RRW monthly roundup for the month of April 2017

05/05/2017 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

It was a slow posting month for me here at RRW due to pressing family and farm responsibilities, so you may have noticed my usual (self-imposed) goal of writing three posts a day has gone by the wayside (until today).

Does Trump even know what is going on in the Dept. of State? For that matter, without an Asst. Sec. of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, does Rex Tillerson even know?

And, frankly, as my garden beckons, I’m feeling pretty disgusted at the way the Trump Administration is unfolding.
I can only speak on the issue of refugees, but honestly he is dropping the ball. His defenders, like ‘Nancy’ here, can continue to make excuses about the various roadblocks the Left is throwing in his way, but he isn’t even speaking up about how they are rolling him on refugees from terror-producing parts of the world or showing any outward sign of fighting back.
Let’s hope I will be proven wrong and that much is going on behind the scenes, but I wonder…..
Does he even know what is happening?
This is going to be a quick update, I really just want readers to know what the Top Three Posts of the month were.
I also want to emphasize again that there are 8,428 posts here at RRW and I’m going to have to leave it to you, if you are seriously interested, to mine that information. ‘Nancy’ in a follow-up e-mail suggested I write something simple for beginners to catch up, but short of Frequently Asked Questions in the header, it is pretty hard to re-cap nearly ten years of writing. And, I don’t want to bore longtime readers to death saying the same things over and over.
As I have told you often in these monthly updates, like this one, use RRW’s search window with a few key words, read every day and eventually you will catch on.
And, I don’t say it enough. My heartfelt thanks for contributions readers send. I see those as confirmation that my work is useful to you.

Here were the Top Three Posts for the month of April:

Pence in Australia: Sure! We will be taking over 1,000 illegal aliens now held in Australian detention

Trump Department of State supports the Muslim Brotherhood, White House caves

7,000 Africans made it to Europe over the Easter weekend as invasion heats up

Thanks for reading RRW! Follow me on twitter @RefugeeWatcher! I’ve been trying to educate people with a few tweets headed with the phrase: “Finding facts!”
All of my weekly and monthly updates are tagged ‘Refugee Resettlement Watch.’ Or, you can find them in the category called ‘blogging’ here.

RRW monthly round-up for March 2017

04/02/2017 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

The most important news I have this morning is that I am taking a short break. As of my ‘Muslim Brotherhood supported by Trump State Department‘ post two days ago, I have written 8,402 posts since 2007 and I need some time off right now!

I’m mentioning the number of posts because I have so many new readers and some ask me to get them up-to-speed on the issue, and frankly I can’t do that.
It’s up to you to research posts I have written.
Start with Frequently Asked Questions linked at the top of this page (sorry fact sheet is out of date). You can use the categories in the drop-down in the left hand column or tags at the end of individual stories.
And, the search function here at wordpress is very good, so use a few key words in the search window.
LOL! I also have new readers referring to my “organization” or to my “staff.” There is no organization and no staff, just me and this blog!
When I take a break now for a week or two (unless there is some earth-shattering news), I urge you to follow me on twitter (my twitter feed @Refugee Watcher is also in the right hand side column of this blog and I tweet much more news than I could possibly write about), or follow my facebook group page, here, and in the left hand column of this blog page.
I’ll be updating the ‘Refugee Admission Numbers’ in the right hand side bar during my break.
Also, although there are many good writers who are writing about the refugee program, you should follow especially Leo Hohmann at World Net Daily, Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart, Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review, Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller at The Geller Report, and Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish. Others?
So, as I do at the beginning of some months, here are the Top Three Posts of last month:

Church World Service announced yesterday that it is launching anti-Trump campaign (to raise $$$)

Hawaii: Muslim Brotherhood-backed imam dictating US refugee policy

“Battle of Rotterdam” on eve of historic election in the Netherlands

All weekly and monthly roundups are archived in my ‘blogging’ category, here.
Oh, and one more thing, wordpress seems to dump subscribers from time to time. I don’t control those e-mails that come directly to you each time I post. I recommend that you simply visit RRW every day or so and see what is new, and, for now, while I am taking a break, to use the blog as a research tool as described above.
p.s. Although I don’t say it enough, your gifts and notes of thanks are gratefully received.

