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Nikki Haley Sued Over Refugee Resettlements

LAWSUIT AIMS TO BLOCK CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAM  S.C. governor Nikki Haley and one of her cabinet agencies have been named as defendants in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the taxpayer-subsidized influx of refugees in the Palmetto State. The suit – filed on behalf of Walter “Brian” Bilbro – seeks to put the kibosh on…

LAWSUIT AIMS TO BLOCK CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAM 

S.C. governor Nikki Haley and one of her cabinet agencies have been named as defendants in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the taxpayer-subsidized influx of refugees in the Palmetto State.

The suit – filed on behalf of Walter “Brian” Bilbro – seeks to put the kibosh on this hugely controversial program, which imposes immediate and long-term financial obligations on South Carolina taxpayers (hence our opposition to the resettlements).

The program also poses legitimate security concerns – as evidenced by the involvement of refugees in the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Bilbro’s attorney is Lauren Martel – who filed a cease and desist motion against the U.S. State Department last September on behalf of Upstate, S.C. political operative Michelle Wiles.

Haley and her scandal-scarred S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) are named in the legal action – along with a Lutheran ministry and “World Relief of Spartanburg,” the organization we exposed in this exclusive report last April.

Previous resettlement campaigns couched as “evangelical” efforts have in reality been front groups for liberal campaigns like the National Immigration Forum – a group that’s received funding from organizations affiliated with billionaire liberal financier George Soros.  In fact one of the groups receiving funding from Soros – the so-called “Evangelical Immigration Table” – has a South Carolina presence.

World Relief – whose top executive makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year – received $38.8 million of its $56.8 million budget (roughly 68 percent, according to 2012 data) from taxpayer-funded grants.   Beyond the initial government subsidization of these settlements, taxpayers are also placed on the hook for ongoing expenses related to education, housing, health care and other basic needs.

“We are called and mandated to care for the poor, the helpless, and the vulnerable,” the group says on its website.  “It is not someone else’s job. It is in great part the responsibility and the privilege of God’s people.”

We’re not going to argue that point … however we will continue to argue (strenuously) that this “responsibility” and “privilege” cannot be imposed on taxpayers who are already struggling to get by as it is.

“This website is all for compassion,” we wrote recently.  “And those who wish to come out of their own pockets to provide cradle-to-grave support for refugees ought to be allowed to do so.  But as we’ve noted repeatedly over the last few months, compassion cannot be compulsory.”

And even if it could be made compulsory … this nation (and particularly this state) cannot afford it.

Nonetheless, Haley has been financially supporting these resettlements through the SCDSS budget – even though she was specifically enjoined from doing so by budget writers in the S.C. General Assembly.  In fact she has continued to support the resettlements even in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

Hopefully that will be corrected in the current version of the state budget.

Bilbro’s case against Haley is already drawing national attention, with one conservative activist citing the “clear and present danger” of the refugee resettlements as well as “the economic burden placed on the backs of hard-working citizens.”

“Mr. Bilbro, in my thinking, is doing the only thing left for him to do when faced with legislators who do not listen or vote in ways that would protect American citizens,” Dr. Rich Swier wrote on his website.  “In fact, after reading this lawsuit, I conclude that any legislator or elected official who isn’t actively seeking to stop the Refugee Resettlement program fails in their Constitutional duty to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for their constituents.”

We concur …

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60 comments

stumpknocker February 17, 2016 at 9:23 am

will folks, why do you assume that we are going to have to pay for them, hell immigrants
in general work as hard or harder than we do, the latinos did not cut into our jobs by sitting on their asses, oh yeah how about the vietnamese that mass migrated over here after the war? you don’t see them lining up for food stamps, your rant about having to support them is a load of bullshit.

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emmiekate February 17, 2016 at 9:27 am

No….it’s not most of them are here illegally and have no license or insurance but are on the roads….they also get free government health care and keep having babies.

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RC February 17, 2016 at 9:30 am

…and voting straight Democrat across the board.

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emmiekate February 17, 2016 at 9:33 am

You got that right!!

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 9:38 am

Democrats are out of voters in middle America.They need a whole new class of voters to be bred from illegal immigrants.

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FiFi February 19, 2016 at 7:44 am

It doesn’t matter if they vote for republicans any more, both of the parties are bought.

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 9:53 am

Chances are they will be exploited for cheap labor.

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TroubleBaby February 17, 2016 at 10:29 am

They could always stay home and be exploited too.

:)

“exploited”-funny

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FiFi February 19, 2016 at 7:43 am

They are not working in England. They are on public assistance and getting additional assistance if they bring additional wives.

In California, the immigrants you speak of cause massive gang-type crime, a massive heroin problem, get free medical while paying no taxes (including multiple babies at hospitals), have a tradition of using young girls as drug mules and messengers and then shooting them in fields, have a tradition of abduction/rape of underage girls as a form of marriage, fill our jails and prisonsn and send millions out of the country to Mexico where they plan on retiring.

