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The Unacceptable Cost of Refugee Resettlement
Refugee Resettlement Is Not America's Obligation
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 12/28/2019 8:19 PM
Americans absolutely have the right to determine who, if
anyone, enters the country, and it doesn't violate any law or the Constitution
to reject anyone claiming refugee status. So-called refugees do not have any
automatic right to be granted entry, despite many leftist assertions to the
contrary, and many of us are sick and tired of hearing our leaders' cliched
platitudes that suggest they have a "Big Heart", much like Governor
Bill Lee (R-TN), while they allow people into the country, who come to America
to avoid fighting for their own countries; and, usually, of late, these
refugees hold ideas and views so anti-American and so antithetical to the
Constitution, that they eventually become a great disruptive factor to any
community, as they work to undermine the nation.
On December 18th 2019, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced his decision to send a letter of
consent to the Trump administration, in order to
accept more refugees for resettlement next year. His decision coincides with
those of other Republican governors who have also stated their intent to admit
more refugees, such as Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Doug
Ducey of Arizona, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Gary Herbert of Utah and Doug Burgum
of North Dakota.
And of course, numerous Democratic led states, such as
California, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Virginia and others have
already submitted letters of consent or are making preparations to do so.
According to U.S. State Department arrival records, resettlement has occurred
in the District of Columbia, every U.S. territory and state since 2003.
The state of Tennessee still has a high-profile Tenth Amendment lawsuit in the works,
that Governor Lee has essentially undermined through his consent letter, effectively infuriating legislative leaders
who had sued the federal government. The lawsuit questions the
constitutionality of the refugee resettlement program.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt Governor Randy McNally
(TN) issued a joint statement: "Our
personal preference would have been to exercise the option to hit the pause
button on accepting additional refugees in our state."
While more than a third of Tennessee's 95 counties are
preparing to challenge any refugee resettlement, so too are other counties
around America, from North Dakota to Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and
Indiana to Vermont, New Hampshire and Wyoming. Burleigh County North Dakota
heard its chairman, Brian Bitner, voice citizens' concerns, stating:
"North Dakota is already the highest per capita state for refugee
resettlement in terms of number of citizens, so in the absence of any sort of
number, there's no way we could know the cost to the state or the county, and I
simply can't support that."
President Trump signed an executive order that allowed all
fifty states to decide whether to accept refugees or not, in September of this
year, and it requires a written letter of consent.
This isn't any guarantee that refugees won't settle in an area that initially
rejected the refugee resettlement program, since they can travel from state to
state and county to county; and regardless of this, many Americans simply don't
want any more anti-American refugees, such as Somalia born Representative Ilhan
Omar (D-MN), or Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) -- American born but raised
to hate America by her "palestinian" Muslim mother, given entry to
our nation, since they sound and act more like agents of Hamas, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization, Hezbollah and Al Shabaab than someone interested in
keeping America strong and free.
On August 26th 2019, Representative Ilhan Omar called for the government of Somalia to protect
Hormuud Telecom Company, from United Nation
peace-keepers, even though HTC has been financing the Al Shabaab terrorist organization
for years. This link between Hormuud and Al Shabaab is well documented in the
October 19th 2019 report compiled by the International Policy Group, entitled 'Reaping the Whirlwind -- Hormuud Entrepreneurs and the
Resurgence of Al Shabaab'.
One should note that 45 Somali Muslims left their homes in
Minneapolis to join the Somali based Al Shabaab Islamic terror group or ISIS,
in 2007, as documented by FBI statistics. And as of 2018, a dozen more were
arrested as they attempted to leave the U.S. for their expressed purpose of
fighting for ISIS.
According to Steve Emerson of the Investigative Project,
Representative Rashida Tlaib was photographed, in January 2019, with Abbas
Hamideh, a Hezbollah supporter, and again in March with Nader Jalajel, a
Palestinian activist who mourned the death of a Palestinian terrorist who had
murdered a Jewish rabbi the previous year.
America has far too many natural born citizens who seemingly
hate Her to be bringing in foreign nationals who hate America too, doesn't She?
Refugees come from many countries across the globe, fleeing
specific danger in their homelands, although the bulk of refugees have been
from Iraq, Syria and Somalia since 2015; and a large number is comprised of
people who simply wouldn't fight for their war-torn countries. They come here
too often simply from necessity, in their eyes, and safety, and not out of any
sense of kindred spirit or love for the American way of life, our freedom and
our liberty. And so, they set about life in their own tradition, with the same
associated flaws that created the troubles in their country, regardless of its
unseemly and foreign nature and cloistered within an American community.
Americans don't want to see their neighborhoods permanently
transformed into United Nations refugee camps filled with welfare dependents,
as they now find in Minneapolis where the crime rate has soared exponentially,
largely due to the rapid and massive influx of Somali Muslim refugees.