RRW Weekly round-up for week ending March 17, 2017

03/19/2017 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

I’ve been terrible about keeping up with weekly round-ups, so I figured it was about time I put one up!
For my last round-up (it was for the month of February, click here).

The Top Three Posts of the last week are these (top daily posts are in the right hand sidebar):

“Battle of Rotterdam” on eve of historic election in the Netherlands

Michigan: More confirmation that refugee resettlement is an industry

Hawaii: Muslim Brotherhood-backed imam dictating US refugee policy

And, I want to mention that another post just skyrocketed yesterday. It is this one:

Refuting, once again, the big lie about 18-24 months of vetting!

BTW, I’ve added a new sidebar widget: Refugee Admission numbers for FY17.

For new readers: I wrote this little book in 2015. Although a bit out of date now, it might help you get up-to-speed on an issue that is dominating the news today. https://www.amazon.com/Refugee-Resettlement-America-Civilization-Reader/dp/1508820708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489919128&sr=8-1&keywords=ann+corcoran

Fiscal year 2017 runs from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. As you know Donald Trump has set the CEILING at 50,000 for the year. As of the March 16th, the day Trump’s 120-day moratorium on resettlement was to go into effect, we were at 38,106.
The Hawaii judge placed, illegally in my opinion, a restraining order on the refugee ceiling portion of the order. So, I will track the numbers every few days (assuming Wrapsnet is working) and post the latest number in the right hand sidebar.

For new (and some long-time readers): Sorry for the repeat on some of this, but I get e-mails and comments about these issues all the time!

RRW is on twitter. I am @RefugeeWatcher. As of this morning I have 8,996 followers. My tweets are also in the right hand sidebar here at RRW.
RRW is on facebook, my page is here. It has 42,000 likes as of this writing.
I am here by myself, no staff, just me, so I can’t answer every inquiry I receive. I’m sorry. I hate to look rude, but I can’t.
Subscribing:
Increasingly readers are telling me that they subscribe to RRW, get a few e-mails with new posts, then all of a sudden they don’t get them anymore. I don’t control that, wordpress does. First, check your spam folder to see if your e-mail server is sending them there. Next, resubscribe and try again. And, there is the possibility that some e-mail server is blocking RRW.
But, you can always visit RRW directly every day or so and scroll back to see what I have written in the last few days. It seems to me that that is the best option—less e-mail in your inbox and you can then see all the other features here at RRW most especially Frequently Asked Questions in the header.
Commenting rules (for the zillionth time!):
I screen comments. I check them a few times a day. I post NO comments threatening violence or those with foul language.
If you attack another commenter with an ad hominem attack, it won’t be posted either. You can tell them they are wrong without impugning their character.
I’m not posting conspiracies of any sort. I deal in facts.
And, please, please stop sending ‘off-topic’ comments. If you want me to see a link that does not relate to the story I’ve posted, you can send it, but don’t expect to see it posted as a comment. And, I am going to have to shorten comments when you post the entire text of another article.
Search RRW for topics that interest you!
I’ve written 8,372 posts in the last nearly 10 years. There is a lot of material here at RRW. Please use the search window, upper left, using key words that relate to your interest and see what I have said in the past on the topic. WordPress’s search function is very good! LOL! I know because I have to use it all the time to see what I’ve said over the years!
Also, for new readers, you might want to see my first youtube video from 2015, I see it is at 2,889,554 views as of this morning, here.

And, again thanks to all of you who have sent kind words of encouragement. Know how much I appreciate it even if, for lack of time, I don’t respond directly.

This post, and all past roundups are at my ‘blogging’ category.

RRW round-up for the month of February 2017

03/01/2017 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Having a look at the numbers of readers arriving at RRW in the month of February, I am happy to report that the numbers of you arriving here in January and February added up to more than arrived in the whole of 2011 and 2012 combined!

The education of the American people is increasing exponentially about the completely out of control UN/US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).

