At a February Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton and the founder of the Chobani yogurt company Hamdi Ulukaya suggested that the US import middle eastern migrants to rebuild the city of Detroit. Clinton cited the fact that there are 10,000 empty structurally sound houses in the city and there is a lot of potential jobs for refugees to repair them, but he didn’t mention the employment potential for the thousands of out of work Americans who are already living there.
Following are points from a Breitbart article:
— Clinton’s statements underscore Donald Trump’s declaration that Hillary Clinton would rather give jobs to refugees from overseas than to unemployed African Americans. Trump also said that the amount of money Clinton would like to spend on refugees could rebuild every city in America.
— Hillary Clinton has called for a 550 percent expansion of the importation of middle eastern immigrants. Based on the figures she sites, she would potentially bring in at least 620,000 migrants which nearly equals the population of Detroit (677,116).
— 91.4 percent of recent refugees from the Middle East are on food stamps, and 68.3 percent are on cash welfare, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services.
— Chobani yogurt company founder Hamdi Ulukaya then mentioned the potential transformation of entire communities that would result from large-scale immigration, saying “There’s a town actually in the eastern part of Turkey, it’s called Kilis, [where] sixty percent of the whole town is refugees. I mean, this all happened in the last three, four years,” and earlier he said, “I’m proud of what the people of Turkey and what people in the government are trying to do on this issue. It’s huge.”
— Clinton dismissed issues of potential terrorism resulting from the importing of the migrants, instead insisting that the traditions of Syrians are “amazing.”
— The Chairman of the House Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee has explained that there is “no real way of vetting, to any extent, these refugees coming in.”
— Ulukaya pointed to the work Germany has done in accepting large amounts of refugees, saying: “I listened to Madeleine Albright the other day… She said, you know, we’re not doing enough. And I was in Germany just after. Looking at Hamburg, Hamburg took almost 90,000 refugees. And I was with the mayor and for two days we looked at the refugee centers [and] what they did. They were prepared to take 500-600, you know, that’s what they were doing for years. Now they took 90,000.”
— Neither Clinton or Ulukaya mentioned that the U.S. already takes in 70,000 refugees each year, not including the migrants that Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan are resettling in the country this year alone.
— Ulukaya proudly talks about having “11 different nationalities [represented] in Chobani factories” and how he had to hire “11 different translators into the factory” because the local company employees couldn’t communicate with one another.
— The journalist Leo Hoffman has previously reported, “[T]he state of Idaho, despite its reputation as a mostly white, conservative farm state, has been a popular destination for refugees in recent years— in large part due to Ulukaya’s efforts to import refugees to work in his yogurt factory. … Ulukaya opened the world’s largest yogurt factory in Twin Falls about two years ago, and the plant now employs 600 people with about 30 percent of those jobs filled by foreign refugees shipped to the U.S. from United Nations camps in the Middle East and Africa.”
— Twin Falls it to receive about 300 refugees this year, many of them Muslims from Syria, and the U.S. State Department has shipped more than 11,000 refugees directly from the Third World to Idaho since 2001. In the past year, 989 refugees have arrived in Idaho, with half of them coming from the world’s most extreme jihadist hot zones including Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and Pakistan.
— In June, a group of Iraqi and Sudanese refugees sexually assaulted a five year old American girl in Twin Falls while recording the incident on video, and in August an African refugee sexually assaulted a 33 year old mentally disabled woman in Twin Falls.
— The Office for Idaho Refugees recently produced a brochure to help American employers who are looking to hire new refugees. It recommends avoiding eye contact with migrant employees due to Burmese migrants interpreting it as “an act of challenge,” and it also recommends avoiding discussion about the employee’s family members, which Afghan migrants see as “an act requiring revenge.”