According to Steven Camarota's 2015 study (The High Cost of Resettling {Muslim} Middle Eastern
Refugees), it costs taxpayers $64,370 for each
Muslim refugee, which is twelve times UN estimates to care for one refugee in
surrounding Middle Eastern nations. Even worse, the crime rate rose by
fifty-six percent in Minneapolis, between 2010 and 2018, due to criminal
activity by Somali Muslim gangs.
For God's sake, what is wrong with being a bit more
discerning in regards of the refugees America accepts? Why can't we accept more
like Ayn Rand, staunch anti-communist
defender of liberty, Dith
Pran, Pulitzer prize winning photo-journalist and
translator for U.S. Military Assistance Command (Cambodia) and Albert Einstein, a genius physicist
and Nobel Laureate?
The United States granted an astronomical number of asylum
requests in September 2019 to a combined 70,246 Afghan refugees and Special
Immigration Visas (Afghan "allies") and 161,665 Iraqi refugees and
SIVs. The war in Iraq ended in 2011, so there really isn't any excuse for U.S.
taxpayers to be funding new lives in America for anyone from Iraq, other than
the truly persecuted Christians who are still trapped in the region.
America spent enormous sums of money and lost thousands of
fine men and women to give Iraqis a better path forward and a new chance to
govern themselves as free men and women. Is there any good reason that
justifies moving tens of thousands of Iraqis, or Syrians or Somalians for that
matter, to any American town?
President Trump is only willing to give 18,000 refugees
entry to America this year, which is the lowest number authorized since the
program's inception in 1980. In contrast, President Barack Obama was willing to
accept 110,000 refugees in 2017.
Amid the current anti-open borders sentiment in America, the
open borders crowd, the Leftists of America always seem to manage to move U.S.
policy in the opposite direction, just as they are currently attempting through
a lawsuit filed against President Trump's executive order on November 21st
2019. Although public support for deceasing the numbers of legal immigration of
all kinds is significant, the supporters are not well organized, unlike the Leftist
coalition of ethnic churches and organizations that skillfully navigates the
political arena in strong opposition to any proposal restricting any segment of
legal immigration, including asylum seekers.
The lawsuit was filed in a Maryland federal court by lawyers
representing the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society and Church World Service. Shortly
afterwards, Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president
of LIRS, stated: "This executive order
is unconstitutional and compassionless, and reflects a complete
misunderstanding of the refugee resettlement process in this country."
Over the past decade, Ann Corcoran, a refugee law and policy
expert, has given America outstanding briefings on the issue. She outlines in great detail the ultimate conflict of
interest, by which refugee contractors' entire
budgets grow commensurate to the number of refugees they resettle. The more
communities they get on board with refugee resettlement, the more money they
receive, and so their is nearly a knock down dragged out fight over all 3007
counties across America, with the goal of moving them to send letters of
consent to the State Department.
Unbelievable as it seems, most Republican politicians are somewhat
amenable to the one-sided pressure for all the wrong reasons, and in some
cases, they [Blog Editor: i.e. (alleged) Conservative] are
absolutely in the pockets of Open Borders Inc. And although
conservatives have ceded a great deal of America to the Left, the refugee
coalition has not ceded a single county; and so, thanks to many complacent and
corrupt GOP politicians, refugee resettlement has thrived in the most
conservative areas of the nation. The financial and cultural costs of refugee
resettlement have been unacceptable and enormous.
On July 5th 2017, a report, entitled 'The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program: A Roadmap for Reform',
written by policy analyst David
Inserra noted that at least sixty-one people who came to the United States as refugees
engaged in terrorist activities between 2002 and 2016.
The report detailed scores of other refugees who lied or took part in terror
plots, as part of a study aimed at reforming the U.S. Refugee Admissions
Program. The report concluded there was a need to place strict limits on
refugee numbers and restrictions on the refugees themselves.
Surely every knowledgeable American understands full well
that there isn't any universal right to migrate, and resettlement isn't the
solution to mass displacement. Our policymakers have a duty and a responsibility
to make certain our nation only accepts as many refugees as can be safely
scrutinized, investigated and assimilated. More importantly, America is not
obligated to resettle refugees, and the ones we do resettle, America does so
from a humane perspective and in hopes that such actions will also benefit our
national interests.
So, to all the naive shmucks and corrupt, complicit liars
out in Fly-Over-Country, who are playing a dangerous game with American lives,
place your "Big Heart" on full display, but ignoring a moral and
constitutional duty to place American interests and American lives above those
of foreign nationals' needs is unconscionable and treasonous, at its best.
Pressure Saudi Arabia, the United Emirates and Qatar to utilize their millions
of dollars to resettle Muslim refugees in their own nations, as America works
to facilitate the integration and assimilation of refugees it already has
accepted, if and when such a feat is possible. Don't let your "Big
Heart" drive all common sense from between your ears, while your
platitudes set the further destruction of America in motion, since the
perpetrators of future Islamic terror attacks are already here: And as such,
America would be most wise to, at the very least, halt any more Muslims from coming
to America.
By Justin O. Smith
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Blog Editor: Rather than
capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post
and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship
tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false
accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat
censorship by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you
belong to.
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Edited by John R. Houk
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