The Business of Importing Africans to America: From Slavery to Somali Refugee Resettlement

The benchmark for advocates of refugees, migrants and illegal aliens is a wanton desire for more consumers, more Diversity, and  more exotic restaurants.

Those are not the benchmarks America needs in its immigration policy to survive the 21^st Century.

The benchmark needed is acceptance of an common American sacrifice; young Americans were plucked off the streets of cities, hamlets and reservations, piled into floating death traps and asked to land on an open beach, in an attempt to breech the Atlantic Wall, a defensive barrier forged by the Nazi War machine, for over four years, under the command of the  brilliant paladin Field Marshal Rommel.

And the Americans  did it.

Does Diversity add to courage? No.

Does Diversity add to a willingness to sacrifice for the Republic?  No.

This Blogger believes, at best, Diversity and unfettered immigration are, at best, mox nix in adding to American Courage and American Sacrifice.

This Blogger believes that the purpose of an American Immigration Policy should not be adding consumers to the rolls of DISNEYLAND ticket holders, but to replace or replicate the non Diverse population which won World War II by an exercise of enormous Sacrifice.

This Blogger, along with many native born Americans, does not believe that the current crop of illegal aliens, migrants, immigrants and/or refugees measures up to the bench mark of American Sacrifice; therefore accepting them into the bosom of America is not worth the effort.

This Blogger implores those Readers who have an open mind about unfettered immigration to sit in on some citizenship swearing in ceremonies; watch the new American citizens from Bhutan, Somalia, Albania, and/or South Sudan. They are good and decent people, great consumers, obviously incapable of producing a 1^st Minnesota, or attending with courage the Bloody Angle, the Wheat Field, or the Peach Orchard. Does any reasonable American think that David Brooks, or Jorge Ramos, or Andrew Sullivan or Samantha Bee or John Oliver or Trevor Noah would  die for the Republic? Or even risk their lives for the Republic?

The Republic must produce a population capable of holding Pork Chop Hill against all odds in order to survive the 21^st Century; the new crop of immigrants, regardless of their classifications, don’t measure up.

The first adult book ever given to this Blogger was a history of the Civil War, by my sister who was working at Random House Publishers, so she got a discount.

The book was THE CIVIL WAR, a NARRATIVE by the Mississippian Shelby Foote("The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) is a three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote….. Foote is most famous for this non-fictional narrative history. While it touches on political and social themes, the main thrust of the work is military history. The individual volumes include Fort Sumter to Perryville (1958), Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), and Red River to Appomattox (1974)."

Mr. Foote saw the American Civil War as an American Iliad, Homeric and Divine. 

But, in this Blogger’s opinion, he begged the question: Why would the South start the Civil War? Especially after Lincoln, in his First Inaugural Address, offered them a Constitutional Amendment enshrining and memorializing Slavery.

 “Lincoln stated emphatically that he had "...no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Lincoln endorsed the 1860 version of the 13^th Amendment:”The initial amendment would have made slavery constitutional and permanent — and Lincoln supported it.

This early version of the 13th Amendment, known as the Corwin Amendment, was proposed in December 1860 by William Seward, a senator from New York who would later join Lincoln’s cabinet as his first secretary of state.

The Corwin Amendment read as follows:

"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

So the existential, cosmological, and/or seminal question remains: why did the South opt for War, when they could have won their struggle in Peace?

And, conjunctively, why did the South think they could win?

The answer is MONEY.

“Slavery is fundamentally an economic phenomenon….. Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value estimated to be between $3.1 and $3.6 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War. Masters enjoyed rates of return on slaves comparable to those on other assets….Jenny Bourne.”

The Gross National Product for the ENTIRE United States in 1860 was 4 Billion dollars.

The question, what Shelby Foote, the great Homeric historian, dodged was this -Why  did the South rebel? 

That question was answered by the brilliant historian James McPherson in his magnificent tome, THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM.

The 1860 South was rich, very rich. 1860 Mississippi was the richest place in the world, the Dubai of its day. The South, because of Money, thought they could win its freedom, freedom to enslave.

Refugee Resettlement to the United States in 2017 has nothing to do with compassion,  but only with profiteering.

The Liberal Media has consistently propagandized the benefits of refugee resettlement; on Friday, February 3, 2017, the doyenne of the Liberal media, THE NEW YORK TIMES published this article on Somali refugees.( Reader please note, this Blogger is an adamant supporter of ending Somali resettlement and repatriating the Somalis already located in America).

The pertinent contradictions in the Liberal pro-Somali refugee propaganda have been excerpted and highlighted:

“….. The Somali refugees who had already been extensively vetted and approved by several American government agencies will most likely be bused back to the camps. Many said that they feared for their lives and that their situation was actually worse than it had been before they came so close to leaving.