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emmiekate February 17, 2016 at 9:25 am

Nikki Haley is a idiot. I hope she isn’t reelected.

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stumpknocker February 17, 2016 at 9:47 am

sure and if she runs against a democrat you will do the same old same old, any of ours is better than any of theirs and elect her.

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 9:52 am

Same votes same results…

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 10:51 am

I actually did something I thought I would never be forced to do in my worst nightmares. I voted for Sheheen, thinking him the candidate most likely to unseat her at the moment.

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stumpknocker February 17, 2016 at 11:30 am

i voted for benjaman the first time then against him because i don’t trust after his first term.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 11:33 am

Had I lived in Columbia, I would have done the same thing, Stumpknocker. He seemed to be the (ever so slightly) lesser of evils that first time up. He has turned out to be Satan, even making Bob Coble look honest by comparison.

FiFi February 19, 2016 at 7:14 am

She may or may not be an idiot, but she is definitely a bought and paid for traitor.

You should take back your state before it gets to be Calais or Cologne.

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erneba February 17, 2016 at 9:30 am

“..“responsibility” and “privilege” cannot be imposed on taxpayers who are already struggling to get by as it is.”
The world would have been much better off if a coalition of Arab countries, Russia, United States, and NATO countries would have secured certain areas in the Middle East as re-settlement regions. It would have cost money and probably generated conflicts in certain areas, but what we are doing now is just not working.

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Writenow February 17, 2016 at 12:55 pm

Well if you dummies would quit voting Republicans in, maybe you’d get better education and better jobs. It’s not by accident that all the Red states (mostly in the South) have the highest poverty rates. You dummies keep voting in those who screw your best interests for the best interests of corporations. Decades of doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.

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Berlin February 17, 2016 at 1:43 pm

You asswipes always assert it is party thing when it is not. Your troubles are not party. Your troubles are politicians no matter what party. Go fuck yourself.

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Writenow February 17, 2016 at 1:58 pm

You seem really nice. Home schooled?

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erneba February 17, 2016 at 2:00 pm

I was going to reply to him, but you pretty much covered the bases. I think you nailed him. Thanks.
And how my comment ever got to be a Democrat/Republican thing with this asshole is beyond me.
And if he did “go fuck himself’ he would be fucking one dumb bitch.

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 2:35 pm

Oh my! +10!!!

Writenow February 17, 2016 at 3:23 pm

We understand why there is a mournful looking dog as your header. Dog’s saying,

“This idiot is what I gotta put up with.”

WritenowCow February 17, 2016 at 5:41 pm

It may be that you want to build yourself a heaven of your own, like those jugglers build themselves out of linen cloth at the Shrove Tuesday carnival. Is it not disgusting that we have to hear such foolish and childish things from you?

Writenow February 17, 2016 at 5:46 pm

It seems facts annoy you. doesn’t make them any less factual clown boy.

FiFi February 19, 2016 at 7:11 am

Can’t colonize America and render it a borderless swarm of victims subject to your political/corporate will if you colonize your own country instead.

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 9:43 am

Hayley’s politically correct stab at pleasing the Republican establishment refugees and Amnesty ended her national aspirations in 2016.

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Flip February 17, 2016 at 9:52 am

She will run in 2018 as a representative. Her getting the flag down means she has a good chance at winning!

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Bible Thumper February 17, 2016 at 9:56 am

Mr. Bilbro will be found to not have standing to sue and the case will be dismissed. I hope Lauren Martel is not taking his money.

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jj February 17, 2016 at 9:59 am

She must not have felt loved as a child…that’s all I can figure.

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Hit the Road February 17, 2016 at 11:07 am

WOOPS! There goes the 65,000 Cadillac Escalade she bought while only making 20,000 at her her parents dress shop (according to tax returns).
Karma is a bitch and has a long, long memory!
Just ask Greg Leon, James Metts, Joe Owens, Randy Halfacre, the Danny Fraziers, the Bob Peelers, Tim James, Jason Amodio. The Lexington Ring, their associates and hangers on!
Could not happen to a more deserving group and Haley !
What is it about the folks in Lexington County?

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 12:19 pm

Did you see where Greg Leon is in jail, charged with murder for shooting his wife’s lover? That is another story Fits seems to have missed or otherwise overlooked.

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otis February 17, 2016 at 12:33 pm

Greg will probably throw EVERYONE under the bus now! Maybe get witness protection.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 12:37 pm

Otis, I have been wondering about that. Knowing that very little today is what it appears to be on the surface, I have a conspiracy theory from hell on this which I will save for later.

