What can we expect from our current immigration policies? We know that over a million green cards are made available each year. We know that along with the 70,000 or more Refugee Resettlers each year we have several other categories of special immigrants including Cubans, Haitians, and Iraqis. Now we hear the drumbeats to add thousands of Syrians. This is of special interest in Michigan where the trial balloon has been floated suggesting it would be a great resource to repopulate the moribund city of Detroit.
I think that many people do not encounter the effects of this migration on a day to day basis, but my experience suggests that they will and it will be sooner rather than later. I live in Oakland County, Michigan on the border of Macomb County. I learned by studying zip code data that three of the most densely foreign born populated zip codes in Michigan straddle this area. I have lived here for six years and during that time I have noted astounding changes in the demographics of my neighborhood.
When I first moved here the population was very homogeneous with families of young couples with children moving into homes that were owned by people of retirement age who had raised their families in the house. Within a year of moving here myself, I learned that a large group of Somali refugees had been resettled. I heard rumblings of the negative impact they were having on the schools and the school budget for interpreters and ESL teachers. I soon saw them at the supermarket. They were very conspicuous in their dress. The women wore the full burka which covered them from head to toe except for an eye level slit.
I saw them only at the supermarket and I noticed some definite patterns. There was always a man in western clothing with usually two women in burkas and each woman had two or three young children. This was such a common visual I started to wonder whether I was observing a polygamy situation as a practicing Muslim can have up to 4 wives and almost all Somalis are Muslims.
The other thing I noticed was that these people were beautifully dressed. The garments and shoes looked expensive. The fabrics and detailing were quite beautiful. If I ever assumed that we were welcoming refugees that just showed up from the camps with only the clothes on their backs I was very wrong. I would say that what I saw indicated considerable wealth.
They paid for their groceries with electronic benefit cards (EBT) but they also had wallets with wads of cash which were opened for the few things not covered by the taxpayer. Recently I have been seeing a new pattern. The man drops the women off for shopping with the children and when they finish they call on their mobile phones and he comes to pick them up at the door. I also noticed another new thing just last night. While shopping on their own the women detached the face covering part of the burka to permit more mobility. Perhaps when the watchful eye of the male was not around they felt the freedom to exhibit an uncovered face to the public.
The other thing I noticed is the nearly complete lack of interaction between these people and those around them. They maintain a stony expression, never smiling even when you smile at them. I see only the most limited talk with the cashier. For the most part it is a very silent transaction. They float through the store on a plane of their own. This is the marketplace and like every marketplace in the world it should be a place of very human interaction. No different than exploration based on searching out trade routes, the market is where assimilation often begins in the migratory process. That is not what I am seeing here. There seems to be no opening and no interest for assimilation.
And did we not hear recently that there is a government program with our president and Valerie Jarrett promoting the planting of "seedlings" in our communities. The idea is to make the ground receptive to allowing these seedlings to grow and propagate. I do not get the idea that we are going to end up with a beautiful garden of many flowers living in harmony. I am afraid we are going to be going down the road of those who have experienced this Migration Jihad in Europe. I believe we can take a lesson from them. I think they were idealistic in dreaming of a harmonious garden to be enjoyed by all, but instead they have found they have been nurturing a plant that is revealing itself as an invasive species which will choke out all the other flowers in the garden.
Last night my local supermarket seemed like the UN with not only Somalis but many, many other ethnic groups including Iraqis, Japanese, Indians, Vietnamese, Filipino, and others that were not as recognizable to me. It seems like an explosion of people who have come here very recently. Am I the canary in the coal mine be
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Troubled Waters
We are a nation of immigrants. In fact we are a world of human migration which has been studied by the National Geographic Genographic Project. Through DNA sampling we have an opportunity to view thousands of years of "family " historical migration patterns.
Moving to locate better resources or a safer environment is part of the biological imperative for self preservation. This desire to stay alive is built into the psyche of the organism which seeks food and shelter and tries to avoid the dangers of predators and starvation.
I am not against immigration. I think our "melting pot" approach to absorbing those who migrated here is a big part of what has made this country great. What made this work so well in the past has been that through constant "tweaking" of our policies we were able to populate our country with workers when we needed workers during periods of expansion and limit immigration in cases where new arrivees would flood the labor market and depress wages for those already here.
