Minnesota has opened Pandora’s Box, for both Somalian refugees and stakeholders with vested interests, with an insanely lucrative refugee program. On multiple fronts this ever growing, excruciatingly expensive situation is decimating Minnesota’s host cities. The goal for the refugee is to attain self-sufficiency within 5 years, yet assimilation is not encouraged. What is encouraged is bringing extended family, and coming to Minnesota through secondary migration, resulting in perpetual dependency. This ultimately victimizes the host cities and their citizens.
Center for Immigration– “This Memorandum briefly reports on the financial stake certain religious agencies have in U.S. refugee resettlement. It shows that refugee resettlement has become dependent on U.S. taxpayers and is a disruption to American communities, with nongovernmental agencies profiting from it.” *
The stakeholders are entities that receive government subsidies and grants, such as 501c3 organizations, foundations, government contractors, hospitals, schools, and NGO’s (non-governmental agencies). Included are non-profit volunteer agencies-VOLAGs which are contracted for initial placement/resettlement after a refugee is granted legal immigration status. Whether funds are received through state or federal grants, the stakeholders get a piece of the pie for each refugee brought to Minnesota.
Center for Immigration- “The VOLAGs that “resettle” refugees also maintain significant lobbying offices and advocacy programs, where public policy and politics are the coins of the realm. Because money is fungible, the more dollars these groups collect from the government the more private monies can go toward other purposes like political advocacy and lobbying.”*
VOLAGs -VOL-unteer AG-encie-s
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Church World Service
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Episcopal Migration Ministries
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Ethiopian Community Development Council
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HIAS-The Global Jewish Nonprofit
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International Rescue Committee
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Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
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U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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World Relief
It is interesting to note that six of the nine VOLAGs imply representation of a religious organization.
This cartel of moneychangers and human traffickers (for cheap labor) are international stakeholders. Having a vested interest in escalating the importation of refugees, these VOLAGs are responsible for directing them to our country, state, and into our local communities.
Inflicting strenuous and undue burdens on unsuspecting host cities, citizens are blindsided by rapid crime growth and skyrocketing taxes. Unlike refugees of the past from other countries, refugees are now encouraged to integrate, not assimilate. To not assimilate to the American way of life, refugees are greatly and adversely affecting their host communities and themselves. Encouraging refugees to merely integrate has incentivized a pathway to perpetuate and impose their failed state on host communities. Dramatically and negatively impacting their hosts, victimization of the citizenry is most readily and directly experienced at the local level.
Center for Immigration- “*As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report concluded: “While offering safe haven to persecuted populations throughout the world remains a humanitarian imperative, the administration should avoid biting off more than local communities are capable of chewing. Especially in a difficult economic climate, force-feeding refugees into a broken system is proving to be detrimental to the longer-term interests of refugees and to the cities that receive them.”
*https://cis.org/Religious-Agencies-and-Refugee-Resettlement
VOLAGs connect refugees with a myriad of social services. These services often utilize unsuspecting good-hearted people, including those of faith, who assume they are volunteering under the guise of a faith-based organization. According to VOLAG contracting status (Section 207 of the Refugee Resettlement Program), proselytizing is forbidden or the VOLAG loses their 501c3 status. For those believing they stepped forward for a faith-based organization, this restriction also applies to the volunteers donating their time and talents to the refugee population.
Understanding the mechanics- “The U.S. government contracts nine nonprofit agencies to assist with resettling refugees from all over the world. Those agencies rely on a network of local affiliates, like Lutheran Social Services, across the country that provide basic services to refugees and sometimes offer additional assistance such as medical screening programs or support for unaccompanied migrant children.” “ Under their cooperative agreements with the State Department, resettlement agencies like Lutheran Social Services have a list of services they’re obligated to provide…”, such as “Upon arrival, refugees are supposed to have safe housing, for example, as well as culturally appropriate food, seasonal clothes, and pocket money for emergency expenses. The State Department’s agreement with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service requires staff members to perform two home-visits to refugees within 30 days of arrival…to help them apply for cash assistance, Social Security cards, English-language programs and an array of other services and benefits within 90 days.”
Lutheran Social Services is just one of many 501c3 cash cow affiliates operating throughout the United States. After 30 to 90 days these VOLAGs/affiliates have made their profit and it’s time to shift the responsibility to the unsuspecting, churches, good-hearted individuals, and organizations. Knowing Americans have big hearts, they have been an easy mark as they willingly step up to the plate providing, for free, countless volunteer hours and untold services and resources. Not understanding the whole of the situation or the long-term ramifications Americans have been slow to understand the double cross. The VOLAGs have enabled bringing countless numbers of refugees into your communities and now, whether able to sustain them, or not, they funnel the refugees dumping them directly into your local social benefit services and programs. Shifting total responsibility of the refugee onto the doorstep of the county seat, these VOLAGs do so without conscience and without consent of the taxpayer. In a nutshell these VOLAGs create the opportunity to grab the money, then dump, run, and repeat.