I will say that I halfway expect him (if convicted) to get an exceedingly light sentence “because he has cooperated” .

The “because he (or she) has cooperated” line seems to be the catch phrase for dealing with criminals who the PTB had no choice but to prosecute, but who they would rather have kept it all swept under the rug for if they had their druthers.

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ted February 17, 2016 at 4:12 pm

Might be a bad time to own a farming operation…just sayin. Let the shit storm commence.

CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 4:35 pm

Thank you, Ted! I get the picture!

Tazmaniac February 18, 2016 at 4:59 pm

WOW! I wonder if his opinion of illegal immigration has “evolved”?

CorruptionInColumbia February 18, 2016 at 5:37 pm

Who, Jimmy? I heard his cell mate was nicknamed “Big Juan”, because he has a big one.

Tazmaniac February 18, 2016 at 5:43 pm

Well him also I guess but I was wondering about the guy who caught the old lady boinking the undocumented guy. He is documented now, with a toe tag. I wonder if there is a Hispanic equivalent to John Doe, like Juan Garcia?

CorruptionInColumbia February 18, 2016 at 5:49 pm

Oh yeah! I too had that thought, Taz. Talk about Karmic blowback!!!!

I am mystified that Fits seems determined to ignore this story and serious potential undertones it generates. Wondering if the Lexington Crime Ring had a word with Will.

As I noted earlier, given that very little in the news today is as it appears on the surface, I have a whopper of a conspiracy theory with regard to this incident and what was said/not said in the initial news accounts.

For now, I really don’t believe he will get much of a sentence, if he lives to make it to trial and jail.

Tazmaniac February 18, 2016 at 5:59 pm

Yeah, the Get out of Jail Free card can also be bad for your health. Seriously, this guy is an idiot if he isn’t hollering for WitSec. If he knows enough, and there is every reason to believe he does, the cops should be threatening him with letting him go on bail. ;-)

inquiringmind February 17, 2016 at 1:18 pm

check out the lover’s employer

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 1:22 pm

I haven’t seen any reference to who she works for. Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting.

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inquiringmind February 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm

where is timmy james, heard he was in florida with bitiger.

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Manray9 February 17, 2016 at 11:13 am

I wonder if Mr. Bilbro is a Christian? Perhaps he missed this: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” But then again that was just the gospel of Matthew, not Rush, Trump, Cruz or Fox News.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 12:55 pm

Then establish safe camps for them in their part of the world and help them over there. No need to spend the extra money and take on the extra risks to bring them over here; unless of course, there is an ulterior motive or agenda.

I understand the cold in victi-… er, “host” countries is placing a hardship on these dear people. Why torture them in this manner?

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FiFi February 19, 2016 at 7:31 am

Thomas Aquinas said it was the duty of government to protect citizens. He wrote alot about the Christian duty of people to strangers entering their lands. You should check it out.

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Haley is a Joke February 17, 2016 at 11:24 am

Is anyone putting together RICO ACT suits against Haley and the Legislatures yet? It would be so fucking easy to bring them down, ya know. You people need to ban together and take down the lawless rogues in your government – send them to prison. Don’t have the balls, do ya? Bunch of coward pussy assess you are.

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cuvinny February 17, 2016 at 11:35 am

Since when does Haley have the right to ban people legally in the USA from entering the state?

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Haley is a Joke February 17, 2016 at 11:38 am

Georgia courts do it all the time.

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Bible Thumper February 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm

Don’t cha have to commit a crime?

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Clarence Boddicker February 17, 2016 at 12:02 pm

Put the kibash on kebabs.

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gunjit February 17, 2016 at 12:48 pm

Are her parents even American citizens? That would tell me a lot.

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Writenow February 17, 2016 at 12:53 pm

Yep, All them good Christians lending a helping hand in church on Sunday,
Sue on Monday. Doing the Devil’s work. As they say, The devil is in the details.
The detail here, is a court-filing, reality.
SC is one hateful, hateful, state.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 17, 2016 at 1:36 pm

Better to be thought hateful by the clueless than stupid by the enemy you open your door and your home to.

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Rocky in cyber hell February 17, 2016 at 1:10 pm

Hey. This silly cyber attack has my protection software blocking. I have no idea how to get back.

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Rocky belongs in hell February 17, 2016 at 3:18 pm

Good

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Lone Ranger February 17, 2016 at 6:31 pm

Wiles’ suit—to uphold the U.S. Constitution—sadly was ruled
by corrupt Obama-Bush lib “judges” as lacking standing

But when President Trump replaced Scalia with another TRUE
conservative—Hell was where Haley and Soros were landing !!!

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spicoli February 17, 2016 at 6:42 pm

Hey…. i know that dude.

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cuckoocuckoo February 17, 2016 at 6:50 pm

trust me bilbro and folks would get along juuuuuuust fine

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