What is the cost to admit (and care for!) refugees in the US?

10/23/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Nobody really knows, nor does the refugee industry want you to know!
We just now reported on a leaked report in the UK that puts the figure at around $36,000 per refugee per year in the UK, but as far as we have ever seen, no official government estimate has been made of the cost of resettlement in the US. That is why the bill introduced by Rep. Brian Babin of Texas is so important. Update: See more on the Babin bill, here.

Syrians arrive KY — Starving Syrian refugees arrive in Kentucky earlier this year. Do Mitch and Rand know that KY is so far this fiscal year the leading Syrian resettlement state? https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2015/02/15/first-syrian-refugees-arriving-in-louisville-ky-helped-with-grant-from-islamic-charity/

Here Jessica Vaughn (Center for Immigration Studies) writing at National Review (‘Help Refugees, but Stop Feeding the Refugee-Resettlement Industry’) references a Heritage Foundation report:

The Heritage Foundation has calculated that the 10,000 Syrians who would be admitted under the president’s plan would eventually collect about $6.5 billion in services over the next 50 years. Much of that would be borne by local communities.

Read it all.
And see here at The Atlantic someone did a quick and dirty calculation, but this number only represents the cost of bringing 70,000 refugees in to the country and does not include the welfare benefits refugees receive, the healthcare or the cost of educating the children.

The process of bringing refugees to the U.S. is handled by three agencies: the State Department, which leads the program, USCIS at the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Together, the three agencies spent about $1.1 billion last year. That’s $1.1 billion for 70,000 refugees, which comes to about $15,714 per person.

Getting at the real costs to federal, state and local taxpayers is an important goal going forward, but be prepared for all involved in the industry to stonewall such an effort.
Photo caption: Go here to see how KY is Numero uno so far in October for receiving Syrian refugees (97% of those who have arrived so far are Muslims).

Two weeks into FY2016, 51 Syrians arrive in US; Kentucky 'welcomed' the most

10/19/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

As we know, the Obama Administration is aiming to resettle 10,000 Syrians this year. The resettlement contractors, including the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, are pushing for 100,000 (btw, this post on the Bishops and 100,000 took off on social media in the last few days).
From the US State Department’s Refugee Processing Center for October 1-October 15 (hat tip: Diane).

As we previously reported, 97% of the Syrians resettled to the US in FY 2015 are Muslims. Make no mistake, this is not about saving the persecuted Christians or Yazidis.
Related: Have a look at this AP article about Syrians going to Michigan where the Republican governor is welcoming them (and wants many more). It was only posted yesterday and has 2,786 comments already (as of this writing) with the vast majority opposed to what Governor Snyder is doing.

Senator Rand Paul: We are going to look into legal immigration from "hotbeds of jihadism"

07/18/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

A few years ago I was thrilled that Senator Rand Paul publicly challenged the UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions Program. He even said for publication: Why are we bringing Iraqi refugees here and putting them on welfare!

2016 Presidential candidate Rand Paul: I don’t think we are being careful about who we let in.

This happened as it became known that two Iraqi refugees had been arrested and ultimately convicted of terrorist activity in Kentucky. However, he drifted away from the issue as his Presidential aspirations became clear.
Now, it looks like he is thankfully taking up the cause again as Breitbart reported here yesterday (via Creeping Sharia and hat tip: Paula):

HOUSTON, Texas — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here that he wants to restrict immigration from predominantly Muslim countries after the Chattanooga, Tennessee, terrorist attack.

Paul said in an interview backstage at a rally his presidential campaign is holding inside the Hyatt Regency here in downtown Houston:

I’m very concerned about immigration to this country from countries that have hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism. There was a program in place that Bush had put in place—it stood for entry-exit program from about 25 different countries with a lot of Islamic radicals, frankly. I think there does need to be heightened scrutiny. Nobody has a right to come to America, so this isn’t something that we can say ‘oh their rights are being violated.’ It’s a privilege to come to America and we need to thoroughly screen those who are coming.

The alleged shooter in the Chattanooga incident—which claimed the lives of four U.S. marines, whom he allegedly murdered in the terror attack—was named Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. The 24-year-old was born in Kuwait and immigrated to the United States before he opened fire in Chattanooga, killing four Marines.

Paul also told Breitbart News about another similar incident regarding foreigners from the Middle East who were placed in Kentucky via immigration programs for refugees—and tried to, before getting caught, buy military grade missiles.

Go to Breitbart for the rest of the story…..
See all of our coverage (both positive and negative) of Senator Rand Paul on refugees by clicking here.

