They go right on welfare
Obama grants 'refugee' status
to new wave of migrants, U.N. to pick Central Americans
eligible for U.S. welfare, by Leo Hohmann, 1/15/16
The number of Central American
migrants crossing illegally into the United States through the Southern border
has grown exponentially under the Obama administration.
More than 130,000 came in 2014
alone, most of them welcomed by sanctuary cities and then protected from
deportation by President Obama’s executive actions. The legality of those actions
remains unsettled and appears headed to the Supreme Court.
But now President Obama has invented
a new way to continue the influx of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador and do it in a way that is deemed “legal.” He will simply
re-categorize them as “refugees.”
Secretary of State John Kerry
announced Wednesday plans to expand a program to let Central Americans apply
for refugee status before they attempt the long, arduous trip to the
U.S.-Mexico border.
As such, Obama will place authority
for the program under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who
will pre-screen migrants from three Central American countries and decide which
ones qualify as refugees eligible to come to the United States, the Associate
Press reports. “I am pleased to announce plans to
expand the U.S.
Refugee Admissions Program to help
vulnerable families and individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras,
and offer them a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey many are
currently tempted to begin, making them easy prey for human smugglers who have
no interest but their own profits,” Kerry said in a speech at the National
Defense University.
Later Wednesday, Obama authorized
the State Department to access up to $70 million from the U.S. Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund “for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent
refugee and migration needs.”
In December 2014, the U.S. began
offering refugee status to Central American children who have parents already
living legally in the U.S., but only a limited number have been approved.
The latest effort expands that program
by moving applicants, both families and single individuals, into “safe zones”
to await processing. In other words, the U.N. will be herding refugees into
camps in Central America just as it has been doing in the Middle East, Africa
and Asia, then permanently resettling them in the United States.
More cheap labor
Stephen Miller, director of
communications for Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate
subcommittee on immigration, said it’s another unilateral move by Obama to
provide cheap labor to big corporations. And he’s unlikely to get any pushback
from Republicans in Congress.
“This is a backdoor plan to expand
low-wage migration into the United States, increasing financial burdens on
Americans and reducing their opportunities for employment,” Miller told WND.
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy
studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told WND the new program amounts
to a bait-and-switch by the Obama administration.
“The Obama administration is trying
to cover up for the fact that its policies of catch-and-release at the border
have caused this huge influx of new illegal immigration by enlisting the U.N.
to designate these prospective illegal immigrants as ‘refugees,’ as if that
will somehow ameliorate the costs to American taxpayers and the public safety
problems that have resulted,” Vaughan said.
A welfare bonanza for migrants
And one of the more sinister
side-effects of the new refugee program is that it will result in a huge net
increase in social welfare benefits for the migrants.
“As an added bonus for the Central
Americans, coming in as a refugee means they are instantly eligible for cash
assistance, housing, job training, language instruction and free health care,”
Vaughan noted.
Vaughn said the move will put
financial pressure on cities that the Obama administration is asking to
“welcome” the new immigrants.
“It’s going to bankrupt some of the
communities that are forced to absorb these new arrivals,” she said. “I think
the Democrats are going to pay a huge political price for these increasingly
outrageous executive actions that make a mockery of our immigration laws and,
frankly, insult our intelligence.”
Ann Corcoran, the refugee watchdog
who blogs at Refugee Resettlement Watch, said it’s all about importing cheap
labor for establishment Republicans and votes for the Democrats.
Companies like Swift & Co., a
Brazilian-owned meat packer that was raided in 2006 for using illegal immigrant
labor, are now being provided with that cheap Third World labor by the
government’s refugee program. The only difference is that now it’s all legal.
“Swift has been hiring Somali
refugees to work in its U.S. plants for years,” Corcoran said. “And we, the
taxpayers, get to subsidize their workers’ lifestyles with welfare because they
don’t pay them a living wage.”
Redefining the meaning of ‘refugee’
Corcoran said the Central Americans
don’t even meet the current definition of a refugee under international law.
Most are economic migrants looking for better employment opportunities.
“They aren’t refugees. Refugees have
to prove they were persecuted,” she said. “Running from crime or economic
deprivation does not qualify you as a refugee under the United Nations’
definition. They have been working for years on expanding the definition. Even war
is not a reason to become a refugee in the sense that you are permanently
resettled in another country. It has to be that you were persecuted because of
your religion or your race or your political beliefs.”
Corcoran said she expects a huge
surge at the border this summer and fall. “It occurred to me that we’re going
to have a huge wave of people coming across the Southern border this year.
They’re looking at Europe and how successful it’s been there, and they know
this is Obama’s last year in office,” she said. “So look for a huge movement to
swarm our borders, by whatever means. This is it. A great migration movement is
getting ready to take place.”
But don’t look for the explosion of
“refugees” from Central America to get too much media attention. If it does,
that will just play into the hands of the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
“If they overplay their hand and
make it so blatant and so huge this year, it could backfire and they could end
up with Donald Trump in the White House,” Corcoran said.
During the 2014 budget year, more
than 67,000 children were apprehended at the Southern border, along with more
than 68,000 migrants traveling as families.
The flow of Central American
children and families declined somewhat during the 2015 budget year, but border
agents have noted significant rise in the numbers of immigrants from both
groups in recent months. Since October, more than 16,000 children traveling
alone and more than 20,800 people traveling as families have been caught,
according to the AP report.
Until now, the government had
stopped short of calling such immigrants refugees, all the while working to get
the status changed.
Obama implementing U.N. Agenda 2030
In fact, the Obama agenda on the
migrant issue mirrors that of the United Nations. World leaders from more than
100 countries met in New York City in September last year to approve the United
Nations Agenda 2030 initiative for sustainability.
The Agenda 2030 document claims as
its goals the elimination of poverty and all forms of inequality over the next
15 years. The document lists 17 goals that are to be met by 2030.
Goal No. 10 is to “reduce
inequality within and among countries,” with the buzzword “inequality” being a
euphemism for wealth redistribution.
The document states that one of the
ways to achieve the U.N.’s desired equality is to, “Facilitate orderly, safe,
regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the
implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.”
In other words, every impoverished
person living in an undeveloped Third World country has the right under this
U.N. document to migrate to a developed country.
Goal No. 16 goes a step further
calling for “peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development” and
providing access to justice for all. One of the methods listed as critical for
the achievement of this goal is to “provide legal identity for all, including
birth registration” of all babies.
WND
has previously reported on the U.N. plan
to provide a universal biometric ID for all citizens on the planet, starting
with refugees.
The U.S. has been taking in about
70,000 foreign refugees annually for the past decade. But Obama has upped that
to 85,000 in fiscal 2016 and 100,000 in 2017. This includes 10,000 refugees
from the jihadist hotbed of Syria in 2016 and “many more” in 2017. The Congress
fully funded all of these demands, along with no penalty for sanctuary cities,
when it passed the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill last month.
Unlike most other types of
immigrants, refugees are eligible for a full slate of social welfare benefits
on day one of their arrival.
The U.S. State Department oversees
the refugee program with help from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and nine private agencies that contract with the federal government.
The nine agencies – six of which are affiliated with Christian and Jewish aide
groups – receive hundreds of millions of federal taxpayer dollars to place the
refugees in more than 180 cities and towns across the U.S.
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