Did you know that the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) isn't a Lutheran OR a Christian at all? She's a progressive Communist (atheist) who used to work for Obama & Hillary at the State Department and as Michelle Obama's policy director? In other words, all these "refugee resettlement" operations that pretend to be organizations of faith are false prophets.
They renamed LIRS as "Global Refuge" to further confuse people.
CHARLIE KIRK: "Allow me to explain how the government sanctioned so-called refugee resettlement “non-profits” really work.
These are large companies that make more money from taxpayers the more “refugees” the government lets in. It’s another cog in the mass migration racket. They build in margins for each refugee they resettle, so when we stop admitting people, so does their financing. This represents an existential crisis for them.
So they misrepresent the scriptures, and they emotionally blackmail Americans on Sunday shows and in op-eds to gin up controversy and sob stories to game the refugee programs against our national interests. It’s a financial racket that Trump just slammed shut. We will not be manipulated anymore."
The Lutheran Refugee Resettlement agency (LIRS) hired a progressive Democrat, non-Lutheran, and Michelle Obama's former policy Director, as its President in 2019. That tells you all you need to know.
The ELCA's Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) is one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the United States along with Catholic Charities. It was originally founded in 1939 and partners with other resettlement organizations across the country - including some of the largest ones in the Twin Cities and St. Cloud - in Minnesota.
These resettlement "charities" make over $6,000 profit per “refugee” they resettle in America. It's a huge profit center. President Trump's previous policies, including limiting migration from nations that sponsor terror, have put a huge damper in their financial statements. The ELCA alone boasts of bringing 379,000, mostly Muslim, refugees to America - which translates to $2.2 billion in total revenue. How many of them are you seeing converted to Christianity by the ELCA? Right.
Many people wonder why Minnesota is home to so many Somali refugees? Why do so many Somali refugees end up in Minnesota when they are first brought to OTHER states? Because they MIGRATE to Minnesota after they are first sent to other states because of free everything. I’m going to illustrate what is going on using Minnesota because it is my home state and I know it. Here’s one example:
A mother from Somalia and her seven kids were on their way to Minnesota, less than two months after they arrived in Phoenix from Somalia:
"We didn't know how to get jobs in Phoenix, and even if we did, we didn't know how we'd get to them," she explained through an interpreter because she didn’t speak English.
In Phoenix, without a car, they found themselves lost: Where were they supposed to get groceries? How did they go about setting up long-overdue doctor's appointments under their new free ObamaCare program? How would they find work if they had no skills and didn't speak English or Spanish? How would they get around without a car? How would they pay rent after their initial stipend from the U.S. government ran out?
The Somali Association of Arizona stepped in, providing groceries and setting up doctor's appointments for the family. But they couldn't do anything about the fact that the fact that with limited English and no training, they weren't qualified for any jobs.
Worried that her rent would be cut off soon, the Mother decided they should move to Minnesota, where the benefits are excellent and where she, like virtually all Somalis, have family. The program coordinator for the Somali Association of Arizona says that her story is a common one.
As many as half the Somali refugees resettled in Arizona AND other states end up leaving for Minnesota.
The biggest challenge for Somali refugees is finding a job. Even jobs cleaning hotel rooms or washing dishes in a restaurant come with a requirement that applicants speak English — or, unofficially, Spanish. They speak neither. So how did Minnesota become a hub for Somali refugees?
"A lot of Somalis brought here to America moved to Minnesota from other states for jobs. Almost every Somali in Minnesota who came here between 1991 and 1998 worked at the chicken factories in Faribault and Marshall."
Bill Clinton bragged back then that he was responsible for this - he thought Minnesota was too white and didn’t work hard enough. He said that these are the factory jobs that Americans won't do…
Most credit the strength of Minnesota's "voluntary agencies" - called VOLAGS. These quasi-governmental agencies welcomed the first wave of Somali refugees in the early 1990s, and others soon followed.
It should be noted that none of the VOLAGS are actually really associated with the true teachings of the church, they just hijack the name for political expediency or they have been instrumental in infiltrating certain denominations to take them over for the Communists. The U.S. State Department decides where new refugees (determined by the UN) should end up and it often depends on how many voluntary agencies are in the area to expedite the process.