With every new refugee the State Department gives the VOLAG $2100. The refugee gets $1100, and a stipend of $1000 goes to the volunteer agency/VOLAG. To increase profits, and to bring extended families to Minnesota, LSS asks refugees to work for them. This familial fast-tracking increases the refugee count and Lutheran Social Services bank account. For the VOLAG, providing this gateway service is a money maker. For the host city, and to the detriment of the taxpayer, the refugees encouraged to integrate (vs assimilate) become dependent on expensive services. This first payment is a mere drop in the proverbial bucket for providing nearly limitless services for the refugee. This worldwide endeavor transformed from a humanitarian effort to an abused welfare dependency program, where the host city and taxpayers get stuck with a very expensive burden.
What’s wrong with this picture? In the past, $2.5 billion was distributed to refugee camps, through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and was fully funded by member states of the United Nations. At that time was a membership of about 190 countries sharing the expense. Now, rather than being housed in refugee camps within their respective customs and religious affiliations, refugees are sent to developed countries where these individual countries are left to foot the bill. This dramatic shift in refugees, funding, and responsibilities is not working. To the detriment of Minnesota, the current population of refugees has mastered the raiding of county, state, and federal coffers. Through these VOLAGs of moneychangers in human trafficking, the groundwork was laid for the creation a refugee cartel of fraud.
Minnesotans falling below poverty level is around 8.6%, yet in St. Cloud a disturbing 72% of the Somali population comes in below the poverty line. In Willmar Minnesota, Somalians, combined with some black/African American, comes in at a whopping ninety-five percent (94.54%). The social services provided in Minnesota make Somalian refugees the wealthiest of the most illiterate countries of the world. In Minnesota it pays to have large families (polygamy helps) which, in turn, help maintain most of these refugees below the poverty level.
Islam is a complete way of life for Muslims, which enslaves them to Allah, their responsibilities and religion. Muslims are required to indoctrinate and subjugate their hosts/us (dhimmis, Karfir, infidel ) to cast us into servitude, thus, to provide for their every need. As Somali’s are servants to the system of Islam, our refugee program enables this servitude through integration for dependency on a welfare way of life. It is an Islamic commandment that we, in dhimmitude, who are less than and lower than them, must be in servitude to them. Quran vs 9:29 -the dhimmi must convert or pay the protection tax or be killed. Rather than the Muslim community attaining independence through their own work for self-sufficiency it is obligatory for the Kafir, dhimmi, infidel to provide for them.
“Minnesota’s 8.6 percent poverty rate is better than the national rate due to Minnesota’s higher median income, higher minimum wage, and more generous ‘safety net’ programs.” “The total of $927 billion per year in means-tested aid is an enormous sum of money. One way to think about this figure is that $927 billion amounts to $19,082 for each American defined as “poor”- the Census Bureau.”
Current numbers on the costs associated with resettlement are difficult to locate. The 2015 example below, however, shows that resettlement into developed countries is not cost effective.
https://cis.org/Report/High-Cost-Resettling-Middle-Eastern-Refugees
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“On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has requested $1,057 to care for each Syrian refugee annually in most countries neighboring Syria.
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For what it costs to resettle one Middle Eastern refugee in the United States for five years, about 12 refugees can be helped in the Middle East for five years, or 61 refugees can be helped for one year.
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UNHCR reports a gap of $2.5 billion in funding that it needs to care for approximately four million Syrians in neighboring countries.
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The five-year cost of resettling about 39,000 Syrian refugees in the United States is enough to erase the current UNHCR funding gap.
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The five-year costs of resettlement in the United States include $9,230 spent by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) within the State Department in the first year, as well as $55,139 in expenditures on welfare and education.
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Very heavy use of welfare programs by Middle Eastern refugees, and the fact that they have only 10.5 years of education on average, makes it likely that it will be many years, if ever, before this population will cease to be a net fiscal drain on public coffers — using more in public services than they pay in taxes.”
Somalia, with a staggering 86% of students not completing their basic primary grade school education, pales in comparison to middle eastern refugees, who are expected likely to never be off public assistance with their 10.5 years of education. The Somali culture, which is dictated by their religion, looks to not value education. Islam mandates they must be politically active through their religion, working towards implementing total world dominance, but doesn’t mandate education? To not mandate, at minimum, ultimately can result in or prevent the development of critical thinking skills.
