BY ROBERT SPENCER FOR FRONTPAGEMAG.COM
Approximately 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany during the month of August, setting a new record. That makes 413,535 registered refugees and migrants coming to Germany in 2015 so far. The country expects a total of around 800,000 people to seek asylum in Germany this year. And that’s just Germany. The entire continent of Europe is being inundated with refugees at a rate unprecedented in world history. This is no longer just a “refugee crisis.” This is a hijrah.
Hijrah, or jihad by emigration, is, according to Islamic tradition, the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622 CE. It was after the hijrah that Muhammad for the first time became not just a preacher of religious ideas, but a political and military leader. That was what occasioned his new “revelations” exhorting his followers to commit violence against unbelievers. Significantly, the Islamic calendar counts the hijrah, not Muhammad’s birth or the occasion of his first “revelation,” as the beginning of Islam, implying that Islam is not fully itself without a political and military component.
To emigrate in the cause of Allah – that is, to move to a new land in order to bring Islam there, is considered in Islam to be a highly meritorious act. “And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance,” says the Qur’an. “And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him, his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah. And Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful.” (4:100) The exalted status of such emigrants led a British jihad group that won notoriety (and a shutdown by the government) a few years ago for celebrating 9/11 to call itself Al-Muhajiroun: The Emigrants.
And now a hijrah of a much greater magnitude is upon us. Evidence that this is a hijrah, not simply a humanitarian crisis, came last February, but was little noted at the time and almost immediately forgotten. The Islamic State published a document entitled, “Libya: The Strategic Gateway for the Islamic State.” Gateway into Europe, that is: the document exhorted Muslims to go to Libya and cross from there as refugees into Europe. This document tells would-be jihadis that weapons from Gaddafi’s arsenal are plentiful and easy to obtain in Libya – and that the country “has a long coast and looks upon the southern Crusader states, which can be reached with ease by even a rudimentary boat.”
The Islamic State did not have in mind just a few jihadis crossing from Libya: it also emerged last February that the jihadis planned to flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. Now the number is shooting well beyond that in Germany alone. Of course, not all of these refugees are Islamic jihadis. Not all are even Muslims, although most are. However, no effort whatsoever is being made to determine the refugees’ adherence to Sharia and desire to bring it to their new land. Any such effort would be “Islamophobic.” Yet there are already hints that the Islamic State is putting its plan into effect: jihadis have already been found among the refugees trying to enter Europe. There will be many more such discoveries.
Eight hundred thousand Muslim refugees in one year alone. This will transform Germany, and Europe, forever, overtaxing the welfare economies of its wealthiest nations and altering the cultural landscape beyond recognition. Yet the serious public discussion that needs to be had about this crisis is shouted down by the usual nonsense: the Washington Post Wednesday published an inflammatory and irresponsible piece likening those concerned about this massive Muslim influx into Europe to 1930s Nazis ready to incinerate Jews by the millions. Hollywood star Emma Thompson accused British authorities of racism for not taking in more refugees – as if British authorities haven’t already done enough to destroy their nation.
And so it goes. If you don’t accept the brave new world that is sure to bring more jihad and more Sharia to Europe, you’re a Nazi and a racist. Meanwhile, no one is bothering even to ask, much less answer, one central question: why is it incumbent upon Europe have to absorb all these refugees? Why not Saudi Arabia or the other Muslim countries that are oil-rich and have plenty of space? The answer is unspoken because non-Muslim authorities refuse to believe it and Muslims don’t want it stated or known: these refugees have to go to Europe because this is a hijrah.
This is also Europe’s death knell.
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf
My comments: I would suggest taking the test for citizenship of the United States. I answered every question correctly, however several of those questions were terribly politically correct. Note that this article is from 2006, but is still an important piece. As well, the MSM has been using 12 million illegals as the number for over 15 years. The reality of it is that we now have 50 to 60 million illegal aliens in the country. I suppose they are allowed in to replace the 60 million aborted babies who have been murdered.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today’s force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
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Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike’s official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.
General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said “Amen” to Senator Fulbright’s proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: “The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican ‘wetbacks’ to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government.”
Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower’s first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.
America “was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale,” Mr. Brownell said. “When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.”
Although an on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, farmers and ranchers in the Southwest had become dependent on an additional low-cost, docile, illegal labor force of up to 3 million, mostly Mexican, laborers.
According to the Handbook of Texas Online, published by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, this illegal workforce had a severe impact on the wages of ordinary working Americans. The Handbook Online reports that a study by the President’s Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas in 1950 found that cotton growers in the Rio Grande Valley, where most illegal aliens in Texas worked, paid wages that were “approximately half” the farm wages paid elsewhere in the state.
Profits from illegal labor led to the kind of corruption that apparently worried Eisenhower. Joseph White, a retired 21-year veteran of the Border Patrol, says that in the early 1950s, some senior US officials overseeing immigration enforcement “had friends among the ranchers,” and agents “did not dare” arrest their illegal workers.
Walt Edwards, who joined the Border Patrol in 1951, tells a similar story. He says: “When we caught illegal aliens on farms and ranches, the farmer or rancher would often call and complain [to officials in El Paso]. And depending on how politically connected they were, there would be political intervention. That is how we got into this mess we are in now.”
Bill Chambers, who worked for a combined 33 years for the Border Patrol and the then-called US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), says politically powerful people are still fueling the flow of illegals.
During the 1950s, however, this “Good Old Boy” system changed under Eisenhower – if only for about 10 years.
In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing’s close connections to the president shielded him – and the Border Patrol – from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called “Operation Wetback” began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The sea voyage was “a rough trip, and they did not like it,” says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
Mr. Coppock says he “cannot understand why [President] Bush let [today’s] problem get away from him as it has. I guess it was his compassionate conservatism, and trying to please [Mexican President] Vincente Fox.”
There are now said to be 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.
One day in 1954, Border Patrol agent Walt Edwards picked up a newspaper in Big Spring, Texas, and saw some startling news. The government was launching an all-out drive to oust illegal aliens from the United States.
The orders came straight from the top, where the new president, Dwight Eisenhower, had put a former West Point classmate, Gen. Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement.
General Swing’s fast-moving campaign soon secured America’s borders – an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 95 percent by the late 1950s.
Several retired Border Patrol agents who took part in the 1950s effort, including Mr. Edwards, say much of what Swing did could be repeated today.
“Some say we cannot send 12 million illegals now in the United States back where they came from. Of course we can!” Edwards says.
Donald Coppock, who headed the Patrol from 1960 to 1973, says that if Swing and Ike were still running immigration enforcement, “they’d be on top of this in a minute.”
William Chambers, another ’50s veteran, agrees. “They could do a pretty good job” sealing the border.
Edwards says: “When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their [illegal] workforce with a legal workforce.”
While Congress debates building a fence on the border, these veterans say other actions should have higher priority.
1. End the current practice of taking captured Mexican aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.
2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won’t come.
3. End “catch and release” for non-Mexican aliens. It is common for illegal migrants not from Mexico to be set free after their arrest if they promise to appear later before a judge. Few show up.
The Patrol veterans say enforcement could also be aided by a legalized guest- worker program that permits Mexicans to register in their country for temporary jobs in the US. Eisenhower’s team ran such a program. It permitted up to 400,000 Mexicans a year to enter the US for various agriculture jobs that lasted for 12 to 52 weeks.
• John Dillin is former managing editor of the Monitor.
BY VICKI DAVIS, REPOSTED FROM TVOINEWS.COM
In the first part of this series, it was found that the Public Health System in Idaho is divided into seven districts. The Districts are independent agencies “corporate and politic”. They are not accountable to the People of Idaho.
The Mountain States Group recently renamed the Jannus Group is the contractor that manages the District Health Offices. They also are the prime contractor for the Health & Human Services Refugee resettlement program. They operate under a set of Administrative Rules that they write for themselves. The legislature votes on the Rules, but that’s a mirage of control. The system of public health itself makes them a public health menace.
The following is the line authority for the South Central Public Health District. Rene Le Blanc runs District V – and she reports to a Board of County Commissioners. The Board is comprised of a representative member from each of the following eight counties: Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, Twin Falls.
Notice – bottom box, right hand side… Public Health Promotion and Preparedness.
Recall that the Public Health System at the federal level is a uniformed quasi-military organization because it would be the Public Health System that would be in charge if there was a pandemic.
The following image was found on the Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare website. But notice that it says PUBLIC HEALTH in caps. Since it is the PUBLIC HEALTH system that is bringing in refugees who would be the only source of Ebola in this country, this webpage can only be interpreted as an implied threat. They are playing Russian roulette with us.
This brings me to John Agwunobi mentioned at the end of Part 1, as being appointed to be Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) in 2005. Recall that the Surgeon General reports to the ASH.
