RRW: Former refugee contractor CEO Stephen Bauman: America needs refugees to teach us how to love one another - Like dodging trucks together? --tma

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 31, 2017

Stephen Bauman, a former CEO of World Relief, one of nine federal resettlement contractors*** (paid by the head to place refugees in towns that are kept in the dark about the resettlement process) was speaking to an interfaith gathering in North Carolina recently when he said some annoying things.

We love refugees, but regular ol’ Americans obviously not so much!

The one that really got me is the one about needing refugees to teach us how to love. 

What the heck, what’s wrong with loving the neighbors in your own town, the low income Americans of all colors who are suffering.  In fact the first question I get when someone first learns about refugee resettlement is:

We have our own poor people why aren’t we taking care of them first?

Here is the story from Baptist News Global:

America needs refugees as much as refugees need places like America, says Stephan Bauman, former president and CEO of World Relief, which has helped to resettle thousands of desperate wanderers. ...

     "Desperate wanderers," oh that's rich. So desperate they can afford to wander from the Congo to Idaho and get set up with a dozen governmental programs--plus free translators! 

     It is only about a 265-mile round-trip between my home and San Francisco, and when I need to travel there, to see my doctors, it is always a significant economic hit. But then I'm disadvantaged by merely being an American citizen. 

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/former-refugee-contractor-ceo-america-needs-refugees-to-teach-us-how-to-love-one-another/

CBS: NJ Family Visiting Baltimore Random "Teen" Attack At Inner Harbor - Even attacked grandparents, grandchildren - Repeat after me: "Teens" - "I was knelling with my husband screaming ‘Somebody help us, why is nobody helping us?'” - Because our leaders do not care. --tma

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s the heart of Baltimore’s tourism industry, but the Inner Harbor turned into a nightmare for a visiting family of 10 earlier this month.

Out of nowhere, they were swarmed and beaten by a large number of teenagers.

While the family that was attacked does not want to be identified, they do want their story to be heard. They told their story to WJZ off-camera.

“They swarmed us,” said Stacey. “They hit my husband in the head. They knocked him out… and then it was just complete bedlam.”

It happened on the day of the Baltimore Marathon, Oct. 21. The event brought a big crowd to the harbor that night. The 10 family members, from grandparents to grandchildren, were walking by the H&M store when they were overwhelmed.

“And they punched my nephew in the face and knocked him to the floor,” Stacey said. “My sister went to protect her son, and they were kicking her. I was knelling with my husband screaming ‘Somebody help us, why is nobody helping us?'” ...

     Because our leaders do not care.

     Countless Black-on-White beatings, rapes and murders, endlessly year after year all over the world. Yet never-ending propaganda from Democrats, Republicans and libertarians: 'Racial differences are insignificant.' No doubt almost all these people make damn sure they live nowhere near concentrations of minorities. 

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/10/30/teen-attack-inner-harbor/

WND - Buchanan - The Plot to Take Down Trump

Well over a year after the FBI began investigating “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment.

Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of crimes dating back years, though none is tied directly to President Donald Trump or 2016.

With a leak to CNN that indictments were coming, Mueller’s office stole the weekend headlines. This blanketed the explosive news on a separate front, as the dots began to be connected on a bipartisan plot to bring down Trump that began two years ago.

And like “Murder of the Orient Express,” it seems almost everyone on the train had a hand in the plot.

The narrative begins in October 2015. ...

http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/that-other-plot-to-bring-down-trump/

RRW - US Chamber of Commerce wants more cheap labor refugees--To American workers: Drop Dead! - Fifty-plus years of importing cheap labor millions, plus offspring--shortage STILL? --tma

The US Chamber of Commerce wants laborers, no concern for you, as they tell Trump to extend ‘temporary’ refugee program

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 30, 2017

Temporary Protected Status is yet one more LEGAL way to get and keep the US immigrant population high.  It is not truly a refugee program, but was designed to give TEMPORARY protection to foreign nationals who happened to be in the US when some big event happened back home—like a hurricane, earthquake or civil war.

