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REFUGEES SENDING 'SUITCASES OF WELFARE CASH' HOME TO SOMALIA
WND ^ | May 18 2016 | LEO HOHMANN

Posted on 06/25/2016 7:43:27 PM PDT by Whenifhow

Men and women pulling “suitcases full of cash” started showing up at Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for international flights bound for Africa.

Transporting large amounts of cash overseas is perfectly legal. But it was who was carrying the money … and where it was going that caught the attention of law enforcement, according to a report by KING 5, the local NBC affiliate for western Washington.

Those hauling the cash-laden cases were Somali-Americans who’d come to this country as refugees. They routinely send money back to Somalia. And many of the greenbacks headed to the jihadist-infested East African country come from welfare checks the refugees receive from the U.S. government, compliments of American taxpayers.

Carrying more than $10,000 while traveling out of the United States is legal as long as the traveler declares it by filling out a one-page federal form.

It was while looking at these slips of paper that terrorism expert Glenn Kerns found a disturbing pattern.

“The thing was the amount, the staggering amount,” said Kerns, a Seattle police officer who was assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for 14 years before he retired in December.

The cash couriers were working for hawalas – businesses that derive their name from the Arabic word for “transfer.” Hawalas are part of a traditional system of banking in Shariah-compliant Muslim communities.

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But is all of it going to downtrodden family members?

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It would make sense, since Somalia is home to an active jihadist rebellion from al-Shabab, an al-Qaida affiliate that slaughters Christians in neighboring Kenya and seeks to establish an ISIS-like caliphate in East Africa.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderslanguage; culture; fraud; islam; refugeecash; refugeecrisis; refugeeresettlement; refugees; somalia; wot
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To: thinden

Believe it or not it is organizations like Christian Services.

I read a couple of years ago Bambi approached religious organizations to help and they were being paid to do it.

Most likely for political cover.


21 posted on 06/25/2016 9:09:44 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: stylin19a

It is???


22 posted on 06/25/2016 9:11:22 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Whenifhow

One Mexican entrepreneur in Minnesota made a fortune with a cash transfer business to wire money from Mexican immigrants in the US both legal and illegal back home to Mexico. This is a significant drain on the US economy as every dollar sent Out of the country is a dollar not spent in the US economy lowering our GDP. Certainly welfare is also part of this drain on our economy.


23 posted on 06/25/2016 9:15:32 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: thinden; LucyT; VRWCarea51; All

My question is who has the relocation franchise on these immigrants??
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On the page below it says
Who are the nine federal resettlement agencies choosing sites for refugee resettlement?

The nine VOLAGs are listed here. VOLAG stands for Voluntary Agencies which is a joke because they are largely paid by the US taxpayer to do the resettlement.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/faqs-finding-stuff/

listed here

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/voluntary-agencies

the Fact Sheet has info on the services and funding the refugees receive

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/refugee-resettlement-fact-sheets/


24 posted on 06/25/2016 9:17:26 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: LucyT

Refugee status means it lasts for seven years. Free housing, food, household supplies, medical care etc. plus no income taxes at all.

It’s absolutely maddening-we are funding the invasion of our country: seven years per conqueror.

Even with all their needs met how are they setting aside that much cash? Part time at a minimum wage job only brings in so much money, even if you don’t have to use it to live or pay any taxes out of it. I have yet to see a Somalian in a road crew or anything else that pays higher than minimum wage. Where is the money coming from?!??


25 posted on 06/25/2016 9:18:01 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: LucyT

“Obama is dealing with it! In St. Louis, (according to their newspaper) Syrian refuges are being flown in and upon arrival, a pre rented home or apartment is awaiting with utilities already paid. Upon arrival,they receive almost a $1,000.00 in cash and a prepaid Walmart card for household items. Afterward,they are taken to apply for food stamps. Multiply this by 80,000, maybe more. Not to worry about that $19 trillion debt or the people struggling, barely getting by or the homeless veterans!”