“Trump shocked us,” Mr. Ibrahim said…..Kenya is home to hundreds of thousandsof Somali refugees and many are treated terribly — constantly harassed, arrested, often beaten, discriminated against, kept in large camps or locked in a soccer stadium during police roundups, and sometimes they have even disappeared. Many Kenyans see Somalia the way much of the world does: as a terrorist threat. So the refugees have set their sights on a faraway dream. It’s called America. The United States runs a vigorous resettlement program, taking in thousands of Somalis each year.

The more than 100 approved refugees here are now stuck because they don’t have proper papers to walk the streets of Nairobi. They were supposed to be walking the streets of Atlanta, Buffalo, Des Moines and St. Louis by now… They aren’t allowed to leave the transit center…. Security is serious…. Life for many Somali refugees means confronting famine, anarchy, pestilence and death on a daily basis. Ever since the government collapsed in 1991, Somalia has been stuck in perpetual crisis.

The tiny percentage of refugees who make it all the way through are selected because they are considered the most vulnerable of the vulnerable….NEW YORK TIMES.”

Is it a vigorously vast resettlement program for Somalis, or merely a tiny percentage?

It is a vast resettlement program for Somalis.

Why?

The good Americans of Buffalo, Des Moines, Columbus Ohio, and St. Cloud, Minnesota did not start the Somalia Civil War, just as the Somalis did not start the American Civil War.

Yet, it is the good Americans who have to suffer what Kenya will not tolerate, Somalis in their midst. Incidentally, Kenyans are as black, as African, as Somalis, so racism is not a factor in their loathing of Somalis, common sense is.

Does it make any sense to bring so much trouble to the good people of America?

Why does America take so many Somalis?

Compassion?

No.

Money? As with slavery?

YES.

The Somali Refugee Resettlement Program is a direct descendant of 1860 Southern slave traders; both making vast sums on dealing with black human cargo from Africa.

This article in the Liberal Bible of Truth, the HUFFINGTON POST highlights that.

"U.S. refugee resettlement offices may have to downsize because of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting the number of persecuted people welcomed to the United States and will likely have to carry out major fundraising campaigns to stay afloat.

What they fear the most is that it will hurt refugees who are already here and who rely on resettlement offices to help them adjust to life in a new country.

….Trump’s order, signed one week ago, halts refugee resettlement entirely for 120 days and blocks Syrian refugees indefinitely. It also cuts refugee admissions for the 2017 fiscal year from the 110,000 proposed by President Barack Obama to 50,000. Lower refugee numbers means less funding for resettlement organizations (particularly those that primarily serve Syrian refugees), which now may have to fire staff or potentially close their doors.

Implicit in any halt of the refugee program is also a pause in federal funding for refugee resettlement organizations. The break in funding will begin March 31, according to Mark Hetfield, CEO of HIAS, one of the nine domestic resettlement organizations.

The amount of funding the government doles out is contingent on the number of refugees each organization resettles, Jane Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota, told The Huffington Post. IIMN is a local affiliate of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, another of the domestic resettlement agencies.

Once the State Department has approved refugee cases, it delegates them to one of those agencies. They meet on a weekly basis to divvy up newcomers and figure out which group will assist them in resettlement and which city each person or family will be resettled in.

“We haven’t been given any clear instructions but we do know that it means a quarter-of-a-million-dollar loss for our organization,” Graupman said of the executive order…..

…. “there will be no arrivals, so what are we supposed to do with our staff?” she asked.

…….. Trump slashed the refugee quota for the 2017 fiscal year by more than half to 50,000. The quota hasn’t been that low in a decade.

The quota hasn’t been that low in a decade.

“It’s a big departure from the norm of the last decade and that means fewer refugees across the whole country,” she said. “We will be receiving less funding and we will need less staff.”

….. there are still plenty of families already here in need of continuous support. Refugees keep getting assistance from resettlement offices for at least the first three months they’re in the U.S.

Resettlement offices find housing for refugees, help them enroll their children in school and assist them in finding work. They also teach them the basics of life in the U.S. ― things Americans may take for granted like how to use public transportation, write a check or shop for groceries. Many offices also help with English courses, employment readiness and financial literacy.

“We need to stay available for refugees who are already here,” she said.

None of the refugees already here will go without aid entirely because resettlement organizations are committed to fulfilling their obligation….

Resettlement workers said they hope opposition to the ban will lead to more people supporting refugee resettlement directly, whether by volunteering or donating money or goods…..HUFFINGTON POST.”

There is no difference between slavers divvying up slaves for an auction in 1860 and resettlement agencies divvying up Somali refugees for profit, salaries, and good living, except Liberal semantics.

The Trump Executive Order banning refugees was clumsy; however the raison d’être for such an order, getting America out of the divvying up resettlement business was sublime and correct.

Somalis have their own nation; Somalia has not been invaded by another nation.There is no reason to accept them as refugees, EXCEPT profit for the Resettlement agencies, profit by divvying them up.