The operative word is temporary, but that is the last thing it is! ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/

Congrats to TNC, Albuquerque, San Antonio, Savannah on Watershed Water Fund work! - Keeping in mind infinite open-borders population growth will finally defeat all such efforts --tma

Liquid Assets



San Antonio (Getty)


Since 2007, urban areas have been home to more than half the global population—a proportion that is expected to rise. Growing cities are putting pressure on the lakes and rivers on which they depend for water. But the needs of nature don't have to be in conflict with human needs. By funding conservation projects upstream, cities around the world are finding that they can protect the natural environment and ensure they have clean, reliable water supplies.

The approach starts with addressing deforestation, erosion and agricultural runoff in the headwaters—just as New York City conserved the land around its upstate reservoirs so it could supply its millions of residents with clean drinking water. “The basic premise is that it’s cheaper and easier to fix the problem before it gets to the cities,” explains Andrea Erickson-Quiroz. (To see how water funds work, check out our infographic.) She leads The Nature Conservancy’s global effort to bring together governments, utilities, businesses and nonprofits, pooling money from downstream water users in water funds, which invest in upstream conservation. ...

https://www.nature.org/magazine/archives/liquid-assets.xml

"Where's Jeff [Sessions]"? Cartoon

WaEx: CA clears 1st hurdle to breaking into 3 states - Might slow interior CA from becoming Mexiforniastan + MAGA electors --tma

California has cleared its first hurdle to going from one state to three smaller states.

Golden State residents who support billionaire Tim Draper's initiative to break the state into smaller parts will now begin collecting signatures to get the plan on next year's election ballot.

The plan proposes making the area including and north of San Francisco into one state, a coastal region extending south to Los Angeles another state, and everywhere south and east of those a third state. ...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-clears-first-hurdle-to-breaking-into-three-states/article/2638928

Breitbart - Economist: Mass Immigration to U.S. Is World’s ‘Largest Anti-Poverty Program’ at the Expense of Americans

Decades of mass immigration to the United States, with more than 1.5 million legal immigrants entering the country every year, is the world’s “largest anti-poverty program” at the expense of blue-collar American workers and the middle class, says a Harvard University economist.

In an interview with Talking Points Memo, economist George Borjas detailed how more than five decades of mass immigration of low-wage foreign nationals to the U.S. have negatively impacted America’s poor, working class, and middle class in the labor force.

Borjas explains:

Since 1965, we have admitted a lot of low-skilled immigrants, and one way to view that policy is that we were running basically the largest anti-poverty program in the world. That is actually not a bad thing at all. Except someone is going to have to pay the cost for that.

This is the question that most progressives don’t want to face up to. They really want to believe that immigrants are manna from heaven. That everybody is really better off and that everybody is happy forever after. What they refuse to confront is the reality that nothing in the world is like manna from heaven. In any policy change, some people benefit a lot and some people don’t. And this point also applies to immigration, which has created the dynamics of where we are now.

When it comes to how much Americans have suffered because of mass immigration, Borjas says his “rule of thumb is that if immigration increases the number of workers by 10 percent, the wage of workers probably drops by about 3 percent.” ...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/29/us-operating-largest-anti-poverty-program-world-mass-immigration/

NY Post - Michael Goodwin: Robert Mueller should resign

Forgive yourself if you are confused about developments in the Russia, Russia, Russia storyline. In fact, there are so many moving parts that you shouldn’t trust anybody who isn’t confused.

Consider this, then, a guide to the perplexed, where we start with two things that are certain. First, special counsel Robert Mueller will never be able to untangle the tangled webs with any credibility and needs to step aside. ...

http://nypost.com/2017/10/28/robert-mueller-should-resign/

RRW: [Refugee resettlement tax $$ gobbling] Episcopal church to remove WA memorial outward sign of [anti- Historic American Nation] politicization - Winter at Valley Forge, they'd side with frostbite and disease --tma

By Ann Corcoran

So what does this have to do with refugees? 

It is a news hook to tell you about Episcopal Migration Ministries!