In this collection of people who came here for opportunity; we made sure they were healthy, literate, and able to communicate in English. These characteristics made them find it much easier to integrate into the society as a whole. They were able to become part of the culture of this country. They might still keep some of the customs of their country of origin. but wanted to adapt here and become Americans.
What are we seeing now? Not so much assimilation. I just read that our president has made an executive order that takes wording out of the citizenship oath so there is no requirement to be willing to take up arms to defend this country. This is not even conscientious objector status. It actually preempts that. This is but one example of how more and more we see the rights of citizenship being freely given without the corresponding obligations.
The Refugee Resettlement population is an interesting subset of immigrants. Our local communities do not get to choose who comes or even know about their arrival until they are here. The UN picks them and the process is so lacking in transparency that I wonder if the refugees that come here even have much to say about where they are being sent. I get the impression these people are shuffled around like chess pieces for the UN agenda above all else. Otherwise, why would we be seeing so much anti American sentiment from these refugees we have welcomed into our fold?
We have seen Somalis of all ages on video in Minnesota saying they think things were better for them there under Sharia and several young men have gone back to take up arms against us. We have had a number of attacks on our soil since 9/11 by disaffected immigrants. The latest one in Chattanooga, TN was perpetrated by a young man who seemed to have everything going for him, so why did he hate this country so much that he killed military recruiters at a shopping center plaza?
I think that there has probably not been a time in the history of our country that we have been more welcoming of immigrants from all over the world. Why do I say this? I think we have as a nation, been so conditioned to have politically correct responses that we have lost our natural instinct for self preservation. We now welcome with open arms the very people who openly say they want to destroy us, culturally and physically.
We are facing a danger that as the host we are being colonized for takeover. This is Migration Jihad and while it may not be on the agenda of the lovely person you met at the market, it is certainly the agenda of those calling the shots.
We can see the patterns all over the world where there are clashes between these new immigrants and their hosts. I am not picking on Muslims, but it has been the UN agenda to send them here. I would have to ask why? If we really want to help people why wouldn't our predominantly Christian country be rescuing persecuted Christians in the Middle East?
In this collection of people who came here for opportunity; we made sure they were healthy, literate, and able to communicate in English. These characteristics made them find it much easier to integrate into the society as a whole. They were able to become part of the culture of this country. They might still keep some of the customs of their country of origin. but wanted to adapt here and become Americans.
What are we seeing now? Not so much assimilation. I just read that our president has made an executive order that takes wording out of the citizenship oath so there is no requirement to be willing to take up arms to defend this country. This is not even conscientious objector status. It actually preempts that. This is but one example of how more and more we see the rights of citizenship being freely given without the corresponding obligations.
The Refugee Resettlement population is an interesting subset of immigrants. Our local communities do not get to choose who comes or even know about their arrival until they are here. The UN picks them and the process is so lacking in transparency that I wonder if the refugees that come here even have much to say about where they are being sent. I get the impression these people are shuffled around like chess pieces for the UN agenda above all else. Otherwise, why would we be seeing so much anti American sentiment from these refugees we have welcomed into our fold?
We have seen Somalis of all ages on video in Minnesota saying they think things were better for them there under Sharia and several young men have gone back to take up arms against us. We have had a number of attacks on our soil since 9/11 by disaffected immigrants. The latest one in Chattanooga, TN was perpetrated by a young man who seemed to have everything going for him, so why did he hate this country so much that he killed military recruiters at a shopping center plaza?
I think that there has probably not been a time in the history of our country that we have been more welcoming of immigrants from all over the world. Why do I say this? I think we have as a nation, been so conditioned to have politically correct responses that we have lost our natural instinct for self preservation. We now welcome with open arms the very people who openly say they want to destroy us, culturally and physically.
We are facing a danger that as the host we are being colonized for takeover. This is Migration Jihad and while it may not be on the agenda of the lovely person you met at the market, it is certainly the agenda of those calling the shots.
We can see the patterns all over the world where there are clashes between these new immigrants and their hosts. I am not picking on Muslims, but it has been the UN agenda to send them here. I would have to ask why? If we really want to help people why wouldn't our predominantly Christian country be rescuing persecuted Christians in the Middle East?
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Change Course
Will this be the time people wake up and face the serious threat to our way of life presented by Sharia. Today the fifth victim of the Chattanooga killer died from his serious wounds. This fine young man, a Sailor with a young family joined the four dead Marines.
