Lancaster
County, PA refugee economic study is misleading by Ann Corcoran 11/26/16
If everything is so copacetic in Lancaster
County, then why did it go 57% for Donald Trump.
This is what the Left is so good
at—writing studies that are not completely accurate to paint a positive picture
of the economic impact of refugees on a community and then use it as a
news-hook.
But, in this case the study (the propaganda!) which concluded that
immigrants/refugees economically benefit Lancaster County, PA was produced by
the real driver of the Open Borders movement, not the Leftwing,
do-gooder, ‘humanitarians,’ but business interests who want the ready supply of
cheap labor—-the Chamber of Commerce and
Bloomberg’s New American Economy cheered on by federal refugee contractor Church World Service which
receives most of its funding from you, the taxpayer. [For more on the New American Economy, go here.–ed] Do not trust any propaganda from
leading Open Borders advocates like Bloomberg: “Former Mayor of New York City
The article at Philly.com (fake news?) seems to be
promoting refugee resettlement, but when you look closely, the educated and
hardworking immigrants cited are mostly not refugees—they are Vietnamese (we
only take a handful of refugees from Vietnam now), Mexicans, Germans!,
Dominicans, and a smaller number of Cubans which we do take as refugees, but
shouldn’t be!
But, the most important and misleading
aspect of the story is that there is no information in the study about what the refugees/immigrants cost Lancaster
County and the federal taxpayer for welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, Medicare,
the criminal justice system and a biggie education for the kids.
The low wages Tyson Foods and other big global corporations pay their
labor is supplemented by you, so of course the business community loves this
model!
Lancaster County is Donald Trump land. The president-elect won 57
percent of the 240,000 votes cast there, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 38
percent. The county of about a half-million
people also is home to fast-growing numbers of immigrants and refugees – 23,094
as of last count – whose rate of growth from 2009 to 2014 was nearly double the
rate for the county as a whole. Nationwide, immigrants and refugees were among
groups often lambasted by candidate Trump.
But in Lancaster County, according
to a study released Tuesday, foreign-born residents have had “an outsize”
positive impact on the local economy, and in 2014 contributed $62.8 million to
Social Security, $16.4 million to Medicare, $52.5 million in state and local
taxes, and $103.3 million in federal taxes. Their spending power was estimated
at $440.5 million.
The study was a joint project of the Lancaster County Chamber of
Commerce and Industry and the Lancaster County Refugee Coalition. It was conducted and underwritten by the bipartisan New American
Economy, a Washington nonprofit whose cochairs include former New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael A.
Nutter
“With the very serious workforce
challenges the business community faces, the findings in this report will help
us to more fully leverage every person in this county,” Cheryl Irwin-Bass, vice
president of the chamber, said when she presented the study at her group’s
annual State of the County event
The study cites manufacturing and health care as industries in which
immigrants have played important roles. Some refugees have obtained jobs at
Tyson Foods. [I wonder
if refugees who sign up abroad to come here are forewarned about the
meatpacking jobs they are expected to fill—ed]
Church World Service has an office
in Lancaster City, and the refugees she helps include Syrians who have had to
flee their war-ravaged homeland. The top five immigrant groups are from
Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Germany, and Cuba. [Mostly NOT refugees—ed] Philly.com continues here.
Forget humanitarianism, it is all about money! If
I have done nothing else with this post and years of work on the subject of
Refugee Resettlement I hope I have gotten one important message through to you
dear reader. Refugee
Resettlement in America is NOT first and foremost about humanitarianism, it is
about big business and cheap labor!
I’ve written a lot about Lancaster
(Amish country) over the years. My interest began in 2007 when it was
Lancaster’s spillover (there was some problem with crime there we were told by
our police chief) that came to my county in western Maryland.
Go here for my archive on Lancaster. See especially posts where some
very unhappy citizens protested against more refugee resettlement and where the
school system endured a very expensive lawsuit filed by lawyers for refugees (I
bet Bloomberg didn’t include that cost in his study!).
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