The Town That Loved Refugees
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:13 am
Douglas Mercer
July 29 2021
If there is a parable of what happened to America perhaps it is the fate of Utica in upstate New York. During the 19th and 20th centuries Utica was all White and the city's infrastructure contributed to its success as a manufacturing center and defined its role as a worldwide hub for the textile industry. Then of course the big brains in the big offices discovered that they could cut Uticans loose and they sent those job overseas to dark skinned coolies. The truth is if a White citizen from Utica was on fire those sharks wouldn't cross the street to piss on him.
The result was the Utica became one of those rustbucket ghost towns and the population declined precipitously. Then another set of big brains had another bright idea: to bring in refugees. Not just a few, which would have been bad enough, but refugees by the brimful and the boatful. So many of these invasive humans did they import that formerly White Utica got something of a reputation for this suicidal act of treachery. And the boosters of among the city fathers decided to capitalize on this notoriety and they took to conferring on the city an informal name:
The Town That Loves Refugees.
They might as well have called themselves the town that wanted to die.
It used to be the beating heart of White America. Now that heart has been ripped out.
"Like other rust belt cities cities, Utica underwent an economic downturn beginning in the mid-20th century. The downturn consisted of industrial decline due to offshoring. and the closure of textile mills, population loss, poverty associated with socioeconomic stress and a depressed tax base. With its low cost of living, the city has become a melting pot for refugees from war-torn countries around the world, encouraging growth for its colleges and universities, cultural institutions and economy."
What could go wrong other than everything?
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Of course those very boosters among the city fathers (and mothers) don't see it as tragedy at all. They put a bright face and facade on this race debacle, and very likely believe it. Even a quick bit of research shows that they are pointing to and painting a rather rosy scenario for how it is all playing out. It's a different city and a different town now, the heritage and the history are gone, but "we're being moral" and look: those numbers are up!
Just look at the blizzard of propaganda they have put out.
"We're the town that loves refugees!"
"Around Utica, it’s not unusual to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work in the blowing snow."
Black never goes with White.
"Signs of the diversity abound, from the polyglot shop signs, to restaurants serving Asian and Bosnian dishes, to the teenagers from Myanmar and Somalia playing together at a community center."
"A large mosque is visible from the City Hall office of Mayor Robert Palmieri, who calls the refugees the next evolution for a city that was once known for its textile mills and was built generations ago by immigrants from Italy, Germany and Poland."
You got that right: White Europeans built this city with the hope and expectation that they would be building it for their posterity. But it turns out they didn't; the built it for Somalis, for Afghanis, for Vietnamese. Their inheritors, so-called.
And really it's amazing how they play it as if this radical break and enormous discontinuity in American history is really just more of same, nothing unusual. Why Uticans have been doing this forever, no reason to be unduly alarmed.
"Utica is an ethnically and culturally diverse city with a long history of ethnic minorities and is a significant refugee city."
"Utica has always been a town of immigrants. In the 1800s and early 1900s Italians, Germans and Poles helped to establish it as an important hub in America’s burgeoning northeast industrial heartland. As demographic and industrial patterns changed, Utica fell on hard times, but in recent decades a new wave of arrivals, refugee groups from all corners of the globe, has begun to re-energize the region. In addition to new faces in the workforce, there are Vietnamese restaurants, , Bosnian coffee shops, mosques and temples."
Technically speaking this is true; both Germans and Thailanders are "ethnic minorities" but that's where the similarity ends; they know this of course but they want to try to sneak it past us.
"The mayor loves the cosmopolitan culture and how Bosnians have built up Utica’s east side by rehabbing old homes."
“I would love to have the president come to Utica, New York, to see what it’s all about and how beneficial it’s been as a melting pot and blending them into the fiber of America,” Palmieri said.
The reference to the President is Trump's statement that Donald J Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of all Muslim immigration until we find out what the hell is going on (his time in public life has been all down hill since that high point). My, those were the days, when everything was still possible. The mayor of Utica on the other hand wants to show that we can all get along. Until we can't of course, and that eventuality is always right around the corner unless it's already next door or on your doorstep.
"It started back in the 1970s with Vietnamese and Cambodians and they’ve been coming ever since."
So the irony is thick here: just as the offshoring craze among our bloodsucking elites began in earnest, just as a war that sucked the blood from so many White men ended, just then they started bringing in foreigners from the country where we fought that war to replace White people, no doubt many of whom had lost sons, nephews and neighborhood boys in that very war. Kill the White man in pointless wars and substitute Asians for them, it's almost as if there is a concerted plan afoot. It sure looks that way to me.
And next came the the Sudanese, the Thailanders, and god knows what other hodgepodge of racial bastardization they could scour the world for. If you want to see the depth of mixed blood to which they've descended just check out their site for the local refugee center called, well, The Center.
On the first page of the site you have the women in the requisite hijab, a man in some kind of multicolored African costume and then a nondescript Mexicana.
Many Cultures, One Community is the headline.
Lost of dark-skinned foreigners, many tragedies.
More than fifteen languages are spoken by the staff, which is 14 too many. More than half of the employees are refugees themselves so it's a kind of self perpetuating system they have going on there. 16,500 refugees have been "resettled" since 1981. And 69 percent of Utican residents think immigration is good for the area, which is the same percent who might as well be deaf, dumb, and blind.
"Thousands have settled in Utica through the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, which grew out of efforts to bring over Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. It has since shepherded in 16,000 people from around the world, about 400 refugees a year, including Somalis, Bosnians, Syrians, Sudanese and people from Myanmar."
The Center recently offered a class geared towards demonizing the ever dwindling White majority: "Asian Discrimination and the Covid 19 Pandemic". This anti-White class was organized by the Office For New Americans Opportunity Center and commemorated the United Nations week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (#Fightracism).
"The arrival of a large number of immigrants since the 1990s has stanched the city's population loss that had been steady for more than three decades. With almost 60% percent of the city's population under 50 in 2006, the city has amassed a large group of younger refugees. According to the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, one quarter of Utica's population is represented by refugee families, with groups settling from countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam, Thailand, Belarus. Other recent immigrant groups include Burmese, Sudanese, Somali."
One in four Utitcans is not really a Utican! And those non Uticans? Why, they are younger and breed like wild rabbits in heat. Just wait a few years, you'll think your in a port city at the crossroads of the world.
"On this night, there were teenagers from Nepal, Burma, and Somalia. They told me they come here to dance, to study, take art classes, and just to gossip and spend time with friends."
The Center notes that they offer free lawyers to anyone who wants help in becoming a naturalized American City, but laments that Donald Trump had reduced the number of refugees who will come to Utica.
"Sharifa and Hamida said it was tough when they first arrived in central New York. "People didn't understand a lot of stuff," Hamida said. "We had to tell people who were really are."
No need, we know who your are, foreign interlopers who have no business being here.
"An influx of thousands of refugees from around the world over the past few decades is credited with injecting new energy and optimism into this post-industrial city of 62,000. Some refugees worry, however, they will not be able to bring over family members fleeing war zones and refugee camps."
Ah, there's the catch: it's that famous chain migration that Trump used to so often bluster about. You bring one in and give him his rights and the law says he can drag dozens in, whole clans, whole communities. It's an exponential and proliferating existential nightmare. And the poor refugees who are here fret that it might not be happening fast enough.
The Center hosted a panel discussion in which it claimed that worldwide by 2019 79.5 million people were displaced (and in need of new homes). The participants noted the historic changes in the legality of immigration (sadly, it has become more illegal) and also how the history of racism, xenophobia and anti-semitism have impacted U.S. Immigration policy.
"The Center opened in 1981, and in their first year the majority of immigrants it assisted were Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian. In the 1990’s, as the Bosnian War devastated Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority of immigrants who came through the Center were of Bosnian heritage. In the 2000s, the Karen people and other populations from Burma, Iraq, Nepal, Somalia and Sudan were well represented in the Center’s client base. Most recently, in the 2010s, more than 4000 immigrants have come from the State of Burma seeking refuge."
The center claims to have helped refugees from 35 different countries. and that it has stabilized the population of Utica and its economy. The Center claims that it has been attracting immigrants and refugees for over 200 years which is surely among the most disingenuous things ever said in mankind's long history of disingenuous comments.
"It’s not always a smooth transition. Somali Bantu refugees accustomed to camp life in Kenya can have a hard time getting used to upstate New York winters. Alawsaj (excuse me?) recalls looking at all the trees on the ride to Utica and thinking, “Oh, my God, am I living in a forest?” The mayor’s staff had to warn Somalis about the danger of using small grills in their living rooms."
Great, we have to instruct these savages on the very basic things. Like don't rape the White women: but they will anyway.
"Are you interested in becoming a U.S. citizen? Do you have questions regarding immigration? The Center offers immigration and citizenship services to help you feel at home in the Utica community.
"The Center has the resources and tools to help you with the immigration and citizenship processes. We provide services and learning opportunities to help you get your feet on the ground and make Utica feel like home. We offer services for adjustment of status, naturalization applications, and citizenship classes."
"After decades of decline, the city of Utica, New York, is growing again, thanks in part to its reputation as the town that loves refugees. And their basic reason for loving refugees is simple: An influx of new residents and workers have helped keep its economy afloat."
Better to grind your nose in the dirt in dire poverty than this. Never float the economy while your people sink.
"Refugees are eligible for federally reimbursed public assistance for the first eight months after arrival in the United States under the Refugee Cash Assistance Program. Refugees also qualify for refugee medical assistance which pays the costs for many initial health services."
"We charge a nominal fee for each application we assist you with. Fees change on a regular basis. Please call to ask current charges. The small fee is charged in addition to the price you must pay to USCIS for each application. Even though our service is not free our fees are lower than an attorney, we can represent you with the Department of Homeland Security and can refer you to FREE legal consultation as needed."
So they say when helping these invaders become full fledged citizens. And you can be they waive that fee at the first cry of poverty.
"The city of Utica, New York, has long taken a more welcoming approach. One out of every four citizens there is a refugee and the evidence is they're helping revitalize the community."
Revitalizing is not the word I would choose.
Azira Tabucic is the Center's immigration and citizenship manager, overseeing the grave responsibility of making new Americans on behalf of old Americans.
"We assist with family reunification and can assist you with paperwork. If you are a refugee with family still in a refugee camp that you wish to bring to the United States you should complete an AOR (Affidavit of Relationship) as quickly as possible after you arrive in the United States."
Quickly! Quickly!
