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NYC subway murder suspect is supposedly a refugee

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An article in the New York Post identifies the man  (Naeem Davis) who witnesses say pushed another immigrant (Ki Suk Han) to his death in the New York subway system as bystanders watched, as a “refugee” from Sierra Leone.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and sandals, the somber Sierra Leone refugee kept his head down through most of the hour-long interview. Davis, 30, said he’s a devout Muslim who went to a mosque daily.

[….]

Davis, meanwhile, immigrated to the United States in 1989 to live with his grandparents in Pennsylvania, he said.

A quick look at the 1989 ORR Annual report to Congress* tells us that no “refugees” were admitted from Sierra Leone (a largely Muslim country) that year.    If he came as he says, he could have been a family reunification case (chain migration!), or someone got him in illegally.

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has more on this guy.

* This is funny, that 1989 annual report was sent to Congress right on time in January 1990!  They followed the law!  We admitted nearly two times as many refugees that year (107,000) than we are bringing now and yet the Office of Refugee Resettlement was able to report to Congress.  Right now the ORR is three years behind (the entire time of the Obama Administration) and can’t (or won’t!) get these reports done.

Magical mystery tour: finding the annual reports to Congress

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One of the goals of Refugee Resettlement Watch is to help you, the average taxpaying American, find the information on this program—which “refugees” are coming, from what country, to which states, and how much all this costs us (among other things).  To that end we have a category entitled “where to find information.”

On Monday, I mentioned that I would like to see how many Iraqis we have resettled over the years, first the ones we resettled because of Saddam Hussein the crazy and cruel dictator, and now the ones we are resettling because the crazy, cruel dictator is gone and they have a democracy from which “refugees” wish to escape.  We can always find an excuse to import the masses.

So, I went to the Office of Refugee Resettlement website to see the annual reports to Congress and lo-and-behold some of them were missing (and not just the three recent ones where the ORR is breaking the law by not reporting).

I then wrote to ORR to ask where they are and am told they are at a Georgetown University Law Library website.  I’m sure the average interested citizen should have been able to find that easily (not!).

If you are at all interested in who has come to your state and how much this all costs, please visit these annual reports.  Go to tables at the end to see stats on states, refugee nationalities and numbers of refugees and asylees resettled in your states.

One final thing—drum roll please!  The annual report to Congress for 2009 (three years late) is in the review process and should be out soon we are told!