Testimony
to the US State Department from Bob in Minnesota, by
Ann Corcoran, 5/13/16
Editor: This is another copy of
testimony submitted in response to my offer to post testimony that readers have sent, or are sending, to the US
State Department before May 19th. Your testimony can be long or short, more
detailed or less so. Just send something! And, then be sure
to copy it to your elected officials.
Downtown Willmar, MN - They are
changing small town America by changing the people.
From Bob:
I have
researched this program extensively for two years, as it is the number one area
of concern here in Willmar, MN. The program places a
tremendous, unsustainable financial drain on our school system, health care
resources, housing, and community standards. The federal government’s financial
exposure to this quagmire is minor, compared to ours.
Unemployment
hovers close to 40%, families are too large, wages are too low, so virtually
all refugees are on some form of public assistance. This will not strengthen
Midwestern prairie towns. It will transform them for sure, but in the end, they
will become remote, poor, unassimilated ghettos.
Your
agency clearly underestimates the damage it is wreaking on our way of life. We
cannot be the world’s welfare office.
This is the third testimony in our
series leading up to the deadline for testimony on May 19th. Go here for where they are archived. We are posting as many as
we can because we know the US State Department has refused in the past to make
them public (so much for Obama transparency!).
Comments
There
goes the neighborhood! Property values
will plummet as refugee ghettos form.
This will affect the immediate and surrounding areas. Property owners need to be careful.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Federal contractor IRC and Maryland Dems
pressuring governor to “welcome” Syrians to the state, by Ann Corcoran, 513/16
Even though Governor Larry Hogan can’t (as
things stand now) stop the resettlement of refugees to Maryland, a group of
Maryland Democrats are pressuring him to publicly welcome them.
The letter was initiated
by Jamie Raskin (D) running for Congress using this as one more campaign stunt.
But, voters make note that Raskin is advocating for more Muslims to be placed
in Maryland.
And this is really stinky timing for the
refugee pushers because the lead agency behind the pro-Syrian Muslim refugee
lobbying campaign is none other than the International Rescue Committee that made big news yesterday because it
is under investigation for fraud in Turkey where it is supposedly helping
Syrian refugees.
If you are a new reader there is
something you need to know when reading this story.
Governors do not have the power (yet) to
stop the placement of third worlders into their states.
However, they do have the power to
withdraw the state from the UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions Program
as the governors of Kansas and New Jersey did in April.
Although it causes bureaucratic
confusion and brings media attention (both good things!), the gesture is
meaningless unless the governor then files a States’ rights lawsuit that is
waiting and ready to go at the Thomas More Law Center.
Frankly I don’t see Maryland’s
Republican governor with that much gumption to protect the taxpayers of the
state. I hope he proves me wrong!
As I mentioned above, be sure you read yesterday’s post on the corruption investigation of the IRC which is
one of the primary refugee resettlement contractors operating in Maryland.
So below is a bit of the news
yesterday at the Washington
Post (emphasis is mine): Several
dozen Maryland state lawmakers, including Democratic House nominee Jamie B.
Raskin, have written Gov. Larry Hogan (R), urging him to endorse the settlement
of Syrian refugees in the state.
Hogan joined other governors last year
in saying he would oppose the entry of refugees unless the federal government
could provide specific assurances that they are properly vetted and do not pose
a security threat.
State Department officials have said
repeatedly that all refugees — including Syrians — undergo rigorous screening
before being granted refugee status.
Ruben Chandrasekar runs the Maryland
office of the IRC and just yesterday it was revealed that his organization was
being investigated for corruption involving Syrian refugees in Turkey.
But
Hogan spokesman Matt Clark said Wednesday that the governor’s position has not
changed. “To my knowledge, the federal government has not provided any
additional information on changes . . . in the process,” Clark said.
The letter was initiated by Raskin, a
state senator from Montgomery County and the Democratic nominee to succeed
outgoing U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D), and Dels. Brooke E. Lierman
(D-Baltimore) and David Moon (D-Montgomery).
Ruben Chandrasekar, an official of the
International Rescue Committee in Baltimore, said the agency has resettled 60
Syrian refugees in Maryland in the past two years and is prepared to place as
many as 100 in the coming year. [99% of the Syrian refugees entering the US now are Muslims—ed]
“If President Obama follows through on his
promise to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees, we hope to have a very busy
summer,” said Chandrasekar, whose
organization worked closely with the advocacy groups that spearheaded the
letter from lawmakers to Hogan.
Yeh, I will bet the IRC worked closely.
They are paid by the head
to resettle refugees into your towns and cities and it is in their financial
best interests to keep the spigot open.
Most refugees in Maryland go to Baltimore or Silver Spring, but
hundreds of others are scattered around the state. Most recently a resettlement
contractor was making inquiries in Hagerstown again.
If any reader finds a copy of Raskin’s
letter, send it my way! We do need to publish the names of all who signed it.
