First Syrian Family To Arrive In The U.S. Under Expedited Refugee Program Just Resettled In Missouri

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CREDIT: AP PHOTO/RAAD ADAYLEH

U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells, right, meets with Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Abboud, center, and his family at the International Airport of Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. The first Syrian family to be resettled to the U.S. under its speeded-up "surge operation" departed to the United States Wednesday from the Jordanian capital, Amman. Al-Abboud, who is being resettled with his wife and five children, said that although he is thankful to Jordan — where he has lived for three years after fleeing Syria's civil war — he is hopeful of finding a better life in the U.S. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

The first Syrian family to be resettled in the United States under an expedited “surge operation” for refugees arrived in Missouri late Wednesday night.
Ahmad al-Abboud and his family fled Syria’s civil war for Jordan where they have lived for the past three years. The family lived on “food coupons” during their time in Jordan. But now they’re ready start a new life in the United States.
“I’m happy. America is the country of freedom and democracy, there are jobs, opportunities, there is good education, and we are looking forward to having a good life over there,” al-Abboud said, according to the Associated Press. Indicating that he hoped to learn English, al-Abboud added, “I am ready to integrate in the U.S. and start a new life.”
The normal screening process for Syrian refugees takes anywhere between 18 and 24 months. During that time, applicants must undergo intensive background checks, such as providing medical records, biometric information that’s screened against federal databases, and going in for interviews. They must also meet resettlement requirements and pass several security checks. But under the surge operation, the process will be streamlined to three months.
Since October 2015, 1,000 Syrian refugees have moved to the U.S. from Jordan, the AP reported. And President Obama previously supported the idea of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States by the end of September. A temporary processing center opened in Amman, Jordan “to help meet that goal, and about 600 people are interviewed every day at the center,” the publication noted.
Gina Kassem, the regional refugee coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, indicated that the 10,000 number was a starting point and not a threshold, so it’s possible that the U.S. may take in more refugees over the next year. Currently, the U.S. takes in about 2,000 refugees.

 

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Since the terror attacks on September 2001, the United States has resettled 784,000 refugees.

 

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The United States is bracing to resettle nearly 9,000 Syrian refugees over the next several months.

 

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Ambassador Wells (left), poses with the family of Syrian refugee Ahmad al Aboud, while holding a Kansas City Royals t-shirt


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Amuncat, Vashon, about 15 hours ago
They were safe in Jordan.... Why here?


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Ahmad al-Abboud, who is being resettled with his wife and five children, said he is thankful to Jordan, where he has lived for three years after fleeing Syria's civil war. But the 45-year-old from Homs, Syria, said he was ready to build a better life in the U.S.
'I'm happy. America is the country of freedom and democracy, there are jobs opportunities, there is good education, and we are looking forward to having a good life over there,' al-Abboud said.


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They will have a nice home( bricks and mortar) in the USA, and live off freebies for God knows how many years.

Only the other day, I watched a documentary about the Tent Cities in Seattle. Americans living in camps.

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European stupidity hitting the USA.

The scourge of liberalism destroying Western life and culture.

 

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Kansas mlb shirts to show that they have already assimilated, and their Arab ways are a thing of the past.

 

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Tent cities USA

 

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priority no 1

Priority zero

 

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Only the other day, I watched a documentary about the Tent Cities in Seattle. Americans living in camps.




Saturday 2 April 2016 06.15 BST





In Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America (ITV), the Glaswegian comedian travels from Chicago to New York “the long way round.” He will ride the rails for 6,000 miles.


The first of the three-part series covers the journey from Chicago Union station to the Seattle Space Needle and ladles Americana on to the screen like relish on to a burger. Take big bites and die happy.


First stop is Minnesota, where the state fair, complete with an animal-calling competition, all food on sticks and snatches of musical theatre from agricultural college students gamely Putting the Show on Right Here!, is being held in the middle of said state’s 27m acres of corn. Connolly surveys all delightedly, like a happy Bill Bryson.

Next up is Williston, North Dakota, which briefly boomed when frackers came to town (“It seems like a crime against the Earth to me,” sighed Connolly. “The thoughts of an ageing hippy”) but now comprises empty bars and strip joints and a busy Salvation Army outpost that provides a warm place to sleep for those the oil-market crash left behind.




Billy Connolly with Elvis fan Shirley in Glasgow, Montana. Photograph: Jaimie Gramston/7 Wonder ProductionsThen on to Glasgow (for obvious reasons), Montana, where he meets Shirley, the manager of the local swap-shop who has turned her office into a shrine to Elvis and may be the happiest woman in America – and therefore the world. Her colleagues seem to be good and patient people.

After meeting cowboy Lee Cornwell, who farms the land his grandfather settled,


Connolly heads for Seattle and meets those at the other end of the American dream – the homeless in “Tent City 3”.



Connolly, usually a good lightning rod for viewers, slightly misjudges here, looking with romantic eyes on the apparent tranquillity of it all, instead of boggling at the need for its existence in one of the richest cities in the richest country on Earth. Not to mention that many in the tents are in regular employment but unable to afford a home.

As always with Connolly’s travel programmes, he is a charming companion, but you long for a bit more rigour, a bit more effort, a bit more engagement of that scabrous comic sensibility we all know, admire and love. It feels as if he, as well as we, are just along for the ride.

 

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As I watched the Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America (ITV), I thought how the beautiful culture, will be destroyed as the Muslim population inceases.


What future is there for iconic events like the Minnesota fair as the Muslim population grows.


As the Muslim population grows traditional American culture and way of life will disappear, never to return, just like Europe.