Here is the anchor refugee, the counterpart to the anchor baby. An anchor invader is invested with all the bells and whistles of a real American and he can bring in all the goat herders in his family, or all he poverty stricken dirt farmers, or the chicken tenders, or the rice paddy coolies. Once a clan is in it's in. Here comes the eighteenth cousins by the dozens.
"There's the humanitarian aspect, of course, America's historic promise to extend a hand to huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The rot of generations set up in a slogan.
"Can you help with my Citizenship test? Yes! We offer classes in collaboration with the Office for New Americans. Classes are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at MVRCR every Monday and Tuesday at the Utica Public Library. Individual Mock (practice) Interviews are also available by appointment. We also have volunteers to assist individuals one on one and home study materials if you can not attend class. Please call to check the class schedule"
The Center has many success stories: Cos Mit (Karen), Nezir Jarsevik (Bosnian), Enock Makoma (Congolese) Trinh Truoung (Vietmnamese) Thein Kwaw (Burmese). John Smith (American) is not among them.
"Refugee resettlement as an economic development tool, a Rust Belt revival strategy Utica has pioneered. After decades of decline — the city lost a third of its population when its factories closed — Utica is growing again, back up to 62,000 people, thanks in part to its reputation as, quote, the town that loves refugees, who now make up one out of every four residents. Thousands are Muslims from Bosnia, refugees of the war there in the 1990s."
They brag about being pioneers of destruction.
"As U.S. Citizens individuals who naturalize have the same rights under the constitution as all other citizens, they can obtain a passport and can register to vote the same day they become citizens. They are Americans just like individuals born in the country."
Why, they're as American as George Washington. And don't you forget it!
"Utica has gained a measure of fame as a city revived by refugees. For decades, Utica lost people in droves as its industries died. Its population dropped from more than 100,000 in 1960 to an estimated 61,100 in 2015. The refugees have mitigated the slide. Since 1981, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center For Refugees . has settled 15,000 people from around the world in Utica."
They mean infamy, of course.
"Recent U.S. census data show that 19 percent of Utica residents are foreign born and that a language other than English is spoken in 26 percent of its households. For its part, Utica has opened its arms to the new arrivals. In 2005, Refugees, the magazine of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, put Utica on the cover as “The Town That Loves Refugees,” a description that stuck."
The cover of the magazine for the United Nations Commissioners for Refugees! Why, they've hit the big time!
"Between 1979 and 1993, the peak resettlement year, 3,541 refugees came to Utica from all over the globe, especially from Vietnam and Cambodia. In the 1990s the largest refugee group came from Bosnia. In recent years most have come from Myanmar, often referred to as Burma."
It goes on and and on and on and it won't stop until we stop it. We know what the hell is going on.
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They spent three years in a camp on the Syrian border, before being cleared for transit to the United States. Yousif al Saad went to work at the Chobani yogurt plant outside Utica, whose CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, has championed the rights of refugees and hired hundreds of them."
Hamdi Ulukaya is one of those big brains behind the surge in refugees to Utica and places like it. Having left his native Turkey he decided to bring in more and more people like himself to America until it became unrecognizable to the natives but he felt right at home. Story is he once said that he wanted to flood America with Muslims; some fact checkers dispute that but that's not relevant. Whether or not he said he wants to flood America with Muslims he wants to flood America with Muslims. That's a fact. You can tell because he's flooding America with Muslims.
Hamdi Ukulaya (not an American name) is the Yogurt and Refugee King. He parlayed a business success in the Yogurt industry into an all out assault on the country he lives in. Trust me, the bill has not come due on this idiot. It matter not how much his business has added to the tax base he will cost us dearly, likely to within an inch of our lives.
"Hamdi started hiring refugees in his factory in New York state, and soon realized they were some of his most loyal, hard-working, and committed employees. This experience inspired him to found the Tent Partnership for Refugees, which encourages businesses to help integrate refugees economically into their new communities.
They'll do the jobs Americans won't do and they'll work harder. Assume against all odds that that is even true. It still wouldn't matter. No amount of economic benefit, no rise in the GDP, no new industry, no amount of jobs, nothing, can ever justify the importation of even on race alien into our homeland. There's an ironic saying in Germany about the Turks who they shoveled in by the car load in the 1950s and 1960s. It is the resigned expression that "we wanted workers but we got people." True that. In America we want workers but we get invaders.
"Hamdi is a signatory of the Giving Pledge and has committed the majority of his personal wealth to helping refugees. For these efforts, he was named an Eminent Advocate by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and received the United Nations Foundation Global Leadership Award. In 2017, Hamdi was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work around the refugee crisis and his innovative approach to business. That same year, he was named one of Forbes’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds."
All the highest honors of this country conferred on a foreigner who is helping to expel the heritage of America. It really makes you think.
"Hamdi Ulukaya, who built yogurt empire Chobani after immigrating to the US in the mid-90s, is challenging Americans to rethink the way they view immigration."
“I have nothing against America first, but ‘humanity first too,’” said Ulukaya in an exclusive interview with CNN on the sidelines of an event for his nonprofit, called Tent Partnership for Refugees.
Don't lie; he has everything against America First.
"Over the last several years, Ulukaya has been making a passionate pitch to assist refugees through Tent, Ulukaya’s nonprofit dedicated to helping improve the lives of refugees. He argues that resources, especially from corporate America, should grow to match a historic migration crisis that has displaced over 65 million people worldwide, including 25 million refugees."
Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, who employs about 300 refugees among the 1,000 workers at a plant south of Utica, said the company will assist any travel-ban affected employees and family members and “have their backs every day and every step of the way,” according to an in-house letter obtained by The Associated Press.
When Hamdi Ukulaya left his native goat farm he moved first to Long Island and then to upstate New York, so Utica was always in his sights if never in his heart (save as a dumping ground). It's the town that loves refugees and he's the man who loves refugees and who imports than wholesale. So why not, right?
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That is the blizzard of propaganda; that they protest too much is obvious, but they want to flood the channels of communication with all the deliriously happy talk abut how great the mixed race future of Utica is and is always going to be. The truth of course is altogether otherwise and chapter and verse can be laid out to adduce it; but remember a mixed race community is bad in principle, let alone the horror stories though horror stories there are---in spades, quite literally.
"In Utica, this means that up to $1,1750.00 of federal money is spent locally on a refugee's first month’s rent, security deposit, furniture, clothing, household goods, and other items. The cost of a refugee's airfare is actually a loan that they must begin to repay after 6 months."
They'll never repay it nor will the ever be asked to.
"Some workers face increased job competition and their wages can be driven down. If lower-skilled immigrants come, then lower-skilled American workers may see a decline in their wages, whereas business owners may see more workers at lower cost for them."
They say bad money drives out good, so do invaders drive out natives.
"Post-industrial Utica, New York, upstate, downtrodden, and, in the heart of downtown, where the United Methodist Church used to be, a thriving mosque.
"In the world beyond Utica, the tide of refugees rises, the fear of foreigners swells."
That mayor of Utica, the one who loves that cosmopolitan feel, the one who loves those Muslims sipping their coffee and speaking close together in their dog language, what does he think of that Methodist Church turned into a Mosque? He loves it I'm sure; but then deep down so do the Methodists, they love that they are getting what they deem their just desserts.
"Since the 9/11 terror attack, the US has taken in more than 750,000 refugees, many from Muslim countries.
This is the one you always hear about; it's like when the Muslim kills scores of White people the White leaders immediately get in the corner of the Muslims who have to experience the "backlash"; it's one thing not to take your own side; it's another to attack it.
"For years, the authorities say, administrators for an upstate New York high school turned away refugee children because of their age and their unsteady English while covering up discriminatory enrollment policies."
See here's the thing: if you don't bring in these foreign refugees they won't back bite you for persecuting them; first off they won't be here for you to do anything to them and they won't be here to complain even if you somehow magically did. Simple really.
It's like that old joke that a representative of our country boasts that his country never persecuted the Jews.
How did you manager that?
We never let them in.
"A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district’s only public high school."
"In one case, the lawsuit says, an administrator told twin 19-year-old sisters who were refugees from Myanmar that the law prevented them from enrolling at the high school, Proctor Hight School, because they would not have enough time to pass state exams and graduate before age 21 — a violation of state and federal law. Another administrator expressed interest in using separate buses for immigrant students, one part of an effort to maintain the segregation of immigrant students from the general student population.”
charges."
So the lawsuit alleges.
If so it looks like some Uticans have some common sense but state and federal law will have none of it. First thing you do is you "open your heart" to huddled masses and live up to the noble concepts contained in the "America Creed" and next thing you know is you're up to your eyeballs in Jew lawsuits that will tie you up for years and drain your coffers. Sure glad the refugees are here to buoy up that budget!
We're the town that love lawsuits!
"People who work with immigrants to obtain services say that some districts exclude students who are in their later years of high school and are inexperienced in English in order to drive up graduation rates."
No sooner than they are here than they are standing up straight (or as straight as they can stand up) and demanding their rights! They are every bit as good as we are, don't try to say they're not; and as that anti-White lackey down at the Center said naturalized citizens, or even green card holders, or even just a monster passing through, will be granted all the privileges and immunities of descendants of the Mayflower. Daughters of the Revolution make way for the litigious freeloaders.
“Every New Yorker under the age of 21 has a right to attend public school in the district in which they reside, regardless of immigration status or national origin,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. “Access to a quality education is the foundation of the American dream. School districts cannot place arbitrary impediments and barriers in the way of immigrants and refugees who have struggled to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.”
"Schneiderman was born to a Jewish family in New York City." Tell me something I don't know, and if I had a dime for every time I've read that sentence.
The district is “severely underfunded,” Mr. Gerace added, “which affects services for all of its students.”
Wait, the school's coffers should be overflowing with cash what with all those refugees that have been pouring in and larding up that tax base. You means there's still a shortfall?
"The attorney general’s findings grew out of a statewide review to determine whether districts were violating a Supreme Court mandate against discrimination in schooling by asking about children’s immigration status before enrolling them."
Does it ever seem that our leaders do everything under the sun to protect everyone but us?
"This Court case was initiated in 2014 in response to an article in the New York Times about children who were barred from school after fleeing violence in Central America, and has resulted in more than 20 districts agreeing to change their enrollment policies according to Mr. Schneiderman’s office."
"Schneiderman was born to a Jewish family in New York City,"
The office is continuing to investigate enrollment policies across the state, a spokesman said.
"But the practices alleged against Utica go further than those in other districts. The lawsuit describes several layers of administrators instructed to keep out immigrant students without leaving any trace of the refusals. For many years, the lawsuit says, the policy was unwritten but enforced at the highest levels, including by the district superintendent. The suit says it was codified last year to say that any immigrant students over 16 who are perceived to have problems with English cannot enroll at Proctor, regardless of their wishes."
