Minnesota needs more money to combat refugee
communicable diseases, by Ann Corcoran,
7/12/17
The story at World Net Daily yesterday gave me an opportunity to vent about one of
my major pet peeves. And, that is that economic studies being scattered
like rabbit turds around the media landscape that conclude that refugees bring
economic prosperity wherever they are dropped never include the
true cost of medical care (like MN is experiencing right now), the true cost of
the criminal justice system, or the true cost to the economy of remittances
(money sent ‘home’ by refugees) that is lost to the US economy.
But, oh well, it is all good for
Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey that we deposit refugees throughout
America—right Heritage Foundation!
Here is the news and
some comments by me: Minnesota pays out millions every year in welfare for refugees, but
there are secondary costs that never get tabulated.
In fiscal 2017, which ended last last week, the state spent $1.5
million to combat three infectious disease outbreaks — including the largest
measles outbreak in 30 years, which swept through in the Somali refugee
community. And health officials notified legislative leaders this week that they
want to tap a special public-health fund to offset additional costs.
Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Minnesota Health
commissioner, told the Star-Tribune his department will need another $600,000
for fiscal 2018 to help control the spread of measles, drug-resistant tuberculosis
and syphilis.
The state has had 78 confirmed cases
of measles this year, in an outbreak that began in March. Of those 78 cases, 64
have been in the Somali refugee community.
Ann Corcoran, an expert on the
resettlement industry who blogs at Refugee Resettlement Watch, said the
industry is fond of churning out “bogus economic studies” that falsely inflate the
value of refugees to U.S. communities.
“I am sick and tired of hearing reports on the economic benefits of the
refugees that they pay and start businesses and create jobs, and in those
studies they never discuss the true cost of health care, or the true cost to the criminal justice system from
the numerous criminal trials, incarcerations, etc.,” Corcoran told WND.
“Imagine what it costs to put refugees like Fazliddin Kurbanov away for life.”
“Have you ever seen a study on the
cost of even short-term incarceration? It’s never in those bogus economic
studies,” Corcoran said. “And the other thing that is never in there is the
remittances that are gone from our economy. And you can bet your
bottom dollar it’s not just wage earnings they’re sending back home. They’re
sending welfare money back home, too. So you never see a net inflow or outflow
of money from our economy in these phony economic studies touting how much
these refugees boost our economy.”
Continue reading here and
see what Minnesotan Deb Anderson has to say about the secrecy of the refugee
industry in the state (are you listening Olivia?).
And, as someone more
astute than I pointed out recently: If refugees bring economic prosperity, why
isn’t every country in the world begging for more?
For much, much more on costly health
and communicable diseases in our refugee population, go here where I have archived 331 previous posts.
Your assignment: Write to the White House and tell the President that you are sick of paying for
sick refugees!
INFECTIOUS PROBLEM CAUSED BY SO-CALLED 'REFUGEES', State has already spent $1.5 million in past year on measles, TB, by Leo Hohmann, 7/11/17, WND
Minnesota pays out millions every year
in welfare for refugees, but there are secondary costs that never get
tabulated.
In fiscal 2017, which ended last week,
the state spent $1.5 million to combat three infectious disease outbreaks —
including the largest measles outbreak in 30 years, which swept through in the
Somali refugee community. And health officials notified legislative
leaders this week that they want to tap a special public-health fund to offset
additional costs.
Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Minnesota Health
commissioner, told the Star-Tribune his department will need another
$600,000 for fiscal 2018 to help control the spread of measles, drug-resistant
tuberculosis and syphilis.
The state has had 78 confirmed cases of measles this year, in an
outbreak that began in March. Of those 78 cases, 64 have been in the Somali
refugee community. The outbreak is now showing signs of being under control,
with no new cases reported this month. But the costs continue to pile up.
Health Department officials want
$100,445 to continue prevention work. About half the money would go toward
hiring a “temporary employee” to conduct outreach to the Somali community,
including efforts to increase measles vaccination rates, the Star-Tribune
reported.
