State Dept. leaking like sieve to CNN, reveals WH
thinking of moving refugee program to DHS,
by Ann Corcoran 6/29/17
I know, I know, it is a CNN story with
Jake Tapper on the byline, but there is very likely truth to it. I’m not
weighing in on the merits (or demerits) of such a move, my purpose here is to
once again show you that the Obama shadow government, in this case Anne Richard, FORMER Asst. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees
and Migration has a pipeline in to the career bureaucrats running the refugee
program in the Department of State and she is carrying their news to the likes
of CNN.
Anne Richard came to her former post
at the Department of State from the federal contractor the INTERNATIONAL RESCUE
COMMITTEE. Prior to her job at the IRC, she was at the State Department! The
system is incestuous!
The primary reason that the Deep
State would not support the move of the program to the Dept. of Homeland
Security is that they (in State) have a decades-long cushy relationship with
the refugee contractors that I keep yelling about (here and here just this morning). They are all on the same page—more, more, more
refugees for America!
First, get the contractors (yelling
and propagandizing) out of the system completely and reform of the program
could be accomplished. (This depends on the lazy lunks in Congress!)
And, second! Trump must get his loyalists placed in
positions above the bureaucrats to get this under control.
Career people can’t be fired unless,
and until, they are caught in insubordination to a boss. Right now Trump is
at fault for not picking their bosses!
Here is CNN quoting
Anne Richard extensively so she must be the one carrying the tales….Washington
(CNN)The White House is considering a proposal to move both the State
Department bureau of Consular Affairs and its bureau of Population, Refugees,
and Migration to the Department of Homeland Security, a senior White House
official tells CNN.
The move, which the White House
official cautioned was far from becoming official policy, would likely be
controversial among diplomats and experts in State Department matters.
“It would be a huge mistake,” said Anne Richard, who led the bureau of
Population Refugees, and Migration during President Barack Obama’s second term.
The proposals were written in a memo
submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget from the White
House Domestic Policy Council as part of President Trump’s March executive
order pushing for ideas for Government Reorganization. A State Department spokesperson referred CNN
to the White House for comment.
The extremely complicated admissions
process now starts with the UNITED NATIONS making the first cut as we have
reported ad nauseam.
The White House did not explain the
reasoning behind the recommendations, but perhaps the idea is rooted in a
desire to streamline the refugee vetting process. As it stands currently, the United Nations
High Commission of Refugees refers applicants to the State Department for
vetting. This vetting is carried out by nine International Resettlement Support
Centers (RSC) with American interests***; all of which are managed by
the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. Approved applicants are then
sent to the Department of Homeland Security for final vetting. After final
vetting at DHS, the State Department then resumes supervision of the process
with its Reception and Placement Program.
Richard, the former Obama State
Department official, pinned the proposal on an “imperfect understanding” of the
bureau’s function. It’s not mainly a law enforcement body, Richard said,
rather, it
works with nongovernmental organizations and the UN to assist refugees around
the world. [And that is
the problem—the NGOs and the UN—ed] More here. Are there other interests
operating Resettlement Support Centers??? See here.
Nine Department of State-funded
Resettlement Support Centers (RSCs) not to be confused with the nine major
refugee contractors (except that there is some overlap because some contractors
work at these RSCs). Look at these locations. Can you say opportunity for fraud!
·
Amman, Jordan with sub-offices in
Baghdad, Iraq and Cairo, Egypt;
• Bangkok, Thailand with a
sub-office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
• Damak, Nepal;
• Havana, Cuba;
• Istanbul, Turkey with a sub-office
in Beirut, Lebanon;
• Moscow, Russia with a sub-office
in Kyiv, Ukraine;
• Nairobi, Kenya with a sub-office
in Johannesburg, South Africa;
• Vienna, Austria; and
• Quito, Ecuador with small
sub-offices in San Salvador, El Salvador and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The nine federal resettlement
contractors who are fighting tooth and nail to let nothing rock their cushy
relationship with the DOS:
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