Before I get to the top three posts of the month (and the top ten countries from which readers arrived at RRW), I want to talk about repetition.
As I have said so often, someone once told me that people need to hear things seven times before it sinks in. So, if you are a regular reader, you might be getting really sick of the fact that I keep repeating many key points about the USRAP and how it effects your communities.
But, if I repeat some things it is because I am mindful of the need for repetition which won’t end because every day we get new readers (and they need to get their seven repeats!).
Reader Paul confirmed the admonition about repetition in an e-mail to me recently with a quote from David Gergen about what he learned from Richard Nixon:

He learned the importance of saying the same thing, over and over and over: “Nixon taught us about the art of repetition. He used to tell me, ‘About the time you are writing a line that you have written it so often that you want to throw up, that is the first time the American people will hear it.’ “

Now here are the Top Three Posts of the month (top three posts of the last day are in the right hand side bar):

Open borders left, refugee contractors plan days of action

Repost: US Cases of refugees arrested or convicted on terror charges, and other heinous crimes

The nerve! UN Secretary General goes to Saudi Arabia and says “Islamophobia” to blame for world’s worst violence

BTW, our fact sheet, linked at the top of the page, gets thousands of hits a month, but I feel bad about that because it is out of date, and frankly I haven’t the time or the interest in updating it.

Here are the Top Ten Countries from which readers arrived at RRW in the last month (in descending order and excluding the US):

Canada

Australia

Germany

South Africa

India

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

France

Some reminders:

When I get around to posting comments, know that I don’t post any comments that suggest violence in any way against anyone. Those with foul language or personal attacks on other commenters are also trashed. I don’t want to hear anything about Zionist conspiracies and because this is my blog I don’t have to be fair and balanced. If you have a particular conspiracy you are pushing, then I recommend that you write your own blog!
As a matter of fact, one thing I have said more than seven times is that instead of spending your days commenting on blogs and reading news on Drudge, why not start your own blog?
More single-issue bloggers are desperately needed because there seems to be no such thing as investigative journalism anymore. How about disciplining yourselves and rather than being a news junky (a gadfly!), focus on some specific topic and make news yourself by exposing some federal, state or local government program gone awry!
RRW is not a group. RRW does not have employees. I don’t make any money from traffic coming to RRW. RRW is my personal contribution to America and I am trying to avoid burnout!
So, while I am venting, nothing bugs me more than readers telling me I need to cover this issue or that issue in the immigration arena—YOU do it!
RRW is on facebook and twitter!
At the end of each blog post there is a facebook and twitter icon so that you can send my posts out to those other social media outlets. I do a lot of tweeting, so follow me there @refugeewatcher.
RRW’s facebook page is here.
If you subscribed to RRW, know that I don’t send out those e-mails, wordpress does it automatically, and I apologize if somehow you initially received my posts in your inboxes but don’t any longer. Either try re-subscribing or simply visit every day to see what else is new.
Sorry for venting, but spring has arrived early in Maryland and I am enjoying it!
Thanks and appreciation to all of you who send kind words of encouragement both to my e-mail address and to my post office box. Even if I sound cranky, I really do appreciate all that you are doing to spread the word where you live and that you take time to tell me about it!
Thanks for listening! Happy Spring!
This post is archived in my ‘blogging’ category here.

News roundup February 8, 2017

02/08/2017 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Editor: Because the issue continues to be hot (and I’m getting so many new readers)—swamped with e-mails, facebook messages, phone calls to return, media requests to respond to, and comments to posts etc.—I am taking some time today to clean up my mess.
Update: LOL! I am reading e-mails including hate mail. One, who hates Trump and me, sent his screed with one of those privacy notices at the bottom and reminded me that I was not permitted to post it. What a chicken!
round-up-time
The number of articles involving refugees is exploding! Here are just some from the last day or so for your reading ‘pleasure.’
And, btw, a request for information from a grassroots activist reminds me to remind you to see ‘FAQs! Finding stuff’ at the top of this page, click here. You can find a link to your state refugee coordinators, contact information for your city’s refugee resettlement contractors, and a link to a post about ‘ten things town needs to know’ among other useful information.
To all of my new readers, you might want to use our search window and enter your state’s name to see what we have written about it over the years. Also, if you want to see everything I have said on the Trump EO, see my category Trump Watch! by clicking here. My statement to reporters is here.