John Agwunobi, MD, MBA, MPH
The following is an excerpt from the appointment notice that was posted on the White House website:
As a pediatrician, Dr. Agwunobi dedicated himself to working with underserved populations. Before moving to Florida, Dr. Agwunobi was Medical Director and Vice President of Medical Affairs and Patient Services at the Hospital for Sick Children, a Washington, DC-based pediatric rehabilitation hospital and community health care provider. He simultaneously served as medical director for an affiliated managed care plan, where he maintained a network of more than 2,300 physicians and specialists.
Dr. Agwunobi completed his pediatric residency at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC, rotating between Children’s National Medical Center and the District of Columbia General Hospital–then one of the nation’s busiest inner-city hospitals. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Agwunobi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. He is also a certified managed care executive.
Dr. Agwunobi has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Public Administrator of the Year, APHA Public Health Hero Citation, and Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He previously served as Chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee to the Director, and on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum–an advisory group formed at the recommendation of the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.
Dr. Agwunobi has a passion for leadership and innovation and sees his role as Assistant Secretary for Health as an opportunity to enhance the Secretary’s efforts to further the mission of HHS and the health of the nation by building, strengthening, and leveraging relationships across the public health community and the US Public Health Service.
That’s a pretty impressive background. So what’s wrong with it? It’s too much. It’s a pumped resume. He’s like the guy who lives in an average neighborhood that hasn’t worked in six months but shows up one day driving a brand new red Corvette. The neighbor asks, ‘what did you do – rob a bank’? What do you think? Also, he was appointed to be the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services. Assistant and Deputy Secretaries don’t normally get the kind of appointment notices that Agwunobi got regardless of their credentials. Washington DC is about nothing if not protocol and pecking order.
So how is it that John Agwunobi came to my attention? I wrote about it in a rant in 2009 that I called, Dear Diary. The reason I did that is because I didn’t have anything solid to connect it to at the time. The following is an excerpt from that commentary:
I first took notice of John Agwunobi when he was testifying to the Senate in a hearing in about 2005. I was half paying attention up until the point when Senator Spector started questioning Agwunobi on his written statement where he wrote something about “not showing good faith” and Spector wanted to know what he meant. As I recall, Spector said that the Congress had allocated about $4 billion towards national planning for a pandemic. The request had apparently been for an amount in the vicinity of $15 billion. Back then, a billion was a lot of money. $4 billion was a stunning amount for “planning” and for a federal employee to tell the Congress that they weren’t showing good faith struck a sour note. So I started watching the hearing. As I listened to the questions and Agwunobi’s answers following, I thought to myself – this guy – Agwunobi is not a doctor. I don’t know what’s going on – they’re calling him a doctor but for several of the questions, Dr. Julie Gerberding of the CDC had to answer for Agwunobi. So I did a search on Agwunobi.
It turns out that Agwunobi was in Florida employed by the Public Health Department when the anthrax attacks occurred. The day after his appointment, he was called upon to investigate the first anthrax attack. Recall that Florida was already in a state of emergency prior to 9-11. That’s mighty coincidental – although circumstantial. Agwunobi is from Nigeria and he allegedly earned his degree in Public Health from Johns-Hopkins. There are other things about Agwunobi that didn’t sit well with me – but after doing some reading, I thought I’d get back to him sometime in the future to write a webpage about him. Then Dr. Elias Zerhouni came into my sights after watching the National Governor’s Association conference and hearing a presentation on the eHealth Initiative. After watching that program and doing audio recordings of it, I wrote this webpage: IBM and Dr. Mengele – Together Again Here is the LINK to the C-Span NGA Conference where IBM and the Mayo Clinic did the presentation.
The power dynamics were wrong. Senator Arlen Spector was one of the most powerful members of Congress and the Administration was Republican. John Agwunobi’s written statement that Spector was questioning him about was both impudent and arrogant and yet, Spector took no notice of it except to ask what he meant and his question was not from a position of power as would normally be expected.
[It should be noted that Agwunobi’s Florida biography says that he was born in Dundee, Scotland even though he attended school in Nigeria and Nigeria is where his father is a practicing physician.]
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, Executive Order Number 01-261, signed September 7, 2001.
And of course, as we all know, George Bush was at the Emma E. Booker elementary school on 9/11. The staging of the photo is important. Notice on the blackboard behind George Bush’s head, it says ‘Reading Makes A Country Great’.
Recall that Richard Clarke made a big deal of the fact that nobody in the Bush Administration was listening to him or reading his reports, but the May 8, 2026 press release would indicate otherwise.
Backing up a little bit, on May 8, 2001, there was a press release issued by the Office of the Press Secretary:
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary May 8, 2026
Domestic Preparedness Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
Protecting America’s homeland and citizens from the threat of weapons of mass destruction is one of our Nation’s important national security challenges. Today, more nations possess chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons than ever before. Still others seek to join them. Most troubling of all, the list of these countries includes some of the world’s least-responsible states — states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life. Some non-state terrorist groups have also demonstrated an interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction….
Therefore, I have asked Vice President Cheney to oversee the development of a coordinated national effort so that we may do the very best possible job of protecting our people from catastrophic harm. I have also asked Joe Allbaugh, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to create an Office of National Preparedness. This Office will be responsible for implementing the results of those parts of the national effort overseen by Vice President Cheney that deal with consequence management. Specifically it will coordinate all Federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies. The Office of National Preparedness will work closely with state and local governments to ensure their planning, training, and equipment needs are addressed. FEMA will also work closely with the Department of Justice, in its lead role for crisis management, to ensure that all facets of our response to the threat from weapons of mass destruction are coordinated and cohesive. I will periodically chair a meeting of the National Security Council to review these efforts.
BY Vicky Davis
REPOSTED FROM TVOINEWS.COM
This article falls into the category of What Have We Learned Today. In furtherance of goal of finding out absolutely everything about refugee resettlement in Idaho, a search using the term refugee was done in the Legislature section of the State of Idaho website. It didn’t take looking at more than three references before there was enough significant information to write about it.
First, in the 2012 Individual Entity Audit Report for South Central Public Health District 5 issued on February 20, 2014, there is a history of the Public Health Districts. I’ve highlighted the significant years:
HISTORY
The following is a chronological history of the basic health care services that the State has provided to the public.
1907 – The State Board of Health and counties that had local boards of health were statutorily authorized joint responsibility for public health.
1947 – A public health district law was enacted that permitted two or more counties to establish a public health district. Participation in the forming of the health districts was voluntary.
1970 – The legislature established a law that created seven mandatory public health districts. In South Central Public Health District (V), the counties designated were Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Twin Falls. The director of the State Department of Health and Welfare was designated fiscal officer for the various districts.
1976 – Legislative intent was expressed that the health districts are not State agencies and that they be recognized as authorized governmental entities.
1986 – Idaho Code was amended to allow district health departments to promulgate rules and regulations without the State Board of Health’s approval.
1993 – The legislature clarified the need for district health departments to use the Idaho Administrative Procedures Act for fees and rules.
2004 – The Rules of the Division of Human Resources and Idaho Personnel Commission include public health districts.
2007 – Legislation changing Idaho Code, Section 39-412 to reflect a change in the compensation of Board members, to reference Idaho Code, Section 59-509(I).
2007 – Legislation changing Idaho Code, Section 39-411 composition of Districts’ Boards of Health to allow those Districts comprised of eight counties to consist of not less than eight members and no more than nine members.
2008 – Legislation changed Idaho Code, Section 39-414 language: “For purposes of this chapter, a PH district is not a subdivision of the state and is considered an independent body corporate and politic, in terms of negotiating long term debt and financing.” (This will move the local PH district outside the Frasier legal case of debt financing.)
Title 39, Chapter 4 defines the Public Health Districts as:
39-401. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The various health districts, as provided for in this chapter, are not a single department of state government unto themselves, nor are they a part of any of the twenty (20) departments of state government authorized by section 20, article IV, Idaho constitution, or of the departments prescribed in section 67-2402, Idaho Code.
It is legislative intent that health districts operate and be recognized not as state agencies or departments, but as governmental entities whose creation has been authorized by the state, much in the manner as other single purpose districts.
…This section merely affirms that health districts created under this chapter are not state agencies, and in no way changes the character of those agencies as they existed prior to this act.
These people of the Public Health Districts have the power of government but are not answerable to the People of Idaho. This is not a republican form of government and through this structure, they have put the People of Idaho – and of the United States in great danger as you will see as this proceeds.
39-413. DISTRICT HEALTH DIRECTOR — APPOINTMENT — POWERS AND DUTIES. A district health director shall be appointed by the district board. The director shall have and exercise the following powers and duties in addition to all other powers and duties inherent in the position or delegated to him or imposed upon him by law or rule, regulation, or ordinance:
(1) To be secretary and administrative officer of the district board of health;
(2) To prescribe such rules and regulations, consistent with the requirements of this chapter, as may be necessary for the government of the district, the conduct and duties of the district employees, the orderly and efficient handling of business and the custody, use and preservation of the records, papers, books and property belonging to the public health district;
So, they are an independent body from the state and they write their own rules.