“In Somalia, the academic year begins in October and ends in June, and the official primary school entrance age is 6. The system is structured so that the primary school cycle lasts 6 years, lower secondary lasts 2 years, and upper secondary lasts 4 years….….it is notable that approximately 69% of youth have no formal education and 18% of youth have attained at most incomplete primary education, meaning that in total 86% of 15-24 year olds have not completed primary education in Somalia”
https://www.epdc.org/sites/default/files/documents/EPDC_NEP_2018_Somalia.pdf
Is this lack of education a stated goal of their culture, beliefs, or the religion of Islam? YES. Muslims must emulate the perfect man, their illiterate prophet Muhammed, who could not read or write, but only recite. Yet, in seeming contradiction, the Holy Quran dictates that both men and women must increase their knowledge and condemn those that don’t (Quran vs 96:1-5). Somali is the official language of Somalia, an endoglossic (indigenous language) and the mother tongue of the Somali people, yet they are taught to recite the Quran in Arabic with little to no comprehension.
In enters Minnesota’s welfare system, proving to be a generational dependency program and magnet for one of the world’s least educated, least skilled people, coming from a country with an average IQ of 68 and life expectancy of roughly 56. In addition, the VOLAGs seem to be compounding the situation by encouraging dependency through integration rather than independence and self-sufficiency that comes with assimilation to the American culture.
To add further commentary, in America the Somali culture, dictated by Islam, requires that should a youth assimilate too closely to the American way of life they are to be returned to their homeland to a rehabilitation center, and sometimes, never to return. This rehabilitation is called dhaqan celis. A quick online search of this term is telling.
In Minnesota, those classified as poor qualify for means testing. Not including the state and county social benefits provided for refugees, there are 79 federal programs made available to refugees qualifying for means testing, all while sitting in the maternity ward. With families averaging over 6 six children, they are rolling into an equitable position, yet remain in an impoverished state. Somalians at poverty level, in Minnesota, clock in at nearly 10 times the state average. There looks to be a striking difference compared to the overall population of refugees where 81% were placed in jobs and career pathways with 84% attaining upgraded positions.
Few understand the impact on Minnesota’s infrastructure when 45% percent of Somali citizens in Somalia are dependent on money transfers (remittances). With Minnesota having the largest Somali population outside of Somalia, talk about the fleecing of Minnesotans. With the staggering price tag for subsidizing services for housing, food, schools, healthcare, etc., as well as cash monies provided to refugees, perhaps it is the bilking of $100’s of millions through the daycare and Covid relief fraud (Feeding Our Future) they can finally eat.
https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-daycare-raided-as-part-of-massive-fraud-investigation
St. Cloud- “According to a 2021 Wilder Research study, Greater St Cloud’s population has grown by 7% since 2010, while the population of color has nearly doubled. Poverty rates amongst Somali residents is at 72% and the black community is at 47% with 75% of low income residents of color are housing cost burdened. The struggles and strains of poverty affects the entire family. About half of Black students and students with two or more races graduate from high school in four years.” SF 4253 Putnam.pdf (senate.mn)
In 2019-2021 the St Cloud area and Waite Park, which has the highest concentration of refugees, rank in the top 10 for crime per capita. https://www.populationu.com/gen/most-dangerous-cities-minnesota
According to City-Data.com “St. Cloud has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities2”. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mn/st-cloud/crime#:~:text=With%20a%20crime%20rate%20of,here%20is%20one%20in%2023.
Willmar– https://data.census.gov/profile?g=160XX00US2770420
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the poverty level in Willmar is 77% higher than the state average.
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median household income in Willmar is 30% lower than the state average.
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the percentage of non-white students in Willmar public schools is 66%.
It is also acknowledged, locally, that property taxpayers are leaving Willmar at an astounding rate. Quite understandably – since 2019, annual property tax has seen an astonishing rise of 57%. Compounding the issue NeighborhoodScout2 reports that “relative to Minnesota, Willmar has a crime rate that is higher than 90% of the state’s cities and towns of all sizes”.
In summary, a good faith worldwide humanitarian gesture has put the State of Minnesota at risk. Once standing sound on a solid foundation of generations, interconnectivity and economic stability, host cities are being destroyed as infrastructures are crumbled by self-serving stakeholders importing a manipulative parasitic culture with no core motivation to assimilate. While merely practicing their religious obligations to subjugate, historical patterns confirm host cities become cesspools of crime. The extreme and burdensome hardships imposed on Minnesota, host cities, and citizens, has been directly encouraged by enabling the breeding of poverty through dependency resulting in the fleecing of Minnesota. It’s time to pull the plug.
Ron Branstner and L J Shalishah
