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Corrupt UN Officials Helped Fake Refugees From Kenya Resettle In America
Hotair ^ | 10/09/2019 | John Sexton

Posted on 10/09/2019 10:24:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

CNN has a pretty remarkable story up today that reveals something everyone involved would rather remain a secret. For decades, people from Kenya have posed as Somalian refugees to take advantage of resettlement opportunities in the US and elsewhere. And CNN reports that middlemen collect large sums of money in order to bribe UN officials to make sure their clients have the best chance of being relocated.

For decades, the chaos in Kenya’s troubled neighbor, Somalia, pushed wave after wave of refugees across the border. They came in buses, on donkeys, and sometimes by foot.

But as the number of people moving to what was once the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya swelled from thousands, to tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands — there were many who registered as refugees who didn’t qualify…

All told, there are at least 40,000 Kenyans registered as refugees in the Dadaab camps alone, according to both UNHCR and government numbers, in what officials euphemistically term “double registration.”…

A UN spokesman told CNN, “I am not aware of any Kenyans being resettled as refugees.” Similarly, a spokesman for the US State Department says it has a “zero tolerance” policy for such fraud. However, CNN identified several “Somali” refugees who are actually Kenyan and even quotes one anonymous individual who admits his father faked their identities in the 1990s to gain resettlement in the United States.

A “facilitator” who gets paid between $10,000 and $20,000 for every client he can help get resettled abroad, claims he has bribed corrupt UN officials for years to make sure his clients get approved.

“It is at the very beginning of the process — before the applicant even gets to the US embassy vetting, the selection has been done at the UN level,” said one facilitator who said he has been exploiting corruption within the UN to game the resettlement system for years…

“The UN will know the criteria and make sure the paying clients match all the requirements. So, it can be cooked at the UN level,” he said…

“Before the Trump ban it was a booming business,” he said. His business is now focused on other countries, where refugee resettlement quotas are higher. He said his last case was just a few months ago.

The story quotes a UN official who compares resettlement to “winning the lottery.” That seems like an apt comparison, not just in Kenya but in Central America where we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people make a long journey to the US border, often with children, for a chance to claim asylum. Most of those people are coming for the same reason as the Kenyans pretending to be Somalian, i.e. they want a better life. And if all they have to do to get it is lie a bit about their circumstances, they’ll do that. Our immigration system needs to account for the fact that, for a lot of people around the world, illegal immigration is playing the lottery.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; kenya; obamassons; refugees; un

1 posted on 10/09/2019 10:24:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping refugee


2 posted on 10/09/2019 10:46:09 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: SeekAndFind

The Obama comments here will be be fun.


3 posted on 10/09/2019 11:02:07 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SeekAndFind

Sheesh. I wonder how many Americans want to present themselves as a refugee... he said they only had to give their name. Lying cane easy. Surprised Ran this.
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“Refugees” like Sharif say they can’t access health care, formal jobs, insurance and any number of services that are available to Kenyans. He says his government needs to do more to de-register the thousands of fake refugees still in the system so they can reclaim their Kenyan identity.”


4 posted on 10/09/2019 11:35:11 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: SeekAndFind

Pretty sure the term “corrupt UN official” is redundant.


5 posted on 10/09/2019 11:39:48 PM PDT by Fzob
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To: SeekAndFind

Jeh Johnson bused Somalians in from a camp just over the border in Mexico. Ann Corcoran has a website that documents it. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/


6 posted on 10/10/2019 1:25:16 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can we identify these individuals and DEPORT THEM?


7 posted on 10/10/2019 1:43:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I rather have a citizen of Kenya than Somalia. Of course I’d rather have somebody from a first world country who is self sufficient first.


8 posted on 10/10/2019 3:27:10 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ehhhh and nothing will be done about it.


9 posted on 10/10/2019 4:06:06 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Nateman

I rather have a citizen of Kenya than Somalia.

My USMC Infantry son cross-trained in Kenya, going into the bush with Kenyans and their equipment for a few weeks.
For him, this was a vacation of sorts, had a good time and thought highly of the Kenyans.

Somalia, not so much, he said the country is covered in trash, literally!
One location was known as the plastic bag factory because they were everywhere.
A craphole.


10 posted on 10/10/2019 7:09:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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