Section 39-414 referenced in 2008 entry of the history:
(2) To do all things required for the preservation and protection of the public health and preventive health, and such other things delegated by the director of the state department of health and welfare or the director of the department of environmental quality and this shall be authority for the director(s) to so delegate.
Question? Does the Refugee Resettlement Program as managed by the Jannus Group (contract management for the Public Health Districts) and the College of Southern Idaho fulfill the requirements of Section 39-414? As we learned yesterday, the College of Southern Idaho is not only contracting with the Jannus Group, but they are contracting with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) to bring in refugees “with significant medical conditions”. Refugees are not only a significant danger to public health, they are creating long-term liabilities for the taxpayers of Idaho.
Surgeon General
When you’re looking at the problems of government, if you are looking at the politicians, you are looking at the puppet show. The problems of government can only been seen by looking at the functional organization and the administrative power structure. From the structure that can be seen in the state of Idaho, it would seem logical that the Public Health Districts are creatures (as in the Black Lagoon) of the federal public health system under the direction of the Surgeon General with the precise relationship unknown at this point.
Wikipedia defines Surgeon General as:
Surgeon general is a title used in the United States and many areas of the British Commonwealth to refer either to a senior military medical officer or to a senior physician commissioned by the government and entrusted with public health responsibilities. The post originated in the 17th century, as military units acquired their own doctors. In the United States, the chief public health officer is the Surgeon General of the United States and each state has its own State Surgeon General. Moreover, each branch of the American military services has its own surgeon general, with more combat-related responsibilities and experience, hence Surgeon General of the United States Army, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and Surgeon General of the United States Air Force. Nigeria had a similar position designated Inspector General of Medical Services.
(Interesting that they would include a notation on Nigeria – but I’ll get to that later).
It’s not surprising that this “independent” structure originated with the British. The British Commonwealth is just another name for the British Empire. The City of London appears to have created an organizational structure, the administrative bureaucracy that allows them to get and keep power in the hands of a few while controlling the structure from a distance. There are other examples of it in operation in the United States. (See Part 8, Smart Grid: Rest of the Story).
It’s useful to see who the Surgeon Generals have been for the past several administrations. Wikipedia has a page on the United States Surgeon Generals. At the bottom, there are pictures of them along with duration of their appointment. There is also a link to a profile page of them: U.S. Surgeon General
The current Surgeon General is Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy. It should be noted that the only Surgeon General to actually hold the rank of a four-star admiral was David Satcher. (emphasis added)
In 2003, Murthy received an MD from Yale School of Medicine and an MBA in Health Care Management from Yale School of Management, where he was a recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans…
The following is the description of the responsibilities of the Surgeon General according to Wikipedia:
The Surgeon General reports to the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), who may be a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), and who serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health and scientific issues. The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Commissioned Corps, a 6,500-member cadre of health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Secretary of HHS or the Assistant Secretary for Health in the event of a public health emergency.
When I clicked on the link to get information on the Assistant Secretary for Health, I saw a familiar face.
John Agwunobi
To be continued -
BY VICKI DAVIS FOR TVOINEWS.COM
This morning’s revelation about the Refugee Resettlement program at the College of Southern Idaho is that they are contracting with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) to bring “medically vulnerable” refugees to Idaho. The term medically vulnerable means that they are sick or mentally ill. Idaho is such a wealthy state we can afford to bring medically needy, medically indigent people here? Where is the benefit to Idaho and our nation?
When things don’t make sense logically, there is always a reason that is hidden or unknown that if you knew, it would make sense. That is the case here. These “medically vulnerable” refugees will serve a purpose. I’ve been writing about that purpose since 2007.
Manhattan Project for the 21st Century – Real Time Biomedical Research on Human Populations, September 9, 2010.
It never occurred to me that they would import people from the third world to serve as human rhesus monkeys for medical research. That’s not a slur on the people. It’s a blunt statement for how they will be used. These refugees are vulnerable people. They know nothing about modern culture or modern health care. And if they did feel like something was wrong, who would they talk to about it? They don’t speak our language. They are being imported by monsters for a monstrous purpose.
The last thing I wrote about the “health care” system was in January of 2014. It was concerning a proposal by Idaho Representative Steve Thayn concerning Community Health Centers for the medically indigent.
Nazi Germany Re-Run and the Third Worldization of American Health Care
For the record, I didn’t start seriously researching the issue of refugees until November of 2014. Prior to that, I’d written only one article titled, Immigration as a Racket. And when I did start researching the issue it was not with the health care system in mind even though I focused on the privatized social services aspect of it. But when I saw the webpage in the first link above, the light went on and the alarms went off.
This is a link to the presentation on the USCRI website page describing the program.
Posted in Illegal Immigration
Tagged College of Southern Idaho, Refugee Resettlement Program
Every whiny Liberal, and idiot Rhino who has helped destroy this Country with Illegal Immigration has either done it on purpose or out of ignorance of what our Constitution says. They all stand on The 14th Amendment and proclaim it is the reason so called “Anchor Babies” get immediate citizenship. Well I’m here to say they are all wrong. Here is the true history of the 14th. You must read what is called the “Original Intent” from the original authors of the amendment Then there are SCOTUS decisions to back it up.———-
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The 14th Amendment, ratified July 9, 1868, reads: “Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
If one wishes fully to understand the Constitution, one must also read what the Founders said and wrote regarding it. This is what is called original intent. By doing so one can glean not only what they wrote but the motive behind it — many letters the founders wrote to each other and of course the Federalist Papers. In short, go back to the source.
Senator Jacob Howard (1805-1871) authored the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. “He [Howard] told us what he meant. He defined who would fall within the jurisdiction of the United States.”
This is what Howard said as referenced by Mark Levin:
“Every person born within the limits of the United States, subject to their jurisdiction, [meaning the states — their jurisdiction] is, by virtue of natural law and national law, a citizen of the United States
. This will not, of course, include persons in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States,
but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.”
Senator Lyman Trumbull (1813-1896), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, supported Howard, contending that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else … subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States.”
Well, it doesn’t get much clearer than that. There can be no question of his intent and no longer any question of what he meant by “and subject to their jurisdiction.”
In other words, Levin writes:
“You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States,” and you can’t magically become a citizen if both your parents have fidelity to another nation.
This phrase has been also been interpreted by the US Supreme Court to exclude anyone who is subject to the rule of a foreign government.
They specifically and appropriately confirmed this restricted interpretation of citizenship in the so-called “Slaughter-House cases” [83 US 36 (1873) and 112 US 94 (1884). In the 1884 Elk v.Wilkins case the phrase “subject to its jurisdiction” was interpreted to exclude “children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States.
(May I just add, And then there is the little matter of being here Illegally. That should count for something in my book. Like all of the referenced matter here would be for naught if we just enforced the damn laws already on the books like say …Mexico does. Know what happens when you sneak into Mexico? They don’t give you free stuff. You may get a free case of severe “Lead Poisoning”)
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http://godfatherpolitics.com/24537/who-knew-donald-trump-was-a-constitutional-scholar/#ddbAd3zm7veZ4DJD.99
To Further clarify here is a simple explanation by PUBLIUS HULDAH.
Birthright Citizenship: Whats That About?
Yes, it has certainly come to be perverted. Here is the Truth:
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside
.
The purpose of this Section was to extend citizenship to freed slaves
and to protect them from southern Black Codes which denied them basic
God-given rights.
This Section does not provide that illegals who invade our Country
and drop a baby here are automatically the parents of a US citizen.
The key is subject to the jurisdiction thereof:
Consider the French
ambassador and his lovely young wife stationed in Washington, DC. She
gives birth to a child here. Her child was born here. But is her child
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? No! The child is
subject to the same jurisdiction as his parents: France.
Consider the American Indians: Sec.1 of the 14th Amendment did NOT
confer citizenship on American Indians. They were not subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States they were subject to the
jurisdiction of their tribes.
An illegal alien who invades our Country is in the same status as the
French Ambassadors wife. The baby she drops here is subject to the
jurisdiction of the Country she left.
So the 14th Amendment does NOT confer citizenship on babies of
illegals born here just as it does not confer citizenship on the
babies of foreign diplomats stationed here.
Pursuant to Art. I, Sec. 8, clause 4, US Constitution, Congress may make laws deciding how people become naturalized citizens.
But Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment does not confer citizenship status on babies born here of illegal aliens.
This is important.
Above by Publius Huldah.
Posted in 14th Amendment, 2016 Election, eDUCATION, Government, Illegal Immigration, Political Correctness, Politics
Tagged United States
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Adams’ DHS sources tell him that the “Task Force on New Americans” project is all about urging about 9,000,000 non-citizen aliens to naturalize and therefore gain the right to vote.
In a situation very convenient for the Democrats, 14 out of the 20 states with the highest green card population are holding Senate races in 2016, so adding on millions of new voters could easily impact the elections.
Adams noted that an internal memo from Leon Rodriguez, the director and co-chair of the DHS’ “Task Force on New Americans,” said, “This report outlines an immigrant integration plan that will advance our nation’s global competitiveness and ensure that the people who live in this country can fully participate in their communities.”
