors in their native countries, some refugees in Columbus said their American Dream is turning into a nightmare, in part because of where they live.
Advocates for the Bhutanese/Nepali community said a report of a gang rape at an apartment complex on the northeast side highlights the problems in the neighborhood.
Yolanda Board, with the North Community Counseling Center, serves refugees. Earlier this month, she had to assist a woman who told police she was gang-raped at the apartments.
“This client was barged in on by four individuals, four men, and was subsequently raped and robbed,” Board said.
Board said conditions at the complex, The Commons at Victoria Village, are unsafe and the rape claim is highlighting that.
“We’re aware of years, in excess of a decade of incidents of outright negligence,” she said.
Her group claims there are health and safety issues, including rodents and a lack of proper locks on doors to common areas and apartments.
“Anybody walking off the street can just walk in there, sleep in the hallway, or do whatever,” Board said.
By the way, one subject that has never been fully explored is the connection some federal resettlement contractors have with questionable landlords.
Ho hum! Another of those Somalis we are still bringing into America as refugees at the rate of 800-900 a month has been indicted in Columbus, the city second only to Minneapolis as a city being colonized by a large population of Somali Muslim refugees (thanks to those ‘religious’ non-profits hired by the federal government to place them!).
This latest jihadist came here as a child and your tax dollars helped raise him! (I’ll have more tomorrow, just wanted to get the news out while it’s hot!)
In this February story about his arrest, we learn that he came to the US as a child. Your tax dollars raised him. http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/02/columbus_man_accused_of_suppor.html
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus man accused of going to Syria to be trained by a terrorist organization was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury.
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, an American citizen since February 2014, is accused of providing support to Jabhat al-Nusrah, an al-Qaida affailate in Syria.
According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Mohamud, 23 obtained a passport, bought a one-way ticket to Greece and left in April 2014. However, he did not get on his connecting flight to Athens during a layover in Istanbul, Turkey.
Instead, he went to Syria and was trained at a camp to shoot weapons, break into houses, handle explosives and engage in hand-to-hand combat, the release says. A cleric in the organization then instructed him to return to the United States and to commit an act of terrorism. He returned in June.
It is insane that we continue to resettle Somalis, or anyone from the Middle East or Africa who comes from sharia-loving cultures. Why are they our problem?
This is a post aimed directly at the Wyoming governorand any others in the nation who believe “welcoming” refugees is a freebee for local tax payers. It is not! and you better be saving your money for the translation services required by the feds.
Columbus is right behind Minneapolis as a go-to destination for Somalis where housing is at a premium. Remember this 2012 story—-Somalis gone wild.
A Bill Clinton Executive order in 2000 (just as he was leaving office!) says states and cities better get everything translated for the immigrant masses arriving in America.
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority has failed to translate key documents into Somali and Spanish despite federal requirements, jeopardizing some families’ housing, advocates say.
Leases, hearing notices and payment contracts “are complex documents full of legal jargon that can be challenging for any tenant to understand,” said Benjamin D. Horne, a managing attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Columbus. “For a new American struggling to learn a new language and a new culture, the challenge is multiplied,” he said.
The Legal Aid Society is to discuss the translation issue with the CMHA on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development office in Columbus also is looking into the situation, said Tom Leach, the field-office director.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects people from discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance, Horne said.
In August 2000, President Bill Clinton issued an executive order requiring agencies that receive federal funds to create plans to ensure that people with limited English skills would have access to services. [Access to welfare!—ed]
Seven years later, HUD released a set of guidelines for housing providers that receive federal assistance to meet the requirements to provide translation assistance.
CMHA created a plan in 2009 but still hasn’t acted on all the provisions, said Tracey Rudy, CMHA’s chief operating officer.
Immigrant activist: It is shameful that we might lose Section 8 housing because we can’t understand English.
Hassan Omar, who leads the Somali Community Association of Ohio, said he sees people who are having problems understanding CMHA documents two or three times a month. He usually sends them to the Legal Aid Society.
CMHA should fix the problem, said Josue Vicente, executive director of the Ohio Hispanic Coalition.
“It’s shameful that people are losing their Section 8 vouchers because they don’t understand their rights and responsibilities under the program,” he said. “There are supposed to be protections in place to keep this from happening.”
Just a reminder to “welcoming” communities, here are the top ten languagesspoken by refugees that you need to start translating. Arabic tops the list.
