RRW weekly roundup for week ending August 15, 2015

08/17/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Ah well, late again.
For new readers, every week we try to let everyone know which posts were our Top Three most-read posts of the previous week and use the opportunity to fill you in on other news we want to share.
Before I get to the three top posts, we want to let you know that ‘Pockets of Resistance (POR)’ are mushrooming (see my earlier post this morning for instance). Some of you may hear from (or have already heard from) Jim Simpson who is working to connect grassroots activists. Jim reports that he has now identified citizens concerned about the colonization of their communities in 24 states! It is not too late to get in on the action!
Go here and sign up (Center for Security Policy) to be included in the new network.
To all of you reaching out to me to find out what you can do, remember, I’m a blogger and have no organization (no staff etc) behind me. I love my charitable work of researching and simply reporting the news and educating you on this increasingly hot topic! And, I am so sorry, although I spend some time each day answering e-mails, I have so little time to answer all of your questions and requests.
By the way, that first youtube video of mine which I reported last week had passed the 1 million viewer mark, is up to 1,132,419 views this week.

Here are our Top Three Posts of last week (Top daily posts are in the right hand sidebar). That second one is an old post from back in May.

1) Before you get too excited about Presidential candidate Ms. Carly

2) 36,144 refugees admitted to US in first seven months of FY2015 (fiscal year)

3) Our fact sheet

I don’t know what the interest was in that #2 post but surely it must have been this map (refugees admitted 2009-2012) that tells us what we knew intuitively, that some states—notably Idaho, North and South Dakota and surprisingly Vermont—are getting huge numbers of refugees in relation to their population size. Both Idaho and North Dakota have recently developed ‘POR.’

RRW weekly roundup for week ending August 8, 2015

08/10/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Sorry, just getting to this today.
But, it is just as well because as of the 8th our youtube video had not passed the 1 million views mark, but by late yesterday it had!
See it here! It is at 1,012,702 (at this minute) having attracted over 12,000 viewers since yesterday afternoon when it passed that million-viewer milestone! Who are all these people?
St. Cloud, MN news last week brought thousands of new viewers to RRW as posts about St. Cloud (a Pocket of Resistance) were two of our three top posts for the week.

For new readers!

I started posting the weekly roundup just so it would give me an opportunity to tell new readers who had arrived during the week about how to get the most useful information from visits to RRW. You can see those instructions by visiting this weekly roundup (scroll to New Readers).
This is also an opportunity for me to get messages to you and to apologize (for example) for not being able to answer all of your e-mails. I try as best I can, but know that RRW is just me, a blogger, and not some massive heavily-funded organization like those that the NO Borders people run. (See for example the moneybags at NEO Philanthropy, here. )
There is a lot of money and power arrayed against us, but do not be deterred. You have every right to speak up and organize to protect our values and cherished way of life.
Pockets of Resistance are springing up and growing around the country (see our category where we archive posts about ‘Pockets of Resistance’). Through the Center for Security Policy we are trying to find you all and get you connected with each other.
P.S. Follow me on twitter! Did you see our new feature in the right hand side bar, it shows my twitter feed! I’m trying harder to use twitter to get articles and other news to you that I don’t have time to post. I am @refugeewatcher.

RRW weekly roundup for week ending August 1, 2015

08/02/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

For new readers, we try to report every week on which of our stories garnered the most interest during the previous week.
This week’s number one post is from 2013! I usually am never able to figure out why some old post, all of a sudden, makes the big time. This one obviously struck a cord and someone sent it out through social media. Maybe something new happened in Noel, Missouri (where Tyson Foods is destroying the town) that I missed? I don’t know.
Or, could it be that since Democrat Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is making sense and saying that immigration DOES HURT AMERICAN WORKERS some people are finding examples of it? Here is how our Number One post for this week begins:

It is not often I agree with anything from “Progressives,” but when a reader sent me this piece from Progressives for Immigration Reform I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is more on the report we posted the other day on Noel, Missouri and the poverty the town is experiencing as it is flooded with mostly REFUGEE laborers for Tyson Foods.

How on earth our federal CHURCH contractors can be aiding and abetting this travesty continues to be beyond my understanding.

So here then are the Top Three Posts of the week (Top Daily Posts are in the right hand side bar):

1) Progressives: Tyson Foods exploits immigrant labor, destroys small towns

2) Texas Congressman introduces bill to suspend Refugee Resettlement Program!

3) St. Cloud, MN: AFL-CIO operative using intimidation tactics, stirs racial unrest….