We tell you daily that there are nine federal resettlement contractors*** placing third world refugees in to unsuspecting American towns and cities.  Six of those, depending almost completely on taxpayer dollars, are supposed to be ‘religious’ church groups largely controlled now by the political LEFT. (The Socialists and Communists understand that in order to bring down America they need to control the churches and break up the family.) ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/episcopal-church-vote-to-remove-george-washington-memorial-is-just-outward-sign-of-a-politicized-church/

Hillary Clinton Dossier Political Cartoon

Campus Reform - U of Minnesota: Protests at Lauren Southern event turn violent - Same thuggish Antifa mob violence--one arrest (naturally) --tma

Protesters began fighting with attendees at an event featuring Lauren Southern at the University of Minnesota Thursday night, resulting in an arrest after a SWAT team was called in.

David Blondin of Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) said the group invited Southern because its members “believe all opinions need to be heard.” ...

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10054

Buchanan: Sorry, Jeff Flake, It’s Trump’s Party Now! - "No two people are more responsible for the blunders of the post-Cold War era than McCain and Bush"

“More is now required of us than to put down our thoughts in writing,” declaimed Jeff Flake in his oration against President Trump, just before he announced he will be quitting the Senate.

Though he had lifted the title of his August anti-Trump polemic,“Conscience of a Conservative,“ from Barry Goldwater, Jeff Flake is no Barry Goldwater.

Goldwater took on the GOP establishment in the primaries, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, defiantly declared, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” and then went down to defeat battling to the end after the assassination of JFK made LBJ invincible. ...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-sorry-jeff-flake-its-trumps-party-now

RRW: Maryland Dem Sen Ben Cardin wants more Muslim refugees "odious" Trump is restricting

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 28, 2017

That is how you have to read his opposition to Trump’s latest effort to keep us safe and reform how refugees (coming from terrorist hotbeds) enter the US.

This is rich! In March Senators Cardin and Klobuchar (D-MN) called for more government transparency and emphasized the importance of  OPEN government! Gee sounds exactly like what we want and what those Minnesota citizens were asking for in St. Cloud.  http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Ben+Cardin/Senate+Democrats+Call+Increased+Gov+t+Transparency/aRv5FV3Pyi3

Here, in yet one more whinny article (believe me there are dozens!) where the contractors and others in the refugee industry are wailing about Trump’s latest effort to bring the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program under some reasonable control, Cardin throws his two cents into the debate.

From ABC News:

Even members of Congress weighed in strongly. Cardin — a vocal opponent of much of Trump’s foreign policy — released a scathing statement Thursday on what he called Trump’s “odious” effort to “completely disrupt and dismantle the U.S. refugee resettlement program piece by piece.”

In particular, he accused the new restrictions of being an “unreasonable ban that largely affects Muslims” and “more evidence of the Trump administration’s indifference and lack of humanity towards thousands of vulnerable refugees.”

Cardin has a lot of Muslim constituents in Maryland—rich ones—building new mosques. Of course he is pandering! ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/maryland-democrat-senator-ben-cardin-wants-more-muslim-refugees/

Boise Weekly - Refugees: Still too yucky White Idaho faces a shortage of Mohammeds - Conference in Boise on how to flood the state with more refugees

President Donald Trump's name doesn't appear on the agenda for the 34th annual Frank Church Conference, titled "America's Future: Refugees, Migration and National Security," but discussion of Trump's restrictions on refugees and immigrants took center stage Monday at the filled-to-capacity Simplot Ballroom at the Boise State University Student Union.

"The new so-called 'presidential determination' from the Trump administration puts a ceiling on no more than 45,000 refugees into the U.S. during the next fiscal year," said Jennifer Sime, Senior Vice President for the International Rescue Committee. "Compare that to 1980 when the U.S. welcomed 207,000 refugees. And since 1980, the average number of refugees into the U.S. has been 95,000."

Mohammed Abubakr, president of the African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, shook his head and deconstructed the new Trump edict into simple terms. ...

https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/frank-church-conference-focuses-lens-on-refugee-crisis-in-the-era-of-trump/Content?oid=7378468

Daily Caller - Costin Alamariu: Mass Immigration Will Make The U.S. More Like Latin America - Hispanic “social conservative” is a fantasy of establishment Republican strategists

Smithsonian

Sometimes it seems Latin America is on the brink of Mad Max apocalypse. Mexico is nearing state collapse. Oil-rich Venezuela is out of gas, its people reduced to cooking with firewood. Over indoor campfires the starving are roasting rabbits and maybe other pets. Armed motorcycle gangs police the streets—hunting rabbit and bushmeat these days in Caracas can be tricky.

