Yesterday morning, Donald Trump correctly tweeted that Obama is “insane” for flooding the U.S. with Syrian refugees since his administration doesn’t know who they are and if among them are members of ISIS.
Later that morning, as reported by Politico, Trump spoke to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham and said this about the refugees:
“They send them to the Republicans, not to the Democrats, you know because they know the problem … why would we want to bother the Democrats? In California, you have a Democrat as a governor; in Florida you have [Republican] Rick Scott so they send them to the Republicans. Taking these people is absolutely insanity.”
According to the Associated Press, governors from both parties have accepted refugees, although the number is nearly double for GOP states. More than 1,000 Syrian refugees have been accepted into states with Republican governors since January 1, while just over 500 have moved to Democratic-led states. (The number of Republican governors outweighs Democrats, 31 to 18, however.)
Here’s a map showing where Syrian refugees were resettled:
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The map, however, is dated, as 10,000 more Syrian refugees recently arrived in Louisiana, according to the Agence France Presse.
According to The New York Times, the Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the U.S. accepts each year to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, and will explore ways to increase the overall limit of refugees beyond 100,000.
The number of state governors who are refusing to accept Syrian refugees is growing, to more than half by late Monday, Nov. 16, the majority of whom are GOP governors. The refusenik states are:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky: Republican governor-elect, who will take office next month, also refused.
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Wisconsin
State leaders are upset because the federal government relocates Syrian refugees in their state without notifying them.
Already, a Syrian refugee resettled in Louisiana is reported missing.
According to WBRZ, Catholic Charities, the refugee resettlement group that resettled that refugee said the immigrant left for another state after a couple of days, and they don’t know where the refugee went since they don’t track them.
Catholic Charities, like all the other “voluntary agencies” that resettle refugees (as well as illegal immigrants), is not doing this gratis but is paid by the government taxpayers.
Liberty News recently published an audio recording of a phone call between a representative of Refugee Services of Texas and a man posing as a potential volunteer.
As summarized by The American Mirror, the services given to refugees, all paid for by taxpayers, are “staggering”. They include:
- $925 of “welcome money” per person.
- Being picked up at the airport
- Finding and securing an apartment
- Setting up the apartment “so it’s livable” with a Walmart gift card to buy “all the items needed for the refugee’s apartment.”
- Providing bus orientation
- Transporting them to Social Security office to apply for card
- Helping find employment
- 8 weeks of English as Second Language (ESL) classes
- A job readiness class after they “graduate” from the ESL class. There, they’re taught how to compete against Americans for jobs by learning “how to be professional in the United States, how to fill out a job application.”
- Sign up for a few “cash assistance programs” but refugees supposedly are only eligible to enroll in one.
According to Liberty News, Refugee Services of Texas is “one of the largest networks set to receive Syrian refugees,” received $1,243,000 in tax dollars last year. That amount is expected to “increase significantly” this fiscal year.
New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is calling for a “pause” in the refugee program, citing national security risks in the wake of the Paris attacks. (Washington Post)
And if you think the Syrian “refugees” being “resettled” in the U.S. are Christians, think again.
Less than 2½% (or 53) of the 2,151 Syrian “refugees” currently in the U.S. — the ones we can track — are Christian. As many as 97.5% (or 2,098) are Muslims. (Source: CNSNews, h/t FOTM‘s MomOfIV)
See also:
- Trump calls Obama “insane” to flood U.S. with Syrian refugees
- U.S. Catholic bishops call persecution of Christians in Middle East a genocide
~Eowyn
