But the Mayor wants Tax Funded Refugees
Dumb city politicians want to “revitalize” urban
areas with refugees on welfare. There are no jobs in these areas to support the
population, so politicians are looking to in-fill with Muslim welfare
recipients.
These politicians are simply responding to the
needs of their campaign contributors who make their money building apartments.
When these Muslim enclaves become “No Go Zones”,
city police won’t be needed or welcome. Refugees cost $64,000 over the first 5
years.
The Mayor of Rutland VT is claiming that they
have a worker shortage. See below:
Rutland, VT mayor takes his refugee promotion
show on the road to rural upstate New York, by Ann Corcoran 9/28/16
If you live in
New York’s North Country, beware, because the great minds at the Adirondack North Country
Association have invited Mayor Christopher Louras
down from Rutland to tell them all about how to best get some refugees for
themselves (for your towns!).
I’m sure the folks in
Rutland will be tickled to see what their mayor says about them when he leaves
home. “…ignorant by design!”
From The
Sun: KEESEVILLE —
The outcry over Syrian refugees has shaped much of Rutland’s discourse this
summer. The dispute over whether to accept 100 asylum seekers has cleaved the
city, pitting Mayor Chris Louras against constituents, city aldermen and other
elected officials.
Rutland Mayor
Louras told the gathering he got the idea to invite Syrians to Rutland from
Gov. Peter Shumlin. Here the governor thanks seven of Vermont’s eight mayors
for supporting his re-election bid, in Montpelier, Vt., Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.
That is Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras to his immediate left. This photo
identifies Louras as an Independent, but the Sun article says he is a
Republican, which is it?
As the
five-term mayor waits for the Department of State to sign off on the expansion
of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program into his city — a roadblock thrown
up by peeved aldermen — Louras ventured to New York last week, where he briefed
local leaders on his push to make the state’s third-largest city a host for
escapees of the war-torn nation.
A decision may come as soon as 10 days, he
said, with the first family arriving as early as December. Bringing refugees into the city, he
said, goes hand-in-hand with urban revitalization efforts. Their entry, Louras
believes, would breathe new life into an ailing city.
But the road to get here wasn’t easy. The
mayor has come under fire for a perceived lack of transparency. Earlier this
summer, city aldermen asked the department of state to examine the issue. A
former political opponent also circulated a petition, which was nixed, asking
the issue be brought to a vote.
Louras admitted
he could have been more open. “I keep trying to go back to the human element,”
he said. [So is he saying secrecy and
lying are o.k. if one is moved by one’s emotions to save the world’s
downtrodden and in this case Syrian Sunni Muslims—ed]
The crowd at
the Adirondack North Country Association’s annual meeting, the daylong workshop
that acts as somewhat of an experimental laboratory for regional leaders to
tinker with economic solutions to rural problems, was perhaps more receptive.
Louras joined other officials in Keeseville
last week to share his experiences — and to offer advice for other communities
exploring similar efforts.
When
resettlement agencies zero in on a possible relocation site, they look at three
main areas, Louras said: Safe and sanitary housing, the availability of
entry-level jobs and the English-language learning opportunities necessary to
build skills.
Rutland, a city
of about 16,500, has all three, the mayor said. “We’ve got a
workplace problem,” Louras said, “not a jobs problem. Our employers are looking
for employees.”
There it is readers, once again, they hide
under the humanitarian white hat, but it is all about labor (I’m guessing the
Rutland Chamber of Commerce backs Louras?). Beware residents of the North Country, you
could be the next resettlement site:
Discussions on
accepting refugees have percolated this year in the North Country, and a number
of organizations have been formed to explore the feasibility of the concept,
including several in Essex County.
Then you can’t
make this up, we have an immigration lawyer, Anas Saleh, a Syracuse-based
lawyer who works directly with asylum seekers, telling us that refugees pay
more taxes than they get out of the system in the form of welfare. Be
sure to see this
post from last year where we told you that a
study by the Center for Immigration Studies tells us that each Middle Eastern
refugee costs the US taxpayer over $64,000 per refugee over the first five
years in the U.S.
The
Sun continues: Saleh
said refugees don’t pluck jobs from Americans. Contrary to public belief,
immigrants actually pay into social welfare programs more than they receive, he
said. [He is flat-out lying!—ed]
Louras then tells the
gathering that he doesn’t want to get into politics, but proceeds to call other
elected officials and citizens opposing him in Rutland “ignorant by design.”
While Louras said he wanted to avoid politics
during the roundtable discussions, he admitted to taking hits and incurring
damage from a “small-but-vocal” group of opponents on his home turf.
Expect the
national negative discourse to be replicated at the local level, he said. Could
he have facilitated the discussions more transparently? Sure, he admitted.
But some people are ignorant “by design,” he
said, and would have sabotaged the process — including the city’s treasurer,
who the mayor said circulated misleading information about the impact of asylum
seekers on property values.
“She’s helping create that fake narrative,”
Louras said.
The mayor, a Republican, said his greatest
frustration surrounding the debate was what he referred to as a “dearth of
empirical analysis” among refugee populations. [We
have some analysis, impact on taxpayers is $64,370 per Middle
Eastern refugee over first five years in US. Middle Easterners use welfare at a
higher rate then some from other regions of the world—-ed] “Those numbers are validated through
academia, but there’s not a lot of studies,” he said.
While his decision to make Rutland a beacon
for Syrians stemmed from a discussion with Gov. Peter Shumlin following last
year’s terrorist attacks in Paris — Louras said he was further miffed by a
letter sent by 30 governors barring refugees from their states — he warned
attendees that their efforts shouldn’t lean on the government, but rather a
constellation of nonprofit agencies.
Grassroots
efforts like Rutland Welcomes, the mayor said, were critical in laying down
early infrastructure, creating “action-driven” plans that explored everything
from transportation to language learning.
I urge all of
you to visit The
Sun article, especially all of you
Vermonters and Upstate New Yorkers, it is really full of enlightening
information that I couldn’t possibly analyze if I worked on this post all
day. They use the really refugee-overloaded/stressed cities of Syracuse and
Utica as model cities even! Sheesh!
Comments
Every job
seeker within 100 miles of Rutland VT should show up at their city hall to
apply for one of their jobs and bring the media and their cameras.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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