“They say it nakedly in this letter that this is all about politics,” Adams stated.
Tucker Carlson pointed out that Republicans are constantly reminded that if they speak out against this, they will be branded as xenophobic bigots and will never get another Hispanic vote.
“It’s a deliberate strategy to shut up opposition,” Adams asserted. “This is a transformative campaign going on to fundamentally transform the country. And if you don’t talk about it, if you don’t confront it, you’re going to lose all the other issues you care about.”
By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
August 18, 2026
NewsWithViews.com
With the issue of illegal immigration already coming to the fore in the contest for nomination of the 2016 Republican candidate for the Presidency, the question naturally arises: “How could a new President in 2017 and thereafter use the laws already in existence in order to curb illegal immigration?”
A significant part of the present problem is that the authorities, both within the General Government and the States, do not dispose of enough “boots on the ground” to come close to adequately securing this country’s borders—primarily the border with Mexico—against illegal entry. For dealing with this critical deficiency, a new President would have at least three quite simple but highly effective options—none of which has yet caught the attention of any of the announced candidates for the office. These options, moreover, would not in any sense be “optional”, because Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution imposes on the President the unqualified duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.
1. The President could call forth “the Militia of the several States” under his general statutory authority. Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the Constitution mandates that Congress shall “have Power * * * [t]o provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union”. And, pursuant to that authority, Title 10 of the United States Code, Section 332 provides that
[w]henever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impractical to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any state * * * as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
In addition, Title 10 of the United States Code, Section 333 provides that
[t]he President, by using the militia * * * , shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any * * * unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, or immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable * * * to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
In large measure, illegal immigration is an on-going, highly organized event of international scope, conducted by “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages”—all of which constitute “conspirac[ies]”—both domestic and foreign. Furthermore, those individuals who otherwise lawfully reside within the United States while also participating in such “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages” are engaged in a form of “rebellion against the authority of the United States”.
By definition, illegal immigration into the United States “hinders the execution of the laws of [every] State, and of the United States within [every] State”; and in practice it operates on such a massive scale as thoroughly to defeat such “execution”, and thus “opposes [and] obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States [and] impedes the course of justice under those laws”. When and where successful, illegal immigration denies all persons lawfully resident within the United States “the right[s], privilege[s], or immunit[ies], or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law”: (i) to exercise control over the size and composition of the population of their own States in particular and of the United States in general; (ii) not to be taxed for the support of individuals whose illegal presence within the United States disqualifies them from the receipt of public benefits, but who misappropriate such benefits anyway; and (iii) not to be subjected to crime, disease, overuse of public facilities, and excessive wear and tear on critical infrastructure caused by illegal immigrants. Moreover, as is plainly the situation, “the constituted authorities of th[e] State[s] are unable * * * to protect th[ose] right[s], privilege[s], or immunit[ies], or to give that protection”; and it has become “impractical” even for the General Government “to enforce the laws of the United States [dealing with immigration] in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings”. These dire conditions not simply justify, but demand, Presidential action.
Each year, the President would call forth from each of the several States an average of 1,000 individuals who were then designed as members of the so-called “unorganized militia” under Title 10 of the United States Code, Section 311. (Some States might provide more, some States less, in proportion to their populations.) This would provide the President with a total yearly force of 50,000 Militiamen. These individuals would be selected by the Governors of the several States (the commanders in chief of the States’ “unorganized militia”) according to criteria promulgated by the President as “Commander in Chief * * * of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States” under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and therefore the “Commander in Chief” of the Governors as well with respect to this matter. These criteria would relate to the Militiamen’s ages, physical condition, education, skills, experience, and other qualifications relevant to the tasks involved in securing the borders against illegal immigration. Because so few Militiamen would be called forth, the Governors would likely be able to rely on large percentages of volunteers. In any event, the Militiamen called forth each year would be divided into two classes of 500 each from each State, or a total of 25,000 in each class. Each class would be required to serve for (say) a period of six months, in rotation, to be replaced at the end of each such term by a new class called forth for that purpose. In keeping with the historically invariable principles of constitutional Militia, each member of the Militia called forth for active service would be required to furnish his own basic equipment (as stipulated by the President), but otherwise would be supplied and adequately compensated for his endeavors at public expense. And all Militiamen would receive expedited, intensive training which would enable them to serve in the field for as much time as possible during their tours of duty. Some 25,000 Militiamen deployed all at once should suffice to seal America’s border with Mexico. (If not, the yearly quota from each of the States could be increased by an increment of 1,000 per year, until the necessary number was reached.)
Financial support of the Militia called forth could be drawn from such moneys as would already have been allocated by the General Government and the States for Militia service out of general tax revenues. But, in keeping with constitutional principles, the necessary funds could also—and should preferably—be drawn from those members of the Militia who, although not called forth for active service in the field, could be called upon to subsidize their fellow Militiamen’s activities, these fees being the quid pro quo for exemptions from active service. A simple example demonstrates the practicality of this approach: In Virginia, the total number of males and females of ages 18 through 45 in households, who would qualify in principle for “the unorganized militia” under 10 U.S.C. § 311, is approximately 2,816,000. Subtracting ten percent of these who would be ineligible for any service due to physical or other disability leaves 2,534,000. Subtracting the 1,000 called forth for active duty leaves 2,533,400. Were each of these remaining individuals required to pay a fee of merely ten dollars for an annual exemption from active duty under the President’s call, the Militia in Virginia would have available a yearly renewable fund of $25,334,000. Allocated amongst those called to active duty, this would provide $25,334 per Militiaman per year—certainly sufficient to support each individual for six months’ active duty in the field.
2. The President could authorize the States to enforce the immigration laws of the United States under statutory authority relating specifically to immigration. The President would not need not take direct command of the Militia which might be called forth to secure the borders and otherwise to police illegal immigrants. Instead, he could act through one of his cabinet officials. Title 8 of the United States Code, Section 1357(g) provides that
(1) * * * the Attorney General [of the United States] may enter into a written agreement with a State, or any political subdivision of a State, pursuant to which an officer or employee of the State or subdivision, who is determined by the Attorney General to be qualified to perform a function of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens in the United States (including the transportation of such aliens across State lines to detention centers), may carry out such function at the expense of the State or political subdivision and to the extent consistent with State and local law.(2) An agreement under this subsection shall require that an officer or employee of a State or political subdivision of a State performing a function under the agreement shall have knowledge of, and adhere to, Federal law relating to the function, and shall contain a written certification that the officers or employees performing the function under the agreement have received adequate training regarding the enforcement of relevant Federal immigration laws.
Plainly enough, in addition to the personnel in a State’s regular law-enforcement agencies, the “officers” to which this statute refers could be members of the State’s Militia—and likely would have to be, if such “officers” in sufficient numbers were to be deployed. The necessary “written agreement with a State, or any political subdivision of a State” would simply need to stipulate that individuals from the State’s “unorganized militia” would be called forth, pursuant to the State’s laws, “to perform [the] functions of * * * immigration officer[s]”. And the Attorney General, acting under a directive from the President, could so require. This would then prove to be another instance of Congress’s provision “for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union”.
For an example of how this arrangement could operate, in Virginia under Code § 44-8 “[t]he Governor * * * shall have power to employ [the unorganized militia] to repel invasion * * * and enforce the execution of the laws”. Obviously, a “written agreement with [Virginia], or any political subdivision of [Virginia]” would qualify as one of “the laws” to be “execut[ed]”. So, to implement such an agreement, under Code § 44-75.1(A)(3) “[t]he Governor * * * [could] call forth the militia or any part thereof * * * [w]hen the Governor determine[d] that a state agency or agencies having law-enforcement responsibilities [we]re in need of assistance to perform particular law-enforcement functions, which function he shall specify in his call to the militia”. This “determin[ation]” would be made an explicit term in Virginia’s “written agreement” with the Attorney General. In addition, pursuant to Code § 44-78.1, under those circumstances “the governing body or the chief law-enforcement officer of [a] county, city or town [could] call upon the Governor for assistance from the Militia”; and “[t]he Governor [could] call forth the militia or any part thereof to provide such assistance as he may deem proper”—which contingencies could also be included in the agreement. And because Code § 44-80 allows the Governor to call forth individuals from only “the unorganized militia” for these purposes, the agreement could so specify, too.
Thus, overall, the effect of the Attorney General’s and the States’ Governors use of 8 U.S.C. § 1357(g) could be equivalent to the President’s employment of 10 U.S.C. §§ 332 and 333. Use of § 1357(g) would have the additional advantage of maximizing true federalism in the enforcement of this country’s immigration laws.
3. The President could recognize the reserved constitutional authority of the States to defend themselves against invasion by illegal immigrants. Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution reserves to the States the authority, without seeking “the Consent of Congress” (and therefore without being subject to any prohibition or limitation emanating from Congress), to “engage in War” when “actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay”. In many (if not all) of the States today, the flood of illegal immigrants amounts to an actual invasion, or presents an imminent danger of that sort which does not admit of delay.
