Two of Eden Prairie’s diverse citizens. From a story in March where the Somali refugee duo severely beat a man at a local fitness center apparently for no reason. http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/24949729/2-charged-in-eden-prairie-lifetime-fitness-locker-room-beating
In just ten years the school system there has become 36% immigrant—mostly Somali and Latino—and now requires “cultural brokers” for both groups so as to smooth their integration into the system.
This story is mostly about the Somali man who has been hired as the “communications specialist.” But, what interested me was the list of languages the diverse student body brought to the school system. Last year the system had 61 languages and now it’s 70! Can your town afford this?
Eden Prairie Schools have 70 languages spoken by families in the district (English included). This is an increase from 61 last year. The top 10 are in numerical order:
1. English
2. Somali
3. Spanish
4. Vietnamese
5. Hindi
6. Mandarin
7. Telegu
8. Bengali
9. Russian
10. Arabic
Need a refugee lawyer?
As I was looking around for more information on Eden Prairie I got a chuckle when I saw they have TEN “qualified refugee lawyers” in the town of approximately 62,000 residents. Who says this hasn’t become an industry! How many qualified refugee lawyers do you have in your town? Maybe this should be the new gauge—when refugee lawyers move in, it is time to move out!
Minnesota Department of Health tracks refugee health!
Everyone of you from Minnesota should add your name to the mailing list for the Quarterly report on Refugee Health for the state. See the latest report here. Note there is a link to sign up for the newsletter. I think you will be surprised by some of the information there, especially as it relates to TB. But, the newsletter also has some facts about your refugee populations and how many have come in a given quarter.
About the photo: I was just scouting out crimes in Eden Prairie and came across this one very quickly. I didn’t bother to look for others. I wonder do those “qualified refugee lawyers” do refugee crime cases as well? Here is most of what one commenter named ‘Red’ said regarding this story:
Locally, they are from Eden Prairie & Sshakopee, by way of Somalia. I am ashamed to admit I was once a supporter of their community integration & diversification. Then I was victimized by way of physical intimidation. Twice. On two separate occasions by men & women both. Now my heart is cold. Instead of taking the kids out, I study self defense.
To set the stage, we have your basic story—‘legal aid’ lawyers whip up Somali tenants to complain about their landowner. It begins as follows at The Columbus Dispatch:
Cockroaches and mice scurry across the carpeted floor where Luul Botan’s three young children play.
The bathroom and kitchen faucets leak a steady stream of water. Some of the kitchen cabinets are broken. The drawers stick. And the front door doesn’t close easily, leaving the 32-year-old mother fearful that someone might break into their North Side apartment at night.
Remember this story from 2012 where police had to break up crowds of Somalis fighting for subsidized housing in Columbus. http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/12/10/columbus-ohio-muslim-crowd-of-2000-turns-violent-waiting-to-apply-for-subsidized-apartments/
“The conditions are horrible, and the management at Capital Park apartments doesn’t care how bad it gets,” she said last week through a Somali interpreter.
Botan said she fears that her children, who are 5 years, 1 year and 4 months old, are being sickened by the insects and mouse droppings. She said she asked the manager five times to replace a missing screen in the living-room window of her second-floor apartment in the complex on Agler Road.
“I’m so afraid my daughter will fall out when she runs over to watch children playing outside. It’s so dangerous,” she said.
During the past several weeks, dozens of Capital Park residents have called the city of Columbus about what they say is a worsening problem. With the help of Legal Aid attorneys and other volunteers, the mostly low-income Somali refugees have also begun sending letters to the management of the 314-unit complex owned by Volunteers of America, requesting repairs that many have already asked for.
“The tenants in this case are stepping up, asking the landlord merely to do what Ohio law requires: Keep the rental property fit, habitable and up to code,” said Benjamin D. Horne, a managing attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Columbus.
Most of the residents were resettled by the federal government from refugee camps in Kenya, he said. They have little knowledge of their rights. [Nor little knowledge of how to care for a home and appliances, according to this story—ed]
I would like to know which refugee resettlement contractor resettled them in this building. And, what connection they have to Volunteers of America.
