by Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum February 18,
2015
We’ve had a lot of media comment about the bad
effects of Obama’s executive orders admitting millions (yes, millions) of
illegal immigrants and giving them welfare, Social Security, driver’s licenses,
and a path to citizenship. Like many Americans, I realized the importance of
this when thousands of unfamiliar people from a foreign country, without any
advance notice, appeared in my community.
Then I attended an education conference where
the asylum racket to admit millions of foreigners (long ignored by the media)
was described by a knowledgeable speaker, Ann Corcoran. She started by asking
questions of her audience.
Did you hear about the El Cajon, California Iraqi man who was
found guilty of murdering his wife after writing a phony note from supposed
Islamophobes telling the family to leave the U.S.? Did you know that the
Tsarnaev Boston Bombers came to our country with false claims of persecution
and then cashed in to receive $100,000 in U.S. welfare handouts?
Did you hear about the Oregon Somali Christmas
tree bomber? Did you hear about the Somali youths who left Minneapolis to join
Al-Shabaab and ISIS?
Did you know that a Burmese Muslim, within a
month of his arrival in Utah, murdered a little Christian Burmese girl and was
sent to prison for life? Did you hear that Alaska has received so many Muslim
refugees that they have built a mosque in Anchorage?
If you didn’t hear those facts, put it down to
the secrecy of the refugee racket, which does its best to operate under the
radar. We heard about these asylum events from Ann Corcoran, who has made it
her mission to ferret out the facts and publish them on her blog, Refugee
Resettlement Watch.
The asylum immigrants are brought into our
country and settled in 180 U.S. cities by nine contractors (pretending to be
“religious charities”) and 350 subcontractors. These lucky immigrants are
mostly selected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Iraq tops the list of refugee immigrants with
20,000 arriving each year, of whom 76 percent are Muslims. At least 10,000 are
Somalis, and our State Department has announced that we will be admitting
10,000 Syrians this year, mostly Muslims.
Ann Corcoran doesn’t criticize the policy of
admitting genuine refugees from persecution, but she does criticize the high
numbers, the secrecy of the program, the lack of community involvement in the
decision-making of where the immigrants will be located, and the large-scale
admission of ethnic groups that have no intention of assimilating in America.
This process is the result of the Refugee Act of 1980, the brainchild of Ted
Kennedy, aggressively supported by Joe Biden, and signed into law by Jimmy
Carter.
The contractors who bring in these immigrants
are paid by the head with U.S. taxpayers’ money. The contractors have offices
and plenty of staff to finance the resettlement of the aliens and are well
organized to protect their foothold and their salaries.
They immediately expand the numbers of
foreigners they are handling by bringing in the refugees’ family members. The
first arrivals are labeled the “seed community.”
The big difference between these asylum
refugees and other immigrants is that the refugees are entitled to all forms of
government-paid welfare the minute they set foot in America, whereas our laws
require ordinary legal immigrants to show that they have the means to support
themselves and will not become a “public charge.” The feds even give the asylum
immigrants start-up money for 3 to 6 months, which gives their contractor time
to sign them up for subsidized housing, healthcare, food stamps, job counseling
and training.
One of the biggest problems with this program
is that the immigrant kids are quickly enrolled in public schools. We can blame
this piece of mischief on supremacist judges, who ruled in 1982 that immigrant
kids are entitled to attend U.S. public schools.
We now have U.S. school districts where dozens
of different languages are spoken. Many of these kids not only don’t speak
English, they don’t even speak Spanish and require translators who can speak
languages unknown to most Americans.
It has become a tremendous cost to the U.S.
taxpayers to provide interpreters in schools and in the criminal justice
system. The top language of refugees now entering our country is Arabic, and
Somali is the 4th language most often spoken.
Many cities are now resisting this invasion of
their towns and schools. The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement is trying to
keep them in line by labeling them “Pockets of Resistance” and hiring a
left-wing community organizing group called Welcoming America to shut them up.
The countries sending the largest number of
refugees are Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, and Somalia. The Obama Administration is now
pushing hard for us to take 50,000 from the Congo and 50,000 to 75,000 from
Syria.
Ann Corcoran concluded her speech by warning:
“We can survive terrorism. We can’t survive migration.”
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