Inasmuch as the States could go to the extreme of employing powers suitable for “engag[ing] in War” to repel such an invasion, they surely could employ less stringent powers for that purpose—including their powers to call forth “the unorganized militia” to enforce their own laws.
Therefore the States could enact laws which would precisely follow the pattern of the General Government’s immigration statutes, except that each of the States would deploy her own Militia to execute those laws within her own territory. The President’s overarching rôle would be to express his recognition of, to encourage, and to provide his Administration’s full support for the States’ exercise of their reserved constitutional authority to take such action, and then not to interfere therewith, so long as the States proceeded against illegal immigration in a manner basically consistent with the General Government’s laws on that subject. By thus promoting the enactment of such State laws, effectively ratifying them, and at least allowing their enforcement (as well as assisting that enforcement whenever possible), the President would render irrelevant the Supreme Court’s largely erroneous decision in Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. –– (2012). This would offer the added advantage of demonstrating in as clear-cut a fashion as possible the imprudence, the impracticality, and even the imbecility of the Court’s self-proclaimed doctrine of “judicial supremacy”.
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Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School).
For more than thirty years he has practiced law, with emphasis on constitutional issues. In the Supreme Court of the United States he successfully argued or briefed the cases leading to the landmark decisions Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson, and Communications Workers of America v. Beck, which established constitutional and statutory limitations on the uses to which labor unions, in both the private and the public sectors, may apply fees extracted from nonunion workers as a condition of their employment.
He has written numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals, and lectured throughout the county. His most recent work on money and banking is the two-volume Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution (2002), the most comprehensive study in existence of American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective. www.piecesofeight.us
He is also the co-author (under a nom de plume) of the political novel CRA$HMAKER: A Federal Affaire (2000), a not-so-fictional story of an engineered crash of the Federal Reserve System, and the political upheaval it causes. www.crashmaker.com
His latest book is: “How To Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary“ … and Constitutional “Homeland Security,” Volume One, The Nation in Arms…
He can be reached at his new address:
52 Stonegate Court
Front Royal, VA 22630.
E-Mail: Not available
8BY LEO HOHMANN FOR WND
Somali refugees get ready to meet with city officials in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The pushback started earlier this year in South Carolina, then spread to Minnesota, Idaho, and now North Dakota.
Michigan and Ohio are also organizing against what local residents say is a sinister and sneaky federal program that almost never gets serious coverage from local media. It’s the U.S. State Department’s refugee resettlement program, which has been humming along on autopilot since Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, signed by President Jimmy Carter.
Since that time, more than 3 million refugees from Third World countries have been permanently resettled in more than 190 American cities and towns.
On the rare occasions when the program attracts national media coverage, it almost always gets spun in a positive light, citing emotional, sometimes tear-jerking stories of refugees rescued from violence in their homelands.
But activists say there’s another side to the refugee program that isn’t being told.
No longer satisfied with pat answers, residents in several states are starting to ask the hard questions. They are showing up at meetings, starting blogs and email lists, digging up information and bypassing local media to inform their friends and neighbors of what’s really going on with the refugee movement.
In conservative Twin Falls, Idaho, for instance, a group of 100 activists are going door to door informing their neighbors about how the refugee program works. Organizer Rick Martin says most people are surprised to find out that the United Nations picks most of the refugees destined for America, and that the Catholic Church, the Lutheran and Episcopal churches, along with evangelical and Jewish groups get paid by the federal government to resettle refugees in the U.S.
“When we mention that the U.N. is involved most of the time they won’t believe it, so we have to show them the articles,” Martin said.
The U.N. connection could explain why so many Muslim refugees are coming to the U.S. from jihadist hotbeds like Syria and Somalia while persecuted Christians in Syria, Iraq and Egypt have a hard time getting within sight of the Statue of Liberty. It may also explain why Muslim countries with plenty of open land, such as Saudi Arabia, aren’t taking in more of the Sunni Muslim refugees being created by jihadist-inspired civil strife in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia.
Changing the demographics of small-town America
Hundreds of residents in Fargo and Cass County, North Dakota, are the latest to get active. More than 2,500 have signed an online petition titled “Stop Lutheran Social Services in Fargo!” at change.org.
LSS, a subsidiary of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, one of the nine resettlement agencies or VOLAGs, has been funneling U.N.-selected refugees into Midwestern states areas like the Dakotas and Minnesota for years. Since 2002 the small cities of Fargo and West Fargo have received 3,647 refugees from more than two dozen Third World countries including 1,397 refugees from Bhutan, 670 from Somalia, 567 from Iraq, 209 from Liberia, 196 from Democratic Republic of Congo, and the balance from Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Cambodia, Chad, Columbia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Burundi, Burma and Bosnia, according to government databases.
On Thursday of last week Lutheran Social Services announced it has rejected the online petitioners’ plea, saying it would continue to resettle refugees from around the world in Fargo, demonstrating once again that the agency works for the federal government and the United Nations, not the people of Fargo or North Dakota.
At that point the petition had 450 signatures. By Saturday afternoon it was up to 2,370 signatures and by Sunday afternoon it surpassed 2,500.
The petition states that “Lutheran Social Services has already brought 350 immigrants to Fargo this year and plans to bring more in the second half of the year. We need to send a message to the legislative body in our county to stop this without having a vote by the population of Cass County. We would like facts and data on the immigrants and refugees already brought in by LSS.”
A steady stream of cheap labor for meat packers
The fact that a private agency like LSS can single-handedly change the demographics of a city without that city’s consent just doesn’t seem right, said petition organizer Damon Quadnik of Fargo.
Lutheran Social services is “ruining Fargo for their own profit,” states Quradnik, who started the petition less than a week ago.
Ouradnik said he is also reaching out his North Dakota senators seeking their help in shutting off the spigot of refugees being resettled at taxpayer expense by Lutheran Social Services. He wants them to stop the resettlements until the residents of Cass County have had a chance to vote on the issue.
Citizens are also starting to organize against the mass resettlement of refugees in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and nearby Willmar, where Somali refugees have been sent for years by Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities to work in meatpacking plants owned by Hormel.
The nine private resettlement agencies, including “charities” within the Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopalian, and evangelical churches, get federal grants to resettle the refugees, essentially acting as front groups for the government, but without the transparency and accountability that would be expected if the government did the work itself, said Bob Enos, spokesman for T-3 (Truth and Transparency in Taxation) in St. Cloud. His group is pushing for more openness in the way refugees are resettled in Minnesota.
“I think the meat packers had a lot to do with this,” Enos, a former businessman, told WND. “These are people in business whose raw materials won’t allow them to outsource overseas, so if you can’t bring the factory overseas you bring overseas to the factory.”
Overall, the United Nations has sent nearly 500,000 refugees directly from the Third World to more than 190 cities and towns across the U.S. since President Obama took office.
But the refugee pipeline from the Mideast and Africa really got jumpstarted under presidents George H. Walker Bush and Bill Clinton. Since 1990, more than 3 million foreign refugees have been permanently resettled in the U.S., with approximately 1 million coming from Muslim-dominated countries that have a history of hostility toward America such as Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uzbekistan and Iraq.
The nation of Myanmar, also called Burma, which is run by Buddhists, is also now trying to unload its Muslim minority, known as the Rohingya, to any country that will take them as “refugees.” The nation’s Buddhist monks fear rising radicalization of Muslims around the world will envelop the Rohingya and so they are increasingly being herded into refugee camps bound for countries in the West, according to a June 2015 report by the Institute for Security and Policy Studies. The U.N. has already sent about 1,000 Rohingya to the U.S.
In one country where the U.S. could have used the refugee program to rescue persecuted Christians – Syria – it has failed to do so. Over the past year more than 1,150 refugees have entered the U.S. from Syria with only a small handful of 40 Christians among them, while 95 percent have been Muslim, according to a search of federal government databases.
Mounting resistance in Idaho
Another city that is organizing and pushing back against the refugee program is Twin Falls, in the conservative state of Idaho. Chobani Yogurt operates the world’s largest yogurt plant in Twin Falls and a massive new meat-packing plant is on the drawing board in Boise, making it prime territory for an influx of low-skill, low-wage foreign workers.
Idaho, a sparsely populated agricultural state, has been infused with 10,166 refugees from the Third World since 2002, according to federal databases.
But the resistance is now in full swing. Some 100 people showed up at a series of townhall meetings last week hosted by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and almost all of them were there to express concerns about refugees, according to TVOI News.
Crapo in July told the Times-News of Twin Falls that he “understands the need for a refugee program” and mostly defended it at the townhalls, but said he was open to considering a temporary moratorium as requested by a bill introduced July 29 in the House by Rep. Babin, R-Texas.
Residents also want the state to close a longstanding refugee welcoming center at the College of Southern Idaho, citing fears the immigrants it hosts could include Islamists from Syria. One man told Crapo at a townhall meeting he didn’t think the U.S. should be accepting men of military age from Syria, which ups the risk that they could have connections to jihadist groups like ISIS or al-Nusra Front.