The shooter was a Palestinian Muslim who was born in Kuwait. He arrived in the United States at age 6 and from outward appearances lived a fairly normal mainstream life. He graduated from college with a degree in chemical engineering which in this job market would lead to career and financial success. It looked like he had a lot going for him. He had been treated well in this land of opportunity.
On further inspection we learn that his father was a stern and brutal man. Public divorce records showed the shooter's mother alleged brutality and sexual brutality toward her and physical abuse of the children. Apparently the father also wanted to take another wife, as is the custom under Sharia. The family ended up staying together, under what provisions we do not know. But the actions of this father would not be that unusual under Sharia where women and children are valued less than men.
The father had a history of a name change. Some think this was to hid radical Palestinian terrorist connections and had been on and off watch lists. The shooter had two questionable lengthy trips to the Middle East, one to Jordan lasting seven months. Could he have slipped into a training camp in Yemen? Was he radicalized on his travels or right her in the USA?
We cannot continue to welcome people who follow a belief system, Sharia, which is at odds with the Constitution. We cannot keep looking at these Sharia families and expect them to uphold our values. They are not here to assimilate. They are here to take over and when they are in control it is foolish to expect we would be treated with the same tolerance we have treated them. They are on Migration Jihad which is what is expected of them as Muslims.
For many Americans this last shooting is the tipping point. If the definition of insanity is doing the same things over hoping for different results we must stop the insanity. We must stop the people who want to kill us. We must declare a moratorium on all Muslim immigration until we come up with a better way to figure out if we are welcoming friend or foe.
The shooter was a Palestinian Muslim who was born in Kuwait. He arrived in the United States at age 6 and from outward appearances lived a fairly normal mainstream life. He graduated from college with a degree in chemical engineering which in this job market would lead to career and financial success. It looked like he had a lot going for him. He had been treated well in this land of opportunity.
On further inspection we learn that his father was a stern and brutal man. Public divorce records showed the shooter's mother alleged brutality and sexual brutality toward her and physical abuse of the children. Apparently the father also wanted to take another wife, as is the custom under Sharia. The family ended up staying together, under what provisions we do not know. But the actions of this father would not be that unusual under Sharia where women and children are valued less than men.
The father had a history of a name change. Some think this was to hid radical Palestinian terrorist connections and had been on and off watch lists. The shooter had two questionable lengthy trips to the Middle East, one to Jordan lasting seven months. Could he have slipped into a training camp in Yemen? Was he radicalized on his travels or right her in the USA?
We cannot continue to welcome people who follow a belief system, Sharia, which is at odds with the Constitution. We cannot keep looking at these Sharia families and expect them to uphold our values. They are not here to assimilate. They are here to take over and when they are in control it is foolish to expect we would be treated with the same tolerance we have treated them. They are on Migration Jihad which is what is expected of them as Muslims.
For many Americans this last shooting is the tipping point. If the definition of insanity is doing the same things over hoping for different results we must stop the insanity. We must stop the people who want to kill us. We must declare a moratorium on all Muslim immigration until we come up with a better way to figure out if we are welcoming friend or foe.
Monday, July 13, 2015
Assimilation?
I was still thinking about my encounter with the woman in the burka when I spoke to a Muslim woman acquaintance recently. She explained that while she is Muslim she is not Arab and she is much more open and westernized than other immigrants. She has been in the U.S. For nearly 20 years and is very mainstream American in her dress and actions.
I asked her for her opinion on the woman in the burka from my description of the interchange. The first thing she mentioned was that possibly this woman did not speak English. But she also thought it was just as likely that in such a male dominated culture the man always spoke for her and she did not have a "voice" of her own.
My friend recounted a recent experience she had at a woman's clothing store where she observed a Muslim couple interact while the woman was trying on clothes. The man was so verbally abusive to his wife that my friend finally spoke up and told him he could not talk to his wife this way. He was in America now and women are not treated this way. She managed to have a brief private conversation with the wife to let her know she did not have to tolerate this behavior and there were options. There are shelters here for battered and abused women.
The cultural divide runs deep and one of the problems in assimilation is that Muslim woman are often confined to the home and are only in public in the company of a husband or other male relative. They do not learn much English and they remain in their own private worlds. Their focus is living by the stringent rules of Islam and Sharia. They do not really understand the values the U.S. was founded upon. This group of immigrants is the most different from any immigrants in our history and we are starting to understand this more and more.
