Nevermind that it is the United Nations that halted refugee travel due to the Chinese virus crisis.
Refugee contractors are trying to “chart a path forward” as refugee admissions this year are set to be the lowest they have ever been since Senators Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden and the peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter, created the US Refugee Admissions Program that became law in 1980.
But, oh how they love their sob stories featuring poor suffering families seeking to be reunited.
Sob story design and promotion is one of the Leftwing media’s greatest skills!
Sorry, no sympathy from me for a mother who leaves her INFANT daughter in a hellhole refugee camp to come to America with a supposedly sick husband expecting then to have the US government fly her daughter to her at a later date.
A family was set to be reunited after nearly four years apart. Then coronavirus struck.
(CNN) More than three years ago, Deman Aman Abshir, a Somali national, faced an impossible choice: leave behind her newborn daughter to come to the United States or watch as her husband’s health worsened.
She left behind an infant daughter, now three years old, to hop on that plane with a supposedly sick hubby. She had another choice!
Abshir and her husband, fleeing deteriorating conditions in Somalia, worried that any delay in leaving could hinder their chances to resettle in the US and get medical treatment, she said. So they left.
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In 2011, amid an ongoing civil war in the country, Abshir decided to leave Somalia and fled to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.
“Life was hard and there was a lot of struggle,” she said.
Over the years, the health of Abshir’s husband, Mohamed Hussen Ibrahim, who was being treated for a neurologic condition that prevented him from walking and doing other daily activities, started to worsen.
His “neurologic condition” apparently didn’t prevent some daily activities!
And, he sure must have gotten some magical medical treatment in the US (on your dime!) because he got a job, but there is not one word in this story about his diagnosis, treatment or recovery.
In late 2016, more than a year after their case had been approved, the couple was ready to depart to the United States.
“Three different situations happened at the same time: my husband’s situation got worse; we had our newborn; we had the process approved,” Abshir recalled. “It was 2016 so Trump was getting elected, so we knew if we had to delay, the opportunity would never come so we had to choose sacrifice to be with our child or leave for the US with my husband to get better treatment.”
She had another choice: Let her husband go on to America (so you could pay for his medical care) and she could stay in Africa with her INFANT daughter!
Now we are expected to believe she is so emotional over the separation that she can’t work!
Abshir’s four-month-old daughter had not been part of the original case, therefore adding her would delay their departure and postpone obtaining medical treatment for her husband. Abshir called the decision to leave Nimco behind “painful,” recounting the difficulty she had in keeping jobs in the US because she was overwhelmed with emotions.
Plummer is described as the family’s lawyer, but she also happens to be the Executive Director of CRIS a Columbus, Ohio based subcontractor of Church World Service, facts not reported by CNN. https://www.crisohio.org/about-us/
Since then, Plummer has tried to get Nimco’s case approved to reunite with the family. The nearly four-year uphill battle appeared to be reaching a conclusion when the coronavirus pandemic shut down arrivals.
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Abshir, whose husband also lost his job because of the pandemic [“also”? weren’t we just old she couldn’t hold a job due to being emotionally distraught?—ed] has remained hopeful, but extended separations often weigh on families.
[He had a job, wow! He must have recovered from his serious health issue and inability to walk.—ed]
CNN continues….
“I see these cases and it’s joyful when a child reunites with a parent and it’s all wonderful superficially but you can’t get that time back. The child doesn’t know their parents … just the psychological impact to the family for as long as the delay continues,” Plummer said. [Taxpayer-funded counseling ahead?—ed]
All of that is to set the tone for the rest of the article that goes on to bash the Trump Administration.
We do learn that no date has been set to resume refugee resettlement.
Refugee arrivals to the US were suspended as of March 19, with the exception of certain emergency cases, a State Department spokesperson told CNN.
No date has been provided on when admissions will resume.The spokesperson said State “will seek to resume refugee arrivals when it is safe and logistically feasible to do so, subject to any travel restrictions in place at that time.”
As promised, below are the stats for the first three months of fiscal year 2018 (it began on October 1, 2017). Update January 3: More detailed numbers analysis by Michael Leahy at Breitbart, here.
President Trump set the CEILING for the year at 45,000 refugees. That is the lowest CEILING since the Refugee Act of 1980 (Kennedy/Biden) was signed in to law by Jimmy Carter. Columbus, Ohio second only to Minneapolis for its number of Somalis. Columbus received 245 refugees from 11 different countries, including Somalia, in the first three months of the fiscal year. It was followed by Akron as the second most ‘welcoming’ city in the state with 139 ‘new Americans’ in the last 3 months.