I guess those school administrators who are barring Hamida and Kalfai and Trin Tron from being in school are among the 31 percent of Utica's population who do not think immigration is simply the best thing since sliced bread. And it's strange, because education drones are usually quite liberal on these matters.
"Even some students who had finished years of high school in other American districts and then transferred to Utica were told they could not enroll at the high school, the lawsuit says. The district kept no records of these children’s attempts to enroll and did not test them on their English as required by law, according to the lawsuit."
If true, good for them. Too bad about the shakedown though.
“The district could claim that these individuals were unknown to it — effectively strangers to the district who never sought to enroll and, thus, toward whom the district had no legal obligations beyond whatever piecemeal services the district chose to offer them.”
"The lawsuit says the alternative programs sent students down a path to nowhere. They could not earn credits toward a diploma or properly prepare for a high school equivalency exam, the lawsuit says, leaving students to languish for years with only training in basic English. They were also housed in separate buildings and segregated for gym, art and music classes. The lawsuit says they could not mix with their peers for lunch or extracurricular activities either, a violation of state law."
It would only be right as the refugees have sent Utica down a path to nowhere. Nowhere good to be sure.
"The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the district in Utica in April on behalf of six refugee students, describing a similar pattern of exclusionary enrollment practices stretching back to at least 2007."
"Utica seems an unlikely target for such accusations, given its reputation as a magnet for refugees."
Maybe you have it backwards. Maybe it's because that Utica is a magnet for refugees that this happens. Maybe not all Uticans are as down with these suicidal policies as you think. Maybe because Utica is overflowing with refugees that they are on the big Jew radars in New York city as prime and easy pickings.
Programs that the Utica City School District initiated to increase the success of older refugee students are being called “roadblocks to nowhere” in a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office.
Those illiterate bastards mean "road to nowhere" not "roadblock to nowhere." Maybe that Jew law office is staffed by illiterate refugees.
"The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, alleges that, since at least 2007, the district has diverted immigrant students older than 16 away from the high school into academic dead-ends.”
And those practices, the documents say, have deprived Utica’s refugees of the opportunity to obtain a meaningful education and a high school diploma.
“Every New Yorker under the age of 21 has a right to attend public school in the district in which they reside, regardless of immigration status or national origin,” Schneiderman said in a news release. “School districts cannot place arbitrary impediments and barriers in the way of immigrants and refugees who have struggled to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.”
"But according to the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York — on behalf of six Utica refugees and a class of similar immigrant students — the program excludes the students, segregates them into inferior programs and takes away their opportunity of making American friends and of earning a high school diploma. That, the groups claim, is illegal."
The refugees who got here five minutes ago enjoy the entire panoply of the right and immunities conferred on real Americans.
"What I wonder is just how much of a severe economic hit can the state force on a very poor district like Utica for seven years and not have it affect their educational plan in some way."
Not to fret, they'll get thousands and thousands of Afghanis soon and that's make the money grown on trees in the town that loves refugees.
“I have a friend who is a refugee and her English isn’t that good,” said Saul Rivera. “She said they might take her out of her regular classes and put her in an easier one because she can’t really keep up. I don’t think that’s good, though, because it’s not going to help her in the long run.”
The city poverty rate remains at 32 percent — in line with other upstate cities but above the national rate. The streets are dotted with empty storefronts and ramshackle homes. And the school system last year settled lawsuits that accused it of steering refugee students into inferior education programs.
And of course bringing them in breeds resentment. Donald Trump tried to keep at least some Muslims out but Muslim ban was somehow not moral:
"The recent travel ban prompted Mowlid Hussein, a Somali Bantu, to cancel travel plans to see his two children from a previous marriage in Kenya. He is upset the order will delay efforts to bring them here."
Many Uticans have begun to grumble.
"Upstate New York is a gorgeous part of America. Think Rip Van Winkle. What is happening there as a result of Barack Hussein’s Muslim refugee resettlement program is not a lot different than the nightmare Europeans are experiencing at the hands of their own unbelievably stupid and corrupt leaders."
"Utica was once an idyllic slice of Americana in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. It is now a magnet for Muslim refugees, who represent 25% of the local population."
"The Catholic school my father attended is now a community center for refugees."
"When I moved back home one of the first things I noticed was that an old Methodist church was being converted into a bright shiny white new mosque. The local paper touted this as immense progress and featured a local woman who had attended the church as a child and was positively brimming with joy it was being turned into a mosque."
Six Bosnian immigrants have been accused of sending money and military equipment to terrorist fighters overseas, including the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The indictment names Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 40, his wife, Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 35, and Armin Harcevic, 37, all of St. Louis County; Nihad Rosic, 26 of Utica, New York; Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 34, of Schiller Park, Illinois; and Jasminka Ramic, 42 of Rockford, Illinois.
Not one of those success stories, eh? No sir that one did not make the Refugee website's list. Cover it up in the corner, rather, so as not to upset the natives.
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Utica, the city seat (1798) of Oneida county.
The first settlers were Dutch and Palatinate Germans.
In 1921 a movement was inaugurated to make the New York-Buffalo highway a "Road of Memory", with hundreds of thousands of native trees planted along its 450-mile length to commemorate the brave sons of New York State who fell in the World war. The initial planting of these memorial trees was in 1921, when 20,000 elms were set out on the Utica-Syracuse section,
A tall monument on the summit of New Forest Hills Cemetery, adjoining Forest Hill Cemetery, marks the grave of Justus H. Rathbone (1839-1899), founder in 1864 of the Order of Knights of Pythias. Many famous Uticans are buried on this sightly hill.
Genesee Street, one of America's most beautiful avenues, is the backbone of Utica and its most characteristic feature. One cannot think of Utica without visualizing Genesee Street. It runs from old Deerfield Corners, on the Mohawk Turnpike in present Utica, west to beyond New Hartford, in which six miles it is built up the entire distance.
In the construction of the Barge Canal (1905-1918) a movable dam and a terminal lock were located at Utica terminal harbor. West of Utica to Rome and eastward to Frankfort, the Barge Canal follows a land-line cut on the north side of the Mohawk River.
Utica still maintains the pleasant reserve and dignity of handsome iron fences and hedges about its better residences — a feature again properly coming into vogue.
Utica shows its British heritage by observing Christmas eve with lighted candles and household illumination. Utica has its Proctor day (June 11) and its Kite day. Its ragamuffin parade is on Election day night, instead of Thanksgiving day, as in New York. Halloween is widely observed, its parties often stretching over two weeks time.
Because of its tree-lined streets, Utica is frequently called "The City of Trees." On account of its beautiful parks it is sometimes called "The City of Parks." By reason of a line of Shakespeare it is affectionately called "Pent-up Utica," the "Pent-up City" or "Old Pent-up," just as the lovers of Schenectady fondly term it "Old Dorp." It is also called "the Crossroads of New York," from its central location as regards motor roads and railroad lines.
Utica's schools are noted for their efficiency. Utica Free Academy, occupying a series of large and attractive buildings, is famous for a century of high educational standards.
The Utica Public Library has a beautiful building on Genesee Street and is recognized as one of the model public libraries of the state. It has an art gallery which houses frequent traveling exhibitions. Here the Utica Society of Fine Arts (organized in 1922) holds its annual exhibition, while it maintains an art school elsewhere.
The Utica Public Library is as old as the city itself. It came into existence the year (1832) that the city was incorporated. It has nearly 150,000 volumes and a circulation close to one-half million books a year. There are branch libraries and a special service to schools. The Utica Library will celebrate its centennial with that of the city in 1932.
Utica is a noted musical center for a city of its size, largely because of its large proportion of Americans of Welsh descent, insuring a racial heritage of music. There are a number of musical organizations and a Conservatory of Music has been in existence here for many years. Organs for churches and theaters are made in Utica.
There are several musical clubs, including the B Sharp Club, composed of 1,500 women; the Haydns, a famous male chorus, and the Philharmonics, a mixed chorus that has won laurels over a wide territory. In addition, Utica is the home of the Cymreigyddion society which each year conducts a great Welsh musical festival covering a period of several days and attracting vast throngs from the eastern states to compete in the various musical contests or to enjoy this wonderful occasion of music, art and story. Here also recently was organized the National Eisteddfod Association, a Welsh organization devoted to the promotion of music and art.
Utica is a church city, with many handsome churches representing nearly all the leading denominations, many of these churches being fine specimens of architecture. There are seventy churches in Utica.
Utica has mills that operate approximately 400,000 spindles; industries that convert 150,000 bales of cotton into yarns and fabrics annually; foundries that use over 100,000 tons of iron each year.
A plentiful supply of hydro-electric power, generated at Trenton Falls is available here. This hydro-electric power is supplemented by an extensive steam plant system. The development of the proposed super-power plan in the eastern states contemplates Utica as one of the load centers and distributing points. This fact is of vast significance and importance and will prove a powerful incentive for locating many new industries in Utica.
Utica is the center of an industrial district producing a great variety and amount of manufactures, which are constantly increasing. The textile industry is Utica's greatest manufacturing line and Utica is the chief textile manufacturing center in the United States.
In 1919, Utica had 370 factories, with 18,564 workers; 40,419 primary horse power; capital of $67,255,000; annual value manufactured product of $77,746,000 (1920 U. S. Census Report).
In 1924, Utica manufactured white goods, cotton yarn, cloth and worsteds, heating furnaces, metal beds and springs, firearms, fire apparatus, locomotive repairs, machinery, brass goods, automobile and wheel rims, metal goods, cutlery, engines, clothing, millinery, food products, cigars and tobacco, paper goods, paper, woodwork, furniture, pearl buttons, knit goods, caps, fire alarms, street sweepers, air compressors, fishing rods and tackle, trunks and luggage, germicides, radiators, church organs, printed and lithographed goods, engraving, woolen cloth, corduroy cloth, sheets and pillow cases, toys, suspenders, box board, paper boxes, emblems, badges, auto bodies and accessories, metal stampings, farm implements, chemical products, extracts, sportsmen's clothing, sporting rifles and pistols, buffing wheels, pliers and nippers, boilers, tanks, mail boxes, electric washing machines, refrigerator equipment, etc.
According to the census of 1920, Utica was proportionately the fastest growing city in New York State. Its 1925 population is estimated at 110,000, with 135,000 in the Utica metropolitan district, within a radius of ten miles of the Utica City Hall. The increase in population and material wealth of Utica has, however, been solid, substantial and enduring. Inflation and boom methods are discredited here.