When we say the U.S. Is a "melting pot" we are looking to the past immigration of the many nationalities that came here from places like Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Poland among others. They spoke different languages but had to learn English quickly to get along in their new lives and to become gainfully employed. They did not rely on government agencies to blend in. They had family and friend who came earlier to show them the ropes. Most all of the immigrants were from the Judeo Christian tradition even if their religious affiliations were diverse.
We are learning that these newer refugees from the Muslim world are not always happy to be here as evidenced by the number of young Somalis becoming radicalized to take up arms against the country that welcomed them. So, why are we going along with a refugee policy that is beginning to show us that we are setting up problems that are better dealt with sooner than later.
The UN is driving the bus on our refugee resettlement program because they choose who comes here. The refugees that come are more than 90% Muslim and we live in a predominantly Christian nation. Many people ask why we are not receiving the persecuted Christians in the Middle East, but it is obvious that does not fit in with the UN agenda.
It is interesting to review the UN thought process when placing refugees. They describe a three part approach. The first option is to repatriate the refugee to the country they left, secondly they could be supported to stay in the country where they came for immediate shelter, and it is only the third option to locate a receiving country for immigration. A very small portion of the refugees are placed via the third option. So my question is how do they decide who makes the cut and how do they decide which ones come to the U.S.? In this very secretive program some of the most basic questions never seem to get answered.
Is it time to have a real discussion about our entire immigration program, especially RR? It is not wrong for us to want to protect our country and our culture. We have been blinded by political correctness to the detriment of our current citizens as well as our children and grandchildren. It is time for some plain talk and peeling back the cloak of secrecy that has kept this movement under the radar.
I asked her for her opinion on the woman in the burka from my description of the interchange. The first thing she mentioned was that possibly this woman did not speak English. But she also thought it was just as likely that in such a male dominated culture the man always spoke for her and she did not have a "voice" of her own.
My friend recounted a recent experience she had at a woman's clothing store where she observed a Muslim couple interact while the woman was trying on clothes. The man was so verbally abusive to his wife that my friend finally spoke up and told him he could not talk to his wife this way. He was in America now and women are not treated this way. She managed to have a brief private conversation with the wife to let her know she did not have to tolerate this behavior and there were options. There are shelters here for battered and abused women.
The cultural divide runs deep and one of the problems in assimilation is that Muslim woman are often confined to the home and are only in public in the company of a husband or other male relative. They do not learn much English and they remain in their own private worlds. Their focus is living by the stringent rules of Islam and Sharia. They do not really understand the values the U.S. was founded upon. This group of immigrants is the most different from any immigrants in our history and we are starting to understand this more and more.
When we say the U.S. Is a "melting pot" we are looking to the past immigration of the many nationalities that came here from places like Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Poland among others. They spoke different languages but had to learn English quickly to get along in their new lives and to become gainfully employed. They did not rely on government agencies to blend in. They had family and friend who came earlier to show them the ropes. Most all of the immigrants were from the Judeo Christian tradition even if their religious affiliations were diverse.
We are learning that these newer refugees from the Muslim world are not always happy to be here as evidenced by the number of young Somalis becoming radicalized to take up arms against the country that welcomed them. So, why are we going along with a refugee policy that is beginning to show us that we are setting up problems that are better dealt with sooner than later.
The UN is driving the bus on our refugee resettlement program because they choose who comes here. The refugees that come are more than 90% Muslim and we live in a predominantly Christian nation. Many people ask why we are not receiving the persecuted Christians in the Middle East, but it is obvious that does not fit in with the UN agenda.
It is interesting to review the UN thought process when placing refugees. They describe a three part approach. The first option is to repatriate the refugee to the country they left, secondly they could be supported to stay in the country where they came for immediate shelter, and it is only the third option to locate a receiving country for immigration. A very small portion of the refugees are placed via the third option. So my question is how do they decide who makes the cut and how do they decide which ones come to the U.S.? In this very secretive program some of the most basic questions never seem to get answered.
Is it time to have a real discussion about our entire immigration program, especially RR? It is not wrong for us to want to protect our country and our culture. We have been blinded by political correctness to the detriment of our current citizens as well as our children and grandchildren. It is time for some plain talk and peeling back the cloak of secrecy that has kept this movement under the radar.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Do we understand what is coming our way?
