Waiting! Will Trump lower refugee
ceiling further? by Ann Corcoran 2/13/17
If President Donald Trump wants to
curtail migration into the U.S. from some of the world’s most dangerous
hotspots of jihadism, he has options that would effectively navigate an end-run
around the courts.
“We will keep our country safe.
That’s what I’m here for… I will give it the best security, so it will happen
very rapidly,” Trump said Friday. His top policy aide, Stephen Miller, said essentially the same thing in
appearing on all the major Sunday morning news shows.
One of the options is to simply
lower the ceiling on refugee resettlement for fiscal 2017, which began four
months ago on Oct. 1.
Trump has already partially exercised this option in his first
executive order when he lowered the annual ceiling from 110,000 refugees set by
Obama to 50,000. Interestingly, this was the
one part of his executive order that was not struck down by the lawsuits filed
in Washington state and Minnesota.
By cutting the ceiling to 35,000, Trump would effectively end refugee
resettlement for the rest of the fiscal year extending over the next seven
and a half months. That would allow his administration to decide on a better
vetting system and determine how high to set the ceiling for fiscal 2018. [And, I would argue that such a
moratorium would give Congress the impetus to begin to reform the program!
First step would be to remove “church” contractors from federal payroll—ed] Continue reading here.
See what the experts say. I am
quoted too! Don’t forget, even though there is a
vocal minority, the majority of your fellow citizens think protecting America
is the first priority, here.
Here is where the 2,305 refugees
have been placed since the Executive Order was signed (up to this morning). I
see we are still at the 34,430 level for the fiscal year, so there is still
time to cap at 35,000! From Wrapsnet. None were placed in Alaska and
Hawaii since the EO on January 27th.
This post is filed in our Trump
Watch! category as well as ‘refugee statistics’ and ‘where to find information.’
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/waiting-will-trump-lower-refugee-ceiling-further/
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