The newly formed Idaho group is going door-to-door to inform residents of the plans to drop more than 300 refugees, some from Syria, on the Twin Falls area starting in October.
The State Department assures those who ask questions about security that refugees are the “most highly vetted” of all U.S. immigrants.
But the FBI, which is responsible for doing the vetting, refutes that notion.
One of the FBI’s top counter-terrorism experts, Michael Steinbach, warned Congress on Feb. 11 that the U.S. is not in a position to screen the Syrians because it has no boots on the ground and no access to law enforcement or intelligence data in the “failed state” of Syria. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, also warned in two letters to President Obama that the Syrian refugee program could become a “jihadist pipeline” directly to the United States.
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“Bringing in Syrians, who are predominantly of Muslim background, may be opening the door to terrorists pretending to be refugees,” Rick Martin, head of the Committee to End the CSI (College of Southern Idaho) Refugee Center in nearby Buhl, told Reuters. “We’re not against legitimate refugees. They need to be treated with dignity and respect. But it would be easy for someone to lie about their background.”
Reuters reported the State Department’s claim about intense vetting of refugees unquestioned without mentioning the FBI’s expert testimony to the contrary by Steinbach.
Minnesota focusing on financial burden, secrecy
Rather than delving into the security risks of jihadists slipping into the United States, Enos and the Minnesota activists stay focused on the financial impact of refugees on their cities, counties and state. Most of the refugees are abandoned by the resettlement agencies within three to five months of arrival, leaving the responsibility to care for them to state and local governments and school systems, A recent study by the Congressional Research Office showed 74.2 percent of refugees receive food stamps, 56 percent are on Medicaid and 23 percent live in public housing.
“It is intolerable that private organizations can unilaterally transform communities in the United States against the will of the people who built them, and add insult to injury by leaving the financial burden on local taxpayers, while they pocket millions,” Enos said.
Enos, who has been prying information from LSS for months, said the program could never stand on its merits if the government were not so secretive and adept at using contractors to hide information.
“The secrecy with which resettlement agencies do business could not happen without the assent of our federal government,” he told WND. “If the feds ran these programs directly, transparency might be assured by the Freedom of Information Act. But private contractors are exempt, and the feds know this. They know that the resettlement program is, at its core, unsellable to the American public.”
Anyone who takes a public stand, or even demands answers to basic questions about the refugee program, such as how many will be coming each year, from what countries and a breakdown of costs to the school and health systems, or the impact on housing and labor markets, automatically gets branded a “racist” or a “bigot,” as Enos found out last month when he stood up to speak at a meeting in St. Cloud.
A local union organizer held a rally at the courthouse against the “racists” who dared to ask questions about the refugee program, while a professor at St. Cloud State University chimed in with an email blasting Enos and the “racist” speaker. Enos never mentioned race in his short talk at a local VFW hall, focusing his comments on the economic burden caused by refugees.
Working around biased media
Without exception, the activists tell WND that their local media has not given them a fair shake. Local newspapers and TV stations often quote the resettlement agency officials as the final authority on the refugee program, slanting and omitting basic facts about how the program is really run.
In Fargo, WNAY TV 6 ran a story quoting Lutheran Social Services CEO Jessica Thomasson saying that “beyond a conversation once a year about how many refugees the organizations staff can handle, they don’t have much of a say in how many people are sent here or where they’re sent from. That’s all up to the Federal Government.”
This is not how the resettlement business works, says Ann Corcoran, who has been following the refugee industry for eight years through her blog Refugee Resettlement Watch.
“She is right that Washington is making the decisions for North Dakota – and every other state – receiving the U.N.-chosen refugees, but her parent organization — Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service — takes her suggestions for how many her local subcontracting office can handle and where they will come from,” Corcoran said.
Every week or so, the LSS parent organization sits down with U.S. State Department employees and they divvy up the refugees partially dependent on what amenities each town has to offer the refugees in the form of subsidized housing, jobs for low-skilled people and available classroom space in each receiving community.
“They even take into consideration the presence of a mosque or two,” Corcoran said, since roughly half of the 70,000 refugees imported into the U.S. every year come from Muslim-dominated countries.
“Maybe Congress should have a role, but they don’t, mostly because they have abrogated their responsibility,” Corcoran said.
Congress drops the ball on oversight
Just before summer break, Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, introduced HR 3314, the Refugee Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, which seeks a moratorium on all resettlements until Congress can audit its costs and impact.
Babin, the first congressman to take an interest in the oversight of the refugee resettlement program in more than 30 years, is hoping to get some co-sponsors when Congress returns from summer break but so far he hasn’t found any.
His bill would “press the pause button” on a program that grants permanent legal residency to nearly 70,000 new refugees a year. The refugees qualify for a smorgasbord of welfare benefits on day one upon arrival, including food stamps, subsidized housing, public education, Medicaid and WIC (federal aid for women, infants and children).
While there are success stories of refugees who have gone on to lead productive lives, many lead lives of chronic dependency.
Worse yet, some have fallen into a life of crime.
WND has reported on numerous cases of criminal and terrorist activity among refugees over the past year, most recently reporting on a case Friday in which three Somali-Americans, believed to be refugees or children of refugees, were arrested in Portland, Maine, for the brutal murder of a local man.
In another case, a refugee from Togo was in the U.S. only nine days before he raped a woman.
In April, six young Somali men from refugee families in Minnesota were arrested and charged with repeatedly trying to board flights to Turkey where they planned to cross the border and join ISIS in Syria. This case, just the latest in a string of Somali refugees involved in terrorist activity, led U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger to admit at a press conference that “We have a terror recruitment problem in Minnesota.”
On Jan. 30, WND reported that the FBI announced its newest “most wanted terrorist” was a Somali refugee working as a cab driver in Virginia who was recruiting for al-Shabab, an al-Qaida affiliate. He reportedly left the country for Somalia but has dual-citizenship and could return to the U.S. at any time.
These are just a few of the cases involving “bad apples” who got to American shores as either refugees or were born in the states as children of refugees. There are dozens more such cases, including one refugee from Uzbekistan who was convicted in Idaho last week of planning attacks against U.S. military installations.
Babin’s bill would temporarily suspend all refugee resettlements until the Government Accountability Office completes a thorough examination of its costs on local governments, states and American taxpayers, as well as the risks to national security.
“The Refugee Resettlement Program has been running on autopilot for far too long with little regard to economic, social and national security implications,” Babin wrote in a recent op-ed. “We need to step back and examine all aspects of this program. Such as, why is the U.N., whose policies often run counter to the best interests of the U.S., even in the equation?”
The entire program is run at the administration level as the president sets the agenda every year for how many will be resettled and from what countries, Corcoran said. He then sends a letter to Congress requesting “consultation.”
“Historically members of Congress responsible for this program merrily rubber stamp whatever the president says,” Corcoran said.
LSS of North Dakota is a $40 million a year operation with $10 million coming from government grants. See the group’s IRS Form 990 here:
So it’s little wonder many residents are growing weary of the secrecy from the resettlement contractors, the stonewalling from the State Department and the silence from Congress.
By Shirley Edwards
August 16, 2026
NewsWithViews.com
[These are my views as a woman living in England, on how the culture and spirit of my country has changed over 50 years. Why the country does not feel protected or strong any more, how it has lost, and is losing it values and decency, and how we are daily losing our free speech.]
I’ve travelled through the channel tunnel just twice. The crossing from Folkestone, Dover, UK, to Calais, France, took just 35 minutes each way, but the anxiety factor was high. Driving into the back of a vehicle shuttle train, with no natural light, which drives into a tunnel, which then travels 250 feet below the sea, is not for anyone who is even a little claustrophobic.
Whilst passengers who were allowed to leave their transport and walk around their small space in the container casually marvelled at the engineering feat of the tunnel, and the speed and the convenience of travel, I had non stop talked an un-suspecting passenger into boredom, in a selfish effort to distract and escape from the fear. The experience showed me that not only does the 
appearance of the light at the end of the tunnel give comfort, but the need to feel safe and in control indicates a certain physical and spiritual need. No amount of distraction ultimately helps.
I’ve never gone back in the tunnel. An electricity failure, due to heavy snow fall which trapped passengers in the tunnel for 16 hours during the winter of 2009, had well and truly sealed its fate.
However, these days another safety factor in relation to the tunnel is bringing the UK to a standstill. It emphasizes the same vulnerability, fear, and lack of protection, but this time it is due to the number of illegal migrants who have been daily storming the channel tunnel in an effort to reach Britain from France. Some of them make it.
Although we have become accustomed to stories of stowaways risking their lives to get in to the UK from France, fear and anger grew last week as it was reported that 2000 migrants stormed the Euro Terminal in France in one night alone in an attempt to overthrow security to get here. There is a reported determination by migrants to never give up forcing their way.