I had a recent experience that shook me. Being pretty open to new things I have travelled and welcomed broadening experiences. I have been an invited guest into mosques in an Islamic country. But I was unprepared for the strong reaction I felt in a brief interchange I had with a Muslim couple the other day.
The setting was a woman's clothing store. The couple came in with a baby in a stroller. The man was about 30, dressed in a short sleeved tee shirt and running shorts. He looked like the typical young guy you see around town on a Saturday. During the week he could have been a young doctor, or banker. He was open and friendly with a bright intelligence in his eyes.
The woman was in full black burka with only a narrow slit showing her eyes. I focused on the eyes as they provided the only clue to know this woman. I say woman, but I could not prove it. The burka eliminates any form, full length from head to toe. Within the cultural context I assumed it was a woman and mother of the child in the stroller.
Not even her hands were showing. As she fidgeted with the draping covering her lower face I could only see movement under the folds. I do not know if the nervousness or discomfort she was exhibiting was due to the oppressive appearing garment she was wearing on a hot humid day or whether she was uncomfortable because I was breaking cultural norms by speaking and looking at her rather than the man who was doing all the talking.
It was a brief mundane conversation, nothing controversial. When I looked at her eyes to try and make a human connection I was struck how dead and lifeless they seemed in contrast to her husband's expressive eyes. But maybe if I could see her whole face I would have had a different feeling. To me the burka was very dehumanizing. It reminded me of those mesh cages that are used to explore shark infested waters.
When people are kept so isolated from contact with the outside world it could be that they are being protected from influences of a more free society. Islam has very strict prohibitions about behavior. That is Sharia. It tells people how they must behave in every situation. And we know that under Sharia women are not treated as equal to men.
There is not much about Sharia that squares with the U.S. Constitution which is our law of the land. All of the incursions into our culture, including court fights about covering the face for a driver's license picture, to installation of foot baths to accommodate Muslims at the University of Michigan represent the battle plan of Migration Jihad. Patiently and relentlessly chip away at our way of life and desensitize us to what is happening.
I am seeing more and more women in the Detroit metropolitan area wearing the full burka. More mosques are being built. More and more news stories are popping up about Muslims. I would not be surprised if some of the Muslim organizations are using aggressive public relations activities to promote positive stories and bury or attempt to debunk negative news. More and more we are receiving the messages that observant Muslims are holier and more worthy than the typical American. They use their religion as a sword and a shield.
Part of this is for external consumption, but it is also for internal control. Why are second and third generation Somalis in Minnesota more radicalized than their parents? I think one of the reasons is that they are raised in the shark cage and are conditioned to fear the dangers outside their cage. They are conditioned to believe the culture they left is better than the U.S. They would prefer to live in Somalia. It is instructive to take a look at the video linked here. http://on.rt.com/gdhbs2
Nobody seems to understand that these young Somalis would actually want to wage war against their host country. They want to go and take up arms against us anywhere in the world including our homeland. They have declared jihad. And with all the proof we have here, as well as other parts of the world that have seen turmoil we still have a Refugee Resettlement program. It brings in mostly Muslims from third world countries and it continues to work in secrecy. I would like to see more of an open discussion of this program that seems to be serving as an incubator for terrorists.
The setting was a woman's clothing store. The couple came in with a baby in a stroller. The man was about 30, dressed in a short sleeved tee shirt and running shorts. He looked like the typical young guy you see around town on a Saturday. During the week he could have been a young doctor, or banker. He was open and friendly with a bright intelligence in his eyes.
The woman was in full black burka with only a narrow slit showing her eyes. I focused on the eyes as they provided the only clue to know this woman. I say woman, but I could not prove it. The burka eliminates any form, full length from head to toe. Within the cultural context I assumed it was a woman and mother of the child in the stroller.
Not even her hands were showing. As she fidgeted with the draping covering her lower face I could only see movement under the folds. I do not know if the nervousness or discomfort she was exhibiting was due to the oppressive appearing garment she was wearing on a hot humid day or whether she was uncomfortable because I was breaking cultural norms by speaking and looking at her rather than the man who was doing all the talking.