The location and site of Utica offer possibilities for great industrial development. The railroad terminal facilities are unsurpassed, all roads entering Utica having the privilege of use of all the city railroad freight terminals. The Barge Canal affords waterway transportation to Duluth on the Great Lakes, New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico (by way of the Chicago Canal and the Mississippi River) and to New York City on the Atlantic. The great trunk highways entering Utica allow motor freight trucking to all points. The electric power available and possible and the large amount of level land, lying close to these transportation routes, afford most unusual industrial possibilities. Roger W. Babson, the financial expert, in 1922 prophesied that the Mohawk Valley, because of its strategic industrial position, would eventually become America's greatest manufacturing district — and he has made investments to back his own faith. The Upper Mohawk Valley of today is one of America's leading industrial centers and is becoming increasingly important.
Utica is the county seat of Oneida County (formed 1798), which takes its name from the Iroquois tribe of Oneida Indians, who occupied its territory on the Dutch occupation in 1614.
In 1821 the greater part of the Oneidas were removed to Chippewa Bay, Wis., in spite of their protests. In 1910 there were about thirty Oneida Indians living in Oneida County and about 200 in the state, some being in Madison County.
The City of Utica lies in a land patent known as Cosby's patent or Cosby's manor, granted in 1734 and surveyed in 1762.
Old Fort Schuyler, 1758-60
In 1758 British Colonial army engineers here built a fort, one of a chain of defenses which extended along the Albany-Oswego water route during the great French war (1754-60). This local fort was an earthwork with palisades and it stood on Main Street, near the Mohawk River, just below Second Street.
This fort was christened Fort Schuyler, in honor of Col. Peter Schuyler of Albany, uncle of Gen. Philip Schuyler of the Revolution. It was garrisoned from 1758 until 1760, when it was abandoned. When the American army reconstructed Fort Stanwix (at present Rome) in 1776, its name was changed to Fort Schuyler in honor of General Schuyler, which name it generally bore in army records until after the Revolution. To differentiate between the Rome and the Utica Forts Schuyler, the Utica fort site was then referred to as Old Fort Schuyler. The same name for the two forts has been the cause of endless historical confusion. After the Revolution (1775-1783) the Rome fort resumed its name of Fort Stanwix, which is its present appellation.
In 1773 the Weaver, Reall and Damuth families settled present North Utica at Deerfield Corners. They were driven out and their homes burned in 1776 by hostile Indians. They returned and settled permanently on their old lands in 1784, as stated later.
General Herkimer and his American army of valley militia here at Utica crossed the Mohawk ford, August 5, 1777, from the north to the south bank, on his way to the battleground of Oriskany. The site is marked by a bronze tablet erected in 1912 by the D. A. R. at the site of Old Fort Schuyler.
The Utica ford marker was one of a number erected by the Mohawk Valley D. A. R. Chapters in 1912, marking General Herkimer's march to the Oriskany battlefield. The markers are granite, with a relief inscription. At the top of each marker is a bronze tablet showing in relief the route of Herkimer's march.
Following the Revolution's close, in 1783, the great westward migration began. A few settlers went along the Mohawk roads in 1784 to homes in the upper Mohawk Valley (in what is now Oneida County) and further west. In 1785 the flood tide began and the next five or ten years witnessed the full flow of one of the most remarkable movements of people in the history of the world — that of the American people themselves, largely through the Mohawk Valley to new homes in the great West. The bulk of these migrating people were New Englanders or "Yankees" and Oneida County was largely settled by them and by people from the British Isles, a large element being Welsh, which made their most important early location here at Utica.
The majority of Utica's early settlers were Yankees, English and Welsh, but many pioneers of Dutch and German ancestry from down the Mohawk located in Utica as well as in Oneida County. In fact, John Post, the first merchant of Utica, the present great city of the western Mohawk Valley, removed from Schenectady, the present great city of the eastern valley.
At Old Fort Schuyler (as Utica was called from 1785 until 1798) nearly all of this westward movement left the Mohawk over the road to the Genesee country, to Lake Erie and the great West. Others turned north and peopled the Black River Valley and northern New York State.
The first settlement within the limits of Utica was made in 1773, in present North Utica at Deerfield Corners, by George J. Weaver, Mark Damuth and Christian Reall and their families. These were people of Palatine German ancestry from the German Flats (Herkimer) neighborhood. Reall's Creek takes its name from Christian Reall, whose house stood near it. These first settlers of Utica were all Whigs or patriots.
In 1788 the town of Whitestown was formed from the township of German Flats. Whitestown then had 200 population and embraced all of the state westward. Following 1786, new settlers by the names of Alverson, Morey, Foster and Silyea came to Utica.
John Post, Utica's first merchant, can be justly considered the founder of the city.
Post erected a frame three-story warehouse on the river and later one near the Genesee Street river bridge. Post owned a fleet of Mohawk River boats which were engaged in transporting merchandise and in bringing settlers and their effects from Schenectady to Utica. Three of these were Mohawk River packet boats, fitted with covers and seats, which carried passengers only, this transportation being preferred by many to the stages on the rough river roads.
Post built a store and had an important trading post and business here until he was burned out in 1806, which disaster ruined him and he died in poverty in 1830.
Settlers came rapidly to Old Fort Schuyler after Post's settlement in 1790 and by 1795 there was a thriving busy little village here with log and frame houses, stores, taverns and shops of various kinds.
In 1792 a bridge was built across the Mohawk, near First and Second streets, and a stage route was established running from Albany and Schenectady to Utica and Whitestown. This route was extended westward over the Genesee Road (later Seneca Road) to Geneva in 1794.
In 1793 the First Presbyterian Church was organized. In 1801 the Welsh Presbyterians had a church here and Trinity Episcopal Church was begun.
In 1804 Utica had 120 houses and buildings and had become an important little town with four tanneries, two nail factories, two breweries, a hat factory, and a cabinetmaker, watchmaker, potter, shoemaker, rope maker, besides other shops, stores, taverns, two churches, a schoolhouse, barns and other buildings.
The building of the Genesee Street river bridge in 1797, the improvement of the Mohawk Turnpike and the construction of the Seneca Road (formerly the Genesee Road) westward from Utica, both in 1800, "were among the first movements which gave Utica a start and secured for it a share of the business heretofore monopolized by Rome and other places in this vicinity." The frontier village of Utica grew rapidly thereafter.
Utica was the greatest national center of military movements in the War of 1812-14, many American troops passing through the city to and from the Niagara and St. Lawrence frontiers. In 1817, Utica Township was formed from Whitestown.
In 1817 Erie Canal construction was begun and in 1819 the canal was completed to Utica and on October 22, 1819, the first boat "Chief Engineer" made the initial trip between Rome and Utica, when a great celebration was held. The opening of the Erie, from Buffalo to Albany, in 1825, greatly stimulated the town.
In 1836 the Chenango Canal was opened northward from Chenango River headwaters of the Susquehanna, through the Oriskany Creek Valley to Utica, forming a valley outlet for coal from Pennsylvania. This canal was abandoned in 1878. In the modern utilization of trunk waterways, the use of the Chenango Canal may be resumed as well as other abandoned waterways of New York State, the pioneer and leading commonwealth in canalization.
In 1883 the Government building and the Y. M. C. A. were built.
The first great industrial development in the Utica metropolitan district was the beginning of cotton cloth manufacture in 1808 at New York Mills, at the present western limits of Utica. For the first forty years of its growth, 1785-1825, Utica was largely a trading and transportation center. Manufacturing followed the building of the Erie Canal (here as elsewhere along the waterway) as it furnished the first cheap transportation facilities. The first local industry of importance was the manufacture of plows begun in 1820. Local industries and the dates of their establishment follow: 1823, grist mill, iron foundry; 1826, pottery works; 1832, engine and boiler works, oilcloth factory; 1834, steam planing mill; 1836, ready made clothing; 1842, stoves and furnaces; 1847, woolen goods; 1848, cotton cloth; 1851, locomotive headlights; 1852, iron works; 1861, steam gauges; 1862, firearms; 1863, knit goods; 1868, caps; 1886, worsted; 1890, burial caskets. Other industries have been added and are constantly coming to this increasingly great industrial center.
Utica is a modern, progressive American city with an interesting and important past and a promising future, due to its past and present enterprising and patriotic American citizens and its wonderful industrial and commercial location.
Do Hamida and Sharifa and Trin care? No, not one little bit. It's all Greek, or English, to them.
All of it is so must dust in the wind.
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"Here in Utica, where there are refugees everywhere, I tried hard to find people frightened of them or angry about their presence. I talked to government officials, journalists, people in cafes and bars and on the street. I couldn't find anyone concerned about safety or national security or terrorism. It was like the presidential campaign was happening on a different planet."
They should have looked harder, I'm sure there's some people in Utica who could tell them a tale or two, tales of horror stories. But then again they're likely as afraid to speak as they are afraid of the refugees.
"I think that’s made up," said Kathryn Stam, an anthropologist at SUNY Poly who works with refugee families and volunteers at the community center. "I think most of that’s bulls—- actually. I don’t see anything to be afraid of."
"Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resources Center For Refugees."
"They're all refugees from the civil war in Somalia, who spent years in camps in Kenya. They wear long dresses and hijabs covering their hair. They're devout Muslims."
"These days roughly one in five people in the city come from a foreign country, a lot of them straight out of refugee camps in Thailand or Nepal or Kenya."
“We are Utica, said Hana Selimovic, a nursing student who was a Bosnian refugee, “the city that loves refugees.”
The city that loved refugees.
The history of America since 1980 is the history of the jobs going out and the people coming in, of our country being turned from a people to a population and a nation into a dumping ground. Any historian who tell you different doesn't know what he's talking about.
If there is a parable of what happened to America, and there is, it is the city of Utica in Upstate New York. A city that used to be all White that celebrated Christmas Eve with household illumination now has Bosnians and Burmese sipping their coffee on the main street thinking how soon they can bring their families there by the foolish generosity of American law. The Church has become a Mosque, the Refugee Center is bustling, and the Mayor is enjoying the cosmopolitan feel of the place. The Jews are suing the city for discrimination, but the City Father's are not worried, more and more refugees will mean bigger budgets, or so they say. But the truth is a Utica that would have been a dwindling husk of its former self due to the predation of capital would have been infinitely preferable to this; perhaps there would have been another way out but if die you must die with your life intact; and the memories of your past still alive. But the town that loves refugees? Alawsaj and Nezir? Congolese and Syrians? No, it's a desecration of all that went before; and whatever the future is the only thing you can be sure of is it will not be yours.
