Yes, there are estimated to be a few hundreds of thousands of Soviet and other Eastern Bloc Jewish emigres and their families in the US, mostly in the NYC area and southern California.
Again, they and their non-Jewish counterparts represent a group that is fertile ground for outreach by the Republican Party organizations, national and local.
In the past two presidential elections, President Bush and John McCain each got 57% of the vote in the Brooklyn portion of Anthony Weiner’s NY-09 and, even more impressively, like 55% in the Brooklyn portion of Anthony Jerrold Nadler’s NY-08. Those Brooklyn’s precincts are dominated by Orthodox Jewish voters who have come to despise the Democrats’ social liberalism and by Russian Jews with no love for Communism. If New York redistricters would draw a single Jewish district in Brooklyn (instead of splitting such voters between a Manhattan CD and a Queens CD) there would be an Orthodox Jewish Republican in Congress elected partly on the strength of the anti-Communist Russian Jewish vote.
COCK AND BULL Russians? Against income redistribution? That's a laugh. The Ruskis first go to Israel (some pretend to be Jewish) to get all the govt freebies available there.
They then land here and get govt job set asides (taking jobs from born Americans). They board the US gravy train----collecting welfare/Medicaid/food stamps and just about any government program you can think of. All of them are feeding at the trough - including all those who robbed the city blind on the CityTime govt project----all Russian emigres.
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Here's the FBI report on Russian crime in the US. The first comprehensive public assessment of the threat posed to us by criminal elements emanating from within the former Soviet Union.
SOVIET-EMIGRE ORGANIZED CRIME PROJECT. RUSSIAN-EMIGRE CRIME IN THE TRI-STATE AREA
Gangsters from the former Soviet Union have established a strong and abiding presence in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania region, engaging in a wide array of crimes that range from sophisticated financial frauds to narcotics trafficking to murder.
Evidence also shows that members of disparate Russian-emigre crime groups here have the potential to develop into one of the most formidable organized crime challenges to law enforcement since the advent of La Cosa Nostra.
These are among the key findings of the Tri-State JointSoviet-Emigre Organized Crime Project, a cooperative research and investigative effort launched four years ago by four agencies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - the New York Organized Crime Task Force, the New York State Commission of Investigation,the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation and the Pennsylvania Crime Commission.
Investigative agents and staff from these agencies conducted the project in conjunction with criminal justice experts from Rutgers University.
The report catalogues the history and growth of Russian-emigre crime networks, from their core base in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn to their current reach well beyond the New York metropolitan area into the counties of central New Jersey and the suburbs of Philadelphia.
One of the most troubling aspects is evidence of links between individuals here and criminal elements in the former Soviet Union, a phenomenon that lends a disturbing and complex international dimension to this emerging domestic law enforcement problem.The range of criminal and illicit activities linked to these groups is impressive.
The Project report details Russian-emigre involvement in a variety of highly sophisticated frauds and confidence schemes, financial crimes, including money laundering, counterfeiting and securities fraud, narcotics trafficking and an assortment of vice crimes.Russian-emigre criminals are no strangers to violence either.
THE NATURE OF RUSSIAN-EMIGRE CRIME
Crimes of Deception
Motor Fuel Tax Fraud
Insurance and Entitlement Fraud
Confidence Schemes
Counterfeiting
Violent Crimes
Homicide/Attempted Homicide
Extortion and Kidnapping
Drug Trafficking
Money Laundering
Vice Crimes (Regpay, a Florida credit card processing company operated by Byelorussians, was nailed for processing online child porn payments; Minx, Belarus, once a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (independent since 1991) is the country of origin of many of these predators now thieving on US soil.
--SNIP--PDF LONG READ http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Ahm0dOHcKHEJ:www.state.nj.us/sci/pdf/russian.pdf
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NOTE In California, Russian emigres are notorious for staged car accidents----some Americans have been killed by these organized rings of shady doctors, lawyers who cheat insurance companies.
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(Yawn) I guess they'll have to kill me, now that I've outed the scheme. Gosh, I'm so scared (snore). Not to worry. I've notified Scotland Yard, Interpol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the DOJ, CIA, FBI, state, local and county law enforcement----and I named names.........just in case lurkers are taking notes (smirk).
Has the Left started demonizing them the way they do Cubans?
I agree. Refugees from Communists regimes are natural Republicans. From Cubans to Vietnamese to Eastern Europeans.