50,000
refugee cap should be reached today, then what? by Ann Corcoran, 7/12/17
Then for the
remainder of the 120-day ‘moratorium’ only refugees with certain relatives and
certain “bona fide” connections to US entities will be admitted.
Once we pass the CEILING for the
first time in the history of the program, it
is my view that the refugees will belong to the Supreme Court since it has
taken it upon itself to unconstitutionally WRITE REFUGEE LAW!
Adding to the
confusion going forward is the fact that the 120-day moratorium will run
in to late October (Supremes will likely not have ruled on the merits of the
case by then).
September will be the real test for Trump’s Presidency
on the refugee issue…
Late October
(when the 120 days will be up) is a month PAST the legally required deadline
for the President to send his 2018 refugee determination to the Hill. (Here is one of many posts on the ‘determination’ for new
readers.)
In September, how
will the White House handle that wrinkle SCOTUS has handed them?
The real test for President Trump on
refugees comes in September! What will he propose for FY18?
LOL! Of course one thing the President could do is send a Determination
to the Hill for FY18 of zero and tell Congress to reform the program in a
serious way during a year-long moratorium. (The Labrador bill isn’t much.)
Here is the story at KPCC radio in Southern California that got me going on this
subject again this morning:
Federal officials expect the national cap on refugee admissions for
fiscal year 2017 to be reached Wednesday, ushering in the Trump
administration’s temporary travel ban affecting refugees.
Once that happens, all refugees will
have to prove they have close relatives in the United States or established
ties such as a job before they can gain entry. The new rules will remain in effect for at least 120 days, starting from
late June when the U.S Supreme Court ordered the partial
reinstatement of the Trump travel policy.
The State Department posted guidance
listing the accepted categories of relatives: “a parent (including
parent-in-law), spouse, fiancé, fiancée, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law,
daughter-in-law, sibling, whether whole or half. This includes step
relationships. The following relationships do not qualify: grandparents,
grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, and any other ‘extended’ family members.”
A department spokeswoman told KPCC by email that refugees scheduled to
travel to the U.S. will be allowed in until the end of Wednesday. Then,
“beginning July 13, only those individuals who have a credible claim to a bona
fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States will be eligible
for admission through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.”
A relationship with a U.S. entity,
such as a university or employer, can also qualify a refugee for entry on a case-by-case
basis. However, the spokeswoman said refugees are not likely to have such ties
and are more likely to have connections to relatives.
The State Department made clear that a relationship with a U.S.
resettlement agency does not count as a qualifying relationship.
Remember when Donald Trump rolled
out his first Executive Order and wanted to prioritize Christians and the contractors went crazy and said that was not fair. The lead squawker was
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society!
Well, you need to know, before you read this next
segment of the story, that we have been prioritizing Jews from, first Russia,
and now Iran (processing them after they get to Austria as visitors) as
refugees to America! Learn about Lautenberg here.
The agency that Castro directs
settles many Iranian Jews who travel to the U.S. via Austria, arriving
through a refugee program that benefits religious minorities. He
said one of his agency’s refugee clients has been waiting in Austria. She is
being vetted by U.S. officials but likely will be stuck in Austria because she
has no close relatives in this country.
Resettlement agencies say they have yet to receive guidance from the
federal government about what happens once the 120 days of the temporary
refugee travel ban are up. [Again, the 120 days puts us in to the new
fiscal year—what will Donald do in September?—ed]
“I suspect that what will happen is
there will be a push to make this more permanent in some form,” Castro said. “I
can’t imagine going back to the status quo prior to the order.”
I can’t imagine that either!
It would be political suicide for Trump if he reverts to the old system of
secret refugee seeding by phony ‘religious’ charities! All of my posts on the
Supreme Court’s overreach are here.
Federal contractors/middlemen/lobbyists/community organizers paid by you to place refugees in your towns and
cities. Because their income is largely dependent on taxpayer dollars
based on the number of refugees admitted to the US, the only way for real
reform of how the US admits refugees is to remove the contractors from the
process.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/50000-refugee-cap-should-be-reached-today-then-what/
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