Refugee Council USA reports that refugee numbers
are way down, yes, we know, by
Ann Corcoran 12/30/17
In just a couple of days I will be
reporting on the number of refugees admitted to the US in the first three
months of the fiscal year which began on October 1, 2017. The refugee
arrival numbers as news hook!
But, the lobbying arm of the refugee industry—RCUSA—is
tracking the numbers every two weeks in order to have regular fresh news with
which to whack the Trump Administration.
The last time I saw this concerted effort to supply refugee admission numbers
to the media on a regular basis was way back in 2007/2008 when they smacked
down President Bush every month for his slow-walking Iraqi refugees in to the
US.
Long time readers might remember the
fun I had making fun of AP reporter Matthew
Lee who could be counted on to report
Bush LOW numbers at the close of each month presumably at the behest of his
friends in the refugee industry.
Chief Trump basher at RCUSA:
Danielle Grigsby, associate director of Refugee Council USA.
By the way, RCUSA is the same
lobbying consortium (members listed below) that recently joined with
CAIR in organizing an anti-Trump rally in
DC and hired the Podesta Group to lobby certain Senate Republicans. (Podesta went
under, wonder if they got their money’s worth before it did!)
So they are at it again, creating a
regular news hook about numbers and local media is biting.
Besides the opportunity to whack Trump, what they are deceptively doing
is trying to get the media and the uneducated public to believe that the
CEILING, set by the President for each fiscal year, is a goal that must
beattained. It is not!
When Trump set the level at 45,000
for FY18 that only means he cannot go over that, there is nothing in refugee law that says he
cannot be significantly under the CAP/CEILING.
And, I find it so tiresome that they
continue to compare Trump’s admission numbers to the highest three-month period
that Obama ever reached—the three months as he was walking out the door at the
White House.
WFPL:
According to Grigsby’s group, about
11,000 refugees should have arrived so far this fiscal year, though she said
it’s not unprecedented to see fewer arrivals in the first quarter of the fiscal
year.
From October 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017, roughly the first quarter of
fiscal year 2017, more than 25,000 individuals were resettled in the United
States..
Here (below) are their numbers (that
served as a news hook for the Kentucky station) for the most recent 2 week
period.
In order to reach 45,000 (if it were
a goal to be attained) they would have to see refugee arrivals at 3,750 per
month. So, in FY18, so far, the Trump Administration is significantly
lower that that.
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