I suppose that’s “who we are” to provide “refuges” a wad of cash, pre-rented home with utilities paid, pre-paid walmart card, food stamps, no telling what else plus look the other way when they illegally get cash payments from the IRS. All of this and more over the paltry $725 a month in SS disability that a relative gets who worked her entire life and now with MS is completely disabled and is faced with over $2000 a month just to cover medications. I am so glad we are such a giving nation to the rest of the world and that “obama’s dealing with it”.


26 posted on 06/25/2016 9:18:25 PM PDT by Captain7seas
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To: NorthstarMom

I believe they’re often in the drug trade.


27 posted on 06/25/2016 9:26:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Whenifhow

From your link, this recent post....

TN is a good example of how taxpayer $$ is being used to support these refugees.... the secrecy behind it, etc....

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/secrecy-surrounds-refugee-program-in-tennessee-your-state-too/

States are getting REIMBURSED for welfare $$/services paid to refugees.


28 posted on 06/25/2016 9:27:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: DennisR

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/11458-policing-for-profit-in-tennessee-and-elsewhere%20

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/cops-use-traffic-stops-to-seize-millions-from-drivers-never-charged-with-a-crime/#61b2388c46ae

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/09/29/highway-cash-seizures-civil-forfeiture/#2b52be8e61bd


29 posted on 06/25/2016 9:39:32 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Whenifhow

Well, that explains why somellies were buying so many suitcases in Minnesota Walmarts.


30 posted on 06/25/2016 9:48:15 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: NorthstarMom

Somalis do the clan lifestyle. Clusters live together in cheap apartments, sharing resources, eating simply, sharing one car. There’s a male head of the clan, he gets most of their money, with woman essentially indentured servants. Very sluggish employees for the most part.

Youngsters, though, are getting Americanized, and causing grief for those papas.


31 posted on 06/25/2016 10:01:40 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: PGR88

Average IQ——68


32 posted on 06/25/2016 10:20:48 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Whenifhow; ConservativeMind; Steely Tom; RushIsMyTeddyBear; WENDLE; libertarian27; ...
It occurs to me that WHY wouldn't illegal aliens APPLY FOR WELFARE, many times, under many names?

They've ALREADY broken ONE law, why not others?
And Obama would NEVER prosecute them.

The worst case is, maybe, he would eventually send them home, someday, on a Boeing 747 private plane ride.

And then, they would be heroes on their return home for having sent back so much American cash!

33 posted on 06/25/2016 10:56:00 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Obama wants nuclear war with RU by October. How would Americans know who REALLY started it?)
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To: All

If you’re white and caught at the airport with ten grand in cash it will probably be confiscated. They can do it because they can say it’s “probably” going to be used to buy drugs.


34 posted on 06/25/2016 11:01:57 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Whenifhow

PAY YOUR TAXES SUBJECTS


35 posted on 06/26/2016 12:08:53 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Whenifhow

How many refugees have become classic welfare queens and kings by massive cheating that goes unenforced.


36 posted on 06/26/2016 2:50:36 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: VRWCarea51

Sure that could be “religious” organizations vs just “christian” organizations?

If so, the muslim faith organizations could be used for resettlement invasion of muslim refugees?

Article was based on somali resettlements, but what about mateen’s dad’s resettlement of his Afghanistan “constituents”

Who’s getting the grits off the syrian resettlement/ voter registration program?

Suppose the xlintonista global initiative has their fingers in this pie?


37 posted on 06/26/2016 4:09:24 AM PDT by thinden
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To: ConservativeMind

That is my understanding also. Thus the scam of “one entitlement begets more.”

Section 8 vouchers are doled out for rentals where the government contributes MOST of the rent and the tenant usually only has to pay an amount equal to about 25% of their disposable income. Welfare payments are not part of the income calculation. So, as in cases I’ve seen, rents over $1000 require only about $50 from the tenant and many of them don’t end up paying that and get evicted after a long process.


38 posted on 06/26/2016 4:13:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: thinden

I intended no bias, just trying to give an example. Yes I think many other denominations are playing too.


39 posted on 06/26/2016 4:16:47 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: ConservativeMind

This is all in his plan


40 posted on 06/26/2016 4:31:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (without the 1st we have no second)
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