Update July 4th: They are crying for more money in Arizona now too! (Hat tip: Joanne). Too many ‘unaccompanied minors’ siphoning off money for other refugees. Someone commented to me yesterday, that the open borders pushers (including the Catholic Bishops!) may have over-played their hand this time.
That (fewer refugees) is what a spokesman for Kentucky Refugee Ministries told WFPL News in Louisville earlier this week (Influx of Young Refugees Pinches Kentucky Refugee Services’ Budget).
Or, more likely this is the opening salvo in a lobbying campaign in Congress (by the contractors) to get more of your taxpayer dollars to keep the thousands of Iraqis, Burmese, and Somalis, etc. flowing to middle America. Thanks to all who sent this article.
Muslim refugee Mustafa allegedly embezzled money from Kentucky Refugee Ministries—is this what they mean by balancing the city? https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2014/06/01/kentucky-again-muslim-refugee-rips-off-his-resettlement-agency-but-that-is-not-the-whole-story/
An increase of undocumented children coming into America is expected to reduce the funding for services available to displaced people living in Kentucky and across the U.S.
Kentucky Office for Refugees officials expect to see a $2.28 million cut in federal funding to provide refugees in Kentucky with services such as English language learning, career development and housing placement.
The reduction in funding stems from an influx of children coming to the U.S. to escape violence and economic struggle in Central America, refugee services officials said. To better serve these children, the Office for Refugee Resettlement is transferring nearly $94 million to the Unaccompanied Alien Children program. The $2.28 million Kentucky officials expect to lose is a part of the $94 million transfer.
Because of the cuts, thousands of newly arrived refugees would receive a limited amount of these services that aid in creating a seamless transfer to life in America, according to a statement released by Catholic Charities of Louisville.
There is nothing to stop these contractors from RAISING PRIVATE MONEY to do their supposedly charitable work! They could ask their parishioners for money and hold bake sales!
When the original 1980 Refugee Act was pushed through Congress by Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden and signed into law by Jimmy Carter, there was no discussion of making these ‘religious’ charities quasi-government agencies as they have now become with the majority of their funding coming from you—the US taxpayers.
But if the cuts create such a problem that services cannot be provided, a smaller number of refugees may be brought to the United States, Koehlinger [Director of Kentucky Refugee Ministries] added.
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More than 2,100 refugees relocated to Louisville in the 2013 fiscal year, according to data provided by Catholic Charities of Louisville. In 2014, the number is expected to remain about the same.
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Koehlinger said the strong refugee population in Louisville is vital for a productive, balanced metropolitan area.
What the heck is a “balanced” metropolitan area? Is that like in Rochester where resettlement contractors dropped off the docile Bhutanese into an African American neighborhood (see our post yesterday on the consequences for the refugees when the do-gooders do their multi-culty mixing experiments)?
See our extensive archive on Kentucky ( here). They have had some humdinger problems with refugees there. Mustafa was just the latest most visible problem! (BTW, he took down his facebook photo and other juicy tidbits about where he has been for the last number of years right after we published the information).
One last thing! Don’t cry for the contractors, most have largely been responsible for encouraging the invasion of the border because they are being paid to take care of the “children” too!
See all of our posts on ‘unaccompanied minors’ by clicking here. The list is extremely long now and extends back several years.
As you know, political leaders in several cities are voicing their concerns about the large numbers of refugees placed in their cities and as a result putting enormous strain on social service and school system budgets. We reported yesterdayabout requests for moratoriums on further refugee resettlement in several New England states. And, don’t forget earlier this year Amarillo, TX was also asking for a reprieve.
(An aside: I just saw an interesting perspective on World Refugee Day where a commenter wondered why anyone would celebrate the fact that the UN has utterly failed in its supposed mission to quell violence around the world.)
Americans First: Fighting for social and economic justice for US Citizens
What we didn’t know was that a budding organization called “Americans First”planned to pass out fact sheets at the event with information attendees need to know!
Go here for the excellent Fact Sheet! And, tune in to Americans First radio!
Would someone please explain to me how communities are “enriched” by becoming magnets for impoverished refugees, many from Muslim areas of the world. I hear that phrase, or how about this one—“diversity brings strength” —all the time.