Is this one more example of how the whole refugee business has turned into one more get-rich scheme by people tapping into the federal treasury? I’ve been for a long time referring to refugee resettlement as an industry (driven by companies looking for cheap labor) and here is a whole new angle to the mess.
David Burch, a spokesman for the national office of the Volunteers of America in Alexandria, Va., said some complaints went directly to the city, which has sent 32 code-violation notices in the past three weeks.
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Volunteers of America bought the complex in 2000 and did a $4.5 million renovation two years later, Burch said. Government sources, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, provided the funds for the renovation.
The 45-year-old complex is slated for another makeover in three years, he said, when it is eligible for more federal funding.
“Our primary goal is taking care of our people and making sure they have decent housing so they can build a successful life,” he said.
Now, check out a recent Form990 for Volunteers of America’s office in Alexandria, Virginia (just one branch of VOA):
It is a NON-PROFIT ‘holding company’ with $62 million in assets and although its employees are apparently paid nothing from the organization, its CEO makes nearly a half million dollars a year in salary and benefits! from related organizations (page 7) and there are seven other employees in the 6-figure range. What related organizations?
These financial machinations are all way beyond my ability to understand, but it sure confirms for me that there are some big players with big money (much of it your tax dollars) helping to drive the importation of “refugees” into America, while hiding under the white hat of humanitarianism.
What is up with Ohio—it sure is being targeted as a “welcoming” state for refugees? Making sure Ohio is blue? See our Ohio archive here and see especially this post where “Welcoming America” came to town in Cleveland over a year ago to be sure the community there is ready to welcome more immigrants. Apparently, Columbus is vying with Minneapolis in building a Somali enclave.
And, this time he has a bigger megaphone—The Wall Street Journal which is well-known for its position that businesses need cheap immigrant labor.
Republican Governor Matt Mead wrote to the Office of Refugee Resettlement last September inviting them to set up shop in Wyoming.
Sheesh, I thought they had enough sense in Wyoming to bring Mead’s misguided plan to a halt!
Remember it was one year ago that Republican Governor Matt Mead wrote to the federal governmentand invited them in to begin a resettlement program for the only state in the Nation wise enough (until now) to stay out of it!
And, get this, these Somali women arriving in Wyoming as secondary migrants are not shy about saying, if they don’t get more “services” they are moving on to a state that is more generous!
Before I launch into the story, readers need to know there is a big difference between secondary migrants who have already been hooked up with their social services in another state by one of the nine major federal resettlement contractorsor their 300 plus subcontractors. They have gotten their job counseling, their kids enrolled in schools, their welfare goodies, their health care.
The secondary migrants have chosen, in our free country! to move on after being acclimated (at taxpayer expense) in another state. That does not mean we have to follow them with goodies (holding their hands) as they shop for new cities and states over the years.
However, setting up a resettlement office in Wyoming, is a whole other matter. It means that refugees will be resettled in Wyoming directly from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
By the way, check out the statistics here (page 9), according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, zero secondary migrants entered Wyoming in 2013 (so much for their statistics!).
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Draped in a brightly hued robe and veil, Amal Hassan certainly stands out from the locals as she walks along the outskirts of this high-plains city, pickup trucks rumbling by.
Somali refugees such as Ms. Hassan are becoming a more common sight here in the nation’s least populous state, the only one without a refugee-resettlement program. Such initiatives provide social and financial services to refugees such as Ms. Hassan, 29 years old, who were admitted legally into the U.S.
Now, with a hundred or so Somali refugees having arrived in Wyoming’s capital city in recent years, the state is wrestling with whether to create a resettlement program, which in other states is typically run jointly with the federal Administration for Children and Families. The idea, however, has stirred sharp criticism from some people, who have called and emailed state officials, expressing concern that crowds of refugees would flock to Wyoming, stretch resources and spread disease.
The issue repeatedly came up during last month’s Republican primary for November’s gubernatorial election, with one of Gov. Matt Mead’s opponents saying refugees would cause problems for Wyoming. The governor, who won the primary, said his administration is merely exploring a resettlement program.
“Unfortunately people don’t understand or deliberately distort what’s happening,” Mr. Mead said recently on a local radio station, dispelling a rumor that the state planned to set up refugee camps. [By continuing to use those inaccurate words—refugee camps—Mead is able to ridicule and denigrate critics.—ed]
Mr. Mead has said that refugees were coming to Wyoming regardless, and the state needed to know which services they were using. [You can see what welfare they are tapping without inviting more in!—ed].
