Should U.S. citizens have input into whether their neighborhoods are
fundamentally and permanently transformed into United Nations refugee
camps full of welfare dependents and tax burdens?
Government-funded charities that profit mightily from the federal refugee resettlement program say: "Hell, no!"
But
President Donald Trump and growing numbers of informed Americans across
the heartland are raising their voices to say: "Heavens, yes!"
This
week, an extraordinary revolt took place in Bismarck, North Dakota,
where an overflow crowd of residents braved subzero temperatures to
register their opposition to allowing the Lutheran Social Services to
dump any new refugees in their backyard.
Thanks to an executive order signed by Trump in September, local
communities now have explicit opt-in rights to stem the lucrative tide
of refugees coming largely from Third World countries and jihadist
breeding grounds. Open borders legal groups are, of course, challenging
the order in court. These zealots object to states and localities
exercising self-determination when it comes to rejecting refugees
because it would undermine "national immigration policy," yet they
promote illegal immigrant sanctuary policies in states and localities
that create uncontrollable criminal anarchy.
While GOP Gov. Doug
Burgum signaled his support for increased importation of refugees, Brian
Bitner, chairman of the Burleigh County Commission, echoed the concerns
of his constituents. "North Dakota is already the highest per capita
state for refugee resettlement in terms of number of citizens, so in the
absence of any sort of number, there's no way we could know the cost to
the state or the county, and I simply can't support that," Bitner told
local media at the Bismarck protest.
Similar outbreaks of resistance have taken place in Maine, New
Hampshire, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Wyoming and
Tennessee over the years. But many Americans remain alarmingly clueless
about the four-decade-old, tax-funded racket lining the pockets of nine
privileged, nonprofit contractors (and scores of their subcontracting
partners like Bismarck's LSS):
-- Church World Service
-- Ethiopian Community Development Council
-- Episcopal Migration Ministries
-- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
-- International Rescue Committee
-- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
-- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services
-- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
-- World Relief Corporation
