Ann Corcoran

Ann Corcoran is a Maryland-based activist who started the blog Refugee Resettlement Watch (RRW) in 2007.

Photo of Ann Corcoran from the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog

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Immigration

She has described immigrants as 'migrant hordes', wants a moratorium on Muslim immigration (which she calls a 'grievous error' from the part of the Democratic government), and claims there is a Democratic plot to bring in Muslims to create new party voters. In 2016, she said of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton that they had a 'lust for more third worlders to be resettled in small town America!' In a September 2015 radio interview, Corcoran also warned that Obama and others were seeking to alter America by bringing in more refugees to force diversity onto Americans:

'there’s going to be a demographic examination of your town to see how diverse you are, and you will be rewarded if you’re sufficiently diverse and you will not be rewarded with government grants and so on and so forth if you’re insufficient in the diversity area. It is really, he [Obama] is changing America by changing the people.'

On May 8, 2015, she told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson that refugee resettlement is 'an existential threat' to America that is more dangerous that terrorist attacks.

She also accuses immigrant-run stores of illegally trafficking in food stamps. In an August 4, 2016, post on her blog, Corcoran wrote: 'Go to any seedy neighborhood (like the ones I saw in Toledo [Ohio] recently) and there is an immigrant-run convenience store it seems on every block. There is no way they are all making a living selling bread, milk and cigarettes. My guess is that many are participating in what is known as trafficking in food stamps.'

Moreover, Corcoran compared refugee resettlement workers to people with too many pets in a July 6 2014 blog post. In her own words: 'These people remind me of animal hoarders with a psychological ailment who fill their homes with cats, don’t have the finances to care for them properly, and don’t know when to stop.'

Muslims and Islam

She accuses Muslim refugees of engaging in 'civilizational jihad' aimed at imposing Shariah religious law on the U.S. with a worldwide caliphate as the final goal. 'They are using our Constitutional freedoms and American good will to push a quiet form of jihad in towns and cities, large and small, right under our noses,' she wrote in her 2015 screed, published by the far-right Center for Security Policy and entitled '[[Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra [Migration] to America]]'. In the biography of her Twitter page, she warns that '[i]mmigration (legal and illegal), if not slowed in 2017, will destroy America.'

She wrote on November 17, 2015:

'All the vetting in the world isn’t going to save us from the toddlers coming in with Mom and Dad from Africa and the Middle East who thumb their noses at the ‘good life’ and become radicalized 20 years down the road. [...] The only true solution is a complete moratorium on Muslim immigration.'

Corcoran called for a national debate on refugees and immigrants, focusing on the alleged dangers of Somalis, in a November 2009 blog post.

'Frankly, we have made a grievous error in taking the Muslim refugees, Somalis in particular, who have no intention of becoming Americans. [..] They are here to change America. Unfortunately, political correctness and a worshipful attitude toward multiculturalism have blinded us.'

Extreme-right

• She routinely links to white nationalists like Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance who once said black people are incapable of sustaining civilization, and lauds European anti-Muslim extremists like France’s Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders. On the Refugee Resettlement Watch page headlined 'Diversity' Corcoran offers as a resource a link to The Myth of Diversity by the same Jared Taylor. In the essay, Taylor calls diversity 'one of the most obviously stupid propositions ever to see the light of day' and adds, 'Explaining why diversity is bad for a country is a little like explaining why cholera is bad for it; the trick is to understand how anyone could possibly think it was good.' On the same page, Corcoran links to other white nationalist essays like The Age of White Masochism, and anti-multicultural stemwinders such as Plan to Destroy America.
• She has published essays in the racist journal The Social Contract, and the Council of Conservative Citizens, which has described black people as a 'retrograde species of humanity,' ran a live feed of her articles on its home page.
• In August 2016 she called for her readers to back Donald Trump by warning, 'If he loses, the flood gates will open to the third world like we have never seen before. And you will be silenced!'
• On November 6, 2016, she advertised the release of the book Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and the Resettlement Jihad authored by Leo Hohmann of World Net Daily.

Affiliations

• Refugee Resettlement Watch
• Jared Taylor
• The Social Contract
• the Council of Conservative Citizens
• Center for Security Policy

Contact

Ann Corcoran
P.O. Box 55
Fairplay, MD 21733

External Sources

• https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com
• Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists, Southern Poverty Law Center : https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#executive%20summary