Here's how the refugee resettlement programs work. The United Nations High Commission on International Refugees selects and "vets" refugees to be distributed to the United States. The US sets an annual refugee cap and the US State Department contracts with voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) to help refugees get settled in their new homes.
Five of the top nine VOLAGs in America are so-called "Christian" non-profits (Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Episcopal* Migration Ministries.) The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.
The primary VOLAGs in Minnesota are:
-Catholic Charities
-International Institute of Minnesota
-Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota
-Minnesota Council of Churches: Refugee Services
-Arrive Ministries
I believe that Lutheran Social Services is associated with the ELCA, not the Missouri Synod or WELS Lutheran church. Minnesota has the highest number of refugees per capita nationwide. With 2 percent of the nation’s population, Minnesota has 13 percent of its refugees. Minnesota is a refugee magnet because Minnesota has what refugees want — jobs, good social welfare programs, and plenty of people from their home countries.
Refugees cost Minnesota taxpayers an estimated $107,000 each in food, housing, education, aid, medical expenses and other services. Communities have no control over the in-flow of refugees, yet they must share the cost of supporting them. And residents often don’t speak out or even ask questions of the process for fear of being called racists.
The VOLAGs work with 350 subcontractors and are paid up to $4,225 per head to resettle refugees in Minnesota. Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, these quasi-Governmental organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the Federal Government to resettle refugees in the United States.
Refugee resettlement is quite profitable. VOLAGs have almost no real responsibilities for these refugees after they are settled. After 4 months, the VOLAG is not even required to know where the refugee lives.
There are multiple ways for these VOLAGs to generate revenue from refugee resettlement:
a. $2,025 per refugee (including children) from the State Department.
b. Up to $2,200 for each refugee by participating in a U.S. DHHS program known as Matching Grant. To get the $2,200, the VOLAG need only show it spent $200 and gave away $800 worth of donated clothes, furniture, or cars.
c. VOLAGs use volunteers to actually solicit the cash and donated goods from the public for them. So not only does the VOLAG meet its matching grant requirement through donations from the public, it uses volunteers to do the fundraising.
d. VOLAGS get volunteers to actually work with the refugees and pay for their own time and transportation, so essentially the VOLAG pockets the entire $4,225 per refugee itself.
d. The VOLAG pockets 25 percent of every transportation loan it collects from refugees it “sponsors”.
e. All VOLAG expenses and overhead are paid by the Federal Government.
f. For their refugee programs, VOLAGs also collect money from all available federal, state and local grant programs.
The irony is that these VOLAGS, which were once organized to serve their local communities, have now really lost much of their original purpose and have become agents for those bringing non-Christians to America. Critics argue they are now no longer private charities but instead well paid subcontractors of the Federal Government.
Catholic Charities has grown into a huge $3.8 billion operation with more than 65,000 employees. Half of its funding–$2 billion–comes from the Federal Government, through the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. 98 percent of Catholic Charities refugee resettlement budget comes from the federal government. 97 percent of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s budget comes from the federal government.
I doubt 99.9% of Americans are aware of this.
I pulled these figures from the Minnesota DHS website. This is a summary of actual expenditures for welfare in Minnesota for 2017. Nearly $13 billion per year, or an average benefit of $55,652 per low-income household. Of importance to note are the expenses for Daycare Assistance and PCA Assistance. A total of nearly $25,000 per household.
I left home at 17 and made my own way - I guarantee you that nobody handed me free everything and $55,000 a year to settle in to adulthood!
The Somali community receives 28% of all Minnesota state welfare payments for these programs alone - yet they supposedly account for less than 2% of the population. WHERE is all that money going? Who is NOT receiving benefits in Minnesota that SHOULD?
I am not a trained auditor. But if I can find this information, why can't the professionals? BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO. They purposefully change the program names to make it confusing and misleading. No wonder people love to come to Minnesota. The taxpayers provide such lovely benefits, it's cheaper not to work. If the DHS investigators are correct, and the Minnesota welfare fraud rate is 50-80%, we are talking billions and billions of dollars every year. Shut it down. SHUT IT DOWN NOW.