The Lewiston fraud is your run-of-the-mill welfare fraud (with a little alleged forgery and some lying thrown in!) which we are becoming familiar with in the cities, like Columbus and Lewiston, that have “welcomed” diversity. The Columbus story adds an interesting and new piece of information about the creative ways refugees are defrauding Uncle Sam.
From the Lewiston Sun Journal (by the way, when I type ‘Lewiston fraud’ into our search bar this is what I get—lots of previous posts):
AUBURN — A Lewiston couple denied in court Thursday charges that they schemed to defraud the government out of welfare benefits over the past nine years.
Amina H. Ege, 42, of 105 Shawmut St., was indicted by an Androscoggin County grand jury on two counts of theft by deception, four counts of aggravated forgery and 12 counts of unsworn falsification. Six of the charges are felonies punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The remaining charges are misdemeanors.
Abdi A. Hassan, 43, of the same address, was indicted on two counts of theft by deception, seven counts of aggravated forgery, one count of negotiating a worthless instrument and five counts of unsworn falsification. Nine of the charges are felonies, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and one of the counts is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The rest of the charges are misdemeanors.
According to court documents, the two are accused of lying about the fact that they were living together while Hassan was providing Ege with financial support. She was accused of failing to disclose that she had received a workers’ compensation settlement.
Because of those omissions, according to the indictment, Ege received more than $10,000 worth of benefits from programs such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Section 8 housing, among others.
Columbus City Schools are stepping up oversight of independent tutors paid for by the federal No Child Left Behind program, terminating eight contracts this school year.
The problems have ranged from students’ signatures being falsified to employees who weren’t paid, according to district documents.
Last week, the district sent a letter to Horn of Africa, a tutoring program in Linden, stating that it was rescinding its contract based on evidence that employees “falsified dates, times of attendance and student signatures on attendance forms.”
The district conducted an inspection in January of Horn of Africa and said it had found students on computers not receiving instruction, including some playing online games, according to a district report.
“No instruction taking place,” the district representative commented on the form.
Mussa Farah, who owns the service that was paid almost $83,000 in federal money during the 2009-10 school year, said an illness in his family distracted him from running the center, which he voluntarily closed after being notified recently of the problems.
Farah said that the claim that a student’s signature had been falsified came because a student who had signed in left tutoring early because of an illness.
“I never did anything wrong,” said Farah, who is a spokesman for the central Ohio Somali community and on Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s Community Relations Commission.“The decision to stop came from me. I had to fire the teachers and everyone who was there.”
Farah still operates a tutoring center for South-Western City Schools that runs on federal money.
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Under federal law, parents of students whose schools are low-performing can choose to get tutoring from any provider who signs up with the state. Columbus schools paid more than $3.7 million last school year to 53 providers, Braverman said.
I’ll bet they had been laughing all the way to the bank about us dumb infidels!
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Editor’s note: Readers, on Friday a car crash in Columbus, Ohio involving a police cruiser and a car carrying an Iraqi family resulted in the deaths of the car’s occupants—an Iraqi refugee family, a husband and wife and four of their children. ‘Pungentpeppers,’ a reader and frequent commenter here at RRW, has penned this piece after reading the many news accounts of what happened raising the ever-controversial issue of whether certain immigrants could be more appropriately (and more economically) helped by leaving them in their own countries or cultural zones.
“A Child Bride And Her Four Dead Daughters”
In Ohio, six members of one Iraqi refugee family died last week in an automobile accident. It seems unfair to write about the dead. They cannot defend themselves or explain. But there were children who were wronged. Their story must be told.
News about the tragedy uncovered certain facts. Those facts reveal that our efforts to bring this family to our country were misguided. The family, coming from a tribal background, either ignored, or could not understand, our system of values. Our laws requiring the protection of children – and granting important human and civil rights to daughters – were violated. Since the gap between our values and theirs was so huge, instead of bringing this family to the U.S., it would have been better to send aid to help them rebuild their lives in their own country. They might have lived. Here is the family’s story.
The accident scene: The cruiser’s dash camera revealed that the car driven by Eid Shahad had made an illegal turn on a red light.
Officer Shawn Paynter might never be able to forget what happened during the early morning hours of Friday, October 18. He was on duty with the Upper Arlington Police Department near Columbus, Ohio. That Friday, at 1:30 a.m., he was responding to an armed robbery in progress at a local McDonalds. His police cruiser approached an intersection and entered just as the light turned yellow. A Toyota Corolla, making an illegal turn, entered the intersection against a red light, and stopped right in front of him. His car collided with the Toyota. All six persons in the Toyota died at the scene. None wore seat belts. Officer Paynter survived. He suffered a head injury and is expected to recover.