Why does our elite think a United States demographically similar to Latin America will be spared the dysfunctions of Mexico and Venezuela? Many, conservatives and liberals alike, believe in the power of the Constitution to transform anyone into an American. Recently Nebraska senator and True Conservative Ben Sasse picked a fight on Twitter to display his anti-racist credentials. He claimed that America’s success is only a result of what he believes to be its Christian “values,” and its Constitution. One doesn’t need to be a white nationalist or agree with the aims of Sasse’s opponent Richard Spencer to see this is complete nonsense.

In the United States, third and fourth generation Mexican immigrants today exhibit less desire or ability to assimilate than first generation immigrants, not more. The Hispanic community, as Heather MacDonald has long documented, exhibits abnormally high school dropout rates, illegitimacy, and criminality. The Hispanic “social conservative” is a fantasy of establishment Republican strategists. America’s institutions, values, and Constitution are not enough to fix the social problems of Latin American populations who are here right now, let alone in the future when they will be far greater in number. ...

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/20/mass-immigration-will-make-the-u-s-more-like-latin-america/

The Week: Fear and loathing on Hillary Clinton's grievance tour - Good summary of 10 million reasons why Hillary thinks she unfairly lost --tma

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The Week

On Tuesday evening, it cost me $200 to obtain the privilege of sitting in one of the top rows in the upper balcony section of a massive auditorium and watching a tiny blue dot surrounded by phlegmy yellow light.

The amazing thing about this dot is that it could talk. This was confirmed by sound emerging from speakers hidden somewhere behind me and a glance at the not-even-movie-theater-sized screen behind it. The dot congratulated members of something it called "the Hillary Clinton Fan Club," which might be because the dot in question was, in fact, the aforementioned former secretary of state herself.

Clinton was here in the appropriately named Hill Auditorium allegedly to promote her new memoir, What Happened. It was the first book tour event that I have ever heard of charging admission, much less offering tickets — mine were among the cheapest — at prices that could easily get you into the Michigan-Ohio State game. There are 3,500 seats in the auditorium, and all of them looked full. ...

http://theweek.com/articles/733127/fear-loathing-hillary-clintons-grievance-tour

RRW: Refugee Program Congressional Hearing - Are you as enraged as I am? - First, where the HELL were Republicans?

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 26, 2017

I don’t want to say I wasted an hour and a half watching the Congressional “Oversight” hearing on the US Refugee Admissions Program put on by the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security because it wasn’t a complete waste.

I learned that we are in more serious trouble than I even imagined! 

And, I’m not going to give you a blow by blow account because frankly I’m going out to work outside shortly (in nature) to clear my head and calm down! ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/did-you-watch-the-congressional-hearing-this-morning-are-you-as-enraged-as-i-am/

Coulter: Headlines from an Admin Not Putting America First - Dear fellow MAGA, yes--Ouch! But please read column --tma

KSRO

Trade and immigration are taking a back seat to foreign policy.

We are now nearly a quarter of the way through the entire Trump presidency—and, depending how the 2018 elections go, we could be at the halfway mark.

Here are some headlines from that presidency:

“Defying Turkey, U.S. Decides to Arm Kurds in Syria”

“Iraqi Leader, in Washington, Gets Trump’s Assurance of U.S. Support”

“Trump Administration Lifts Sanctions on Sudan, Citing Progress”

“Trump Plans Visit to Asia to Buttress Korea Policy”

There are thousands of ’em, day after monotonous day.

In the last 10 months, has a single manufacturing job been created in Trump’s America? Has there been one opioid death avoided? Has 1 foot of the wall been built?