 

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[h=6]- APRIL 07, 2016 -[/h][h=1]IMMIGRANTS FOR TRUMP? SOME IN NEW YORK ARE SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT[/h]The New York Times
Along the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump likes to pick out the people who, despite his having insulted their ethnic group, support him in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. They love him, they really do.
And with Mr. Trump leading in the polls in New York’s presidential primary on April 19, some small groups of immigrants have come forward to support him. Never mind that he has said Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, suggested a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States and called for the deportation of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
These immigrants are supporting him for reasons that are intensely personal and, not surprisingly, are often aligned with their politics back home.
A recent poll conducted by a Russian-language radio station in New York City showed that more than 80 percent of 5,000 callers preferred Mr. Trump, the Republican front-runner, to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s likely nominee. A group of Latino Republicans in Rockland County is planning to endorse him, and some older Indian-American professionals and young Hindus in the region already have.
Consider the case of Anand Ahuja, a lawyer in his mid-60s on Long Island, who was a founder of Indian-Americans for Trump 2016, a political action committee that oddly does not raise money. Mr. Ahuja visited the United States in his 20s on a tourist visa from India, and said friends were marrying for green cards. They stayed and prospered, but he returned to India and waited nine years to immigrate legally.
Mr. Ahuja praised Mr. Trump for wanting to stop immigrants from entering the country illegally. “You should not reward people who have broken the law,” he said. “You follow the law, you get punished. That’s why I like Donald Trump when he says, ‘Let’s build a wall.’”
He added, “I believe anybody who came in this country illegally should be deported.”
Or as Tony Mele, 55, the chairman of the Latino National Republican Coalition of Rockland County and a private security consultant, put it: “When you’re in New York and you’re standing in the long line for tickets to a show, or in the supermarket, what happens when one person jumps the line with a cart? It’s like, ‘Oh no you’re not!’ I don’t care if it’s Mexico, Ecuador, what island you came from.”
Mr. Mele, who was born in the South Bronx, added, “You got a guy like Trump saying, ‘Hey, get to the back of the line like everybody else.’”
Rene, 38, a business owner in Spring Valley, N.Y., and a member of the Rockland County coalition, came to the United States illegally as a teenager from Ecuador 22 years ago. His employer offered him a work authorization. Eventually, he applied for legal permanent residency and became a citizen in 2006. He did not want to give his surname for fear of retribution against his school-age children or his businesses.
Rene supports Mr. Trump because he believes the Democrats have not helped immigrants like himself. He said he was fed up with the corruption and resulting lack of resources in the East Ramapo Central School District. Its school board, dominated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, is facing lawsuits and a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry over its spending in public schools and yeshivas.
“Our community is tired of dealing with the same things going on over and over again,” Rene said. “The only way to make our voice count is to start looking for our way to get in.”
No one else in the Latino coalition would comment publicly. Like Rene, they are afraid of a backlash, something other immigrant supporters of Mr. Trump have faced.
“You become a subject of mockery and fun and criticism,” Mr. Ahuja said. “Initially people were calling us very bad names on my Facebook. They wrote, ‘Shame on you being an Indian, you are a Donald Trump supporter.’”
Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, said Mr. Ahuja’s group was an outlier in an Indian diaspora that has overwhelmingly voted for Democrats. In 2008, 84 percent of Indian-American voters chose Barack Obama, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
“It has no reflection of representativeness by a long, long shot,” said Mr. Kapur, who is an author of a coming book about Indian immigrants’ success in the United States. “Whether it’s Sikhs for Trump, Hindus for Trump, in each of them you would say, ‘Really? How can that be?’ It’s a really tiny fraction. They represent themselves, not all Sikhs.”
In contrast, in Brooklyn and on Staten Island, Russian immigrants — especially older ones — have voted Republican because they see the Democratic Party as aligned with the old Soviet Union, said Gregory Davidzon, a radio station owner in Brooklyn and political kingmaker. His station conducted the daylong poll last week; he said he was not endorsing any candidate, merely explaining the phenomenon.
“They are for the Republican Party against their own history, against the Soviet Union, this is what my feeling is,” Mr. Davidzon said. “It’s nothing personal with Trump.”
Isaak Shikhman, 70, a Republican on Staten Island who came as a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union in 1995, said he supported Mr. Trump for his ability to deal strongly with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and for his views on immigration. “We came to this country legally,” he said. “It’s very important if Mexican people do the same.”
He laughed when asked about Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a Democratic socialist who is running against Mrs. Clinton.
“My life for 43 years was in a Communist country,” Mr. Shikhman said. “I don’t want that back.”
Adity Sharma, 30, a law student, and one of about 20 members of Hindus for Trump, a Facebook group that occasionally meets in cafes in Brooklyn, said her Indian-American family supported Mrs. Clinton. “To each his own,” she said, adding of Mr. Trump: “He’s a strong candidate, he’s different than the others. By him not being so politically correct, it does make people sit up and listen.”
She and the group’s other members believe that current United States policy is too friendly toward Pakistan and that Mr. Trump could change that to benefit India. They also approve of Mr. Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim refugees.
Raju Bathija, 56, another member of the group, said she no longer trusted Mrs. Clinton or her foreign policy in India. But more than 15 years ago she said she attended a fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton’s New York Senate race, as a member of the Indo-American Democratic Party. It was in a Fifth Avenue apartment that she said Mr. Trump had donated for the occasion.
Now she and Mr. Trump are both opposing Mrs. Clinton. How to explain that?
“You go where your bread is buttered,” Ms. Bathija said.

 

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784,000 since 2001-wonder what percentage are self supporting.bust er hyman