I capitalize the word CEILING because I want to get it into the heads of reporters that a CEILING is not a target to be achieved. It is a cap that the President cannot exceed without consultation with Congress. There is nothing in refugee law that says he can’t come in with half of the proposed CEILING.
And, if the present rate of resettlement were to continue for the year, that is about where we will come in. According to Wrapsnet, as of today, we have admitted 5,323 refugees over 13 weeks. Extending that same rate out for 52 weeks would put the number at just under 22,000 for the year.
I know, to many readers, that 22,000 is too many, but you can be sure the low number of paying “clients” (refugees) will wreak havoc with the budgets of the nine federal contractors which could (optimistically) in turn force a complete review about why we have such a dysfunctional system where ‘non-profits’ are paid by the head to place refugees (in as much secrecy as they can muster) into towns and cities in 49 states.
There is never an incentive to slow the flow in overloaded communities with such a system where nine contractors*** are literally bidding for bodies.
Here is where the 5,323 have been placed as of today:
Data available at the Refugee Processing Center (Wrapsnet) for October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. I know the numbers are a little hard to read, but nothing I can do about it.
The top ten ‘welcoming’ states are: Ohio, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and North Carolina. California is normally first or second so who knows what that is all about. Top ten countriesfrom which we admitted refugees since October 1, 2017:
Bhutan (1,535)
DR Congo (1,154)
Burma (655)
Ukraine (487)
Eritrea (428)
Russia (132)
Somalia (128)
El Salvador (113)
Ethiopia (102)
Afghanistan (81)
Iraq (77), which has been in the top three or so for years, didn’t make the top ten. The percentage of Muslim refugees is way down.
In the final Obama years we were admitting close to 50% Muslim refugees and now (all Muslim sects combined) we admitted 726 Muslims in the last 3 months which amounts to about 14%.
I am concerned to see that 199 of the 726 were Muslims from Burma (Rohingya).
*** These are the nine federal refugee contractors. I like to post this list once a day (if I remember!) so new readers can begin to get the list memorized! They have hundreds of subcontractors working for them. If you visit their websites you can find out which, if any, are operating where you live.
Update: The Daily Mail tells us who he is, here. (Hat tip: Judy)
It turns out that early reports about the African man who attacked diners in a restaurant belonging to an Israeli-born Christian may not be a Somali as first reported. See our first report by clicking here. So who is he? Nazareth restaurant owner Hany Baransi re-opened on Monday.
Here, in a story about the restaurant re-opening,World Net Daily writer tells us that mystery still surrounds the machete man:
More than four days after the attack, little is known about Barry, a 30-year-old immigrant from Africa. Neither the FBI nor the Columbus police have released any information on his immigration status, when he came to the U.S. and from what country, under what circumstances he came, or whether he was a legal or illegal resident of this country.
According to reports, Barry led police on a five-mile chase before losing control of his car and careening off the road. He exited the vehicle with his machete and another knife, and allegedly lunged at the officers.
“He yelled, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ and then he attacked them with the machete, and that’s when they shot him and killed him,” Baransi [the restaurant owner—ed] told Tower magazine.
Please read thewhole articleabout how Baransi is not going to cower.
If you read Ann Coulter’s book, ‘Adios America,’ she tells us much about the code of secrecy (by police/FBI) surrounding crimes committed by immigrants. So, it is not surprising that nothing is being released so far on his immigration status.
And, by the way, in my last eight year of following stories like this one, I have never seen any mention of Gov. John Kasich of Ohio showing one bit of concern for the colonization, by the UN/US State Department, of Ohio.
So much for the Obama Administration helping ‘the children!’
This is an editorial that follows last week’s newsthat ‘unaccompanied alien children,’ teens who got across the US border last year in the invasion, were allegedly handed over, by the agency charged with their care, to traffickers who have exploited them inside the US. You can read all about the original indictment against 4 men who acted as employment contractors for this massive egg farm. The farm itself is apparently not implicated, but the story mentioning the farm adds more facts to bolster our oft-repeated theory that illegal and LEGAL immigrants are desired by large agribusiness looking for cheap (and in this case apparently slave) labor. And, that is why politicians on both sides of the aisle support amnesty and open borders. I wonder what agribusinesses bankroll Jeb Bush! http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/02/Four-indicted-in-egg-farm-labor-ring.html
From The Columbus Dispatch:
The idea that people as young as 14 were being held as virtual slaves and forced by their captors to work at egg farms in Marion County was shocking enough. The revelation that they may have been put in the situation by the federal agency charged with protecting them is worse.