A plea to those in the refugee industry—please explain what that means. Are we talking about colorful clothing and foreign foods — what? The taxpaying citizens surely aren’t enriched by the costs involved with social services and education needed by the refugees.
Mustafa allegedly ripped-off his refugee agency and brought cultural enrichment to Kentucky.
Lexington, Kentucky is being “enriched” we are told. Remember “Mustafa” from Louisville, KY who is charged with ripping-off Kentucky Refugee Ministries? Did Mustafa bring cultural enrichment?
And, by the way, readers, it is a good thing we captured some of Mustafa’s facebook page about his travels in recent years to Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and his role “working” with the FBI because all that has been removed since we last visited.
Did the Iraqi refugee terrorists bring enrichment and the joys of cultural diversity to Kentucky, or how about the Congolese woman recently suedby another Congolese “refugee” for human trafficking. Did Sifa bring enrichment to Lexington?
You are going to see fluffy articles like this one all week as World Refugee Day approaches on Friday, the 20th.
Carine [of the Congo*** and star of this story—ed] will talk about that transition at the “World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” at the Central Library June 20.It is Lexington’s celebration of the rich, overlooked pockets of diversity throughout this community.
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations in 2001 to pay tribute to the courage and strength exhibited by those forced to flee their homelands and familiar routines to escape conflict.
Lexington’s celebration has a twist, however.
“Unlike New York … and many larger cities with a rich history of immigration, Lexington is not yet used to helping new neighbors resettle,” said Lindsay Mattingly, multicultural liaison at the Lexington Public Library. “We do not yet have a well-developed infrastructure that can support nonnative English speakers.”
Here is an example of a deceptive line (there always are a few in stories like this one):
While the Kentucky Refugee Ministries does a great job, she said, that organization has to adhere to time limits set by the federal government of up to six months.
The only “time limit” is that their federal dole ends at that point. There is no law that says a resettlement agency can’t raise PRIVATE FUNDS to continue to care for refugees they bring to your town. In reality their job for the first six months is to find refugees a job (if they can) and get them enrolled in all the welfare programs available to them. Then they move on to the next paying “client.”
If you are in the Lexington area, you might want to attend Friday’s event:
“World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” begins with a conference at the Central Library, 140 East Main Street, from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
***The Congolese in Lexington:
“Lexington has the third-largest population of resettled Congolese immigrants in the country,” Mattingly said. Phoenix and Houston are ahead of us. And there are more than 90 languages spoken in the homes of students in Fayette County schools.
Bowling Green, KY (more pockets of diversity!): population of foreign born is 10% of the city’s population!
Bowling Green, where those Iraqi terrorists were living when they were arrested, is ahead of the rest of Kentucky in its demographic change (and enrichment!) thanks largely to the resettlement of refugees that has gone on there for decades. See this story (hat tip: Robin). That Daily News story also tells us this:
Whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S., and by 2050, whites are projected to become a minority of the U.S. population,according to the Pew report. U.S. Census Bureau results show that from 2000 to 2010, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7 percent of the nation’s growth. In 2000, 11.1 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born, which increased to 13 percent by 2011. By 2050, 19 percent of the nation’s population is projected to be foreign born, according to a Pew report.
We have been writing about problems that cultural diversity has brought Bowling Green for years, click here for those posts.
It is indirect of course, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)*** is choosing the refugees for America and then the US State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS) along with the contractorsdecide in which cities they will be placed.
Greater Cincinnati extends beyond Ohio into Kentucky and Indiana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area
It sure looks like Cincinnati is one city they have deemed “welcoming.”
This is your usual longish article starring a struggling but grateful refugee, nothing new there. However, it has a few nuggets of information that you might find useful. It seems that Kentucky Refugee Ministries, the same contractor that was ripped-off the other day by a Muslim client, plays a role in resettling refugees in the greater Cincinnati area.
The article also confirms the role of the UN and that refugees get welfare goodies as a special class of immigrant (which we know), but it is interesting to me that the subject is being discussed more openly now than 7 years ago when we first started reporting on the program.
Greater Cincinnati is home to as many as 25,000 refugees.They come from such countries as Bhutan, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Burma, Vietnam, Russia and Iraq, but all [not all!–ed] experienced severe persecution in their homelands that forced them to flee. They also share the struggle to create fresh lives, overcome the language barrier, learn a new culture and integrate into American society.