July 29 2021
If there is a parable of what happened to America perhaps it is the fate of Utica in upstate New York. During the 19th and 20th centuries Utica was all White and the city's infrastructure contributed to its success as a manufacturing center and defined its role as a worldwide hub for the textile industry. Then of course the big brains in the big offices discovered that they could cut Uticans loose and they sent those job overseas to dark skinned coolies. The truth is if a White citizen from Utica was on fire those sharks wouldn't cross the street to piss on him.
The result was the Utica became one of those rustbucket ghost towns and the population declined precipitously. Then another set of big brains had another bright idea: to bring in refugees. Not just a few, which would have been bad enough, but refugees by the brimful and the boatful. So many of these invasive humans did they import that formerly White Utica got something of a reputation for this suicidal act of treachery. And the boosters of among the city fathers decided to capitalize on this notoriety and they took to conferring on the city an informal name:
The Town That Loves Refugees.
They might as well have called themselves the town that wanted to die.
It used to be the beating heart of White America. Now that heart has been ripped out.
"Like other rust belt cities cities, Utica underwent an economic downturn beginning in the mid-20th century. The downturn consisted of industrial decline due to offshoring. and the closure of textile mills, population loss, poverty associated with socioeconomic stress and a depressed tax base. With its low cost of living, the city has become a melting pot for refugees from war-torn countries around the world, encouraging growth for its colleges and universities, cultural institutions and economy."
What could go wrong other than everything?
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Of course those very boosters among the city fathers (and mothers) don't see it as tragedy at all. They put a bright face and facade on this race debacle, and very likely believe it. Even a quick bit of research shows that they are pointing to and painting a rather rosy scenario for how it is all playing out. It's a different city and a different town now, the heritage and the history are gone, but "we're being moral" and look: those numbers are up!
Just look at the blizzard of propaganda they have put out.
"We're the town that loves refugees!"
"Around Utica, it’s not unusual to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work in the blowing snow."
Black never goes with White.
"Signs of the diversity abound, from the polyglot shop signs, to restaurants serving Asian and Bosnian dishes, to the teenagers from Myanmar and Somalia playing together at a community center."
"A large mosque is visible from the City Hall office of Mayor Robert Palmieri, who calls the refugees the next evolution for a city that was once known for its textile mills and was built generations ago by immigrants from Italy, Germany and Poland."
You got that right: White Europeans built this city with the hope and expectation that they would be building it for their posterity. But it turns out they didn't; the built it for Somalis, for Afghanis, for Vietnamese. Their inheritors, so-called.
And really it's amazing how they play it as if this radical break and enormous discontinuity in American history is really just more of same, nothing unusual. Why Uticans have been doing this forever, no reason to be unduly alarmed.
"Utica is an ethnically and culturally diverse city with a long history of ethnic minorities and is a significant refugee city."
"Utica has always been a town of immigrants. In the 1800s and early 1900s Italians, Germans and Poles helped to establish it as an important hub in America’s burgeoning northeast industrial heartland. As demographic and industrial patterns changed, Utica fell on hard times, but in recent decades a new wave of arrivals, refugee groups from all corners of the globe, has begun to re-energize the region. In addition to new faces in the workforce, there are Vietnamese restaurants, , Bosnian coffee shops, mosques and temples."
Technically speaking this is true; both Germans and Thailanders are "ethnic minorities" but that's where the similarity ends; they know this of course but they want to try to sneak it past us.
"The mayor loves the cosmopolitan culture and how Bosnians have built up Utica’s east side by rehabbing old homes."
“I would love to have the president come to Utica, New York, to see what it’s all about and how beneficial it’s been as a melting pot and blending them into the fiber of America,” Palmieri said.
The reference to the President is Trump's statement that Donald J Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of all Muslim immigration until we find out what the hell is going on (his time in public life has been all down hill since that high point). My, those were the days, when everything was still possible. The mayor of Utica on the other hand wants to show that we can all get along. Until we can't of course, and that eventuality is always right around the corner unless it's already next door or on your doorstep.
"It started back in the 1970s with Vietnamese and Cambodians and they’ve been coming ever since."
So the irony is thick here: just as the offshoring craze among our bloodsucking elites began in earnest, just as a war that sucked the blood from so many White men ended, just then they started bringing in foreigners from the country where we fought that war to replace White people, no doubt many of whom had lost sons, nephews and neighborhood boys in that very war. Kill the White man in pointless wars and substitute Asians for them, it's almost as if there is a concerted plan afoot. It sure looks that way to me.
And next came the the Sudanese, the Thailanders, and god knows what other hodgepodge of racial bastardization they could scour the world for. If you want to see the depth of mixed blood to which they've descended just check out their site for the local refugee center called, well, The Center.
On the first page of the site you have the women in the requisite hijab, a man in some kind of multicolored African costume and then a nondescript Mexicana.
Many Cultures, One Community is the headline.
Lost of dark-skinned foreigners, many tragedies.
More than fifteen languages are spoken by the staff, which is 14 too many. More than half of the employees are refugees themselves so it's a kind of self perpetuating system they have going on there. 16,500 refugees have been "resettled" since 1981. And 69 percent of Utican residents think immigration is good for the area, which is the same percent who might as well be deaf, dumb, and blind.
"Thousands have settled in Utica through the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, which grew out of efforts to bring over Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. It has since shepherded in 16,000 people from around the world, about 400 refugees a year, including Somalis, Bosnians, Syrians, Sudanese and people from Myanmar."
The Center recently offered a class geared towards demonizing the ever dwindling White majority: "Asian Discrimination and the Covid 19 Pandemic". This anti-White class was organized by the Office For New Americans Opportunity Center and commemorated the United Nations week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (#Fightracism).
"The arrival of a large number of immigrants since the 1990s has stanched the city's population loss that had been steady for more than three decades. With almost 60% percent of the city's population under 50 in 2006, the city has amassed a large group of younger refugees. According to the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, one quarter of Utica's population is represented by refugee families, with groups settling from countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam, Thailand, Belarus. Other recent immigrant groups include Burmese, Sudanese, Somali."
One in four Utitcans is not really a Utican! And those non Uticans? Why, they are younger and breed like wild rabbits in heat. Just wait a few years, you'll think your in a port city at the crossroads of the world.
"On this night, there were teenagers from Nepal, Burma, and Somalia. They told me they come here to dance, to study, take art classes, and just to gossip and spend time with friends."
The Center notes that they offer free lawyers to anyone who wants help in becoming a naturalized American City, but laments that Donald Trump had reduced the number of refugees who will come to Utica.
"Sharifa and Hamida said it was tough when they first arrived in central New York. "People didn't understand a lot of stuff," Hamida said. "We had to tell people who were really are."
No need, we know who your are, foreign interlopers who have no business being here.
"An influx of thousands of refugees from around the world over the past few decades is credited with injecting new energy and optimism into this post-industrial city of 62,000. Some refugees worry, however, they will not be able to bring over family members fleeing war zones and refugee camps."
Ah, there's the catch: it's that famous chain migration that Trump used to so often bluster about. You bring one in and give him his rights and the law says he can drag dozens in, whole clans, whole communities. It's an exponential and proliferating existential nightmare. And the poor refugees who are here fret that it might not be happening fast enough.
The Center hosted a panel discussion in which it claimed that worldwide by 2019 79.5 million people were displaced (and in need of new homes). The participants noted the historic changes in the legality of immigration (sadly, it has become more illegal) and also how the history of racism, xenophobia and anti-semitism have impacted U.S. Immigration policy.
"The Center opened in 1981, and in their first year the majority of immigrants it assisted were Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian. In the 1990’s, as the Bosnian War devastated Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority of immigrants who came through the Center were of Bosnian heritage. In the 2000s, the Karen people and other populations from Burma, Iraq, Nepal, Somalia and Sudan were well represented in the Center’s client base. Most recently, in the 2010s, more than 4000 immigrants have come from the State of Burma seeking refuge."
The center claims to have helped refugees from 35 different countries. and that it has stabilized the population of Utica and its economy. The Center claims that it has been attracting immigrants and refugees for over 200 years which is surely among the most disingenuous things ever said in mankind's long history of disingenuous comments.
"It’s not always a smooth transition. Somali Bantu refugees accustomed to camp life in Kenya can have a hard time getting used to upstate New York winters. Alawsaj (excuse me?) recalls looking at all the trees on the ride to Utica and thinking, “Oh, my God, am I living in a forest?” The mayor’s staff had to warn Somalis about the danger of using small grills in their living rooms."
Great, we have to instruct these savages on the very basic things. Like don't rape the White women: but they will anyway.
"Are you interested in becoming a U.S. citizen? Do you have questions regarding immigration? The Center offers immigration and citizenship services to help you feel at home in the Utica community.
"The Center has the resources and tools to help you with the immigration and citizenship processes. We provide services and learning opportunities to help you get your feet on the ground and make Utica feel like home. We offer services for adjustment of status, naturalization applications, and citizenship classes."
"After decades of decline, the city of Utica, New York, is growing again, thanks in part to its reputation as the town that loves refugees. And their basic reason for loving refugees is simple: An influx of new residents and workers have helped keep its economy afloat."
Better to grind your nose in the dirt in dire poverty than this. Never float the economy while your people sink.
"Refugees are eligible for federally reimbursed public assistance for the first eight months after arrival in the United States under the Refugee Cash Assistance Program. Refugees also qualify for refugee medical assistance which pays the costs for many initial health services."
"We charge a nominal fee for each application we assist you with. Fees change on a regular basis. Please call to ask current charges. The small fee is charged in addition to the price you must pay to USCIS for each application. Even though our service is not free our fees are lower than an attorney, we can represent you with the Department of Homeland Security and can refer you to FREE legal consultation as needed."
So they say when helping these invaders become full fledged citizens. And you can be they waive that fee at the first cry of poverty.
"The city of Utica, New York, has long taken a more welcoming approach. One out of every four citizens there is a refugee and the evidence is they're helping revitalize the community."
Revitalizing is not the word I would choose.
Azira Tabucic is the Center's immigration and citizenship manager, overseeing the grave responsibility of making new Americans on behalf of old Americans.
"We assist with family reunification and can assist you with paperwork. If you are a refugee with family still in a refugee camp that you wish to bring to the United States you should complete an AOR (Affidavit of Relationship) as quickly as possible after you arrive in the United States."
Quickly! Quickly!
Here is the anchor refugee, the counterpart to the anchor baby. An anchor invader is invested with all the bells and whistles of a real American and he can bring in all the goat herders in his family, or all he poverty stricken dirt farmers, or the chicken tenders, or the rice paddy coolies. Once a clan is in it's in. Here comes the eighteenth cousins by the dozens.
