Ann Corcoran (born 1950 or 1951)[1] is an American conservative[2][3] blogger and political activist known for the anti-refugee and anti-Muslim blogs Refugee Resettlement Watch and Fraud, Crooks, and Criminals.
[1] Beginning in 1989, along with other farmowners she led a six-year dispute over landowner rights against the federal government, the Park Service and the state, on how to best preserve their farms, associated with the Antietam National Battlefield.
[1][8][9] Corcoran's focus on Muslim immigration was sparked by plans to resettle refugees in her rural county in western Maryland, and she started her blog in 2007.
"[10] In 2017, a YouTube video of her produced by the Center for Security Policy (CSP) went viral, receiving nearly 3 million views, in which she claimed that refugees are a Muslim plot to colonize the United States, asserting that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is "under the influence of a powerful Muslim supremacist group", the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
[7] In 2015, she was cited as an "expert" by Donald Trump,[12] who was given a copy of her book, Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America,[3] at a CSP national security summit in Iowa where the two briefly met.