Another Muslim Bosnian refugee faces extradition, charged with war crimes against Christian civilians

07/11/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

We just told you yesterday about a Bosnian war criminal being extradited back to the Serbian part of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and now we have another one!
It appears that this woman, a former prison guard, also allegedly lied to get into the US.
How many more Bosnian refugee frauds are out there from Bill Clinton’s war?

Azra Basic, just your friendly cake-baking refugee next door?

From Kentucky.com (hat tip: Robin). This is a long story and I’ve only snipped a small portion of it, so read the whole thing. Emphasis below is mine:

A woman accused of torture and murder in the bloody Bosnian civil war more than 20 years ago has lost another effort to avoid being extradited from Kentucky to stand trial.

Azra Basic did not prove that an earlier decision under which she could be taken to Bosnia violated the law or a treaty, chief U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell ruled Thursday.

Basic’s attorney, Patrick F. Nash, said Basic denies committing war crimes against civilians.

Basic will continue fighting to avoid extradition, with the next step being an appeal to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Nash said.

[….]

Nash also cited the historical enmity between Serbs and Muslim Croatians such as Basic.

“The danger of sending a Muslim Croatian into such a heavily Serbian area … there’s obvious concern there,” Nash said in an interview. “Is there a fear of unfairness? Sure.”

She is charged with participating in horrific crimes.

Caldwell’s decision said Basic allegedly supervised Croat forces that took dozens of ethnic Serbian civilians hostage in 1992.

Witnesses said she took part in horrific conduct, including killing one man by stabbing him in the throat, then forcing other prisoners to drink his blood; torturing a prisoner with pliers; forcing a man to drink gas and then setting his face on fire; and carving symbols into the skin of prisoners.

What were those symbols she is accused of carving into prisoners (into their foreheads)? An earlier New York Times story tells us.

Ms. Basic carved crosses into prisoners’ foreheads.

See the whole 2011 NYT story here.
Imagine what these long drawn-out legal cases (including incarceration) involving refugee liars cost the US taxpayer!
Gee whiz! Kentucky sure has its problems with refugee criminals, click here for our growing archive on Kentucky. Makes you realize that all of this has been going on under the nose of ‘welcoming’ Senator Mitch McConnell for the last three decades!

Sudanese refugee killed in Kentucky wanted to go home to Africa

06/17/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

This is something you rarely hear about because those in the refugee industry don’t want you to know that refugees sometimes just want to go home to their homeland, to their own culture, when they find out that America can be a tough place in which to live.
Apparently that was the case for Deng Manyuon shot last Saturday when he attempted to assault a police officer in Louisville, KY. We reported the story here yesterday.

I can see a PR campaign now with a poster like this one and an 800-number with operators waiting to hear from unhappy refugees and other immigrants who want to go home, and want information on how to apply for the funding.

Munyoun’s is not the first case I’ve heard of. I had a back-and-forth discussion a few years ago with Iraqis who found that America’s streets were not paved with gold and they wanted to return to Iraq. But they were unable to get the money together needed for a move back to the Middle East. Even airfare was too much for out-of-work refugees. Honestly it’s almost like slavery, they’ve been brought here largely to supply big business with cheap labor or as voters for the Democrats and can’t go home!

Is it time for a Repatriation Fund?

In fact, reader CW suggested in January that a new contractor (call it “Repatriation Services”) could be incorporated and it would apply for federal grants for airfare and start-up money for immigrants and refugees who want to go home, to their own culture.
Israel is doing something like that now and offering start-up funding for Africans to voluntarily repatriate.
From WDRB.com (hat tip: Robin):

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) — Thousands of people have watched the video.

It shows LMPD Ofc. Nathan Blanford and 35-year-old Deng Manyuon at the corner of 4th and Oak in Old Louisville on Saturday.

When Manyuon walks away, he grabs a flag pole and charges back at Blanford, wildly swinging the flag pole.

Blanford shoots Manyuon twice, killing him.

For those who knew Manyuon, the video is tough to watch.

“It’s really painful,” says Matur Reclow, chairman of the South Sudanese Community of Kentucky.

Since his death, we’ve learned Manyuon was one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan”.

He came to the U.S. in 2001 amid his country’s civil war. Reclow says Manyuon had hopes of getting an education and having a life here.

[….]

“He didn’t have mental problems but was depressed and give up the life,” he said.

They made a deal in the hospital that day that if Manyuon would try to get back on track, Reclow would arrange a one-way ticket for him back to Sudan for a fresh start in his home country. He says Manyuon wanted to escape his life of homelessness and alcoholism in Louisville.

The idea of a “Repatriation Fund” is a serious one and it would save taxpayers a bundle. Surely a few thousand dollars of airfare and a little cash to get started back home would be small in comparison to years of welfare payments and medical care.
In fact, if such a fund had existed right along with the resettlement program all these years, Deng Manyoun might be alive today.