Lots of column inches are devoted to telling readers about the ‘star’ of the story, then this:
Once a refugee is selected for resettlement by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), their case is piped down through several organizational tiers before finally reaching a settlement destination.In the U.S., they arrive with an I-94 form, a unique status among all classes of immigrants.Refugees receive a social security card upon entry to the U.S. and are eligible for social services, food assistance, Medicaid coverage and most services that citizens qualify for. They can apply for a green card within a year, and are eligible for citizenship after five years of residence.
UNHCR Antonio Gutteres
Kentucky Refugee Ministries resettled the ‘star’ of this story. Unfortunately, the average American reader will assume from this next paragraph that the Kentucky group is helping out of the goodness of its Christian heart—not that they are being paid out of the federal treasury to do their ‘charitable’ work:
For Thang, ties to his wife and her family were enough to move him through the pipeline directly to Louisville. Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) handles resettlement cases for that region, and is responsible for acclimating refugees once they arrive, providing airport pickup, housing, medical examinations, job assistance, cultural integration and language courses.
People ask me all the time if it is true that the UN picks our refugees, yes it is true (for most of the refugees)!
One caveat, however, is what I mentioned in my “Moratorium”testimony (#7). And, that is, when the US State Department uses the program for some extracurricular activity, like airlifting trouble-making Uzbeks here, or giving Russia a little helping hand by taking the Meskhetian Turks off their hands, or when Clinton/Gore airlifted those Kosovars here. And, surely there are others we have never heard of!
Update June 1: More negative news—refugee charged with ripping off resettlement contractor and a whole lot more, here.
Kentucky isn’t the largest of the refugee resettlement states but falls within the top 20 for the number of refugees it receives. In a recent 5 year period—2006-2011—Kentucky resettled 7,883 refugees making it the 17th largest resettlement state, of course nowhere near the top two: California (46,218) and Texas (34,069) for the same time period.
From now to eternity, the poster boys for refugee resettlement in Kentucky will be convicted Iraqi refugee terrorists!
Kentucky (well, not the state itself, but the non-profits) resettled 1,368 refugees in 2011 which moved them to 16th place for that year. We know this from the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Annual Report to Congress for 2011. The ORR is two years behind in supplying Congress with legally required reports for 2012 and 2013 which of course makes it hard for Congress (they don’t seem to care) and for you to see what is going on in your state.
In 2012, Kentucky got 1,452 refugees. Go hereto see where they came from.
Kentucky is a Wilson-Fish state. We told you about that herein a FAQ on W-F.
As a Wilson-Fish state, the federal government (the US State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement in HHS) has chosen, in this case, Catholic Charities to administer the program for the state.
That means that state resources are being used to care for refugees, to educate the kids, to provide housing and healthcare, etc. with NO OVERSIGHT or no control from elected officials in Kentucky!
Catholic Charities is the Kentucky Office for Refugees. According to a recent Form 990 (2011, most recent available at Guidestar) the ‘Kentucky’ office received $13.1 million in revenue that year and $11.3 million came from you, the taxpayer, in the form of Government grants. About 86% of their funding comes from taxpayer dollars.
To learn more than you ever wanted to know about Kentucky’s program go here(Kentucky Wilson-Fish Policy and Procedures Manual).
But, Catholic Charities isn’t alone in bringing refugees to Kentucky, according to the ‘Manual,’ five of nine major refugee contractors operate in Kentucky. They like to call themselves “Voluntary Agencies,” VOLAGs for short. They are anything but! Most of them receive as much as 90+ % of their funding from government sources, they are paid by the head to resettle refugees and thus have no incentive to slow the flow to cities and towns they have deemed “preferred.”
In Kentucky right now the “preferred resettlement sites” are Louisville, Lexington and Owensboro. Bowling Green used to be “preferred” but has had too many problems with refugee overload, crime and even terrorism so the feds have likely stopped highlighting it as a fabulous place to send refugees at the moment (other than family reunification cases that is).
The nine contractors that monopolize the program, along with their hundreds of subcontractors, have America carved up and turf wars are not uncommon!
