Will they meet Obama’s goal of 85,000 refugees for
FY 2016? by Ann Corcoran 9/7/16
Fiscal year
2016 ends in about 23 days. At this time last year Obama said we would distribute to hundreds
(thousands?) of towns 85,000 refugees from all over the world.
(These will be permanent residents for any of you still harboring the notion
that refugees come here temporarily.)
I just checked
to see where Obama is with his goal (yes, he reached the 10,000 Syrians goal by
shortening the security screening time from nearly 2 years down to 3 months),
but will
they reach 85,000 total refugees in the next few weeks?
Already we are
hearing stories from everywhere that the nine federal contractors aren’t
finding enough housing for all of them (where will they put another 11,000?).
The Refugee
Processing data base tells us that as of September 1, they had brought in 73,289
which leaves 11,711 to be placed within a few weeks.
Here (below) is
where the 73,289 were seeded in FY2016 (last 11 months) so far. (See link for
map)
LOL! Check it
out, Joe Biden began the refugee program with Ted Kennedy in 1980 and Delaware
gets zip! Can’t make it up! Good ol’ Uncle Joe then Senator Joe Biden) helped
design the Refugee Act of 1980 along with Ted Kennedy and surprise! NO refugees
went to his home state of Delaware this year and only a tiny handful in the
previous 36 years!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/will-they-meet-obamas-goal-of-85000-refugees-for-fy-2016/
Northhampton, Mass. to hold two “welcoming” public
“conversations” this month by Ann Corcoran, 9/7/16
We told you the
other day that Northhampton, Massachusetts was ready and eager to “welcome”
Syrian Muslims (99% of Syrians being admitted to the US are Muslims) this
coming fiscal year which begins in only a few weeks, on October 1.
Catholic
Charities, the primary resettlement agency there is holding two meetings this
month to find support and help for the refugees because they do admit that
after 90 days Catholic Charities’ (taxpayer-funded) help ends. At that
time the refugees become dependent on the goodwill of the city and the welfare
that Catholic Charities has signed them up for.
Mayor David Narkeicz
is apparently on board with his city becoming a “host” city for Syrians and
impoverished Congolese refugees. Do they have jobs for them in Northhampton?
Or, does Northhampton just want some poor people because diversity is
beautiful.
Here is the news
at
Masslive.com. Our
earlier post on the new refugee program for Northhampton is here. How is the housing in this
upscale city? A shortage of housing seems to be a growing problem everywhere.
Northampton residents are invited to attend
two public conversations on the upcoming resettlement of 51 refugees into the
city.
Catholic Charities of Springfield***, the
agency contracted with the State Department to facilitate the resettlement,
will host the sessions along with a “welcome home” steering group of local
leaders.
The first, to be held Sept. 19 from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. in the JFK Middle School cafeteria, will be attended by Mayor David
Narkewicz. The second will take place Sept. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the
Northampton Senior Center.
Susannah
Crolius, the Catholic Charities coordinator of outreach and resource
development, said the conversations are part of an effort to build a long-term
support and integration network for the refugees.
The State
Department typically provides funding for 90 days of services after refugees
relocate to the United States…. [Catholic
Charities gets a cut of that for administering the program—ed]
Catholic
Charities is adopting a small-scale, carefully planned approach, Crolius said;
51 is the minimum number of refugees a host community can accept. [The following year CC will ask for 100 until
like Lancaster, PA, the city could get up to 900 a year.—ed] There is
more at
Masslive.com.
Readers who
live in this area should read all
of our posts on Springfield, Mass where the mayor has been begging for years for the flow
to be slowed as the city was overloaded with poor refugees. LOL! the top
post at that archive is about hungry refugees in Springfield being arrested for
killing and eating the small wildlife in the public park. Does Northhampton
have a public park?
I’m going to
bore readers to death with this, but if the Republican Congress does
not increase funding (and maybe even cuts what the contractors like Catholic Charities
have been getting!) for the massive numbers of refugees proposed for FY17 these
new sites will not be opened. Catholic Charities does not have the money on its
own to do this, it requires funding from the US taxpayer to administer this
program.
We need to get rid of slippery REPUBLICAN Senators like
Bob Corker (R-TN) by Ann Corcoran, 9/7/16
Don’t let
letters like this one from Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee (thank God Trump did
not choose him as VP) deter you. I’ve been asking all of you to write/call or
whatever even if you know your US Senator or Congressmen are losers.
