Update December 14th: More demonstrations expected tomorrow, here.
Invasion of Europe breaking news….
“Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West” marched in Dresden earlier this week.
A day after the Obama Administration announced it is “welcoming”9,000 Syrian Muslims to the US, Germans are expressing their anger loud and clear about the influx of Muslim asylum seekers. Germany is planning to take up to 20,000 Syrians in the coming months. Demonstrations of this size must be shaking up the European Union. In October it was Cologne.
BERLIN/NUREMBERG (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday condemned anti-Muslim demonstrations centered on the eastern city of Dresden, saying there was “no place in Germany” for hatred of Muslims or any other minority.
In a speech at a party congress of her Bavarian allies in Nuremberg, Merkel also denounced an attack on buildings in a nearby town being turned into refuge for asylum-seekers. The structures were set on fire and daubed with swastikas.
“It is unbearable when homes of asylum-seekers are defiled, when people try to make radical slogans,” Merkel said, adding that everyone coming to Germany had the right to be treated decently.
Earlier on Friday, Merkel’s spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz said: “In the name of the government and the chancellor I can say quite clearly that there is no place in Germany for religious hatred, no matter which religion people belong to.”
“There is no place for Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or any form of xenophobia or racism,” Wirtz said of the growing Monday evening marches in Dresden under the motto PEGIDA, standing for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West”.
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The latest PEGIDA march on Monday drew up to 10,000 people and almost as many counter-demonstrators. The organizers, who began two months ago with a few hundred people, say they are not against immigrants but want to protest against Islamic extremism and the influx of asylum-seekers.
Update January 2, 2015:Hereis where 164 of them have gone so far in the last couple of months.
Yesterday we learned that the Obama Administration committed the United Statesto take 9,000 Syrian (mostly Muslim) refugeesin FY 2015 which is already two months underway, and place them throughout America at some of their 180 cities where federal contractors are waiting to sign them up for social services, give them employment counseling, take care of their health needs and sign the children up for school.
Here is a mapof where they could be placed. Is your city on it?
See the legend on the right hand side of the map. Those are the initials for the nine major contractors:
What you should do isgo to this list of federal refugee contractors (listed by city) and call them. And, by the way, don’t assume that if your city doesn’t have a colored dot you are off the hook. They can place them within a hundred miles of a contractor’s office. When you call, ask how many Syrians are coming to your town? Then contact your local newspaper, your local elected officials and your representatives in Washington and let them know what you think!
Direct your ire at refuge contractors and elected officials at all levels of government, not at the refugees who are only taking advantage of a good deal.
Please send us anything you learn and send links to news stories about their arrival.
Update December 12th: There are two other news accounts of this story you should see. First, at Investor’s Business Daily: “US Vetting 9,000 Syrian Refugees To Weed Out Jihadists Before Granting Asylum.” And, at World Net Daily: “U.N. sending thousands of Muslims to America.” As of right now there are 975 comments to the WND article.
Anne Richard, Asst. Secretary of State went to that UN meeting in Geneva this week (we mentioned the “pledging conference” here) and dropped the bomb. The UN has picked our Syrians for us, and if the war ended tomorrow, you can be sure that once the pipeline is flowing it won’t stop for years! Security is a big concern and apparently the reason for the delay, but we are taking them anyway!
Anne Richard Asst. Sec. of State for Population, Refugees and Migration: We take the refugees the UN picks for us.
The U.S. government intends to dramatically accelerate efforts to resettle refugees from the Syrian civil war and is preparing for a “surge” of thousands in each of the next few years, State Department officials announced this week.
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They have some catching up to do: The United States has so far accepted only 300 of the more than 3.2 million refugees who have fled Syria since the war began almost four years ago.
The United States is the world leader in refugee resettlement, accepting 70,000 displaced people a year, more than all other countries combined.
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But the U.S. has come under criticism from aid groups for its pace in taking in refugees from the Syrian war, which is by far the largest refugee crisis of recent years.
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U.S. officials say the resettlement program has moved slowly because the United Nations refugee agency, which they look to for referrals, didn’t begin making recommendations until late last year. And the United States takes 18 to 24 months on average to carefully vet each applicant to make sure he or she poses no security risk.
In this next section note that we will take those “persecuted by their government.” Christians are not persecuted by the government in Syria, but the Sunni Muslims are. There is no doubt the majority of Syrians to be admitted to the US will be Muslims because it would be unlikely there would be a “security risk” with the Christians.
The State Department will resettle only the small minority who are in the most dire need, including the very young, ailing and elderly, and people who have been persecuted by their government. Even so, applicants have to be screened by counter-terrorism agencies, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security in a process that is more selective than what is used for anyone else who wants to enter the United States.
