Federal refugee grants to special ethnic groups “to
promote community organizing”, by Ann Corcoran
3/20/17
Community organizing for their group of people gratis the US taxpayer!
This morning, I was going to write
about how elder refugees (yes, we admit many over 65 years old) are eligible
for SSI, but I stumbled on the $millions in grants taxpayers give to ethnic
groups across the country so they can help “their” special ethnic group of
people integrate and become civically engaged.
Buffalo Imam Yahye Y Omar is listed
as the agent for an ORR community organizing grant.
These grants previously were gifts
to ECBOs (Ethnic Community Based Organizations) for which I had created a
whole category a few years back, see here.
I likened them to mini-ACORNS.
Do you remember ACORN which taught
poor Americans how to get their stuff (welfare) and then organized them to
vote, etc? These groups are like that!
Now they are called Ethnic Community
Self-Help groups
(not really self-help are they if you are funding them?). Because many are for
specific ethnic groups, I believe they foster non-assimilation as they identify their people as somehow in
need of special treatment by the government.
Here is what the Office of Refugee Resettlement says about these grants and groups. Program Goal - The objective of this
program is to support ethnic community based organizations in providing refugee
populations with critical services to assist them in becoming integrated
members of American society.
General
Background - Throughout the history of the
United States the involvement of refugees and refugee community based
organizations in refugee resettlement has been critical to refugee integration.
Today, these
organizations continue to enhance the provision and effectiveness of services
available to refugees. They
allow the refugee experience to flow into refugee resettlement plans and
decisions. For refugees, their active participation in resettlement is
generally empowering and plays an important role in the integration of the
entire refugee community.
Program
Description
This program provides assistance to
refugee community based organizations and other groups that address community
building, facilitate cultural adjustment and integration of refugees, and
deliver mutually supportive functions such as information exchange, civic
participation, resource enhancement, orientation and support to newly arriving
refugees (and other refugees that maybe in need of such assistance regardless
of their resettlement date) and public education to the larger community on the
background, needs and potential of refugees.
In short, the purpose is to
promote community organizing that builds bridges between newcomer refugee
communities and community resources. LOL! Building bridges to community
resources=finding taxpayer-funded welfare goodies!
I thought the refugee
contractors‘ job was to ‘orient’ new refugees
and take care of their ‘needs,’ but never mind, there is a whole cottage
industry of non-profit groups sucking from the federal teat for their special
ethnic ‘community.’
Here is a screenshot from the 2015 ORR Annual Report to
Congress showing the $6,096,190 in grants
sent out that year.
Sure hope the Trump team
targets these for de-funding!
Homework assignment! You should find
out more about any of these special groups for special people (you fund them!)
working near you.
The last one on the first page
jumped out at me. I wondered what is Helping Ensure Africa Looms International Inc.
I didn’t even find a website or any description of what it does, just this NY state charity profile. There I learned that the principle agent is one Yahye Y
Omar of Buffalo.
We assume he is the same Yahye Y
Omar who is the imam at the Buffalo Islamic Community Center who is quoted in
this Buffalo Newsstory entitled: Refugees and immigrants reminded of legal rights at
Buffalo event
Guess he is busy “community
organizing!”
I didn’t have any intention of going
farther with this, but be sure to see are cent Form 990 for ‘Helping Ensure Africa….’ Pretty much the only
money they take in is from ORR and almost $70,000 went to salaries and $10,000
+ went to rent.
But, I was still not ever able to
find out what exactly the
recipient of $170,103 in 2015 actually does!
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