First time in history of refugee program
Presidential ceiling has been exceeded, by
Ann Corcoran, 7/13/17
And, you can thank the Supreme Court
for unconstitutionally legislating in its decision late last month. Refugees
arriving after today are the responsibility of nine unelected justices.
I showed you here over the weekend that
no ceiling has been exceeded in the over 35 year history of the program. My worry is that what SCOTUS
has done has been to literally obliterate the responsibility for refugees the
law gives to the President and to Congress by defining a new standard for
admittance—to those with “bona fide” relationships—ceiling be damned!
Even if one argues it is temporary,
it is still an outrage! How dare the Supreme Court say that those in a
newly coined category—those prospective ‘refugees’ with bona fide relationships—are
not a security threat to us! That is the President’s job! Did the
justices even read the Refugee
Act of 1980?
But, how do you challenge the
Supreme Court? And, are the contractors secretly cheering because they have longed for the day when
the CEILING would become meaningless.
To top it off, there is another
legal challenge before the rogue Hawaii judge that might further gum up the
works (see Breitbart’s Michael Leahy on that potential legal
quagmire, here).
Chaos and confusion reign,
just as Clarence Thomas (with Alito and Gorsuch) predicted. And, this was completely unnecessary
because the
Trump Administration could have simply lowered the ceiling when they came in to
office without any Executive Order. The most they had to do was
notify Congress!
As of yesterday afternoon, we have
admitted 50,086 refugees to the US in this fiscal year. All of my posts on the aftermath of
the Supreme Court’s decision are archived here.
There are many stories in the media today
about the ceiling having been exceeded, if there is anything useful (other than
the same old babble), I’ll update this post.
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