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UPDATED – The Deep State Strikes Again: A Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Halts President Trump's Refugee Resettlement Executive Order
January 16, 2020 January 16, 2020 Zachery Schmidt
A Clinton-appointed federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday halting President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13888 which allowed state and local governments to decide if they want refugee resettlement within their communities.
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GOP Governors Push for Refugee Resettlement as Trump Lowers Acceptance Cap
January 13, 2020 January 12, 2020 Ohio Star Staff
Republican governors around the country are working closely with refugee resettlement NGOs and contractors to circumvent President Trump's efforts to lower the amount of refugees admitted to the United States, according to a memo obtained by Breitbart.
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Commentary: Republican Governors' 'Tolerance' Will Kill Us All
We're tolerating ourselves to death. There is no other way to say it, especially when it comes to immigration, specifically anchor babies, chain migration, and refugee resettlement. It's as though our "leaders" have been fed stupid pills and chased them down with healthy quantities of idiocy.
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Ilhan Omar Goes After Rural Minnesota County for Rejecting Refugees
January 11, 2020 January 10, 2020 Anthony Gockowski
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) accused Beltrami County of "denying refugees a chance at a better life" after it voted to opt out of refugee resettlement.
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Westerville Approves Refugee Resettlement
Westerville City Council unanimously passed a resolution this week that says the city will allow refugees to resettle within their community.
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Columbus Dispatch Wants More Refugees in Ohio
January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 Jason M. Reynolds
The Columbus Dispatch wants Ohio to open the doors to more refugees.
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Gov. DeWine Tells Trump Administration to Bring on the Refugees, Despite Foreign-Born Residents in the State Having High Rate of TB
Gov. Mike DeWine's Christmas gift to Ohio residents was a letter to the U.S. Department of State inviting refugees to keep on coming in, including from countries with "high burdens" of tuberculosis.
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Ohio Refugee Resettlement Up 22 Percent Under Gov. Mike DeWine, Including Hundreds From Countries With 'High Burdens' of TB
December 30, 2019 December 30, 2019 Jason M. Reynolds
Refugee resettlement in Ohio is up 22 percent under Gov. Mike DeWine, including hundreds from countries with "high burdens" of tuberculosis.
DeWine is one of more than 30 governors who have agreed to accept more refugees under a plan put forth by President Donald Trump in which a governor has to opt in for resettlement, the Associated Press reported.
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Minnesota and Michigan Mayors Signed Letter Asking for Continued Refugee Resettlement
December 22, 2019 December 21, 2019 Anthony Gockowski
Dozens of mayors from across the country recently issued a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to ask for continued refugee resettlement in their respective cities and townships.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu Among Lone Republicans Left Standing
November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018 Anna Marie Bolton
The blue wave made its way through New Hampshire Tuesday night when both U.S. House seats went to Democrats as well as both houses of the state legislature. Neither of the state's U.S. senators, both Democrats, were up for reelection this year. The results left incumbent Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) among the…
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Lancaster County Will Be Pennsylvania's First Investigative Target Under New Program to Tackle Welfare Fraud
The Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General and the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announced last week that they are joining forces to tackle welfare fraud, specifically food-stamp fraud. Commonly referred to as the food-stamp program, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has increasingly become a concern among law-enforcement officials.…
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Pittsburgh Mayor Told Trump to Visit Sometime Else After Tree of Life Massacre
October 31, 2018 October 31, 2018 Anna Marie Bolton
President Donald Trump and several family members traveled to Pittsburgh Tuesday to offer their support for the victims of Saturday's horrific attack that killed 11 Jewish worshipers and injured six. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who was leading services at the Tree of Life synagogue when the gunman entered, said that "the…
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Sherrod Brown Letter Shows Blind Support for Mass Migration of Refugees into Ohio
September 29, 2018 September 28, 2018 Anthony Accardi
A group favoring open-borders and mass immigration boasts on its website how it has the support of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to push for more refugee resettlements in Ohio cities. Brown's response shows he is in favor of 110,000 refugees being allowed to enter the U.S. in a single year.…
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Sherrod Brown Votes For Increased Legal & Illegal Immigration to Compete With Middle Class Workers He Claims to Support
September 26, 2018 September 25, 2018 Chris Alto
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) claims to be a "champion of middle-class families" but his voting record to increase legal and illegal immigration which annually adds more working-age unskilled and low-skilled workers to compete with Americans, tells a much different story. Brown's legislative record reflects strong support for a globalist open-borders…
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Refugees Get Services While Ohioans With Disabilities Go Without
September 9, 2018 September 8, 2018 Chris Alto
Unlike other legal immigrants admitted to the U.S., refugees including those that settle in Ohio, are not barred by immigration-related waiting periods before applying for state Medicaid programs. Even though refugees must meet all Medicaid eligibility requirements in order to receive coverage and services, available data strongly suggests that refugee…
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Columbus Ranked 7th in Top Metro Areas Where Women and Girls Are at Risk for Female Genital Mutilation
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB)'s estimate that over 500,000 women and girls in the U.S. are at risk for female genital mutilation (FGM), has been confirmed by an updated analysis issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). PRB's analysis ranks Columbus as the 7th top metro area and Cleveland-Elyria as the 36th, where…
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Big Business Lobby Forces Ohioans to Compete For Jobs With Cheap Immigrant Labor
August 27, 2018 August 26, 2018 Chris Alto
The Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), is a powerful and well-funded big-business-cheap-labor lobby led by business leaders, former politicians, and chambers of commerce. Renamed to the shortened New American Economy (NAE), the coalition continues its advocacy for comprehensive immigration reform by highlighting the work ethic and perceived business…
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Bredesen's Bipartisan Policy Council Pushes Discredited Leftist Narrative That 'Refugees Most Vetted Travelers to U.S.'