"There's the humanitarian aspect, of course, America's historic promise to extend a hand to huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The rot of generations set up in a slogan.
"Can you help with my Citizenship test? Yes! We offer classes in collaboration with the Office for New Americans. Classes are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at MVRCR every Monday and Tuesday at the Utica Public Library. Individual Mock (practice) Interviews are also available by appointment. We also have volunteers to assist individuals one on one and home study materials if you can not attend class. Please call to check the class schedule"
The Center has many success stories: Cos Mit (Karen), Nezir Jarsevik (Bosnian), Enock Makoma (Congolese) Trinh Truoung (Vietmnamese) Thein Kwaw (Burmese). John Smith (American) is not among them.
"Refugee resettlement as an economic development tool, a Rust Belt revival strategy Utica has pioneered. After decades of decline — the city lost a third of its population when its factories closed — Utica is growing again, back up to 62,000 people, thanks in part to its reputation as, quote, the town that loves refugees, who now make up one out of every four residents. Thousands are Muslims from Bosnia, refugees of the war there in the 1990s."
They brag about being pioneers of destruction.
"As U.S. Citizens individuals who naturalize have the same rights under the constitution as all other citizens, they can obtain a passport and can register to vote the same day they become citizens. They are Americans just like individuals born in the country."
Why, they're as American as George Washington. And don't you forget it!
"Utica has gained a measure of fame as a city revived by refugees. For decades, Utica lost people in droves as its industries died. Its population dropped from more than 100,000 in 1960 to an estimated 61,100 in 2015. The refugees have mitigated the slide. Since 1981, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center For Refugees . has settled 15,000 people from around the world in Utica."
They mean infamy, of course.
"Recent U.S. census data show that 19 percent of Utica residents are foreign born and that a language other than English is spoken in 26 percent of its households. For its part, Utica has opened its arms to the new arrivals. In 2005, Refugees, the magazine of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, put Utica on the cover as “The Town That Loves Refugees,” a description that stuck."
The cover of the magazine for the United Nations Commissioners for Refugees! Why, they've hit the big time!
"Between 1979 and 1993, the peak resettlement year, 3,541 refugees came to Utica from all over the globe, especially from Vietnam and Cambodia. In the 1990s the largest refugee group came from Bosnia. In recent years most have come from Myanmar, often referred to as Burma."
It goes on and and on and on and it won't stop until we stop it. We know what the hell is going on.
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They spent three years in a camp on the Syrian border, before being cleared for transit to the United States. Yousif al Saad went to work at the Chobani yogurt plant outside Utica, whose CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, has championed the rights of refugees and hired hundreds of them."
Hamdi Ulukaya is one of those big brains behind the surge in refugees to Utica and places like it. Having left his native Turkey he decided to bring in more and more people like himself to America until it became unrecognizable to the natives but he felt right at home. Story is he once said that he wanted to flood America with Muslims; some fact checkers dispute that but that's not relevant. Whether or not he said he wants to flood America with Muslims he wants to flood America with Muslims. That's a fact. You can tell because he's flooding America with Muslims.
Hamdi Ukulaya (not an American name) is the Yogurt and Refugee King. He parlayed a business success in the Yogurt industry into an all out assault on the country he lives in. Trust me, the bill has not come due on this idiot. It matter not how much his business has added to the tax base he will cost us dearly, likely to within an inch of our lives.
"Hamdi started hiring refugees in his factory in New York state, and soon realized they were some of his most loyal, hard-working, and committed employees. This experience inspired him to found the Tent Partnership for Refugees, which encourages businesses to help integrate refugees economically into their new communities.
They'll do the jobs Americans won't do and they'll work harder. Assume against all odds that that is even true. It still wouldn't matter. No amount of economic benefit, no rise in the GDP, no new industry, no amount of jobs, nothing, can ever justify the importation of even on race alien into our homeland. There's an ironic saying in Germany about the Turks who they shoveled in by the car load in the 1950s and 1960s. It is the resigned expression that "we wanted workers but we got people." True that. In America we want workers but we get invaders.
"Hamdi is a signatory of the Giving Pledge and has committed the majority of his personal wealth to helping refugees. For these efforts, he was named an Eminent Advocate by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and received the United Nations Foundation Global Leadership Award. In 2017, Hamdi was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work around the refugee crisis and his innovative approach to business. That same year, he was named one of Forbes’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds."
All the highest honors of this country conferred on a foreigner who is helping to expel the heritage of America. It really makes you think.
"Hamdi Ulukaya, who built yogurt empire Chobani after immigrating to the US in the mid-90s, is challenging Americans to rethink the way they view immigration."
“I have nothing against America first, but ‘humanity first too,’” said Ulukaya in an exclusive interview with CNN on the sidelines of an event for his nonprofit, called Tent Partnership for Refugees.
Don't lie; he has everything against America First.
"Over the last several years, Ulukaya has been making a passionate pitch to assist refugees through Tent, Ulukaya’s nonprofit dedicated to helping improve the lives of refugees. He argues that resources, especially from corporate America, should grow to match a historic migration crisis that has displaced over 65 million people worldwide, including 25 million refugees."
Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, who employs about 300 refugees among the 1,000 workers at a plant south of Utica, said the company will assist any travel-ban affected employees and family members and “have their backs every day and every step of the way,” according to an in-house letter obtained by The Associated Press.
When Hamdi Ukulaya left his native goat farm he moved first to Long Island and then to upstate New York, so Utica was always in his sights if never in his heart (save as a dumping ground). It's the town that loves refugees and he's the man who loves refugees and who imports than wholesale. So why not, right?
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That is the blizzard of propaganda; that they protest too much is obvious, but they want to flood the channels of communication with all the deliriously happy talk abut how great the mixed race future of Utica is and is always going to be. The truth of course is altogether otherwise and chapter and verse can be laid out to adduce it; but remember a mixed race community is bad in principle, let alone the horror stories though horror stories there are---in spades, quite literally.
"In Utica, this means that up to $1,1750.00 of federal money is spent locally on a refugee's first month’s rent, security deposit, furniture, clothing, household goods, and other items. The cost of a refugee's airfare is actually a loan that they must begin to repay after 6 months."
They'll never repay it nor will the ever be asked to.
"Some workers face increased job competition and their wages can be driven down. If lower-skilled immigrants come, then lower-skilled American workers may see a decline in their wages, whereas business owners may see more workers at lower cost for them."
They say bad money drives out good, so do invaders drive out natives.
"Post-industrial Utica, New York, upstate, downtrodden, and, in the heart of downtown, where the United Methodist Church used to be, a thriving mosque.
"In the world beyond Utica, the tide of refugees rises, the fear of foreigners swells."
That mayor of Utica, the one who loves that cosmopolitan feel, the one who loves those Muslims sipping their coffee and speaking close together in their dog language, what does he think of that Methodist Church turned into a Mosque? He loves it I'm sure; but then deep down so do the Methodists, they love that they are getting what they deem their just desserts.
"Since the 9/11 terror attack, the US has taken in more than 750,000 refugees, many from Muslim countries.
This is the one you always hear about; it's like when the Muslim kills scores of White people the White leaders immediately get in the corner of the Muslims who have to experience the "backlash"; it's one thing not to take your own side; it's another to attack it.
"For years, the authorities say, administrators for an upstate New York high school turned away refugee children because of their age and their unsteady English while covering up discriminatory enrollment policies."
See here's the thing: if you don't bring in these foreign refugees they won't back bite you for persecuting them; first off they won't be here for you to do anything to them and they won't be here to complain even if you somehow magically did. Simple really.
It's like that old joke that a representative of our country boasts that his country never persecuted the Jews.
How did you manager that?
We never let them in.
"A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district’s only public high school."
"In one case, the lawsuit says, an administrator told twin 19-year-old sisters who were refugees from Myanmar that the law prevented them from enrolling at the high school, Proctor Hight School, because they would not have enough time to pass state exams and graduate before age 21 — a violation of state and federal law. Another administrator expressed interest in using separate buses for immigrant students, one part of an effort to maintain the segregation of immigrant students from the general student population.”
charges."
So the lawsuit alleges.
If so it looks like some Uticans have some common sense but state and federal law will have none of it. First thing you do is you "open your heart" to huddled masses and live up to the noble concepts contained in the "America Creed" and next thing you know is you're up to your eyeballs in Jew lawsuits that will tie you up for years and drain your coffers. Sure glad the refugees are here to buoy up that budget!
We're the town that love lawsuits!
"People who work with immigrants to obtain services say that some districts exclude students who are in their later years of high school and are inexperienced in English in order to drive up graduation rates."
No sooner than they are here than they are standing up straight (or as straight as they can stand up) and demanding their rights! They are every bit as good as we are, don't try to say they're not; and as that anti-White lackey down at the Center said naturalized citizens, or even green card holders, or even just a monster passing through, will be granted all the privileges and immunities of descendants of the Mayflower. Daughters of the Revolution make way for the litigious freeloaders.
“Every New Yorker under the age of 21 has a right to attend public school in the district in which they reside, regardless of immigration status or national origin,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. “Access to a quality education is the foundation of the American dream. School districts cannot place arbitrary impediments and barriers in the way of immigrants and refugees who have struggled to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.”
"Schneiderman was born to a Jewish family in New York City." Tell me something I don't know, and if I had a dime for every time I've read that sentence.
The district is “severely underfunded,” Mr. Gerace added, “which affects services for all of its students.”
Wait, the school's coffers should be overflowing with cash what with all those refugees that have been pouring in and larding up that tax base. You means there's still a shortfall?
"The attorney general’s findings grew out of a statewide review to determine whether districts were violating a Supreme Court mandate against discrimination in schooling by asking about children’s immigration status before enrolling them."
Does it ever seem that our leaders do everything under the sun to protect everyone but us?
"This Court case was initiated in 2014 in response to an article in the New York Times about children who were barred from school after fleeing violence in Central America, and has resulted in more than 20 districts agreeing to change their enrollment policies according to Mr. Schneiderman’s office."
"Schneiderman was born to a Jewish family in New York City,"
The office is continuing to investigate enrollment policies across the state, a spokesman said.
"But the practices alleged against Utica go further than those in other districts. The lawsuit describes several layers of administrators instructed to keep out immigrant students without leaving any trace of the refusals. For many years, the lawsuit says, the policy was unwritten but enforced at the highest levels, including by the district superintendent. The suit says it was codified last year to say that any immigrant students over 16 who are perceived to have problems with English cannot enroll at Proctor, regardless of their wishes."