Meanwhile, the state is also grappling
with an outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis, primarily among Hmong
immigrants, which has already cost the taxpayers $626,000 over the past year.
Now state health officials are asking for another $224,635 for the coming year
to fight TB.
The balance of the $600,000 request will
go to treat a 30 percent increase in syphilis cases in the American Indian
community in north-central Minnesota.
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele
Bachmann said most Americans don’t want to follow the European model of
socialism but that’s what they are getting with refugee resettlement, which has
secretly injected more than 3 million Third Worlders into U.S. cities and towns
since the 1980s, without the consent of the communities.
“Ask the average American if they want
an unending pipeline of poverty continuously dropped into the U.S. by the UN
and the US State Department,” Bachmann told WND. “Overwhelmingly and emphatically
the American people say no.”
“The bureaucracy could care less what
citizens have to say, all they care about is destroying Western civilization in
favor of advancing progressive utopian dreams,” she added.
“In Minnesota, the dream has become a
nightmare of exploding costs.”
Ann Corcoran, an expert on the
resettlement industry who blogs at Refugee Resettlement
Watch, said the
industry is fond of churning out “bogus economic studies” that falsely inflate
the value of refugees to U.S. communities.
“The cost of treating these illnesses is
never factored into these studies, where they always conclude that the refugee
influx is helping the communities,” she said.
“I am sick and tired of hearing reports
on the economic benefits of the refugees that they pay and start businesses and
create jobs, and in those studies they never discuss the true cost of health
care, or the true cost to the criminal justice system from the numerous
criminal trials, incarcerations, etc.,” Corcoran told WND. “Imagine what it
costs to put refugees like Fazliddin Kurbanov away for life.”
Kurbanov, a refugee living in Boise,
Idaho, was convicted at trial last year of conspiring to recruit Muslim
migrants to make bombs and blow up U.S. military installations. Dozens of
Somali refugees have been charged and/or convicted of providing material
support to overseas terrorist organizations.
“Have you ever seen a study on the cost
of even short-term incarceration? It’s never in those bogus economic studies,”
Corcoran said. “And the other thing that is never in there is the remittances
that are gone from our economy. And you can bet your bottom dollar it’s not
just wage earnings they’re sending back home. They’re sending welfare money
back home, too. So you never see a net inflow or outflow of money from our
economy in these phony economic studies touting how much these refugees boost our
economy.”
If refugees really were bringing
economic boom times to nations, Corcoran said she wonders why relatively poor
Eastern European nations such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and
Slovenia are all trying to keep refugees out of their borders.
Debra Anderson, chair of the ACT For
America chapter in Minnesota, said it’s not right or fair that hard-working
American taxpayers are expected to pay for the forced migration of unvaccinated
and diseased Third World “refugees” into their neighborhoods. “Communities
throughout Minnesota are being ‘fundamentally transformed’ through the
“refugee” resettlement policies orchestrated by our government and facilitated
by our ‘faith-based organizations,” Anderson said. “And, unfortunately, there
is a virtual cottage industry of American citizens who are all too willing to
jeopardize our national security, liberty, and our posterity’s future for
financial gain. Unconscionable.” Most refugees in Minnesota are resettled by
either Catholic Charities or Lutheran Social Services. “Suffering Minnesotans
are expressing concerns and asking questions,” Anderson said.
“Only yesterday was I was informed,
again, by Karin Blythe, supervisor at Lutheran Social Services, that the
general public (you and me, the tax payer) was not welcome to their quarterly
consultation meeting or to their Reception & Placement Abstract, which
outlines their plans for resettlement of ‘refugees’ into our neighborhoods,”
she added. “And just last night we made an appeal to the St. Cloud City Council
for this information. We are waiting for their response.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/extra-600000-sought-to-combat-infectious-diseases-among-refugees/
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