No, just more of this:

“Trump Praises Philippine President in Call Transcript”

“Trump’s Attempt to End the Saudi-Qatar Stalemate Ends in Recriminations” ...

https://www.amren.com/commentary/2017/10/headlines-administration-not-putting-america-first/

Video - PJ Watson: Bullsh*t 'Russian Collusion' Narrative Collapses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ofeUHydHAs&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=zIW8yVPRsBd-nSV6-6

WaTimes: U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes completed - 'Testers' include McCain, Pelosi and Hillary who will try to speechify, crazy and lie themselves over the Wall --tma

Construction has concluded on the eight prototypes of President Trump’s border wall, the government announced Thursday.

Next up is a round of testing, where officials will see how the designs withstand attempts to climb, tunnel under or break through the walls.

“Border walls have proven to be an extremely effective part of our multi-pronged security strategy to prevent the illegal migration of people and drugs over the years,” said Ron Vitiello, acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the agency that is overseeing the wall project. ...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/26/trump-border-wall-prototypes-completed/

RRW: Rare oversight hearing on refugee program in Congress today--watch it! - 2 huge issues always ignored: Fraud; Local Consultation

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 26, 2017

As I told you yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security (full Committee is the Judiciary Committee) will hold an oversight hearing on the US Refugee Admissions Program this morning.

We had little notice of the hearing with a press release only sent out late in the day on Tuesday (the 24th).

So there was little time for you all to get information in to the committee. However, it isn’t too late, go to my post, here, and see the contact information and take a few minutes to send your concerns to the committee staff whose names were in the press release.  If your member of Congress is on the subcommittee, please send comments to the member and to the staffers listed.

Leo Hohmann, at World Net Daily, has a very informative article this morning on the hearing that we are told will address fraud in the program and the lack of community involvement  and consultation regarding the decisions that result in targeting Anytown, USA for refugees.

As I told WND, I will be surprised if those two important concerns are addressed in any depth. Watch for the bureaucrats to spin and flat-out lie, especially about community consultation.

Here is what I said:

“If these congressmen get anywhere near touching on these issues of fraud and abuse, I will be amazed,” says Ann Corcoran, a government watchdog who blogs at Refugee Resettlement Watch. “I’ve been following this program for 10 years and I can assure you, I have never heard Congress address fraud and abuse or the lack of consultation at the local level.”

WE will be watching!

Again, see my post yesterday for more details including who is on the Subcommittee.  It will be fun to see who shows up at the hearing!

Go here for the Subcommittee hearing schedule for today.  They say it will be webcast here. https://judiciary.house.gov/

Filed in my ‘Where is Congress’ tag!  It is also filed in my ‘What you can do’ category here.  For new readers who ask, check that category because almost every day I suggest things you can do where you live!

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/rare-oversight-hearing-on-refugee-program-in-congress-today-watch-it/

USA Today: [Dim bulb anti-Trump] Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes

NY Daily News

Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.

The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday it will replace the cover drawing of cartoon characters shaped like corn kernels populating a shopping mall. The corn pop characters are shown shopping, playing in an arcade or frolicked in a fountain. One skateboards down an escalator. 

What struck Saladin Ahmed was that a single brown corn pop was working as a janitor operating a floor waxer. Ahmed, current writer of Marvel Comics' Black Bolt series and author of 2012 fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, took to Twitter on Tuesday to ask, "Why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor? this is teaching kids racism." ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/10/25/kelloggs-replace-racially-insensitive-corn-pops-boxes-following-twitter-rant/797911001/

Audio - 'I Detest Him' Coulter Smacks down NeverTrumper Flake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgh1AB7ZdDw&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=Ed60whGpw2c5dyKj-6

Daily Caller - Greer: Jilted Never Trumpers Want You To Care They’re Losing - These nitwits think 'principled conservatism' is open borders, endless wars, exporting jobs --tma

Jeff Flake no longer wants to be a senator.

On Tuesday, the Republican senator and frequent Donald Trump critic delivered a grandstanding speech on why he decided to throw in the towel on campaigning for another term in office.

“There are times where we must risk our careers in favor of our principles,” Flake declared. “Now is such a time.”

“It must also be said that I arise today with no small amount of regret,” he continued. “Regret because of the state of our disunion…Regret because of the coarseness of our leadership. Regret because of the compromise of our moral authority and by our–and I mean all of our–complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs.” ...

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/25/jilted-never-trumpers-want-you-to-care-theyre-losing/