Resettlement industry wants 100,000 Syrians in
FY17, 210,000 total refugees and billions more from Congress, by Ann Corcoran
9/23/16
Just to recap,
Obama’s final ‘determination’ sent to Capitol Hill a week ago calls for a ceiling of 110,000 refugees from all
over the world for Fiscal year 2017 which begins in 8 days. He did not
indicate how many of those would be Syrians but recently we
learned that 20,000-30,000 would likely be
Syrian Muslims.
Hillary and
John Podesta (working for George Soros) started the Center for American
Progress and you can bet if she gets in the White House, the two of them will
open the floodgates to the third world. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6709
Thanks to
Richard at Blue
Ridge Forum for spotting this
story at the Center for
American Progress (CAP) where the resettlement contractors and their
friends spell out what they really want.
They want the 110,000 to be a floor and not a
ceiling and they want 100,000 Syrian Muslims on top of 110,000 other refugees.
They also drop
some astounding numbers about how many billions of dollars they want from the
REPUBLICAN Congress.
Here is the story from earlier in the week: After a slow start
in fiscal year 2016—in which, by the end of May, the United States had only
resettled one-quarter of its stated commitment of 10,000 Syrian refugees—the
administration announced on August 29 that it had hit its target. According to
the administration’s report to Congress laying out its 2017 resettlement
goals—the “Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2017”—the administration
now believes it will surpass its original goal, bringing in up to 13,000
Syrians by the end of September.
Most
importantly, the report to Congress makes clear that the United States will
surpass even the commitment made by Secretary of State John Kerry in September
2015 to bring in 100,000 refugees in FY 2017: It raises the target for
resettlement in FY 2017 to 110,000 refugees.
Human Rights First,
for example, has called for the administration to admit 100,000 Syrians next
year in addition to 100,000 refugees from the rest of the world.
Whatever number
of Syrians the administration ultimately decides to admit, it should view the
commitment to resettling 110,000 total refugees in FY 2017 as a floor, rather
than a ceiling, and should do everything in its power to increase the number of
refugees admitted.
They know what we have
been trying to say for weeks! Congress has the power to slow the invasion if
they want to because the resettlement contractors have virtually no money of
their own. They need your money to change your towns!
CAP continues: Funding is
critical, and the ball is in Congress’ court. While the Obama
administration has stepped up to raise the numbers of refugees to be resettled,
Congress has not, to date, provided a corresponding increase in the funds
available to ensure that these individuals are able to resettle smoothly, find
livelihoods, and become self-sufficient soon after arrival—a key goal of the
U.S. refugee program.
The funding
Congress appropriated for FY 2016 was based on an estimate of only 75,000
refugees being resettled.
When the
administration raised its target to 85,000 refugees, Congress did not increase
the funding to match. This means that over the past year, the government has
had to resettle more refugees with fewer funds. To make matters worse, Congress
will most likely only fund the government for the remainder of the calendar
year using a continuing resolution—a stopgap, short-term funding bill rather
than a full-year appropriation—likely holding the amount of funding for
resettlement to FY 2016 levels. This will become all the more difficult to
sustain as the number of refugees admitted grows to 110,000.
Take the Office
of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, as an example. This agency helps integrate
newly arrived refugees into American life and society, providing financial and
medical assistance, social work and case management, and language and job
training programs. It also has primary responsibility for the housing and care
of unaccompanied children who arrive in the United States. In FY 2016, the ORR
received a little less than $1.7 billion to accomplish these tasks. With an
increase in the numbers of both refugees being resettled and unaccompanied
children arriving, however, ORR’s budget is stretched thin.
The Refugee
Council USA (mentioned below) is the lobbying arm of the resettlement industry
in Washington.
The administration’s FY 2017 budget, based on
the original goal of resettling 100,000 refugees, calls for the ORR to receive
about $2.2 billion, while Refugee Council USA—the main umbrella group for
organizations working to resettle and protect refugees—has called for the ORR
to receive $2.95 billion. Either way, Congress must come together to provide
more funding to the agency.
The Continuing
Budget Resolution as it now stands has barely half that much and we are urging
Congress to cut even more deeply.
Keep calling them and tell them that you know
they, the Republican leadership, hold the cards—not Obama!
We have written
a lot about the Refugee Council USA and also about the Center for American
Progress, so please use our search function if you want to learn more.
On this ‘ceiling’ issue: for all the time I have been writing
this blog, the industry has been working to make sure the ceiling is met. But,
it is only a ceiling. The President can, during the course of the year,
go below the ceiling and in some earlier years a president has. So it
strikes me that if Donald Trump is elected, he could very well just (at
minimum) go way below the ‘ceiling’ (tell his Secretary of State to slow it
down) after he is inaugurated without even initiating a battle (over Obama’s
last determination) in the opening months of his administration.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/resettlement-industry-wants-100000-syrians-in-fy17-210000-total-refugees-and-billions-more-from-congress/
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