Migrant families are separated when some move to
other countries and others don’t. This is no different from the kind of
separation immigrants have dealt with for centuries. But up until recently,
immigrants made these moves at their own expense. Now we have government
entities sponsoring these moves and dumb, would-be immigrants are swarming to
get a free ride. When they arrive, they demand family reunification. But
countries are closing their borders to migrants of every stripe. In this
environment of disappearing chairs, when the music stops, these families need
to reassess their situations and most should move back to their home countries.
As Trump cuts refugee numbers, outlook dim for father to join KC Muslim family of 9. But, why wasn’t Dad with them and caring for them in Kenya (a safe country btw)?
Family reunification suspended in 2008 for Somalia….Leave it to the refugee industry’s public relations apparatus to get a story planted in the Kansas City Star just as Donald Trump arrived in the state next door for a rally for Kansas Republican candidates including gubernatorial candidate, a leading immigration control advocate, Kris Kobach.
One story is here. (This Somali family lives in Kansas
City, Missouri) Here is the headline with the usual story line (family happy
to be in America, only wish Dad was with them).
The family arrived from Kenya in 2017 to
cheers from local advocates for more refugee admissions.
https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/fox-24/somali-family-of-nine-touches-down-in-kansas-city-mo/653945636
Somali
refugee Sahra Hassan Absuge and her eight children today enjoy what they could
only dream of two years ago.
A
two-story house. A couple of jobs. Schools. Donated appliances. [Food stamps and Medicaid fills the gap
says the story.—-ed]
“I am so lucky,” Absuge said. “It’s by the grace of God that we are here.”
All
that’s missing is her husband. Also a refugee from Somalia, he seeks to one day
join his Kansas City family after
four years of being separated, trapped in another war zone. But chances for
a reunion anytime soon appear slim, given ever-deepening cuts in the number of
refugees allowed into the U.S.
Absuge
and her children barely got in themselves.
Twenty months ago, dozens of cheering supporters at Kansas City
International Airport greeted the family after they had squeezed through a
tightening slipknot on refugee travel.
Continue here for
all the happy talk and mention of their resettlement agency—Della Lamb—a Methodist group, a subcontractor of
the Ethiopian Community Development Council (one of nine federal resettlement
contractors that work for the US State Department).
Then
a lament about a slowdown in family reunification:
At
Della Lamb, Hyde and director of refugee resettlement Abdul Bakar could think
of resettling only one Muslim on the Missouri side in the past year.
Absuge’s
husband, the father of all eight of the children, is Muslim. “There used to a good pipeline for family
reunification,” said Judy Akers, Della Lamb’s executive director. “But there
hasn’t been much spoken of that recently.”
Longtime
readers may remember that the US State Department had to suspend the whole
family reunification program for Somalis beginning in 2008 due to massive fraud
in the P-3 (family reunification) program, see here.
The suspension lasted several years.
I
sure hope Homeland Security is doing some robust vetting of Dad. He left their
Nairobi village in 2014? (Someone check the age of the youngest child!).
But other news reports say they were living in a UN camp.
He
went to Sudan looking for work in the middle of civil unrest there? And, then
instead of returning to his family in a safe Kenya he ‘flees’ to Uganda. WTH!
Dad then ‘finds his family’ on YouTube videos?
He
could have found them if he had returned to safe Kenya from his sojourn in
Sudan instead of hotfooting it to Uganda!
KC Star continues…….father left their Nairobi refugee village in
2014 to seek work in Sudan. He instead encountered homelessness, civil war and
hunger before fleeing to Uganda. When his family resettled in America, his wife
didn’t know if Abdullahi was alive or dead. [Really! Or did this family have a
better shot of getting in to the US as women and children only?—ed]
Wow!
Dad found after the family got to KC! The father, through friends in Nairobi, learned of the family’s
whereabouts with the help of the internet and those
YouTube videos. “Search ‘refugees’…and our family of nine pops up,” Absuge said
through the interpreter.
For
those who want to read the whole long (anti-Trump propaganda) story, click here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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