More on Sunday rally in DC: goal is to increase
refugee numbers for FY2017 by Ann Corcoran on August 26, 2016
Mark Krikorian
of the Center for Immigration Studies reminds us of the huge cost of resettling each refugee to
your town or city. It is far less expensive to find safe places in the
Middle East for the Syrians, says Krikorian. Safe zones!
In fact,
Donald Trump has remarked in the past that he would like to see “safe
zones” established where refugees could be protected until the conflict is over
in Syria. I’m thinking one such safe zone could be in Saudi Arabia!
Maybe Trump
could make a deal with the Saudis who at present do not take care of their fellow Muslim refugees (a fact that we have chronicled over
the years) to establish a safe zone in the kingdom.
From the Daily
Signal about Sunday’s Rally for Refugees (see our
earlier post here). Emphasis below is mine: Are you
concerned about the plight of international refugees? Would you like to see the
U.S. government take decisive, constructive action on behalf of displaced
persons across the globe who have been forced to flee their homes?
Krikorian
points out that there are much ore fiscally responsible ways to care for Syrian
refugees than to scatter them through hundreds of American towns.
If so, you’re
invited to “stand up against the voices of intolerance” this Sunday in
Washington, D.C., where you can join forces with other concerned
Americans. [If you are concerned
about the costs and social upheaval for both refugees and for Americans when
refugees are secretly placed in your towns, you are intolerant! Get used to
it!—ed]
But if you do participate, policy analysts who
have examined the refugee crisis want you to know they have good reason to
believe the rally is a highly politicized event organized for the purpose of
lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to allow more refugees into the
U.S.—including those from war-torn Syria and Iraq who may have ties to
terrorism.
A major
contributor to causes on the left, the Tides Foundation, is collecting
contributions for the rally.
High Costs of Resettling Refugees
A report by the Washington-based Center for
Immigration Studies found that it costs 12 times as much to resettle a refugee
in America than it does to provide for services and relief to the same refugee
in the Middle East.
The nonprofit,
nonpartisan research outfit included State Department expenditures, welfare use
rates, and other figures and benefits from the departments of Health and Human
Services, Housing and Urban Development, and other U.S. agencies. Its report
says: Based on that information, this
analysis finds that the costs of resettling refugees in the United States are
quite high, even without considering all of the costs refugees create.
We conservatively estimate that the costs total $64,370 in the first
five years for each Middle Eastern refugee. This is 61 times what it costs to
care for one Syrian refugee in a neighboring country for a single year or about
12 times the cost of providing for a refugee for five years.
“The
organizers, funders, and the supporting groups are putting this rally together
to exert pressure to ensure that the Obama administration increases the
admission of Syrians into the U.S.,” Mark Krikorian, executive director of the
Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Signal.
Krikorian, of
the Center for Immigration Studies, said he sees more than mere happenstance at
work in the timing of the rally: Obama is set to play host to a refugee summit
at the U.N. on Sept. 20. The president also is expected to release his fiscal
year 2017 plan for refugees by the end of September.
The rally is not only “to exert pressure to
ensure that the Obama administration increases the admission of Syrians,”
Krikorian said, but “timed to influence the number of refugees the State
Department is trying to settle.”
And, it is my
view that it is also to exert pressure on Congress to loosen the purse strings
on funding for the program as Congress addresses the budget this fall. The nine
federal contractors*** who resettle refugees in your towns and cities want to
expand their operations to even more towns and they need your money to do that!
We have talked
about this before, but I’m going to be a broken record on it! Your focus
for the next couple of months should be on pressuring your Member of Congress
to grow a spine and oppose the expenditure of your money on resettling ever
larger numbers of refugees.
Don’t focus your anger
at Obama and the Progressives, they are doing what they always do—focus on
someone you can change—your member of Congress and US Senators up for
re-election in a little over two months.
The nine
federal resettlement contractors (participating in the rally Sunday) which are
almost completely funded with your tax dollars:
Comments
The cost
of allowing 100,000 refugees to invade the US is $6.437 Billion. Paying for
their resettlement in an Arab country would be $536 Million. Can Congress do math?
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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