Re: We're Broke, But Obama Welcomes 80,000 Muslim Refugees into America

Obama Welcomes 80,000 Muslim Refugees into America
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who has the official capacity to import refugees? The POTUS?
If so, that ability should be eliminated.
The USA is not a refugee dumping ground or a charity organization.

On Jun 5, 5:19 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should read 80,000 potential muzzie terrorists.
>
>     <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> We're Broke, But
> Obama Welcomes 80,000 Muslim Refugees into
> America<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/were-broke-but-obam...>
> *Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | June 5,
> 2011 at 2:24 pm | Tags: Act for
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> We're up to our eyeballs in debt. America's national debt is at least $14.38
> trillion. The plain truth is that our country is broke.
>
> As Christians, we are exhorted to "love our neighbors." But if we ourselves
> are broke, should we take in our "neighbors" from across the world? But
> that's exactly what the federal government has been doing, "resettling" tens
> of thousands of mainly Muslim refugees, many from Africa's
> Somalia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia>,
> into the United States in the past few years.
>
> The refugee resettlement is a federal government policy decision. Alas, that
> decision places great strains on local and state governments because it is
> they who bear the costs when those refugees are "resettled" in their
> communities.
>
> Now, Paul L. Williams of the Last Crusade alerts us to Obama exacerbating
> the problem with his plan to let in some 80,000 mainly Muslim refugees this
> year<http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/10/obama-to-allow-80000-muslim-refugee...>
> .
>
> In a determination letter to Congress, Obama announced that he will allow an
> additional 80,000 immigrants – mostly from Islamic countries in the Near (or
> Mid) East, South Asia, and Africa – to resettle in the United States during
> fiscal year 2011. Those 80,000 refugee immigrants are from the following
> places:
>
> Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000
> East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,000
> Europe and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
> Latin America/Caribbean. . . . . . . . . . . 5,500
> Near East/South Asia. . . . . . . . . . . 35,500
> Unallocated Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
>
> Refugee Resettlement Watch
> <http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/>and other
> organizations have expressed grave concern that Obama is allowing
> so many immigrants into the country while so many Americans remain out of
> work and living in poverty. Here are some grim statistics:
>
>    - According to the US Department of Labor, 14.8 million Americans remain
>    unemployed. 6.1 million have been out of work for 27 weeks or over.
>    - The U. S. Census Bureau shows that the median household income for
>    Americans has fallen to $49,777 – a decline of 0.7% in the past year.
>    - One in seven Americans depend on food
> stamps.<http://newsofthenorth.net/article/Top_Stories/Regional_State_Top_Stor...>
>    - According to The Wall Street Journal, 14.3% of the American people live
>    in abject poverty.
>
> Obama says that the resettlement of refugees "is justified by humanitarian
> concerns or is otherwise in the national interest." A refugee is defined by
> the US Department of Immigration and Naturalization as someone who has left
> his/her country due to persecution or a fear of persecution. However, the
> definition of refugee is 'fudged' in several cases. "Refugees" who have not
> left their country due to persecution, according to Obama's determination
> letter, can still be called "refugees" if they are from Iraq, one of the
> Islamic countries of the former Soviet Union, or Cuba.
>
> According to Section 413 (a) of the Immigration and Nationalities Act, the
> Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to submit an annual report to
> Congress on the activities of the refugees. The report is supposed to
> include the number who are on public welfare programs. But the Office of
> Refugee Resettlement has not issued a report since 2007.
>
> But the American people are not helpless in the face of Obama's "largesse"
> on our collective behalf.
>
> Act for America <http://www.actforamerica.org/>, a grassroots citizen action
> network based in Pensacola, Florida, has been in the forefront on this
> issue.
>
> Tennessee has been particularly hard-hit by this avalanche of refugees. So
> two dedicated ACT! for America members in Tennessee crafted a bill to
> strengthen the state and local governments' role in the refugee resettlement
> process. The bill recently passed both houses of the Tennessee legislature
> and was signed into law by Governor Bill Haslam (R).
>
> Tennessee's new law gives local governments a much stronger voice in the
> refugee resettlement process by requiring that local governments must be
> consulted as to their ability to "absorb" refugees before commitments to
> settle refugees can be made. "Absorb" refers to the ability of a local
> community to handle the housing, education and other needs of incoming
> refugees.
>
> Thank our Founding Fathers for fashioning the new American Republic as a
> federation, instead of a unitary state where the central or national
> government holds all the power.
>
> H/t beloved fellow Tina.
>
> *~Eowyn*
>
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