This is one of the reasons that President Trump wants to stop mass immigration from terrorist nations, wants to stop nations from sending their criminals to America to be supported by the taxpayer and wants to stop alien criminals from giving birth on American soil and taking advantage of our generosity. COMMON SENSE.
Once refugees are situated in welfare-friendly states - they are often trained how to further game the system. This is all part of their indoctrination.
For example, Minnesota, remember the daycare fraud investigation from Fox 9 that revealed suitcases full of cash were leaving the Minneapolis airport for North Africa and the Middle East? Many wondered just how the daycare fraud is perpetrated. Here's what I learned:
1) The so-called "working" parents will apply for daycare assistance for each child. That amounts to a benefit of roughly $1,000 per month, per child. That means a family with 4 children will receive a daycare benefit of $4,000 per month or $48,000 per year, paid for by Minnesota taxpayers.
2) Another "community" member will open a daycare facility. They will hire the MOTHER of the 4 children as an "employee."
3) The mother will work at the daycare facility for minimum wage for a maximum of 25 hours per week caring for HER OWN CHILDREN so that she can prove she is "working" and qualifies for daycare assistance.
4) The daycare facility will bill the state $4,000 a month for caring for her 4 children - and pay the mother $400 a month in income for caring for HER OWN CHILDREN - and pocket the rest. Often, much of that money will be sent back to their country of origin. Some critics believe the parents receive additional kick-backs for their participation. Or, sometimes, there aren't ANY children AT ALL...the facility is empty...and the state is billed for non-existent children.
5) Because the mother works only 25 hours a week, she is still entitled to free healthcare through Medicaid or ObamaCare, free food stamps, cash assistance, daycare assistance and subsidized housing for up to 10 years. Meanwhile, Minnesota-born citizens wait in line.
6) The daycare facility will often build a kitchen and call it a "restaurant" and hire workers (mothers of more children who receive free daycare) to feed all the families.
7) The daycare facilities are not open to "everybody" and are often full.
8)If the family has subsidized housing, the low wage she is being paid at the "daycare" facility will ensure they are qualified to continue to receive subsidized housing or Section 8 FOREVER.
9) New refugees are trained in on the scheme when they arrive and are taught how to manipulate and maximize the system. This is an international scam - which has been going on in Australia and the UK for over a decade. Minnesota spends $13 billion on welfare benefits every year, and some $250 million of that is just on daycare assistance alone.
10) Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison, as well as the Democrat and Republican leadership in Minnesota, are ALL complicit in the scheme. Lawmakers refuse to investigate and avert their eyes. Left unchecked, welfare fraud will bankrupt Minnesota.
BTW, IT'S NOT JUST DAYCARE FRAUD. Food stamp, PCA and housing fraud too.
For example, refugee public housing residents in Minneapolis do NOT have to pay their normal monthly rent when they travel to their homelands. Instead, they will pay only $75 per month to hold their public housing units for their return. Meanwhile, native-born, low-income Minnesotans, who are on waiting lists for public housing, will just have to wait.
Refugees receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when they leave the United States. The most common reasons for their travel abroad include visiting families left behind or participating in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are expected to make at least once.
Wait a minute. I thought refugees were fleeing persecution. That’s what they tell us. Why would they want to vacation in their homelands and how can they afford a $3,000 flight home?
FROM A DEVELOPER FRIEND: There are thousands of Section 42/Tax Credit units being built or have been built in Minnesota. You can have a voucher and qualify for housing in one of these units but it’s primarily meant for a family with only one person working. The federal government sets the rents every year based on the median income in the county that the apartments are in. I’d say 75% of the residents are Somali. This is called the LIHTC low income housing tax credit housing. Developers receive tax credits for building affordable housing.