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The screening has become more rigorous since 2009, when authorities were alarmed to discover that two members of Al Qaeda had entered the country posing as Iraqi refugees.That concern has been sharpened by worries that fighters from the Islamic State militant group may try to enter the United States, refugee advocates said.
On Tuesday, Anne C. Richard, assistant secretary of State for population, refugees and migration, said at a U.N. meeting in Geneva that the Obama administration was going to step up its efforts because the refugee outflow had swelled “to a mass exodus.”
She said that the department is considering 9,000 resettlement applications and that “we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond.”[Surge beyond 9,000? Most likely as the contractors*** are agitating for at least 15,000!—ed]
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At the Geneva meeting, 28 countries agreed to take in 66,000 refugees. But that was far short of the 300,000 Syrians that officials at the U.N. refugee agency believe need to be resettled.
Everyone reading this page from an already over-loaded resettlement city (or a prospective new one!), must contact your Member of Congress or US Senators and speak up NOW! The chickens probably won’t listen, but give them an earful anyway!
***Contractors lobbying for Syrians to add to their collection:
In advance of tomorrow’s United Nations “pledging conference,” Amnesty International took aim at most of the countries in the world for not taking in Syrian refugees.
Every time I see a story like this one, I look for what they are saying about the US and I continue to be amazed by the silence. Are they protecting Obama (if this were the Bush Administration they would be tar and feathering him)? The US has only taken a small number of Syrians (so far) and for that we are grateful, but why is the US conspicuously not mentioned.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia: Why would we want to take any of those Syrians (or Iraqis or Afghans or Somalis)? Let Obama do it! The US Muslim population is the one we are building. Photo: http://foreignpolicynews.org/2014/03/28/president-obama-meets-king-abdullah-saudi-arabia/
Or, do they know something we don’t know (yet).
They do blast Russia, China, most of Europe and the GULF ARAB STATES (which includes Saudi Arabia) which take zero refugees.
Amnesty International warned Friday of the “catastrophic consequences” of failing to offer protection to Syrian refugees being “left out in the cold” a week after the World Food Program (WFP) said it was suspending aid to exhausted funding.
About 3.8 million Syrian refugees are currently scattered across five main host countries in the region, of which only 1.7 percent have been “offered sanctuary” by the rest of world since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011, the Amnesty report said.
The report, “Left Out in the Cold: Syrian refugees abandoned by the international community,” said Syria’s most vulnerable refugees include unaccompanied children, alleged survivors of torture, and people with severe medical conditions.
“The shortfall in the number of resettlement places for refugees offered by the international community is truly shocking,” said Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Amnesty International’s Head of Refugee and Migrants’ Rights, in a statement.
“Nearly 380,000 people have been identified as in need of resettlement by the U.N. refugee agency, yet just a tiny fraction of these people have been offered sanctuary abroad,” he said.
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Russia, China and Gulf states have “failed to pledge a single resettlement place” for Syrians, while the European Union (EU), with the exclusion of Germany, has only pledged to “resettle a paltry of 0.17 percent of refugees in the main host countries,” according to the report.
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Amnesty International’s report was released only a few days ahead of a U.N. pledging conference due to take place in Geneva on Dec. 9.
What do you think the odds are that if the UNHCR offered Syrians a new home in China or Russia they would actually take it?
Middle Easterners make up 30,000 of Sodertalje’s population of 90,000!
The story is being reported at one of America’s left-leaning news outlets—National Public Radio. In this case, we are told that the “refugees” flooding into Sodertalje are mostly Syrian and Iraqi Christians—very needy ones. The unemployment rate is high for the immigrants who must first learn to speak Swedish and there is a desperate shortage of housing.
Sweden’s migration board projects that 95,000 people, many of them refugees from Syria, are expected to arrive in 2015.That would be a record in this country of 10 million people, which already has taken in more refugees, relative to its population, than any other country in Europe.
But the arrival of so many refugees is testing the country’s famously tolerant identity.
Swedes voted out centrist Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt this September after he gave a speech asking people to “open their hearts” to those fleeing war.
Instead, an anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, won seats in parliament and helped bring down the center-left government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven earlier this week.
One member of the Sweden Democrats, Linus Byland, told reporters they would fight any government proposal that would increase funding for immigration.
“There was a sense that our government didn’t have a clear plan for how to manage immigration,” says Boel Godner, the mayor of Sodertalje. “And the question that has come up lately, is, can the welfare system bear us all? What’s going to happen to everyone who comes here? No one has given the answer to that yet.”
Sweden’s cradle to grave welfare system can’t possibly bear them all, so I guess we all sit back and learn an important lesson about what happens when a country runs out of other peoples’ money.
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