State has already spent $1.5 million in past year on measles, TB
Minnesota pays out millions
every year in welfare for refugees, but there are secondary costs that never
get tabulated.
In fiscal 2017, which ended last last week, the state spent $1.5
million to combat three infectious disease outbreaks — including the largest
measles outbreak in 30 years, which swept through in the Somali refugee
community. And health officials notified legislative leaders this week
that they want to tap a special public-health fund to offset additional costs.
Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Minnesota Health commissioner, told the Star-Tribunehis department will need
another $600,000 for fiscal 2018 to help control the spread of measles,
drug-resistant tuberculosis and syphilis.
The state has had 78 confirmed cases of measles this year,
in an outbreak that began in March. Of those 78 cases, 64 have been in the
Somali refugee community. The outbreak is now showing signs of being under
control, with no new cases reported this month. But the costs continue to pile
up.
Health Department officials want $100,445 to continue prevention
work. About half the money would go toward hiring a “temporary employee” to
conduct outreach to the Somali community, including efforts to increase measles
vaccination rates, the Star-Tribune reported.
Meanwhile, the state is also grappling with an outbreak of
drug-resistant tuberculosis, primarily among Hmong immigrants, which has
already cost the taxpayers $626,000 over the past year. Now state health
officials are asking for another $224,635 for the coming year to fight TB.
The balance of the $600,000 request will go to treat a 30
percent increase in syphilis cases in the American Indian community in
north-central Minnesota.
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said most
Americans don’t want to follow the European model of socialism but that’s what
they are getting with refugee resettlement, which has secretly injected more
than 3 million Third Worlders into U.S. cities and towns since the 1980s,
without the consent of the communities.
“Ask the average American if they want an unending pipeline of
poverty continuously dropped into the U.S. by the UN and the US State
Department,” Bachmann told WND. “Overwhelmingly and emphatically the American
people say no.”
“The bureaucracy could care less what citizens have to say, all
they care about is destroying Western civilization in favor of advancing
progressive utopian dreams,” she added.
“In Minnesota, the dream has become a nightmare of exploding
costs.”
Ann Corcoran, an expert on the resettlement industry who blogs
at Refugee Resettlement Watch, said the industry
is fond of churning out “bogus economic studies” that falsely inflate the value
of refugees to U.S. communities.
“The cost of treating these illnesses is never factored into
these studies, where they always conclude that the refugee influx is helping
the communities,” she said.
“I am sick and tired of hearing reports on the economic benefits
of the refugees that they pay and start businesses and create jobs, and in
those studies they never discuss the true cost of health care, or the true cost
to the criminal justice system from the numerous criminal trials,
incarcerations, etc.,” Corcoran told WND. “Imagine what it costs to put
refugees like Fazliddin Kurbanov away for life.”
Kurbanov, a refugee living in Boise, Idaho, was convicted at
trial last year of conspiring to recruit Muslim migrants to make bombs and blow
up U.S. military installations. Dozens of Somali refugees have been charged
and/or convicted of providing material support to overseas terrorist
organizations.
“Have you ever seen a study on the cost of even short-term
incarceration? It’s never in those bogus economic studies,” Corcoran said. “And
the other thing that is never in there is the remittances that are gone from
our economy. And you can bet your bottom dollar it’s not just wage earnings
they’re sending back home. They’re sending welfare money back home, too. So you
never see a net inflow or outflow of money from our economy in these phony
economic studies touting how much these refugees boost our economy.”
If refugees really were bringing economic boom times to nations,
Corcoran said she wonders why relatively poor Eastern European nations such
as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia are all trying to keep
refugees out of their borders.
Debra Anderson, chair of the ACT For America chapter in
Minnesota, said it’s not right or fair that hard-working American taxpayers are
expected to pay for the forced migration of unvaccinated and diseased Third
World “refugees” into their neighborhoods.
“Communities throughout Minnesota are being ‘fundamentally
transformed’ through the “refugee” resettlement policies orchestrated by our
government and facilitated by our ‘faith-based organizations,” Anderson said.
“And, unfortunately, there is a virtual cottage industry of American citizens
who are all too willing to jeopardize our national security, liberty, and our
posterity’s future for financial gain. Unconscionable.”
Most refugees in Minnesota are resettled by either Catholic
Charities or Lutheran Social Services.
“Suffering Minnesotans are expressing concerns and asking
questions,” Anderson said.
“Only yesterday was I was informed, again, by Karin Blythe,
supervisor at Lutheran Social Services, that the general public (you and me,
the tax payer) was not welcome to their quarterly consultation meeting or to
their Reception & Placement Abstract, which outlines their plans for
resettlement of ‘refugees’ into our neighborhoods,” she added.
“And just last night we made an appeal to the St. Cloud City
Council for this information. We are waiting for their response.”