The kicker here is, once you qualify to live here income-wise, you can win the lottery the day after you move in and still qualify year-after-year. The only time they have to income qualify is the first year. Rents are set below market rate but above Section 8 and are not based on income like Section 8 housing. I do know from my personal experience that many Somali renters also receive large shipments of Khat from Somalia and the men are all jacked up on it most of the time. Khat causes psychosis and is similar to cocaine or amphetamines. Surely some have to be here illegally!
HERE’S WHAT ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE who worked for the Minneapolis Public Housing authority told me:
"Taxpayers are paying for it in a way. The refugees often have decent paying jobs, enough so that they paid maximum public housing rent of $500 or thereabouts. Once they reached maximum rent they could stay as long as they liked and make even more money and their rent was capped at $500. So they occupy what is supposed to be low income housing, their rent is not market rate, they are taking an apartment away from a true low income family that needs it and we subsidize it (and then they get to pay $75 a month to hold that unit for them when they leave the country.) Saw it with my own eyes."
Nice huh? Come here to Minnesota as a "refugee" from another country and you get rent capped at $500, you can live there forever, get free food and free daycare and free transportation and free healthcare and then pay $75 a month to keep your unit while you fly home to visit relatives, in the country you had to flee because of "so-called persecution," on $3,000 flights. Minnesota - how did you become so stupid?
Even worse - an investigation by the local media in Minneapolis found that millions of dollars in carry-on cash in suitcases fly out of the Minneapolis airport every week due to daycare and other fraud. Daycare fraud alone is costing Minnesota taxpayers as much as $100 million a year.
How does it work? At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms. This happens almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to North Africa, the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. In 2015, investigators documented $14 million in carry on cash. It has now grown to over $100 million a year. The same thing is happening in other cities, like Seattle.
The money is sent via "Hawalas." Hawalas are businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system. Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds back to their home countries. However, investigators discovered some of the money was being funneled to Hawalas in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
When the money arrives in Somalia, whether it's intended for legitimate purposes or not, al Shabaab terrorists demand a cut. Tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments are from legal immigrants and illegal aliens who are on US government assistance. In other words, our taxpayer money ends up funding the very terrorists who want to kill us!
How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home to Somalia and other countries? It’s all through welfare fraud like I outlined earlier. Trump has vowed to put a stop to all the fraud and grift.
BTW - I posted MUCH of this information on social media in 2018 and was called a racist and removed for months. Let's see what happens this time.
*I guarantee you that the so-called Episcopal “Bishop” who scolded President Trump a few days ago for his immigration policy and transgender policy was motivated by the MONEY that their refugee settlement arm receives from these programs. Ask her!
You can read about that here if you haven’t yet…
One of the LIRS affiliates recently responded after Trump was inaugurated and said they are just abiding by the Constitution to help those fleeing “persecution.” Right.
Today, VP JD Vance, a practicing Catholic, went on the Sunday shows and said this:
“I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for, and I hope, again, as a devout Catholic, that they'll do better.”
"I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants - are they worried about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We're going to enforce immigration law. We're going to protect the American people.”
https://x.com/AureliusStoic1/status/1883559126871216354
TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-transcript-face-the-nation-01-26-2025/
Earlier today, the Communists running Colombia told Trump that they didn't want to take back the criminal illegal aliens they sent to America.
Colombia is refusing to allow US deportation flights. So Trump immediately imposed 25% tariffs. 20% of Colombia’s GDP comes from exports, of which 27% goes to the US. Their economy needs us. Valentine's Day is coming up soon and guess where the roses come from? Colombia.
The tariffs—which increase to 50% in a week, created an incentive for Colombia to agree to terms quickly and also sent a signal to other countries not to play games here.
Colombia is a leading producer and exporter of roses for Valentine's Day which is coming up in three weeks. Timing is everything! THEY CAVED IN 20 MINUTES.
I had a friend in Wisconsin who married a Colombian woman and immediately became brainwashed and infected with TDS and a full-blown Communist. He thinks Colombia SHOULD send their criminals and murderers and rapists and drug dealers to live here with us and his children. Tell my friend, Denny, NO MORE!
This is just one way President Trump can use tariffs to protect America! You can read more about that here:
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