And, don’t hold your breath that the Washington Post, which is happy to pimp for Raskin, will
report on the corruption scandal surrounding the IRC! The alternative
media is on
the story however, here Leo Hohmann at World Net Daily digs
deeper.
One more Somali terror trial underway in
Somali capital—Minneapolis, by Ann Corcoran, 5/13/16
Ho hum! Move along, nothing to
see, just some rootless naive young men who want to create a caliphate.
But, these are young men you raised with your tax dollars and who were
given a good education and every opportunity to make something of themselves.
Instead they chose the call of Allah to wage jihad and go kill some infidels.
The latest batch of
Somali refugee defendants. Trial is expected to last a month. Lucky taxpayers!
We paid for their resettlement and we get to pay for their trial and
incarceration! Wow! What a deal!
By the way, this is getting so
wearisome, but feel it’s my duty to keep our archives up to date and that is
why I’m posting it!
From NBC News:
Federal prosecutors on
Wednesday opened their case against three Minneapolis men accused of plotting
to help ISIS, a trial that could offer a rare look at how impressionable young
Americans succumb to the the terror group’s appeal.
The defendants, from the city’s large Somali community, are among dozens of native-born Americans who
have been charged with supporting ISIS, a fraction of whom have taken their
cases to trial. Six other connected to the Minneapolis
case have already pleaded guilty, and one reportedly fled the United States and
made it to Syria, where many Western recruits aspire to join the fight against
Bashar Assad’s regime.
The men on trial — Mohammed Farah,
Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar, all in their early 20s — say they are innocent
of charges they conspired to provide material support to ISIS and commit murder
abroad. During jury selection this week, some family members complained the
defendants were not getting a fair trial, according to NBC affiliate KARE. One
tried to have his lawyer removed, but the judge would not let that happen.
Opening statements began Wednesday, with
the government going first. The trial, expected to last about a month, is expected to reveal some of the
motivations and recruitment techniques behind one of the most troubling aspects
of ISIS’ rise as a global terror threat: the growing list of Americans who seek
to join or act on its behalf.
A 2015 study of those arrested for
supporting ISIS found that they tend to be young, American-born and drawn more
to the idea of an Islamic caliphate than a desire to commit terrorist acts in
the United States. [At least that is what they want you to think!—ed]
Minnesota’s Somali communities are one of the
centers of such activity, authorities say. More here.
If your community is about to become a
new “welcoming” resettlement sight, look what you have to look forward to!
We are admitting over 700 Somalis a month to the US right now and that number is expected to rise if Kenya goes through with closing the
massive Somali camps in that country.
Comments: Obama is importing crime and poverty.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Vermont: Rutland citizens say, let’s take
care of our own first! by Ann
Corcoran, 5/13/16
That is the common refrain I hear from
just about everywhere in America where refugees are being seeded into
unsuspecting communities. What about our own people, our own poor and
disabled, they ask.
The Vermont refugee
program is run by the federal government through its contractor the US
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. As a Wilson-Fish state, elected state
officials have no say over the program. USCRI and the feds call all the shots.
USCRI is headed by Lavinia Limon who was Bill Clinton’s director of the federal
Office of Refugee Resettlement. To learn more about Limon, go here: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/?s=Lavinia+Limon
For new readers we have been reporting
on the controversy on-going in Rutland ever since the mayor told a surprised
public that he had agreed that Rutland could take 100 Syrian (mostly Muslim) refugees. See here and here.
Here, at MyChamplainValley.com, we learned that a group of citizens
protested the mayor last night. My suggestion to those of you with concerns in
Rutland is to contact the mayor of Manchester, NH, Ted Gatsos, and ask that he come and speak to your
group or maybe send a delegation to New Hampshire and ask him how it’s going
there. I am sure the Manchester mayor would advise Rutland to not open
Pandora’s box because once the refugees begin coming there will be NO END TO
IT. There will be many more than 100 in the
end!
Thursday night, the Rutland community got the opportunity to learn more
behind the plan to bring 100 Syrian refugees to the city this fall. It’s a meeting Mayor Chris Louras held amidst
controversy for not initially including the public in the decision.
“We do not have a TD Garden anywhere in the County of Rutland, and if I
were to engage in a public and answer dialogue and a broad forum with everyone
in the county invited, I would have to plan for a 65,000 capacity.” Louras
said.
Before the meeting, about 20 people gathered outside Rutland Free
Library with signs, showing their concern for a plan they say was a surprise.
Matt Howland and David O’Brien expressed their opinions.
“The city is not just gonna roll over and take this without asking the
hard questions, without holding people accountable and making them put forth
the answers and making a plan and let the community know what’s going on,”
Howland said. Be sure
to visit the site to watch the video!
By the way, the Boston Globe tells us there are no mosques in Rutland
(yet!).
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/vermont-rutland-citizens-say-lets-take-care-of-our-own-first/
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