The migrants/refugees, who include many unaccompanied children, are mainly from such countries as Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Kosovo, Serbia and Syria. They daily risk their lives by breaking through security fences to find ways of stowing in, or on lorries. Travellers are warned to lock their cars. Lorry drivers can be fined large amounts, or lose their jobs if they are found to be carrying stowaways. Some migrants have attempted to walk through the tunnel at great expense to their own life and those of others.
In the last 2 months, it is reported that 11 people have died either on the tracks, have been electrocuted, or crushed by trains.
Some who make it through jump out into the British countryside and then become lost in the system.
It is reported that Kevin Hurley, the former head of Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism branch and the police and crime commissioner for Surrey, has called for Ghurkha soldiers based at barracks in Folkestone to now be deployed to protect Britain’s border.
The British people have many mixed and varied views on the problem.
Whilst some believe that it is our duty to let more migrants into our country and help them, others, who think we should deter migrants from coming to the UK are accused of being racist and un-caring.
It is quite a dilemma.
The one thing that many British people feel is completely un-protected and displaced by the growing number of people who have entered the country, most especially in the last 20 years. Because British values have been put aside to accommodate others, this now gives them very little sympathy.
In terms of feeling trapped, over-crowded, and out of control they experience the trapped in the tunnel syndrome. England, along with Holland is now the most crowded country in Europe.
Should the UK have a duty to protect and look after its own citizens first, or should we extend more of a welcome to those who are escaping from violence and oppression in their native countries? Are all of them escaping violence, or are some, as David Cameron states ‘escaping the cancer of corruption at the heart of low economic growth in poorer countries?’
They are facts which need to be found out. Breaking the law to get to the UK is not a good start.
According to Revd. David Walker, the Bishop of Manchester, there is a political rhetoric that characterises asylum seekers as wilful criminals rather than helpless victims.
He is also quoted as saying:
“Ironically, all the evidence is that families who come and make their homes in Britain, as asylum seekers and through the free movement of European citizens, add to our wealth, increase job opportunities for all and are not a net drain on housing, healthcare or other public resources. The positive case for a steady level of inward migration into the UK is economic as well as moral.”
Unfortunately, Revd, Walker paints a misleading picture. The growing population, which is added to by half a million people each year, on this small island, is putting enormous strain on our health, housing and police service. If you live in the UK you see the evidence of this.
According to statistics on Migrant Watch, “The UK, and especially England, is already so densely populated it has a chronic shortage of housing, and to cope with population increase huge amounts have to be spent on the expansion of school places, roads, rail, health and other infrastructure, during a time when public spending is being scaled back rather than increased.
“Increased migration will not generate extra tax revenue for infrastructure expansion”
Compassion not Guilt
True compassion has been shown in rescue attempts for the thousands of migrants who risk their lives in boats crossing the Meditterean Sea, where hundreds have also drowned. There is obvious sympathy for those who are escaping persecution and violence in their native lands to seek asylum.
However, reports of crime in host countries do not escape the media attention either. In April this year, it was also reported that Italy arrested 15 Muslim migrants who had pushed Christian migrants overboard in a religious hate-fuelled murder.
Overcrowding and displacement creates fear, anger and then conformity. It has obvious effects on a country. Identity becomes lost. And with an estimated 7 million people being added to the population by the year 2027, two thirds of which will be due to immigration, the future does not look bright.
What will be the answer? Is there a light at the end of our tunnel of fear?
[Editors Note: In order to build a world without borders aka New World Order, Judeo-Christianity in the developed countries like Europe and north America must be destroyed with migrants from underdeveloped countries. False compassion must be pushed by religious leaders, because people believe they are Gods servants, when in reality they serve evil. The reason migrants from underdeveloped countries are poor is lack of proper education and their government is corrupt to the core that keeps them ignorant.]
Sources:
1 - Migration Watch UK, What is the problem?.
2 - Bishop of Manchester: I want leaders who look on migrants with compassion.
3 - Calais migrants: Theresa May calls for ‘urgent’ security upgrade as 1,500 try to storm Channel Tunnel.
4 - Calais crisis: Cameron condemned for ‘dehumanising’ description of migrants.
5 - Calais: man killed as migrants make 1,500 attempts to enter Eurotunnel site.
6 - TWO-THOUSAND migrants storm the Channel Tunnel in one night as riot police battle for six hours in a desperate attempt to keep them out.
© 2015 Shirley Edwards - All Rights Reserve
My Comments: It is my estimation that there are 50 to 60 million illegal aliens in this country. If you’ve noticed, Obama wants to give amnesty to all of them. We have been invaded and the government is loving it, and we’re hating it.
BY PAUL BEDARD FOR THE WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM
A new analysis of legal and illegal immigrant counts by the Census Bureau revealed Thursday that there is a record 42.1 million in the United States, an explosion that is being driven by Mexicans flooding across the border.
In a report provided to Secrets by the Center for Immigration Studies, the total immigrant population surged 1.7 million since 2014. The growth was led in the last year by an additional 740,000 Mexican immigrants.
The 42.1 million tabulated by Census in the second quarter represent over 13 percent of the U.S. population, the biggest percentage in 105 years.
What’s more, the numbers of immigrants coming and going from the U.S. is actually higher since many return home every year, said the report. “For the immigrant population to increase by one million means that significantly more than one million new immigrants must enter the country because some immigrants already here return to their homeland each year and natural mortality totals 250,000 annually,” said the Center.
Comments from my friend: The Obama administration has extended amnesty from deportation to 664,607 illegal aliens by means of executive orders from the start of DACA in 2012 through March 2015.
If America had a congress, there is no way Obama could legally get by with granting Amnesty to 664,607 illegal aliens. The sovereign nation of America is being turned into a Third World Nation because the people have no representation in Washington, DC to support and defend the US Constitution and her legal residents. The majority party is disgusting and worthless.
BY WARREN MASS FOR THE NEW AMERICAN MAGAZINE
The Obama administration has extended amnesty from deportation to 664,607 illegal aliens by means of executive orders. This has been done through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program, which began in 2012.
President Obama initiated DACA with an executive action after Congress failed to pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act). DREAM was first introduced in the Senate in 2001 and reintroduced in the 107th through 111th Congresses. It never passed both houses, but Obama was determined to implement it anyway. So on June 15, 2012, he announced that his administration would stop deporting young illegal immigrants who met certain criteria previously proposed under the DREAM Act.
The DACA program was formally initiated by a policy memorandum sent from then-Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012, to the heads of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ordering them to practice “prosecutorial discretion” toward some individuals who were brought to this country before their 16th birthday.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson expanded DACA when on November 20, 2025 he sent an executive action memorandum to the heads of CBP, USCIS, and ICE that removed its age cap and extended work authorization to three years. Johnson’s order also expanded “deferred action” (another name for amnesty) by directing USCIS to establish a process, similar to DACA, for exercising prosecutorial discretion through the use of deferred action, on a case-by-case basis, to those individuals who have a son or daughter who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; have continuously resided in the United States since before January 1, 2010; and were physically present in the United States on the date of his memorandum, and at the time of making a request for consideration of deferred action with USCIS.
In response to that expansion of DACA, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, issued an injunction on February 16 blocking the executive action, which granted amnesty to four million illegal aliens. Hanen issued his injunction at the request of a coalition of 26 states, led by Texas, which have filed a lawsuit (State of Texas, et al v. United States of America, et al) to stop the administration’s executive action, asserting that it is unconstitutional.
Hanen’s injunction banned the government from implementing the action directed by Johnson, which included extending two-year work permits for qualifying illegal aliens to three years. However, Justice Department attorneys later had to apologize to Hanen for a delay in correcting the expansion of DACA, which they claimed was an error. During a June 23 hearing, Hanen expressed visible frustration with the delay in changing the three-year work permits to two-year ones, and asked the government attorneys: “How hard is it to correct your own computer system? How hard is it to change a three to a two?”
A report posted on July 30 by NumbersUSA, an organization that favors reducing the legal annual U.S. immigration quota to 200,000, cited USCIS data revealing that between the time DACA started in 2012 through March 2015, the agency has processed 748,789 initial immigration requests and 355,805 renewals. The result: 664,607 of those initial requests and 243,872 renewals have been approved and only 43,375 initial requests and 414 renewals have been denied.
A July 29 report in the Washington Examiner noted that applications for permanent residence in the United States have increased substantially from 3,000 to 7,500 a month, which is much higher than projections. The article cited figures supplied by the USCIS to Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee. During a question-and-answer period following the hearing, it was also revealed that the administration employs 331 workers just to handle DACA applications.
Breitbart News reported on July 29 that it had obtained copies of USCIS’s replies to questions presented to it at the subcommittee hearing and that the Obama administration admitted it has found 16 DACA requests that had identified “possible national security concerns,” but of those identified just seven applicants have been denied amnesty to date.
“Each case was individually vetted and deconflicted with the appropriate law enforcement agency, and each request was considered on its individual merits,” USCIS responded in its written response.
While only 16 DACA applicants have been identified as security concerns out of the nearly one million applicants, one reason for the small number of such risks being identified is that, as of April 30, USCIS has interviewed in person only 283 DACA applicants.