I guess those school administrators who are barring Hamida and Kalfai and Trin Tron from being in school are among the 31 percent of Utica's population who do not think immigration is simply the best thing since sliced bread. And it's strange, because education drones are usually quite liberal on these matters.
"Even some students who had finished years of high school in other American districts and then transferred to Utica were told they could not enroll at the high school, the lawsuit says. The district kept no records of these children’s attempts to enroll and did not test them on their English as required by law, according to the lawsuit."
If true, good for them. Too bad about the shakedown though.
“The district could claim that these individuals were unknown to it — effectively strangers to the district who never sought to enroll and, thus, toward whom the district had no legal obligations beyond whatever piecemeal services the district chose to offer them.”
"The lawsuit says the alternative programs sent students down a path to nowhere. They could not earn credits toward a diploma or properly prepare for a high school equivalency exam, the lawsuit says, leaving students to languish for years with only training in basic English. They were also housed in separate buildings and segregated for gym, art and music classes. The lawsuit says they could not mix with their peers for lunch or extracurricular activities either, a violation of state law."
It would only be right as the refugees have sent Utica down a path to nowhere. Nowhere good to be sure.
"The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the district in Utica in April on behalf of six refugee students, describing a similar pattern of exclusionary enrollment practices stretching back to at least 2007."
"Utica seems an unlikely target for such accusations, given its reputation as a magnet for refugees."
Maybe you have it backwards. Maybe it's because that Utica is a magnet for refugees that this happens. Maybe not all Uticans are as down with these suicidal policies as you think. Maybe because Utica is overflowing with refugees that they are on the big Jew radars in New York city as prime and easy pickings.
Programs that the Utica City School District initiated to increase the success of older refugee students are being called “roadblocks to nowhere” in a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office.
Those illiterate bastards mean "road to nowhere" not "roadblock to nowhere." Maybe that Jew law office is staffed by illiterate refugees.
"The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, alleges that, since at least 2007, the district has diverted immigrant students older than 16 away from the high school into academic dead-ends.”
And those practices, the documents say, have deprived Utica’s refugees of the opportunity to obtain a meaningful education and a high school diploma.
“Every New Yorker under the age of 21 has a right to attend public school in the district in which they reside, regardless of immigration status or national origin,” Schneiderman said in a news release. “School districts cannot place arbitrary impediments and barriers in the way of immigrants and refugees who have struggled to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.”
"But according to the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York — on behalf of six Utica refugees and a class of similar immigrant students — the program excludes the students, segregates them into inferior programs and takes away their opportunity of making American friends and of earning a high school diploma. That, the groups claim, is illegal."
The refugees who got here five minutes ago enjoy the entire panoply of the right and immunities conferred on real Americans.
"What I wonder is just how much of a severe economic hit can the state force on a very poor district like Utica for seven years and not have it affect their educational plan in some way."
Not to fret, they'll get thousands and thousands of Afghanis soon and that's make the money grown on trees in the town that loves refugees.
“I have a friend who is a refugee and her English isn’t that good,” said Saul Rivera. “She said they might take her out of her regular classes and put her in an easier one because she can’t really keep up. I don’t think that’s good, though, because it’s not going to help her in the long run.”
The city poverty rate remains at 32 percent — in line with other upstate cities but above the national rate. The streets are dotted with empty storefronts and ramshackle homes. And the school system last year settled lawsuits that accused it of steering refugee students into inferior education programs.
And of course bringing them in breeds resentment. Donald Trump tried to keep at least some Muslims out but Muslim ban was somehow not moral:
"The recent travel ban prompted Mowlid Hussein, a Somali Bantu, to cancel travel plans to see his two children from a previous marriage in Kenya. He is upset the order will delay efforts to bring them here."
Many Uticans have begun to grumble.
"Upstate New York is a gorgeous part of America. Think Rip Van Winkle. What is happening there as a result of Barack Hussein’s Muslim refugee resettlement program is not a lot different than the nightmare Europeans are experiencing at the hands of their own unbelievably stupid and corrupt leaders."
"Utica was once an idyllic slice of Americana in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. It is now a magnet for Muslim refugees, who represent 25% of the local population."
"The Catholic school my father attended is now a community center for refugees."
"When I moved back home one of the first things I noticed was that an old Methodist church was being converted into a bright shiny white new mosque. The local paper touted this as immense progress and featured a local woman who had attended the church as a child and was positively brimming with joy it was being turned into a mosque."
Six Bosnian immigrants have been accused of sending money and military equipment to terrorist fighters overseas, including the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The indictment names Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 40, his wife, Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 35, and Armin Harcevic, 37, all of St. Louis County; Nihad Rosic, 26 of Utica, New York; Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 34, of Schiller Park, Illinois; and Jasminka Ramic, 42 of Rockford, Illinois.
Not one of those success stories, eh? No sir that one did not make the Refugee website's list. Cover it up in the corner, rather, so as not to upset the natives.
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Utica, the city seat (1798) of Oneida county.
The first settlers were Dutch and Palatinate Germans.
In 1921 a movement was inaugurated to make the New York-Buffalo highway a "Road of Memory", with hundreds of thousands of native trees planted along its 450-mile length to commemorate the brave sons of New York State who fell in the World war. The initial planting of these memorial trees was in 1921, when 20,000 elms were set out on the Utica-Syracuse section,
A tall monument on the summit of New Forest Hills Cemetery, adjoining Forest Hill Cemetery, marks the grave of Justus H. Rathbone (1839-1899), founder in 1864 of the Order of Knights of Pythias. Many famous Uticans are buried on this sightly hill.
Genesee Street, one of America's most beautiful avenues, is the backbone of Utica and its most characteristic feature. One cannot think of Utica without visualizing Genesee Street. It runs from old Deerfield Corners, on the Mohawk Turnpike in present Utica, west to beyond New Hartford, in which six miles it is built up the entire distance.
In the construction of the Barge Canal (1905-1918) a movable dam and a terminal lock were located at Utica terminal harbor. West of Utica to Rome and eastward to Frankfort, the Barge Canal follows a land-line cut on the north side of the Mohawk River.
Utica still maintains the pleasant reserve and dignity of handsome iron fences and hedges about its better residences — a feature again properly coming into vogue.
Utica shows its British heritage by observing Christmas eve with lighted candles and household illumination. Utica has its Proctor day (June 11) and its Kite day. Its ragamuffin parade is on Election day night, instead of Thanksgiving day, as in New York. Halloween is widely observed, its parties often stretching over two weeks time.
Because of its tree-lined streets, Utica is frequently called "The City of Trees." On account of its beautiful parks it is sometimes called "The City of Parks." By reason of a line of Shakespeare it is affectionately called "Pent-up Utica," the "Pent-up City" or "Old Pent-up," just as the lovers of Schenectady fondly term it "Old Dorp." It is also called "the Crossroads of New York," from its central location as regards motor roads and railroad lines.
Utica's schools are noted for their efficiency. Utica Free Academy, occupying a series of large and attractive buildings, is famous for a century of high educational standards.
The Utica Public Library has a beautiful building on Genesee Street and is recognized as one of the model public libraries of the state. It has an art gallery which houses frequent traveling exhibitions. Here the Utica Society of Fine Arts (organized in 1922) holds its annual exhibition, while it maintains an art school elsewhere.
The Utica Public Library is as old as the city itself. It came into existence the year (1832) that the city was incorporated. It has nearly 150,000 volumes and a circulation close to one-half million books a year. There are branch libraries and a special service to schools. The Utica Library will celebrate its centennial with that of the city in 1932.
Utica is a noted musical center for a city of its size, largely because of its large proportion of Americans of Welsh descent, insuring a racial heritage of music. There are a number of musical organizations and a Conservatory of Music has been in existence here for many years. Organs for churches and theaters are made in Utica.
There are several musical clubs, including the B Sharp Club, composed of 1,500 women; the Haydns, a famous male chorus, and the Philharmonics, a mixed chorus that has won laurels over a wide territory. In addition, Utica is the home of the Cymreigyddion society which each year conducts a great Welsh musical festival covering a period of several days and attracting vast throngs from the eastern states to compete in the various musical contests or to enjoy this wonderful occasion of music, art and story. Here also recently was organized the National Eisteddfod Association, a Welsh organization devoted to the promotion of music and art.
Utica is a church city, with many handsome churches representing nearly all the leading denominations, many of these churches being fine specimens of architecture. There are seventy churches in Utica.
Utica has mills that operate approximately 400,000 spindles; industries that convert 150,000 bales of cotton into yarns and fabrics annually; foundries that use over 100,000 tons of iron each year.
A plentiful supply of hydro-electric power, generated at Trenton Falls is available here. This hydro-electric power is supplemented by an extensive steam plant system. The development of the proposed super-power plan in the eastern states contemplates Utica as one of the load centers and distributing points. This fact is of vast significance and importance and will prove a powerful incentive for locating many new industries in Utica.
Utica is the center of an industrial district producing a great variety and amount of manufactures, which are constantly increasing. The textile industry is Utica's greatest manufacturing line and Utica is the chief textile manufacturing center in the United States.
In 1919, Utica had 370 factories, with 18,564 workers; 40,419 primary horse power; capital of $67,255,000; annual value manufactured product of $77,746,000 (1920 U. S. Census Report).
In 1924, Utica manufactured white goods, cotton yarn, cloth and worsteds, heating furnaces, metal beds and springs, firearms, fire apparatus, locomotive repairs, machinery, brass goods, automobile and wheel rims, metal goods, cutlery, engines, clothing, millinery, food products, cigars and tobacco, paper goods, paper, woodwork, furniture, pearl buttons, knit goods, caps, fire alarms, street sweepers, air compressors, fishing rods and tackle, trunks and luggage, germicides, radiators, church organs, printed and lithographed goods, engraving, woolen cloth, corduroy cloth, sheets and pillow cases, toys, suspenders, box board, paper boxes, emblems, badges, auto bodies and accessories, metal stampings, farm implements, chemical products, extracts, sportsmen's clothing, sporting rifles and pistols, buffing wheels, pliers and nippers, boilers, tanks, mail boxes, electric washing machines, refrigerator equipment, etc.
According to the census of 1920, Utica was proportionately the fastest growing city in New York State. Its 1925 population is estimated at 110,000, with 135,000 in the Utica metropolitan district, within a radius of ten miles of the Utica City Hall. The increase in population and material wealth of Utica has, however, been solid, substantial and enduring. Inflation and boom methods are discredited here.