It calls for a swift investigation, and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is in the right position to see that one happens.
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On Monday, Portman released a letter he sent to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, demanding information about operations of the department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Among other responsibilities, the office is charged with overseeing unaccompanied minors who are in the U.S. illegally. The office is supposed to ensure that such children are placed with qualified adult sponsors who can protect the children’s physical and mental health.
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According to the indictment unsealed on July 2, when the unaccompanied children were detained at the border, at least five of the teenagers were put in ORR detention facilities. That’s where their story should have gotten better.
From October through May, close to 18,000 unaccompanied minors were referred to ORR, which released more than 15,000 of them to sponsors.
Calling Ann Coulter (and Donald Trump)!
Here are the names of the men (the labor contractors!) indicted. How much do you want to bet that they are here illegally!
The charges, announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland, are against Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, 33, of Pecos, Texas; Conrado Salgado Soto, 52, of Raymond; Ana Angelica Pedro Juan, 21, of Columbus; and Juan Pablo Duran Jr., 23, of Marysville.
And, here is what we learn about Trillium farms:
Trillium has not been charged, and company officials said in a statement that they were misled by the companies these four ran and that Trillium contracted with for labor.
Remember readers that the federal resettlement contractors, their friends in the NO borders movement and the Obama Administration like to hide under their white hat of humanitarianism, but it always goes back to one driving force I am sorry to say—it is all about the money! Feeling good about themselves and bringing in more reliable Leftwing voters are the benies on the side.
We have an extensive archive (here) going back for several years about ‘unaccompanied minors’ as they were originally called. We call them ‘unaccompanied alien children’ now.
Not to be forgotten in the whole discussion of the ‘children’ (mostly teenage boys) coming across our borders illegally is the Obama Administration’s plans to use them to expand the definition of what is a ‘refugee’ traditionally someone who has been persecuted for a very specific set of reasons. These teens are economic migrants, not legitimate refugees!
See our Ohio archive here.
Update: Reader Julie sent the FBI press release from earlier this month, check it out here.
On Monday I’ll be talking to a group in Ohio and so for those folks I’ve gathered some information on a state that seems to be newly targeted by Obama’s friends at Welcoming America. I first told you about thathere in July 2013, and again here yesterday. Top resettlement cities are Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and Akron.
Ohio numbers….
Ohio has been receiving over 2,000 refugees a year since 2012, and all told in the last ten years it received 21,230. (See data base here.) I was surprised to find it that high. For comparison Delaware hardly gets any (zero in 2014) and Texas is getting over 7,000 a year. In fiscal year 2014, Ohio received the 7th highest number of refugees in the country.
The Obama Administration and the politically Far Left federal resettlement contractors probably recognize the electoral value of Ohio, so they want to make sure it becomes a reliably Democrat-voting state.
The states higher on the 2014 listthan Ohio (2,815) in the last fiscal year are in descending order: Texas, California, New York, Michigan, Florida and Arizona.
In the ten year analysis, the Bhutanese (6,607) saw the highest number of their ethnic group settled in Ohio followed by Somalis (5,611). Iraqis were next with 2,617. Remember though that especially with the Somalis, Ohio likely saw the Somali number increase more rapidly as secondary migrants (resettled elsewhere in the US) went to mostly Columbus to join their fellow Somalis to establish a large Somali enclave there. The secondary migrants are not reflected in that 5,611 number.
The years with the highest number of Somalis resettled were 2005 and 2006 (Bush years!).
Most Somalis were resettled in Columbus (over 4,700 of the over 5,000) with Cleveland getting 322 directly resettled there from Africa. But, interestingly 21 other towns and cities got Somalis, albeit in smaller numbers. Remember the Columbus subsidized housing riot in 2012! How would you like to see this in your home town?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVd3KsVFX8
The resettlement contractors and cities they are colonizing…
For new readers there arenine major federal contractors. Five of the nine dominate Ohio. Here is a handy list to find their contact information. (The ORR list is not just for Ohio, but for the whole country.)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants works in Akron, Cleveland
US Conference of Catholic Bishopsworks in Cleveland, Cincinatti and Dayton
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Societyworks in Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo
Church World Serviceis in Columbus
World Reliefis in Columbus
Go here for all of the posts we have written on Ohio over the years. They had a recent terrorist arrest case there (Somali of course!).
And be sure to see my previous poston employment outcomes for refugees. Ohio’s employment numbers are pretty abysmal!
Refugee contractors are trying to “chart a path forward” as refugee admissions this year are set to be the lowest they have ever been since Senators Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden and the peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter, created the US Refugee Admissions Program that became law in 1980.