After serving his last term as governor of Tennessee, Bredesen dabbled in "partisan politicking" and working to help other Democrats get elected: As a loyal Democrat, Bredesen this year declared his support for President Obama's re-election, endorsed the party's 4th Congressional District nominee, Eric Stewart, and did "robo-calls" supporting a…
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Gov. Phil Bredesen Cut Elderly, Sick and Disabled From TennCare While Enrolling Refugees
Phil Bredesen, the health insurance executive turned governor, had an antidote to contain the spiraling costs of the state's Medicaid program – disenroll elderly, sick and disabled Tennesseans from TennCare. According to Gordon Bonnyman, co-founder of the Tennessee Justice Center, two years into Bredesen's first term as governor, "[a]pproximately 200,000…
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Gov. Phil Bredesen Increased Refugee Resettlement in Tennessee by Thousands, Bringing Big Money to 'Non-Profits' Catholic Charities and World Relief
When he was governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011, Phil Bredesen set the state up to receive a dramatically higher number of refugees – an increase well into the thousands – bringing with it significant financial benefit to federal refugee contractors like Catholic Charities of Tennessee and World Relief.…
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Cost for English Language Learner Services in Tennessee Public Schools Increases Over 100 Percent Since FY 2016
July 11, 2018 July 11, 2018 Chris Alto
The cost to teach English to non-English speaking students in Tennessee public schools has increased over 100 percent since FY 2016. In FY 2016, the total cost for English Language Learner (ELL) services was $94,110,440. Seventy percent was funded through the state's Basic Education Program (BEP) in the amount of $65,877,308,…
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Advocates in Pennsylvania Want More Taxpayer Money to Educate Illegal Immigrant & Refugee Students
June 19, 2018 June 18, 2018 Chris Alto
Philadelphia-based Education Law Center told the city's School Reform Commission that immigrant students and English Language Learner students (EL), need expanded programming, "improved cultural competency" for teachers, more support for the parents of these students and greater access to vocational training programs. According to the Law Center, test results show that…
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Phil Bredesen and Tyson Foods Helped Shelbyville Become an Employment Magnet For Somali Refugees
From the inception of the federal Refugee Admissions Program in 1980 until 2003, the first year of Phil Bredesen's first term as governor of Tennessee, only a handful of Somali refugees were resettled in Tennessee by the federal government. That all changed in 2003. Between 2003 and 2011, Bredesen's last…
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Off the Record: Tyson Foods Recycles a Smidge of Tennessee Taxpayer Money as Payback to Gibson County
June 2, 2018 June 2, 2018 Chris Alto
Tyson CEO and President Tom Hayes was the BMOC (big man on campus) at the Humboldt plant ground-breaking on Wednesday when he promised a $500,000 kickback grant to Gibson County. But it's not really a no-strings unconditional gift, nor is it really money from Tyson Foods' pocket, is it Tom?…
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Tennessee Forced to Deal With Ethnic Gangs So Federal Refugee Resettlement Contractors Can Profit
May 16, 2018 May 30, 2018 Chris Alto
Refugee resettlement in Tennessee has brought sizable fiscal rewards for the federal contractors operating in Tennessee but along with helping to establish what former mayor Karl Dean celebrated as "growing enclaves of immigrants" has come Kurdish and Somali gangs from refugee groups brought to the state. In 2007, the New York…
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