It was a brief mundane conversation, nothing controversial. When I looked at her eyes to try and make a human connection I was struck how dead and lifeless they seemed in contrast to her husband's expressive eyes. But maybe if I could see her whole face I would have had a different feeling. To me the burka was very dehumanizing. It reminded me of those mesh cages that are used to explore shark infested waters.
When people are kept so isolated from contact with the outside world it could be that they are being protected from influences of a more free society. Islam has very strict prohibitions about behavior. That is Sharia. It tells people how they must behave in every situation. And we know that under Sharia women are not treated as equal to men.
There is not much about Sharia that squares with the U.S. Constitution which is our law of the land. All of the incursions into our culture, including court fights about covering the face for a driver's license picture, to installation of foot baths to accommodate Muslims at the University of Michigan represent the battle plan of Migration Jihad. Patiently and relentlessly chip away at our way of life and desensitize us to what is happening.
I am seeing more and more women in the Detroit metropolitan area wearing the full burka. More mosques are being built. More and more news stories are popping up about Muslims. I would not be surprised if some of the Muslim organizations are using aggressive public relations activities to promote positive stories and bury or attempt to debunk negative news. More and more we are receiving the messages that observant Muslims are holier and more worthy than the typical American. They use their religion as a sword and a shield.
Part of this is for external consumption, but it is also for internal control. Why are second and third generation Somalis in Minnesota more radicalized than their parents? I think one of the reasons is that they are raised in the shark cage and are conditioned to fear the dangers outside their cage. They are conditioned to believe the culture they left is better than the U.S. They would prefer to live in Somalia. It is instructive to take a look at the video linked here. http://on.rt.com/gdhbs2
Nobody seems to understand that these young Somalis would actually want to wage war against their host country. They want to go and take up arms against us anywhere in the world including our homeland. They have declared jihad. And with all the proof we have here, as well as other parts of the world that have seen turmoil we still have a Refugee Resettlement program. It brings in mostly Muslims from third world countries and it continues to work in secrecy. I would like to see more of an open discussion of this program that seems to be serving as an incubator for terrorists.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Are we importing conflict?
There has been conflict in the Middle East for centuries; everything from the Sunni Shia divide within Islam to conflict between countries and ethnic groups in a region that has long been a powder keg. People from this part of the world have a history of conflict in their own home territory. What would make us think it would be any different here?In fact, it is not. Look at one of our most established Muslim populations in Southeast Michigan. Dearborn is recognized as having the largest concentrated population of Muslims outside the Middle East. It was originally populated by people from Lebanon who formed a mosque over twenty years ago. As time went on there were developing conflicts between the founders of the mosque who came from Lebanon and more recent arrivals who tended to come from Iraq. The Iraqi imam's 18 year tenure was marked by tensions. The breaking point came about six months ago, leading to turmoil and a recent parting of the ways between the mosque and the Iraqi imam who is now taking his followers to establish a new mosque in a community outside, but close to Dearborn. There are big plans for not only a mosque, but an education center which will include a university.
One of the complaints about the Iraqi imam centered on an allegation of financial impropriety. In particular, the early Lebanese members questioned charitable funds being channeled to an orphanage in Iraq connected with the imam's father. There were some members who wanted to see other recipients benefiting from the charitable outreach of the mosque, specifically Lebanese charities.
In another suburban Detroit community in Oakland County there are different offshoots of Islam that
do not communicate with each other even though they are almost in the same neighborhood. There are mosques within walking distance of each other but there is no crossover with the members of the mosque. As the Muslim population increases we are starting to hear more about these rifts.
These are some of the early rumblings we are hearing. So why would we want to throw thousands of Syrians into the mix? It seems to be a very poor idea when we know there is no way to properly vet new Syrian arrivals, or for that matter any of the refugees from war zones. It should be a
clue when we hear that Saudi Arabia is refusing to take Syrian refugees at all. They cite serious security concerns.
So why would we entertain such folly when we do not even have a handle on our own experience with Refugee Resettlement? We are learning it is not open and transparent and we have very
little say in an agenda that is set by the UN. We do not know if 25,000 Syrians are coming. At this stage it may only be a trial balloon. But the problem is that in this secrecy shrouded program we will not know until they are here. And that is a problem.
The suggested action item for the week is to have conversations with your local, state, and federal
lawmakers. Ask them what they know about Refugee Resettlement and tell them what you think.
