Obama’s 110,000 refugee plan for 2017 is a
CEILING! A Trump administration could turn off the spigot, by Ann Corcoran 9/29/16
For all the
years I’ve been writing RRW (9 now), I’ve seen the Open Borders advocates and
the Resettlement contractors try to make the President’s proposed numbers (his
determination) for the upcoming fiscal year a REQUIRED GOAL. It is not! It is a CEILING.
There is no requirement that they must reach that number and in fact most times
they don’t.
If Donald Trump
is elected and uses his power by cutting refugee admissions, expect much
wailing and gnashing of teeth from Senators Dick Durban and Patrick Leahy, two
of the most important members of the Senate welcoming tens of thousands of
Middle Eastern and African refugees to your towns.
I’ve posted a
table below from the Refugee Processing Center so you will have some idea what the ceiling was each
year since 2006 and the number they hit.
By the way,
failure to reach that number can usually be attributed to not enough
resettlement sites and capacity in those sites (very often a limiting factor is
the availability of enough cheap housing), or it might simply be that the UNHCR
hasn’t processed enough refugees for us that year.
However, I doubt that this administration in
its waning months is going to be responsible and consider capacity. My guess is that the
refugee flow is going to be on steroids for October and in to November.
If Trump is elected they will go completely
insane pouring people in here before his inauguration (unless in December the
lame duck Congress severely curtails their funding).
To accommodate
these vast new numbers Obama has proposed, and because they are wearing out
their welcome in existing resettlement sites, we are hearing that there
are as many as 47 new targeted towns to be seeded with mostly Middle Eastern
and African refugees.
The Continuing
Resolution, being voted on this week, will give them enough money (since the Republican
leadership has failed us) to get that ball rolling in the first few months. In
fact, that ball will get rolling in two days, on October first!
What about Hillary’s 65,000 Syrians?
In yesterday’s hearing someone (Sen. Sessions?) asked about
Hillary’s proposed 65,000 Syrians and if there had to be any “consultation”
with Congress if she is elected and wants to bring that many in the opening
days of her administration. The answer is yes, probably, but what the hell is
Congress going to do other than say, ‘thanks for stopping by and informing us!’
Congress’
only recourse is to stop the funding! Don’t hold your breath!
Conversely,
because the Refugee
Admissions Program is heavily weighted toward the President’s wishes, if
Donald Trump should be elected, he has great leeway to cut back, or even
propose a moratorium on Obama’s 110,000 goal. He does not have to reach the ceiling!
Of course, he
would have to “consult” Congress too. The likes of Senators Patrick Leahy
and Dick Durban will be WAILING! (That would be fun to see!)
So, bottomline, Donald Trump must win the
Presidency and Congress must cut the funding for the program, or we are
finished.
Here is the
table I mentioned above. You will be looking at the columns labeled
“ceiling” and “admitted.”
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