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Posted on 04/28/2019 4:52:54 AM PDT by robowombat
How long until your small American town becomes unrecognizable?
UTICA, NY: The towns aren’t disappearing, America is disappearing one town at a time. This true story about Utica, a small upstate town in New York is two years old, but more relevant than ever before, despite the fact that President Trump has cut Muslim immigration to the U.S. by more than 91%. The damage was done prior to Trump becoming president, the result of Bill Clinton’s and George W Bush’s Muslim-dominant immigration policies, especially from Somalia. What had become an influx of Muslim immigrants from nations most hostile to Western culture, became a tidal wave under Barack Hussein Obama.
Under the Trump Administration, deportations of illegal alien Somali migrants has begun. The Somali embassy in the United States has said that the U.S immigration agents is planning to deport around 4,000 Somali nationals living in the United Stated, VOA reports. According to the ambassador there is another group of Somali applicants whose requests for asylum have been denied are now in detention centers or prisons, awaiting deportation. The Bottom Line This is a firsthand account of what happens in a typical American town when it is saddled with more so-called Muslim refugees than it can sustainably handle. They don’t assimilate as we have. Muslim so-called refugees have, as they grow in numbers, instead become more assertive and more powerful than the indigenous populations and as a result the culture surreptitiously changes from American to Middle Eastern.
Muslims don’t come to America to become Americans, they come to change America into Islam. Read the thought-provoking and often sad story of a woman whose family had lived for generations in Utica, NY, only to be forced to leave by economic circumstances that favored the new majority of Muslim immigrants.
Churches quickly get turned into mosques, paid for with American tax dollars (It’s a long story, but worth the time to read because it could become your story, too)
Fed Up In an article entitled, My Hometown Is Gone (the original link appears to have been scrubbed from the Internet) Loretta Brady, who describes herself as a Christian, American, Gen-X, Stay-at-home Mom Attorney, was raised in Utica, NY. She left for a while and then returned. In the town of Utica, her family went “way back” and had been stalwarts of the community.
“I’m from the Utica, NY area. Utica is the city nicknamed by the UN “the city that loves refugees!” My father and his father were born and lived in Utica, NY. My father was a judge in Utica, like his father before him. After marrying, I left to live in New York City, but moved back to Utica after my divorce.
The Catholic school my father attended is now a community center for mostly Somali Muslim refugees.
Somali women gather at a park JIM MONE / AP The local paper touted this as immense progress and featured a local woman who had attended the church as a child and was positively brimming with joy it was being turned into a mosque. If that is the general sentiment, then it’s odd that my county went for Trump, right? There are at least two mosques in the city now. They just built another.
Utica had always been “the city that loves refugees” but under Obama things accelerated. Muslim immigrants were suddenly in these local bureaucratic positions where they had power over you. This, in what is probably one of the most corrupt states in the union, where the power of the state is everything.
The social worker at my daughter’s school was a Muslim immigrant. I looked for her profile on the school website, I googled her, I could not find information on her background, resume, qualifications, or educational attainments.
When I began to homeschool my daughter the administrator to whom I had to submit paperwork was a Muslim immigrant. To homeschool in New York State you must submit detailed quarterly reports to an administrator at your local school district. I googled the administrator. He also worked at the local Board of Cooperative Educational Services, but I could not find any other information on his background, resume, qualifications, or educational attainments.
I was friends with the wife of the Orthodox priest at our church, and she told me that this administrator found some problems with her paperwork and challenged her. It turned out she was right about the issue, and he backed down. Comfy little situation, right?
Right before we moved I went to the ER. The nurse practitioner was a Muslim immigrant (Bosnia), and the doctor she worked under was a Muslim immigrant (Pakistan). I remember how during the visit I suddenly became very aware of the cross I always wear around my neck.
In 2012 on the way home from my daughter’s piano lesson, I left my children in the car, ran into the supermarket for ten minutes, and came out to find a man outside my car who informed me he had called the police. I called my husband and my parents and together we waited for the police officer who eventually arrived and arrested me. Lenore Skenazy wrote an account of the incident in the Wall Street Journal. It is pretty accurate except that it wasn’t a suburb, it was a village of less than 2,000 people.
It was a terrible thing to do, but it was not hot (we’re about two hours from the Canadian border), it was the small safe village where I grew up (I think I was the only arrest that week), and I spent half my childhood hanging out in the car with my brother while my mother did errands.
My friend sent me a Salon article (I don’t read Salon) about a mom who did the same thing, and she like me was in her hometown where she grew up, and so automatically just living by the rules she grew up with. My mother never got arrested. It didn’t occur to me I would be arrested. That’s my only arrest. So far. But anyway, the point of this story is I was then investigated (and cleared which I hope should be obvious) by CPS.
The CPS worker who investigated me was Muslim.
So let me just summarize: the social worker at the school is Muslim, the administrator who ok’s homeschooling is Muslim, the CPS worker is Muslim, the nurse practitioner at the ER is Muslim, the doctor at the ER is Muslim. These are positions of authority that wield a lot of power.
Are you starting to get the picture?
The spring before we moved Utica made national news because of a federal grant to the local community college (two million dollars) for a (Muslim immigrant) professor to teach teenage (Muslim) refugees how to build drones. The grant didn’t mention explicitly that the drones would be equipped with bombs or anything, so it was all aboveboard. This was going on like down the road from us. My husband assured me he could shoot any drone out of the sky, and I’m sure he could, but curiously enough that didn’t assuage my anxiety, but only exacerbated it. The last thing I needed was my husband getting arrested on federal charges for taking down a drone.
I looked up the Muslim immigrant professor on Linked In. It was an odd career trajectory. It looked like he had been a soccer coach a few years before. It wasn’t exactly clear to me how he had landed his present job where he was getting federal money to train Muslims to build drones…
In 2015, a 26-year-old Bosnian refugee in Utica was arrested for supporting ISIS. The local paper reported that in his spare time when he wasn’t supporting ISIS, he enjoyed mixed martial arts fighting at the local gym. Local law enforcement complained they hadn’t been informed of the investigation. You know and I know that if anything happens, local law enforcement are the first responders.
I went to a couple Trump rallies and meetings in Upstate NY before we moved. When I mentioned the arrest of this ISIS supporter to a local businessman at one of the meetings, he got a very serious look and said Utica was full of ISIS and the local police were really worried. The Trump meetings were emotional. The organizer picked a donut shop whose owner was friendly to the Trump platform so we could talk. Everyone went around the table and introduced themselves. Two of the women cried. New York State is not doing well.
Don’t believe the Start-Up NY commercials. Potemkin Village.
My husband lost two jobs in three years in Upstate NY. Not by any fault of his own- he is a very skilled, dedicated, experienced, hard worker- but because his bosses went out of business. His first boss moved to North Carolina. His second boss had to close up shop, which seemed linked to a downturn in the stock market. A lot of the middle class in Upstate NY are boomer retirees, and when the stock market goes down, they get nervous and cut back on renovation and building. My husband is a carpenter.
The Upstate New York economy is one of the worst in the country. That’s why it’s a good place to resettle refugees.
After the second time my husband lost his job, I applied for food stamps for the family. When I moved back home I had tried to find a job as a lawyer, I could not. I finally found a job processing letters of credit for an investment bank. My salary was $27,000 a year. I actually got paid an extra $2,000 higher than starting salary for my translation skills. After I had my second child, most of my pay after taxes would have gone to childcare. The New York State tax system penalizes low-income people who work. So I stayed home. My parents helped us with bills.
So my husband was unemployed, I was unemployed, we have four children, we certainly qualified for food stamps, and I felt stupid and irresponsible for not applying when we qualified for them, so I applied. The local Department of Social Services does not answer their phone. You can go there and wait in line. It is a very very long line, and a very uncomfortable place to be.
By tacit agreement, the white people stick together in the waiting area. The Department of Social Services rejected my application several times without reason. I knew we qualified, so it became for me this bureaucratic challenge that I had to vanquish. It took a lot of wrangling and some certified sign-for-delivery mailings which were expensive. I managed to get us a month of food stamps. It was about $50 a week, I think, for a family of six. I don’t know if that’s average or not.
Want to know why my application was rejected several times even though we qualified? Want to know why it was so difficult to get food stamps? The Department of Social Services in my area is swamped because of the refugees. 25% of the city are refugees.
In this Jan. 31, 2017, Arok Deng of Sudan, left, smiles at her American born daughter Leila, as caseworker Azira Tabucic prepares Deng’s application for U.S. citizenship at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in Utica, N.Y. Utica has been a refugee “oasis” for decades. But now President Donald Trump’s executive order crimping the flow of refugees has sent a shudder through the upstate New York city. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink) Virtually all of the refugees are on welfare. And when they apply for welfare, they don’t do so as an independent entity, as I did. They go through their refugee resettlement agency who deals with the Department of Social Services for them. So basically Americans get the short shrift, and refugees get taken care of. And that’s America. This is why so many Democrats voted for Trump. Americans are getting squeezed out by non-Americans at multiple levels.
In the below photo, about a dozen Muslim refugees (all women, and you know there had to be men as well, who just weren’t present at the time) were moving into renovated housing. This is in an area where low-income Americans, white and black, languish in subpar housing. A lot went on under the Obama Administration. And I doubt a lot of it was on the books.
What else to tell you?
New York State sued our local school for trying to separate teenage refugees from the rest of the students. I went to a CLE where I sat next to a lawyer for the school district, and she was freaking out over this lawsuit. She was like, The state is coming after us, and we don’t have any money. My county is a Democrat county, and Trump won my county. Issues like this are why. Americans can see that they are being forced to accommodate non-Americans to their own detriment and expense.
There is TB in Utica. I’m sure there is more than reported. Obama stopped screening foreigners for TB, which America has been doing since before the days of Ellis Island, and the refugees are from places where TB is endemic. Whenever I was in a hospital- when I gave birth or when I went to the ER- I would be very aware of my surroundings.
The local Walmart is full of headscarves and burkas. I cried when I went into my first Walmart in North Carolina and all I saw were Americans.
The nice lady who asked me to give a talk a couple months ago on my hometown asked me if there were any refugees who were an “asset to the community”. I replied that they do not consider themselves part of your community, so if they are going to be an asset to any community, it is not going to be yours.
I hope I’ve presented an idea of why I’m so opposed to refugee resettlement. I couldn’t write this blog post where I’m from. I’d be scared that someone would target my house. I’d be scared of the authorities. I had to wait to get to higher ground to speak more openly.
North Carolina is like Heaven. People are so much happier here. I thank God every day we got here. I consider it a “free zone”, and I want it to stay free.
The same is true for Utica, Michigan (48317). A little old city hemmed in by suburban sprawl.
Welcome to North Carolina. Please do not vote Democrat like so many migrants to this state from the northeast. Those of us with roots dating back to colonial times don’t want this to become another high tax big government hellhole.
Sounds like there are two options for Muslim refugees— welfare or the local bureaucracy. They get a fast track to either and natives have to sit in the back of the bus.
Sums up the article. The legal immigration, refugees and illegal invasion of this county must be throttled. This is the winning issue for DT.
The population of Utica is around 63 000.
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Obviously, that was several generations ago, so my wonderful memories of Utica have no relationship to today's reality.
I feel sorry for what has happened to our small towns, and the same thing has happened to our small mill/mining towns here in W. PA. While we are not over run with mooselimbs, until the Trump revival, we were ripe for that to happen.
Many of those towns are coming back to life, the factories are either re-opening or are being replaced by new and different factories.
Thank God for the Marcellus shale and fracking and President Trump.
Business is booming, the unemployment rate in PA is the lowest in our HISTORY.
Thank you President "obama???" for changing the regulations that have allowed business to boom.
I just watched some demmonRAT scumbag on TV saying that obama deserves the credit for today's booming economy...WTF???
By tacit agreement, the white people stick together in the waiting area. The Department of Social Services rejected my application several times without reason. I knew we qualified, so it became for me this bureaucratic challenge that I had to vanquish. It took a lot of wrangling and some certified sign-for-delivery mailings which were expensive. I managed to get us a month of food stamps. It was about $50 a week, I think, for a family of six. I don’t know if that’s average or not.
Want to know why my application was rejected several times even though we qualified? Want to know why it was so difficult to get food stamps? The Department of Social Services in my area is swamped because of the refugees. 25% of the city are refugees.
Exactly. Hopefully this human has learned something from their poor choices.
NC is in it's own battle with our metro areas infested with leftists and non-assimilating imports.
THE US SHOULDN’T PAY THESE ILK TO KEEP BREEDING. STOP ALL BENEFITS AND DEDUCT ALL HOSPITAL, WELFARE, INCARCERATION, COURT COSTS FROM MONEY SENT TO THESE COUNTRIES AS AID.
Most of the economic malaise in the heartland,the result of senseless globalism and off shoring, was caused by myopic greedy corpratists who bought off the GOP decades ago.
Muzzies are starting to show up in central VA.
Muslims don’t come to America to become Americans, they come to change America into Islam
and that’s the truth. Our politicians are changing the landscape, supporting encouraging and enabling them. They say they work for all the people but we know different
bammy brought them in knowing that their small numbers would be multiplied exponentially due to their 4 “wives,” obsession with sex, and murder of anyone who dares to leave their insane religion.
The amount of taxpayer money being spent on this destruction of our country is staggering and these people are not “ refugees”
Just like in the EU, asylum laws on the books have been abused to import very undesirable foreigners who do no have any intention of assimilating and who are 100% dependent on government welfare for generations
There is a phrase that applies here. You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you.
Fight now or know your enemy will fight you when they are in the majority. The bombings in Sri Lanka against Christians and the government’s response to close churches and protect mosques show that fact in abundance.
JoMa
The goal is for the two large Abrahamic religions to destroy one another on behalf of the third, smaller one.
And then they’ll live and rule the mixed, baying drones in perpetuity from behind high walls with elections reduced to mere surface formalities, no real need to convince people of the superiority of ideas of the winning side.
What are the chances this flood happens both to Europe and the USA at THE SAME TIME..?
Doesn’t Raliegh, NC have a huge Somali population like Minneapolis, Mn?
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