But, I had to laugh when I saw the list of contractors operating in Kentucky, heck! five of the nine are there and I bet competing and squabbling among themselves. The five helping supply Kentucky industries with cheap labor (chicken plants perhaps?) are: Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (helping build Kentucky’s Muslim population?), the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (they all bring Muslims, not just HIAS!).
Before we get too far into the weeds of this thing, let me tell you about some news involving Kentucky’s claim to fame in the refugee resettlement world.
This is so ironic! Our first mention of Kentucky here at RRW was in 2007when then Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, Ellen Sauerbrey (Bush appointment) went to Louisville and said we need to bring refugees to America to keep them from becoming terrorists! I think you know where this is going!
Then in 2008, we had the hot news from Bowling Greenthat a Bosnian refugee teen was shot in the head by a homeowner who was awakened by the kid breaking in. Thankfully, the homeowner was not prosecuted having every right to protect himself and his property.
In 2009 we learned from a reader who actually went to meet with the Burmese refugees of Bowling Green in their slum apartments about the deplorable conditions in which the International Center there (a subcontractor of USCRI) had placed scores of Burmese families. We wrote many posts on the controversy at the time and those can be found by going to our Bowling Green archive. See also ‘Friends of Refugees’on the International Center’s mismanagement of refugees there.
The most stunning refugee news to hit Kentucky and the Nation in 2011 was the arrest of two Iraqi refugees on terrorism charges. They have since been found guilty and are in prison. Think about it, US taxpayers paid an enormous sum to bring them here and now we get to care for them for life behind bars. We wrote extensively on the news as it developed, click hereto see all of our mentions of the KY Iraqi refugee terrorists.
So what do you think Ellen Sauerbrey would say now when it appears we did bring Iraqi refugees to America and they still wanted to be terrorists!
Senator Rand Paul
Initially we were surprised and grateful that Senator Rand Paul took an interest in the refugee program that had brought those Iraqis to his home town of Bowling Green. The Senator spoke up several times demanding to know why we were bringing Iraqis and other refugees to America. Here (in June of last year) he was roundly criticized for saying (correctly!): ‘we bring’em in and sign them up for welfare.‘
In the nearly seven years we have written about refugees, he is one of only a handful of Senators or Members of Congress to question the program, but unfortunately we haven’t seen much from him on the subject lately. Gee, I wonder why?
Congolese human trafficker?
And, as we run out of steam on Kentucky, we can’t forget the news last month about accusations that a Congolese refugee could be charged in a human-trafficking case. Sifa Ndusha’s alleged victim has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was trafficked by Ndusaha. This is happening in Lexington (a preferred community!). Read all about it here.
A recommendation to readers in Kentucky and every other state:
If you are troubled by what you see with this federal program, a program we obviously believe has gone completely off track by becoming a money-making scheme for the religious right on the backs of US taxpayers when we have our own poor people in need of “services” and is bringing large numbers of culturally incompatible people to targeted cities, please take the initiative and find out what is going on in your city or in your state.
And, by he way, when you begin following the activities of your local resettlement contractors, they aren’t just using your money for the “refugees,” they also use it for “advocacy” for political issues locally and nationally. They are all advocating for the Obama amnesty plan. So do your sleuthing and then…..
….. PUBLISH YOUR FINDINGS so that others may learn from you because the mainstream media is either too lazy or in the tank for the program. Take some lessons from the political Left and begin agitating your elected officials starting on the city and state level to do something about it. Some aspects of this program are, we suspect, being administered illegally, so be sure to let your local elected officials know that and perhaps you will find a few of them with some guts willing to fight to protect Americans first. You might even get really lucky and find some pro bono lawyer willing to take them on.
Don’t let the contractors trap you in their humanitarian do-gooder mumbo jumbo pitch either—remember this is a business they are in and the only difference is that their product is moving immigrants around and finding them “services” with money from you! They are also busy turning red states blue.
Let your representatives in Washington know too what you have learned, but don’t hold your breath that your solution rests in DC. We have visited Congressional aids there who tell us they are too scared to take this one on. Why? Fear of being called racists? Fear of the lobbying power of entities like the Catholic and Lutheran Churches? Fear of the loss of campaign donations from big corporations looking for cheap legal labor? Maybe all three?
