STATE DEPT. INSIDER EXPOSES
REFUGEE PROGRAM AS 'FULL OF FRAUD', Whistleblower
shocks with letter defending president's authority to implement reforms, by Leo
Hohmann, 2/8/17, END
A recently retired U.S. State
Department veteran has published a whistleblower
letter in the Chicago Tribune
fingering the refugee resettlement program as fraught with “fraud” and
“abuses.”
Mary Doetsch said the problems were
apparent before President Obama took office but got worse under his leadership
and that she “fully supports” President Trump’s executive order to temporarily
halt the program in order to improve the vetting process.
“I fully support President Donald
Trump’s executive order that temporarily halts admissions from the U.S. Refugee
Admissions Program and bans travel from nationals of countries that potentially
pose a security risk to the United States; however, I don’t think the action
goes far enough. Further, I believe there are many people throughout the
country who feel the same way,” she writes.
She refutes the narrative of the
Obama State Department, repeated by its nonprofit contractors at Catholic
Charities, Lutheran Social Services and myriad other lobbyists and supporters
including some members of Congress, that refugees are the “most vetted” and
“most scrutinized” of all travelers to the United States.
Doetsch retired about two months ago
as a refugee coordinator. One of her assignments was at a United Nations
refugee camp in Jordan, from which many of the Syrian refugees are flowing into
the U.S. She did three tours of duty, in Cairo, Egypt, dealing with Middle East
refugees; in Vienna, Austria, with mostly African refugees coming in through
Malta; and in Cuba.
Her letter affirms two and a half
years of reporting by WND, which has reported that the “vetting” of refugees
from broken countries such as Somalia, Syria and Sudan often consists largely
of a personal interview with the refugee. These countries have no law
enforcement data to vet against the personal story relayed to the U.S.
government about the refugee’s background. Sometimes even their name and
identity is fabricated and they have no documentation, such as a valid
passport, or they have fraudulent documentation.
WND
reported back in September 2016 that
the government was allowing in some refugees whose personal stories could not
be verified.
Doetsch writes: “As a recently
retired 25-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State who served almost eight
years as a refugee coordinator throughout the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Cuba,
I have seen first-hand the abuses and fraud that permeate the refugee program
and know about the entrenched interests that fight every effort to implement
much-needed reform.
Despite claims of enhanced vetting,
the reality is that it is virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no
type of an official record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism.
U.S. immigration officials simply rely on the person’s often rehearsed and
fabricated ‘testimony.’ I have personally seen this on hundreds of occasions.”
In just the first full week day
since Judge James Robart struck down Trump’s executive order, more
than 100 refugees have been rushed into the country by State Department contractors.
As a refugee coordinator, Doetsch
writes: “I saw the exploitations, inconsistencies and security lapses in the
program, and I advocated strongly for change. Nonetheless, during the past
decade and specifically under the Obama administration, the Refugee Admissions
Program continued to expand blindly, seemingly without concern for security or
whether it served the best interests of its own citizens.
She highlighted the situation of
African boat people who arrive on the European island of Malta seeking asylum.
These illegal aliens in Malta are magically turned into “refugees” by the
United Nations and shipped to the United States. She writes:
“For instance, the legally
questionable resettlement of refugees from Malta to the United States grew
substantially, despite the fact that as a European country with a functioning
asylum system, ‘refugees’ should have remained there under the internationally
accepted concept of ‘the country of first asylum.’ Similarly, the ‘special’
in-country refugee programs in Cuba and Russia continue, although they are
laden with fraud and far too often simply admit economic migrants rather than
actual refugees.
As an insider who understands its
operations, politics and weaknesses, I believe the refugee program must change
dramatically and the courts must allow the president to fully implement the
order.”
The United Nations selects the
refugees sent to the United States, a problem Trump and others have indicated
needs to be rectified.
The U.S. has imported more than 3 million
refugees since the Refugee Act of 1980, more than a million of them from
hostile Muslim countries with jihadist strongholds.
The refugees are distributed by
Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopalian, evangelical and Jewish groups to more than
300 U.S. cities and towns, often with no advance notice of how many will be
coming and from what countries.
These religious groups sign a
contract with the federal government agreeing not to proselytize the refugees
in return for payments. The government pays these contractors just over $2,000
per refugee and they get to keep about half of that fee.
Yet, these same agencies pitch the
program to cities and states on humanitarian and charitable grounds, rarely
disclosing their vested financial interest in the program’s expansion.
The program became controversial
only in the last two years as the Syrian civil war heated up and created
millions of refugees, several hundred thousand of them bound for Western
democracies. That led to a historic population shift as other Third-World
“refugees” from Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere joined the march toward
Europe, Canada and, to a lesser but still significant extent, the United
States.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/25-year-state-dept-veteran-exposes-refugee-program-as-fraud/
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