Thanks to a
reader for sending this with this comment:
So much for contacting my senators and
congressman, there are significant reforms don’t you know which makes
everything all right.
Corker has done
zip! He is one of the biggest problems we have in the US Senate and here he
thinks he can blow you off with throwing the blame onto the Obama
administration. Corker and his fellow Republicans in the Senate hold the
purse strings. They could cut off Obama’s funding if they wanted to—they don’t
want to! Surely Senator Corker is pressing Obama here on the golf course to
slow the flow of mostly Muslim refugees to America!
With this
letter, he insults his constituents by assuming you know nothing about refugee
resettlement. The Visa Waiver program has nothing to do with refugee
admissions! And, then he falls back to blame those dastardly Senate
Democrats (who are in the minority!) for not getting anything done.
Corker is going
to “press the administration!” How about pressing your own leadership
namely Mitch McConnell!
Letter from
Senator Corker: Thank you for taking the time to contact my office with your
concerns regarding homeland security and the resettlement of refugees in the
United States. Your input is important to me, and I appreciate the time you
took to share your thoughts.
Like you, I
believe there can be no shortcuts when it comes to guaranteeing the safety of
the American people, and that protecting American citizens is the most
significant responsibility of the United States Senate. In light of recent
attacks in the United States and Europe, Congress can and should examine all
potential gaps that might allow individuals who pose a security threat to enter
our country, including in our refugee and visa programs and at our nation’s
border, and resolve these issues in a constructive way to make sure our
citizens are protected.
For this
reason, I was pleased the Fiscal Year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations law included
significant reforms to strengthen the visa waiver program, including
prohibiting individuals who have traveled to Iraq, Syria, or countries that are
state sponsors of terrorism, or are nationals of those countries, from using
the visa waiver program to travel to the United States.
As you may
know, I also voted to advance H.R. 4038, the American SAFE Act, which would put
new requirements on the refugee vetting process for refugees who are nationals
or residents of Iraq or Syria, or have been present in those countries at any
point since March 2011, the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. Specifically,
the FBI Director would have to certify the refugee vetting process, and
refugees from these countries, could only be admitted into the United States
after the Secretary of Homeland Security, the FBI Director, and the Director of
National Intelligence certify that each refugee does not represent a threat to
national security. While there was majority support for proceeding to debate
this legislation, unfortunately Senate Democrats blocked it from coming to the
floor.
Please know, I
understand your concerns about the potential security risks from immigrant visa
programs, including the resettlement of refugees in the United States. I will
continue to use my position in the United States Senate and on the Foreign
Relations Committee to press the administration to demonstrate leadership on this
issue and protect Americans from all those who seek to do us harm.
Thank you again
for your letter. I hope you continue to share your thoughts with me. Sincerely,
Bob Corker United States Senator
Are you getting slippery letters like this
one, send them my way and I will publish some (can’t promise to publish all if
you send me dozens and dozens!).
And to our
reader and all of you getting letters like this.Write back and tell them their
answer is unsatisfactory and you want to know what he/she is going to do right
now on this year’s omnibus—tell them you want the funds cut completely for the
Refugee Admissions Program because there has never been a satisfactory answer
to the security screening issue. Tell them in fact security screening
time has been reduced for Syrians and ask slippery Senators like Corker what he
is doing about it!
Paris building refugee camps, segregating the sexes
Posted by Ann
Corcoran 9/7/16
Invasion of Europe news..Refugee camp to open in Paris in
October. It
isn’t quite this bad here. We don’t have camps yet, but… could it happen?
Already housing
is short for the tens of thousands of refugees Obama (and the Republican
Congress) have admitted this fiscal year. We still have over 10,000 to
squeeze in to America this month (see
here)! And, we have
tens of thousands of so-called ‘unaccompanied alien children’ to house. Could
we end up with refugee camps in America?
Thanks to
Joanne for this story from France at the Huffington
Post. You
will have to read it yourself because it won’t allow any snips. The gist of the
story is that so many asylum seekers are building make-shift camps that the
powers-that-be have decided to build them some nice ones right in Paris.
They are
segregating the ‘refugees’ by sex because of all the rape and other sexual
abuse going on in refugee housing throughout Europe. See our ‘Invasion of
Europe’ archive
here.
Comments
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