By the way, on #3 here, I think Ms. Jane Conrad is out of step with Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders. She hasn’t gotten the message yet that American workers (and wages!) are hurt by the flood of immigrant low-skilled labor coming into Minnesota—imported with the help of federal contractors like Lutheran Social Service and Catholic Charities! I wonder when these union organizers will focus on the big fat salaries of CEOs like the one leading Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.

Youtube video headed to One Million Views!

And on my first Youtube that we are trying to push to 1 million views—-it is up to 878,219 as of this morning! And, this will give you a laugh, it seems that the federal contractors have an internal document that seeks to rebut each of my points. They are that concerned that they feel they need to answer what I say!
Don’t miss the video on 65,000 Syrians, it is actually more important than the first video. See also Jim Simpson’s 5-minute presentation on the Red-Green Axis to erase America, here.
For new readers, please go to a previous weekly round-up here for instructions on how to get the most out of your visits to RRW.

RRW weekly roundup for week ending July 25, 2015

07/27/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

I’m late, I know, but I just got lazy this weekend. This is my charitable work after all, so I figure I can goof off now and again. Right!
This morning I’m waking up to news that Donald Trump may have shot his campaign in the foot when he slipped into the mumbo-jumbo about pathways to citizenship for illegals last week. See Daniel Greenfield here. It is one thing to stand up for the American people with his broad brush approach up to now, but he must begin to understand the issues in a deeper way (pretty quickly) or his lack of understanding will show on the debate stage on August 6th.
If I could tell Mr. Trump what to do, I would tell him to consult the experts and study—morning, noon, and night—from now until August 6th!
I’m digressing. Here are our Top Three Posts of last week (Top daily posts are in the right hand side bar).

1) How did Chattanooga shooter’s family get here?

2) Center for Security Policy releases ‘Red-Green Axis: the agenda to erase America!’

3) Refugee Resettlement Fact Sheet

I’m interested to see that our Fact Sheet is back in the top three, but we really need to update it …one of these days!
Here are our Top Ten Countries from which readers arrived at RRW last week (excluding the US):

Canada

Germany

Australia

New Zealand

India

Norway

Turkey*

Austria

* Last week I commented about Turkey making the top ten and a reader from Turkey, who says he/she is interviewing prospective refugees to be sent to the US, commented saying he/she is responsible for some of those visitors from Turkey. I think you should read the comments and my responses, here. It became pretty clear that whoever this is working for a non-profit contractor interviewing refugees to come to America holds a low regard for Christians as he gloats:

(Btw, Christians make up about 30% of Middle Eastern refugees I currently process. Bad newz for you though: Above half are illiterate and suffer from congenital diseases observed in much higher frequencies than in rest of Iraq and Syria. Hold on to your local health budget folks! Fellow Christians are coming!)

For new readers, please visit a recent roundup here for instructions on how to make the most out of your visits to RRW.
One last thing, follow me on twitter. I am trying to use that social media format to get stories out that are related to this issue which I don’t have time to post on, and I also tweet all of my posts if you don’t want to subscribe. I’m here @refugeewatcher.

RRW Weekly Roundup for week ending July 18, 2015

07/19/2015 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

From the editor (from Ann): it occurs to me that new readers coming to RRW may not know that Refugee Resettlement Watch is a blog and not an organization with staff! I say this because I get so many requests from people to speak around the country, to speak on radio shows and conference calls, to read reports, news articles and documents, to help people find other activists, etc. as if I had staff here to help me stay organized. I don’t!
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful for the interest, but it is just me here! I know I should be glad the issue is finally becoming a serious national issue, but I can’t answer everyone’s requests and still get the news out!
And, I especially don’t want to look rude by not responding to my hundreds of e-mails every day!
I think we will have some reinforcements on the way soon, and I will definitely be the first to tell you when they have arrived. In the meantime, please don’t take it personally if I miss your requests!
By the way, the radio interview requests are probably the most productive and least time-consuming, and I try to do those as much as possible! It is a way to reach many many people without having to get on a plane!
Sincerest thanks for your continued concern for this critical issue at this pivotal point in US history (world history!).

Here then are the Top Three Posts of the week (daily Top Posts are in the right hand side bar):

1) “Pockets of Resistance” growing and spreading

2) Trump speaks out on Syrian refugees: we aren’t saving Christians, just the Muslims

3) Comment from refugee insider: it is all about the money as US refugee program imports Muslims

I’m happy to report that my first Youtube video is now above 742,000 views as we try to reach the 1 million mark! The second one may be even more important to send around because if we get 65,000 Syrian mostly Muslim refugees before Obama leaves office it will be disastrous for hundreds of US towns and cities.

The Top Ten Countries from which readers arrived this week are here in descending order (excluding the US):

Canada

Australia

Germany

South Africa

France

New Zealand

India

Turkey (this may be the first time Turkey is in the top ten)

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