The location and site of Utica offer possibilities for great industrial development. The railroad terminal facilities are unsurpassed, all roads entering Utica having the privilege of use of all the city railroad freight terminals. The Barge Canal affords waterway transportation to Duluth on the Great Lakes, New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico (by way of the Chicago Canal and the Mississippi River) and to New York City on the Atlantic. The great trunk highways entering Utica allow motor freight trucking to all points. The electric power available and possible and the large amount of level land, lying close to these transportation routes, afford most unusual industrial possibilities. Roger W. Babson, the financial expert, in 1922 prophesied that the Mohawk Valley, because of its strategic industrial position, would eventually become America's greatest manufacturing district — and he has made investments to back his own faith. The Upper Mohawk Valley of today is one of America's leading industrial centers and is becoming increasingly important.
Utica is the county seat of Oneida County (formed 1798), which takes its name from the Iroquois tribe of Oneida Indians, who occupied its territory on the Dutch occupation in 1614.
In 1821 the greater part of the Oneidas were removed to Chippewa Bay, Wis., in spite of their protests. In 1910 there were about thirty Oneida Indians living in Oneida County and about 200 in the state, some being in Madison County.
The City of Utica lies in a land patent known as Cosby's patent or Cosby's manor, granted in 1734 and surveyed in 1762.
Old Fort Schuyler, 1758-60
In 1758 British Colonial army engineers here built a fort, one of a chain of defenses which extended along the Albany-Oswego water route during the great French war (1754-60). This local fort was an earthwork with palisades and it stood on Main Street, near the Mohawk River, just below Second Street.
This fort was christened Fort Schuyler, in honor of Col. Peter Schuyler of Albany, uncle of Gen. Philip Schuyler of the Revolution. It was garrisoned from 1758 until 1760, when it was abandoned. When the American army reconstructed Fort Stanwix (at present Rome) in 1776, its name was changed to Fort Schuyler in honor of General Schuyler, which name it generally bore in army records until after the Revolution. To differentiate between the Rome and the Utica Forts Schuyler, the Utica fort site was then referred to as Old Fort Schuyler. The same name for the two forts has been the cause of endless historical confusion. After the Revolution (1775-1783) the Rome fort resumed its name of Fort Stanwix, which is its present appellation.
In 1773 the Weaver, Reall and Damuth families settled present North Utica at Deerfield Corners. They were driven out and their homes burned in 1776 by hostile Indians. They returned and settled permanently on their old lands in 1784, as stated later.
General Herkimer and his American army of valley militia here at Utica crossed the Mohawk ford, August 5, 1777, from the north to the south bank, on his way to the battleground of Oriskany. The site is marked by a bronze tablet erected in 1912 by the D. A. R. at the site of Old Fort Schuyler.
The Utica ford marker was one of a number erected by the Mohawk Valley D. A. R. Chapters in 1912, marking General Herkimer's march to the Oriskany battlefield. The markers are granite, with a relief inscription. At the top of each marker is a bronze tablet showing in relief the route of Herkimer's march.
Following the Revolution's close, in 1783, the great westward migration began. A few settlers went along the Mohawk roads in 1784 to homes in the upper Mohawk Valley (in what is now Oneida County) and further west. In 1785 the flood tide began and the next five or ten years witnessed the full flow of one of the most remarkable movements of people in the history of the world — that of the American people themselves, largely through the Mohawk Valley to new homes in the great West. The bulk of these migrating people were New Englanders or "Yankees" and Oneida County was largely settled by them and by people from the British Isles, a large element being Welsh, which made their most important early location here at Utica.
The majority of Utica's early settlers were Yankees, English and Welsh, but many pioneers of Dutch and German ancestry from down the Mohawk located in Utica as well as in Oneida County. In fact, John Post, the first merchant of Utica, the present great city of the western Mohawk Valley, removed from Schenectady, the present great city of the eastern valley.
At Old Fort Schuyler (as Utica was called from 1785 until 1798) nearly all of this westward movement left the Mohawk over the road to the Genesee country, to Lake Erie and the great West. Others turned north and peopled the Black River Valley and northern New York State.
The first settlement within the limits of Utica was made in 1773, in present North Utica at Deerfield Corners, by George J. Weaver, Mark Damuth and Christian Reall and their families. These were people of Palatine German ancestry from the German Flats (Herkimer) neighborhood. Reall's Creek takes its name from Christian Reall, whose house stood near it. These first settlers of Utica were all Whigs or patriots.
In 1788 the town of Whitestown was formed from the township of German Flats. Whitestown then had 200 population and embraced all of the state westward. Following 1786, new settlers by the names of Alverson, Morey, Foster and Silyea came to Utica.
John Post, Utica's first merchant, can be justly considered the founder of the city.
Post erected a frame three-story warehouse on the river and later one near the Genesee Street river bridge. Post owned a fleet of Mohawk River boats which were engaged in transporting merchandise and in bringing settlers and their effects from Schenectady to Utica. Three of these were Mohawk River packet boats, fitted with covers and seats, which carried passengers only, this transportation being preferred by many to the stages on the rough river roads.
Post built a store and had an important trading post and business here until he was burned out in 1806, which disaster ruined him and he died in poverty in 1830.
Settlers came rapidly to Old Fort Schuyler after Post's settlement in 1790 and by 1795 there was a thriving busy little village here with log and frame houses, stores, taverns and shops of various kinds.
In 1792 a bridge was built across the Mohawk, near First and Second streets, and a stage route was established running from Albany and Schenectady to Utica and Whitestown. This route was extended westward over the Genesee Road (later Seneca Road) to Geneva in 1794.
In 1793 the First Presbyterian Church was organized. In 1801 the Welsh Presbyterians had a church here and Trinity Episcopal Church was begun.
In 1804 Utica had 120 houses and buildings and had become an important little town with four tanneries, two nail factories, two breweries, a hat factory, and a cabinetmaker, watchmaker, potter, shoemaker, rope maker, besides other shops, stores, taverns, two churches, a schoolhouse, barns and other buildings.
The building of the Genesee Street river bridge in 1797, the improvement of the Mohawk Turnpike and the construction of the Seneca Road (formerly the Genesee Road) westward from Utica, both in 1800, "were among the first movements which gave Utica a start and secured for it a share of the business heretofore monopolized by Rome and other places in this vicinity." The frontier village of Utica grew rapidly thereafter.
Utica was the greatest national center of military movements in the War of 1812-14, many American troops passing through the city to and from the Niagara and St. Lawrence frontiers. In 1817, Utica Township was formed from Whitestown.
In 1817 Erie Canal construction was begun and in 1819 the canal was completed to Utica and on October 22, 1819, the first boat "Chief Engineer" made the initial trip between Rome and Utica, when a great celebration was held. The opening of the Erie, from Buffalo to Albany, in 1825, greatly stimulated the town.
In 1836 the Chenango Canal was opened northward from Chenango River headwaters of the Susquehanna, through the Oriskany Creek Valley to Utica, forming a valley outlet for coal from Pennsylvania. This canal was abandoned in 1878. In the modern utilization of trunk waterways, the use of the Chenango Canal may be resumed as well as other abandoned waterways of New York State, the pioneer and leading commonwealth in canalization.
In 1883 the Government building and the Y. M. C. A. were built.
The first great industrial development in the Utica metropolitan district was the beginning of cotton cloth manufacture in 1808 at New York Mills, at the present western limits of Utica. For the first forty years of its growth, 1785-1825, Utica was largely a trading and transportation center. Manufacturing followed the building of the Erie Canal (here as elsewhere along the waterway) as it furnished the first cheap transportation facilities. The first local industry of importance was the manufacture of plows begun in 1820. Local industries and the dates of their establishment follow: 1823, grist mill, iron foundry; 1826, pottery works; 1832, engine and boiler works, oilcloth factory; 1834, steam planing mill; 1836, ready made clothing; 1842, stoves and furnaces; 1847, woolen goods; 1848, cotton cloth; 1851, locomotive headlights; 1852, iron works; 1861, steam gauges; 1862, firearms; 1863, knit goods; 1868, caps; 1886, worsted; 1890, burial caskets. Other industries have been added and are constantly coming to this increasingly great industrial center.
Utica is a modern, progressive American city with an interesting and important past and a promising future, due to its past and present enterprising and patriotic American citizens and its wonderful industrial and commercial location.
Do Hamida and Sharifa and Trin care? No, not one little bit. It's all Greek, or English, to them.
All of it is so must dust in the wind.
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"Here in Utica, where there are refugees everywhere, I tried hard to find people frightened of them or angry about their presence. I talked to government officials, journalists, people in cafes and bars and on the street. I couldn't find anyone concerned about safety or national security or terrorism. It was like the presidential campaign was happening on a different planet."
They should have looked harder, I'm sure there's some people in Utica who could tell them a tale or two, tales of horror stories. But then again they're likely as afraid to speak as they are afraid of the refugees.
"I think that’s made up," said Kathryn Stam, an anthropologist at SUNY Poly who works with refugee families and volunteers at the community center. "I think most of that’s bulls—- actually. I don’t see anything to be afraid of."
"Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resources Center For Refugees."
"They're all refugees from the civil war in Somalia, who spent years in camps in Kenya. They wear long dresses and hijabs covering their hair. They're devout Muslims."
"These days roughly one in five people in the city come from a foreign country, a lot of them straight out of refugee camps in Thailand or Nepal or Kenya."
“We are Utica, said Hana Selimovic, a nursing student who was a Bosnian refugee, “the city that loves refugees.”
The city that loved refugees.
The history of America since 1980 is the history of the jobs going out and the people coming in, of our country being turned from a people to a population and a nation into a dumping ground. Any historian who tell you different doesn't know what he's talking about.
If there is a parable of what happened to America, and there is, it is the city of Utica in Upstate New York. A city that used to be all White that celebrated Christmas Eve with household illumination now has Bosnians and Burmese sipping their coffee on the main street thinking how soon they can bring their families there by the foolish generosity of American law. The Church has become a Mosque, the Refugee Center is bustling, and the Mayor is enjoying the cosmopolitan feel of the place. The Jews are suing the city for discrimination, but the City Father's are not worried, more and more refugees will mean bigger budgets, or so they say. But the truth is a Utica that would have been a dwindling husk of its former self due to the predation of capital would have been infinitely preferable to this; perhaps there would have been another way out but if die you must die with your life intact; and the memories of your past still alive. But the town that loves refugees? Alawsaj and Nezir? Congolese and Syrians? No, it's a desecration of all that went before; and whatever the future is the only thing you can be sure of is it will not be yours.