Read and share Ann Corcoran's excellent blog, www.refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com. This is a conversation we must have, and soon!
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Michigan is Number1
I was looking at the numbers of refugees received by the USA in Fiscal Year 2014 and while Michigan is within the top five states for new arrivals, it is only by comparing the arrival numbers to the population of the receiving state that we see that Michigan has the highest concentration of refugees.
Fiscal Year 2014 Top refugee receiver states
1. Texas. 7214
2. California 6108
3. New York 4082
4. Michigan 4006
5. Florida. 3519
State populations for US Census 2013 ranking
1. California. 38,332,521
2. Texas. 26,448,193
3. New York. 19,651,127
4. Florida. 19, 552.860
9. Michigan. 9, 895,622
So if we figure out how the states rank based on how the new refugees fit into the receiving population, Michigan becomes the clear winner with the highest degree of refugee concentration
1. Michigan has one refugee for every 2470 people
2. Texas has one refugee for every 3666 people
3. New York has one refugee for every 4814 people
4. Florida has one refugee for every 5556 people
5. California has one refugee for every 6275 people
So I want to know why Michigan is Number 1. Who beyond the UN is making the decision? Do our
elected officials have any input? I suspect not much if someone as influential as Congressman Trey Gowdy cannot even get his questions about South Carolina answered by the State Department.
It is clear that we are prevented from having open discussions on this program that lacks transparency and maintains a wall of secrecy. Information can only be gathered after the fact in most cases. And now the idea is being floated the the U.S. Should take in 65,000 Syrian refugees which I believe may be in addition to the regular allotment. There is even a suggestion from the NewYork Times that Detroit should take 50,000 Syrian refugees.
The current population of Detroit is under 700,000 but even using that figure it would mean there would be one Syrian refugee for every 14 Detroiters.
Detroit, once the wealthiest and most sophisticated city in the Midwest crumbled in part due to social engineering and bloated entitlements. And now the New York Times wants to suggest how Detroit should take on 50,000 new refugees. The NYT does not have skin in the game. Maybe it is up to Detroit and Michigan to have an open discussion about this before the refugees start arriving.
The action item for today is to contact Gov. Snyder's office as well as our state and national elected representatives. Tell them we want to know more about this RR program and we want to have open discussions about the social and financial impact on our Michigan citizens. Until we can do this we should ask for a moratorium on all RR activity.
Fiscal Year 2014 Top refugee receiver states
1. Texas. 7214
2. California 6108
3. New York 4082
4. Michigan 4006
5. Florida. 3519
State populations for US Census 2013 ranking
1. California. 38,332,521
2. Texas. 26,448,193
3. New York. 19,651,127
4. Florida. 19, 552.860
9. Michigan. 9, 895,622
So if we figure out how the states rank based on how the new refugees fit into the receiving population, Michigan becomes the clear winner with the highest degree of refugee concentration
1. Michigan has one refugee for every 2470 people
2. Texas has one refugee for every 3666 people
3. New York has one refugee for every 4814 people
4. Florida has one refugee for every 5556 people
5. California has one refugee for every 6275 people
So I want to know why Michigan is Number 1. Who beyond the UN is making the decision? Do our
elected officials have any input? I suspect not much if someone as influential as Congressman Trey Gowdy cannot even get his questions about South Carolina answered by the State Department.
It is clear that we are prevented from having open discussions on this program that lacks transparency and maintains a wall of secrecy. Information can only be gathered after the fact in most cases. And now the idea is being floated the the U.S. Should take in 65,000 Syrian refugees which I believe may be in addition to the regular allotment. There is even a suggestion from the NewYork Times that Detroit should take 50,000 Syrian refugees.
The current population of Detroit is under 700,000 but even using that figure it would mean there would be one Syrian refugee for every 14 Detroiters.
Detroit, once the wealthiest and most sophisticated city in the Midwest crumbled in part due to social engineering and bloated entitlements. And now the New York Times wants to suggest how Detroit should take on 50,000 new refugees. The NYT does not have skin in the game. Maybe it is up to Detroit and Michigan to have an open discussion about this before the refugees start arriving.
The action item for today is to contact Gov. Snyder's office as well as our state and national elected representatives. Tell them we want to know more about this RR program and we want to have open discussions about the social and financial impact on our Michigan citizens. Until we can do this we should ask for a moratorium on all RR activity.
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