Here the WSJ didn’t find the latest numbers—we have them here. In FY 2014 we have brought into the US 8,278 Somalis (in 11 months). The federal government and its contractors are scrambling to find new territory in which to resettle them as ‘pockets of resistance’have developed in some states—thus the Wyoming push!
According to federal data, 4,915 Somali refugees arrived in the U.S. during the 2012 fiscal year, the most recent information available. That figure represents the fourth highest total of refugees from any country to enter the U.S. that year, behind Bhutan, Myanmar and Iraq.
Housing is easier to get, but not enough welfare help in Wyoming!
Ms. Hassan, who lives in Cheyenne with her two young sons and is divorced, said she is considering leaving Wyoming if she can’t receive more help.
The Governor says he is still studying the idea, but this is what he wrote to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement last September (looks like an outright invite to the feds to me!):
If you live in Wyoming, you need to get on the governor or end up like Maine! Or worse, Minnesota! Never mind ‘Little Mogadishu’ Minneapolis, ask the people of St. Cloud, Minnesota what happened when a Lutheran federal contractor opened a resettlement office there!
See our entire archive on Wyoming Governor Matt Mead byclicking here.
Abdifatah Ahmed aka Abdirahmaan Muhumed (29), killed in Syria last month, left behind nine kids. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2014/08/28/minnesota-somali-refugee-believed-to-be-second-american-killed-while-fighting-with-isis/
The Lewiston Sun Journal has a long interview with one of the wives of a Jihadist killed while fighting for ISIS. He had two children with her.
This should be no surprise to anyone, but the interview gives us a little more understanding of the Somali community and the back and forth going on between Somali headquarters in Minneapolis and other cities with large Somali refugee populations.
By the way, this wife, who is not identified, arrived in Lewiston in the early waves of Somalis who moved to Maine when they didn’t like their first refugee resettlement site in Atlanta, GA (See our 2009 post about Maine as a welfare magnet).
“Amaani” describes it as feeling like she can’t swallow, as sudden and horrifying as a tornado, like a psychological bruise. And so unexpected.
Growing up, Abdifatah Ahmed had been the brother of her childhood best friend. He was kind, fun. They married in 2010. He eventually moved into her Bartlett Street apartment in Lewiston, then bounced between Minnesota and Maine. It took two years before the marriage imploded.
He wanted a second wife. She didn’t. [Note that they are talking about have more than one wife at a time as if this is perfectly legal in America!—ed]
A week after their divorce last fall, she would later find out, he left the country.
Ahmed traveled to Syria and joined ISIS, the radical Islamic group that has beheaded three Western journalists, carried out other public executions and killed thousands in taking over large areas of Iraq. According to news reports, Ahmed died fighting there last month with another Minnesota man.
It is not yet the first Muslim state in America, but it sure is vying to be number one. Did you know it was a basic human right to have pork-free foods clearly designated at food pantries for those who are illiterate and can’t read labels? And, did you know that you infidels are expected to pay for that!
This is the stealth jihad in all its glory!
Be sure to watch the video clip where Somali refugees arrive with a beligerant protest sign that says: WE ARE HERE TO STAY!
Clearly designated Halal food is a basic human right because our people can’t read labels. Imam Hassan Mohamud. Photo and bio: http://www.mndawah.net/about-imam.html
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Food shelves can be a life line for people dealing with poverty and hunger.
But many in the Somali-American community say finding a food shelf that caters to their religious dietary restrictions is almost impossible.
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A group of first-generation Somali Americans says they need help in developing a food shelf that specializes in healthy foods that do not contain pork or pork byproducts.
“It’s about human rights also, basic human rights to get the proper food and also healthy food,” said Imam Hassan Mohamud.
With signs in hand, they marched to the Hennepin County commissioners’ office to ask Peter McLaughlin for help. Most live in his district and feel he can help them help themselves.
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To get the food shelf up and running will cost $150,000, but McLaughlin says there is no plan on how much would be needed to sustain it.
The group hopes to present a proposal to the county commissioners during its budget meeting on Nov 13.