Breitbart reported that this means that the Obama administration has conducted in-person interviews with about only .03 percent of initial DACA applicants and about .02 percent of all DACA applications.
In addition to the expansion of DACA through executive action being unconstitutional, as the 26 plaintiffs state in State of Texas, et al v. United States of America, et al have asserted, it is evident that the administration of DACA is sloppy and that inadequate resources have been dedicated to interviewing applicants and identifying those who pose a risk to our nation’s security.
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Tagged DACA, Executive Orders, Janet Napolitano, Jeh Johnson, Obama
BY LEO HOHMANN FOR WND
Somali community in Lewiston, Maine, one of many cities and towns where the U.S. State Department, working with the U.N., has sent large contingents of refugees.
A Texas congressman has introduced legislation that would halt the resettlement of United Nations-certified refugees in the U.S. pending a full study on the program’s impact on the nation’s economy and national security.
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, introduced the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, or HR 3314, which places an “immediate suspension on allowing immigrants into the United States under the refugee resettlement program, until the Government Accountability Office (GAO) completes a thorough examination of its costs on federal, state and local governments.”
According to U.S. government data, nearly 500,000 new immigrants have come to the U.S. under the resettlement program since President Obama took office – with the state of Texas and its taxpayers taking in more than any other state.
Since 2002, a total of 69,490 refugees from more than a dozen countries have been resettled in Texas. That does not include “secondary migration,” which involves refugees moving into Texas after first being resettled elsewhere.
Texas, California lead the way
The Lone Star State absorbed 7,214 refugees in fiscal 2014, followed by California with 6,108 and New York with 4,082. Michigan received 4,006 refugees and Florida 3,519 to round out the top five. Minnesota, when secondary migration is included, also makes the top five with more than 4,000 refugees arriving every year.
The refugees pour in from Iraq, Somalia, Burma, Bhutan, Cuba, Afghanistan and even Iran and Syria.
And it’s not only major urban centers receiving refugees. Cities like Amarillo, Texas; Manchester, New Hampshire; Twin Falls, Idaho; Lewiston, Maine; Wichita, Kansas; and St. Cloud, Minnesota, have been slammed with thousands of refugees from the Third World over the past decade. Most arrive with no English or job skills, and the nine major resettlement agencies that get government cash to do the resettlement work typically only provide aid for three to five months. After that, the refugees are mainly the responsibility of state and local governments.
Almost all of America’s refugees are selected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
After they are assigned to the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are responsible for screening them for connections to foreign terrorist organizations. FBI Counter-terrorism Deputy Director Michael Steinbach testified before Congress in February that it is impossible to screen refugees from a “failed state” like Syria, where the U.S. has no boots on the ground and no access to reliable law enforcement data. Somalia has similarly devolved into chaos.
‘Economic and social costs’ wearing on communities
“It is extremely unsettling that the Obama administration would continue to expand the U.S. resettlement program at such an irresponsible pace in light of our economic and national security challenges,” said Babin in a statement on his website. “While this program may be warranted in certain situations, it is continuing at an unchecked pace. For the past decade, the U.S. has been admitting roughly 70,000 new refugees a year, with little understanding of the economic and social costs on our communities.”
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, is a freshman congressman who represents the nine counties, including part of Harris County outside Houston.
The costs of the resettlement program have ballooned to $1 billion a year, according to the State Department’s website, and that only covers the costs of grants used to administer the program. The $1 billion figure does not include the cost of social welfare programs that refugees immediately qualify for upon entry into the country.
“Our legislation institutes a common-sense pause in the program so that we can better understand the long-term and short-term costs that this program has on local governments, states and U.S. taxpayers,” Babin said. “It also gives us an opportunity to examine potential national security issues related to entry and resettlement, particularly as federal law enforcement officials are increasingly concerned about home-grown terrorists.”
Resistance growing in South Carolina, Idaho, Minnesota
A public backlash against the refugee resettlement program has sprung up in recent months in several communities, including Spartanburg, South Carolina; Twin Falls, Idaho; and St. Cloud, Minnesota.
The refugee resettlement industry, which includes legions of immigrant rights advocates, lawyers and community organizing groups funded by George Soros, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, among others, churned out a document in 2013 on how to deal with so-called “pockets of resistance.”
The document, authored by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, one of the nine government contractors doing resettlement work, advised refugee advocates to research the backgrounds of local people who oppose resettlements and turn them over to the Southern Poverty Law Center for public shaming as “racists” and “anti-Muslim” bigots.
This strategy has already been employed to varying extents in Spartanburg, St. Cloud and Twin Falls as residents have become organized and started demanding answers about how many refugees will be arriving, from what countries, and what the social and economic impact will be on school systems, job markets, health care and housing.
Shutting down First Amendment rights of resisters
In St. Cloud earlier this week, a speaker, Ron Brantsner, was scheduled to address refugees and their economic impact at a local VFW hall. Brantsner, a former Minnesota resident now living in California, spoke on the same topic earlier in Little Falls, Minnesota, attended by about 100 people. He has worked in the past with the Minutemen along the U.S.-Mexican border, and that was enough to get him branded a “racist” by a local union organizer in St. Cloud.
Jane Conrad, who has worked to organize home health-care workers for the Service Employees International Union, found out about Brantsner’s speaking engagement and announced a rally would be held Saturday, Aug. 1, on the court house square in St. Cloud, denouncing the “racists” who dared to listen to a speaker with whom she disagreed.
The VFW canceled the event at the last minute, but some local residents showed up anyway and were told by VFW staff they were welcome to come in and have dinner. A state legislator and a uniformed police officer were present, as was a friend of Conrad, the union organizer. A local resident, Bob Enos, reportedly stood up and gave a few words, described as a “pep talk,” by those in attendance, about the progress made in resisting the resettlement program on economic grounds. The union rep reported back to Conrad, who also got a professor at St. Cloud State University to send out an email denouncing the residents as guilty of bigotry.
Jane Conrad is a union organizer in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Now, Conrad has again called for a protest rally at 12 p.m. Saturday at the County Courthouse in St. Cloud. The residents concerned about the growing refugee population overburdening their town are not backing down. They are organizing their own event and serving BBQ at the VFW Saturday. A large biker group has reportedly said it will make a showing.
“Anyone who shows the least resistance to refugee resettlement has to expect this type of aggressive agitation from the left,” said Ann Corcoran, author of Refugee Resettlement Watch and an activist who helped stop refugee resettlement in her town of Hagerstown, Maryland, about eight years ago. “You have to organize your own forces to confront the agitators and show them you won’t back down. In St. Cloud, Jane Conrad was stirring up the racial unrest, going to the Somalis and stirring them up. Our people were not the ones bringing race into the discussion.”
Branding veterans as ‘racist’
Keishia Buckentine, manager of the VFW Post 428 in St. Cloud, was present at the meeting and heard the short talk by Enos. She said he made no mention of race.
“They are accusing us of being supporters of racism, which we are not,” Buckentine told the St. Cloud Times. “I find it disgusting they would treat a group of veterans like this.”
But Corcoran is not surprised.
“This kind of trashing of the First Amendment rights of average American citizens who speak out or even question the refugee program is right out of the playbook of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society’s document,” Corcoran said. “St. Cloud residents have vowed not to bend to what they see as discrimination and intolerance against opposing views.”
The city of St. Cloud – in the heart of former Rep. Michele Bachmann’s district – has been swamped in recent years by Third World refugees sent by the U.S. State Department working in concert with the United Nations and its resettlement agencies, which includes Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services.
Bachmann said the refugee resettlement program has become something it was never intended to be – a steady stream of Third World population transfers to American cities and towns.
“What began as a heartfelt, caring response to a jihadist-created humanitarian crisis has morphed into an expansion of Third World immigration at U.S. taxpayer expense,” she told WND. “We now know the U.N. and U.S. State Department unilaterally foist large numbers of unvetted persons onto local communities. The state and local taxpayers, in addition to federal taxpayers pick up the tab, without the local communities consent.
“Destabilizing local communities often follows with concerned citizens wrongly smeared and demonized by community organizers who actively work to increase the number of immigrants.”
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Corcoran also notes the irony that a union organizer would be leading the protest in Minnesota against those seeking to turn off the refugee spigot.
“We believe that Lutheran Social Services is literally acting as an employment agency for the large meat-packing companies operating in nearby towns and in need of an abundant supply of cheap labor,” Corcoran said. “Why American union workers don’t get it is beyond me.”
Babin isn’t the only Texas congressman showing concerns for the growing refugee influx into that state.
Rep. Michael McCall, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has also been critical of the refugee resettlement program. He has called two hearings on the national-security risks associated with importing refugees specifically from Syria, which has the highest concentration of jihadists of any country currently involved in the program with the possible exception of Somalia.
Yet the administration plans to take in thousands from Syria and is continuing to admit about 800 a month from Somalia.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/bill-launched-to-halt-refugee-resettlement/#fL0bca56uhyg5oHG.99
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