Among the dead was Entisar Hameed, age 31, the mother of eight children. She had arrived from Basra, Iraq, via Syria, as a refugee three years ago. She was seated in the front. Her husband, Eid Shahad, 39, was driving. It was Eid Al-Adha, a four-day long Islamic holiday. At that late hour they were returning home from a holiday visit on Thursday night to another family of newly-arrived Iraqis. The mother had brought her four daughters with them for the visit: Shuaa, 16, Amna, 14, Ekbal, 12, and 2-year-old Lina Badi. The girls were in the back seat of the Toyota. Not one was buckled in and the youngest girl, Lina, was not in a car seat. There would have been no room for a car seat, anyway, with so many children packed into a small car. In addition to her daughters who died with her, Entisar left behind four sons. Her eldest, Mushary, was 17, and the other boys were 5, 6, and 12.
After the accident, acquaintances and friends spoke in glowing terms about the husband and father. Eid worked as a home health aide for Sunrise Health Care; among his patients was his 77-year-old mother who had suffered a stroke.* Eid was active and well liked. He helped newly arrived immigrants from Iraq and other countries become acclimated to the U.S. For example, he was known to take people grocery shopping and helped fix their cars. He planned to help sponsor a new family** of Iraqi refugees that were due to arrive next month through the agency that had brought his family, Ohio’s Community Immigration Refugee Services.
In contrast, there was nothing reported in the news about Entisar, the mother who died, except her name and age. Entisar – her name means “Victory” in Arabic – seems to have lived a hard life. She was married at around age 13, below the age of consent in Iraq, but not uncommon for a Muslim girl in Basra. If she had been living in the U.S. at that time of her marriage, it’s likely that her husband would have been thrown in prison for having sexual relations with a minor. Instead, our country decided to look the other way and allowed the family to immigrate – there is one set of laws for immigrants and another for Americans. Once married, young Entisar gave birth to one child after another. Her eighth baby, Lina, was born in the U.S.
In Ohio, Entisar lived with her husband, their eight children, and her sick mother-in-law, all packed into one small apartment. Money had to have been tight – home health aides do not earn much – certainly not enough to support a large family of eleven. The housing complex where they lived was full of Somali refugees who did not speak Arabic, so there was not much company there. Instead she had the company of her daughters.
The eldest boy, Mushary, was a senior at a local high school. None of the daughters, however, were in school. After they arrived in the U.S., some of the girls had been enrolled in Westside Academy, a school that describes itself as being globally conscious and even offers Arabic as a foreign language. They later transferred to the International Academy of Columbus, run under the direction of Dr. Mouhamed Tarazi, and improved their English, but – per the Columbus Dispatch – they left that school earlier this year. The story says the girls were to be “home-schooled by their parents”. But it was doubtful that these girls were receiving any sort of significant education at home. The father had a job and besides he was very busy helping others in the community. And since their mother had been married when barely a teen herself, what sort of age-appropriate schooling would she have been able to give the girls who were 16, 14, and 12? It is apparent that despite being in America – where both girls and boys go to school – Entisar’s daughters were headed down a traditional path of life that paralleled their mother’s.
Plainly, while they lived, nobody was checking up on this family of refugees to see how they were doing. Were they sending their daughters to school? No. Did their children wear seat belts or use car seats? No. Did the father understand traffic laws? No. What conditions were they living in? Eleven people in one small apartment. Refugees coming from certain backgrounds have too big a learning curve and too many obstacles to overcome. Sadly, these same obstacles may have contributed to this family’s deaths. America was not the best place for them.
The End.
Editor’s notes:
* This practice of setting up immigrant-run home health services (with government support) and then being paid to care for one’s own elderly (or ailing) family members is one area of potential fraud going forward as the US tackles the enormous health care problems associated with socialized medicine for all.
** The mention of “sponsoring” a new family does not mean what the average reader might be thinking—that somehow one family is helping pay for the resettlement of another family. You, the taxpayer are doing the paying, the “sponsoring” family would likely be just acting as mentors. And, sadly in this case, be teaching the new family how to get around American values.
For your further study, here are ‘pungentpeppers’ sources for this guest column:
