“A Trump administration will not admit any refugees without the support of the local community where they are being placed,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 5,000 who greeted him at the Sun Country Airlines hangar of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport on Sunday.
Maine is withdrawing from the federal refugee resettlement program just four days before Election Day, WMTW in Portland reports.
The State Department informed Breitbart News that the estimated completion date was now February 2017 in a September 7, 2016 email, responding to an inquiry made several days earlier. Breitbart News subsequently asked the State Department to accelerate the estimated completion date to before the presidential election on November 8, but has not received a response to several such requests.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet “properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied alien children]” because “the need for facilities continues to grow.”
The Obama administration resettled 9,935 refugees in the United States in October, the first month of FY 2017, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
A packed house at the Phoenix Convention Center welcomed an exuberant and confident Republican nominee Donald Trump to Arizona on Saturday night, ten days before the nation will decide the outcome of a presidential election contest between Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
A Breitbart/Gravis poll conducted in Florida this week before Friday’s announcement that the FBI is reopening its investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State shows the race in the Sunshine State is a statistical tie between Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump.
The number of foreign-born cases of active tuberculosis (TB) spiked 20 percent in Nevada in 2015, up to 60 from 50 in 2014.
Should this pace of Syrian refugee resettlement continue for the remaining 340 days of the fiscal year, 335 Syrian refugees will be resettled in the state, a more than 400 percent increase from the 60 Syrian refugees resettled there in FY 2016.
Waterford Township trustees in Oakland County, Michigan, passed a resolution on Monday telling the federal government not to resettle any refugees, including those from Syria, within the township’s boundaries, until the program “has been significantly reformed.” The vote was unanimous, seven to zero.
The Tennessee General Assembly has selected the Thomas More Law Center to represent the state in its lawsuit against the federal government over the resettlement of refugees in the Volunteer State.
Seventy-seven migrants to Minnesota from Sub-Saharan Africa were diagnosed with active TB in 2015, according to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).
The Washtenaw County Public Health Department in Michigan is refusing to release refugee latent tuberculosis (TB) infection rates, the Washtenaw County Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Coordinator tells Breitbart News.
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in Michigan dropped to five points in one Michigan poll, while it increased to thirteen points in another poll.
A new poll released by Maine People’s Resource Center shows that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a statistical tie in Maine’s Second Congressional District. Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that do not allocate presidential electors on a winner-take all statewide basis.
One of the 3,554 refugees resettled in Ingham County, Michigan (Lansing) during the six years beginning October 1, 2010 and ending on September 30, 2016 (FY 2011 to FY 2016) has been diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), the Ingham County Health Department tells Breitbart News.
“I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election — if I win,” Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump told a rally in Newark, Ohio on Thursday.
“Clinton-Kaine just don’t get it. They, along with the Obama administration, have created all of the poverty they proclaim they want to fight,” Peter Navarro, an economic policy advisor to Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News. Navarro was responding to Democratic
Hillary Clinton’s running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) gave what was promoted as a major speech on the economy in Detroit Tuesday afternoon. It turned out instead to be a sermon on social justice in which he proclaimed that a new war on poverty will be “the defining mission” of a Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine administration.
Extraordinarily high levels of latent TB infection among Sub-Saharan refugees who have arrived in Minnesota during the past decade appear to be the ticking time bomb that has exploded into 296 cases of active TB diagnosed in the state among refugees in the past five years.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, most county health departments in the state, and the local Michigan offices of refugee resettlement agencies are hiding refugee latent tuberculosis (TB) infection rates from the public.
Two hundred and ninety-six refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2010 and 2014 in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
The Obama administration is on pace to bring 20,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in FY 2017.
If this pace of refugee resettlement continues throughout the remaining 359 days of the fiscal year, over 400 refugees would be resettled in West Virginia in FY 2017, sixteen times the number of refugees resettled in FY 2016.
On Friday, Judicial Watch “released 128 pages of documents it obtained from the mayor of Rutland, Vermont, showing a concerted effort by the mayor and a number of private organizations to conceal from the public their plans to resettle 100 Syrian refugees into the small southern Vermont town.” The Judicial Watch release of these documents confirms a pattern of secrecy and concealment found in dozens of small communities around the country.
The WikiLeaks document dump of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches revealed the Democratic nominee told a private group in 2013 that the country of Jordan “can’t possibly vet all those [Syrian] refugees … so they don’t know if … jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees.”
In the first six days of October, the Obama administration resettled 3,062 refugees in the country, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
Dahir Adan, the Somali refugee “who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday,” the Associated Press reports.
“An 8-year-old refugee from Congo died Tuesday after landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport,” the local CBS affiliate reports.
Four hundred and eleven refugees have been resettled in the United States each of the first five days of the fiscal year that began on October 1. At this rate, the country is on track to resettle more than 150,000 refugees in the fiscal year, a rate almost double the 84,995 resettled in FY 2016, and more than 40,000 greater than the 110,000 the Obama administration has proposed for FY 2017.
Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) offered voters two distinctly different choices on the issue of Syrian refugees, at the Oct. 4 vice-presidential debate.
A federal appeals court on Monday told the state of Indiana it could not withhold federal funds it administers from Syrian refugees resettled in the state.
More than 45 percent of the refugees resettled in the United States in FY 2016, 38,556 out of 84,995, were Muslim, according to the Department of State’s interactive website. Of the 12,587 Syrian refugees who were resettled in the United States in FY 2016, more than 99 percent, 12,487, were Muslim.
The federal government is sending more taxpayer money to Somali refugees in Maine.
“Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants,” the Star Tribune reports:
FBI Director James Comey told a Congressional committee on Wednesday that Dahir Adan, the Somali refugee who attacked ten people at a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall on September 17, was likely motivated “by some sort of inspiration from radical Islamic
Donald Trump addressed a packed house at a rally in Bedford, New Hampshire Thursday afternoon where he blasted Hillary Clinton, whom he said is “there for only one reason: to protect her donors and take their money.” “Hillary Clinton is
The Associated Press is reporting that officials twice tried and failed to deport Alfred Olango, the former refugee with a history of mental problems who was shot and killed by police in El Cajon, California on Tuesday.
The outgoing Obama administration is pressing ahead, despite polls that show a vast majority of voters oppose increasing the number of Syrian refugees, by rushing in 1,831 Syrian refugees during the month of September, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
It concerns the reporting and monitoring of the health status of the more than 4,000 refugees who were resettled in the state in FY 2016, the more than 20,000 who arrived in the preceding decade, and the 5,600 the Obama administration wants to bring in to the state this coming fiscal year.