Breitbart roundup: Refugee contractors whine as
revenue plummets, by Ann Corcoran on March 3, 2018
Michael
Leahy at Breitbart has pulled together in one article a litany of complaints from representatives of the
refugee industry.
The
newest data that
came in here on the first of March will surely
set off a new wave of temper tantrums aimed at Trump. But, I will remind
readers that the contractors who
must now fire low level workers in the industry and close small offices, have
brought this on themselves by their nearly complete dependence on the US
Treasury and their laziness about raising private money. Why bother with chump
change when the taxpayer spigot is wide open? See my post
here.
Not crying for you! International Rescue
Committee CEO David (Moneybags) Miliband pulls down an annual salary
approaching $700,000. Think how many refugees and low level staff could
be sustained on that!
Even
if the refugee numbers being admitted are low, there are still plenty of refugee lost souls
they brought in last year or the year before who could use their help (if they
had private money! Private ‘religious’ charity!).
(It
isn’t really about humanitarianism, these are organizations working to change
America by changing the people.)
Here is
how Leahy begins his roundup of complaints:
The federally funded non-profits known as voluntary agencies (VOLAGs),
who collectively have received more than $1 billion annually to resettle
refugees, are whining now that refugee admissions, and their own associated
revenues, are down dramatically during the first five months of FY 2018 under
the Trump administration.
Despite
a slight uptick in refugee admissions in February to 1,927, the total number of
refugee admissions during the first five months of FY 2018, which began on
October 1, is only 8,635, according to the State Department’s interactive
website – the lowest number of refugee admissions for the first five months of
a fiscal year in more than 15 years.
If
the average monthly arrival rate of 1,727 during the first five months of FY
2018 continues at the same pace for the final seven months of the fiscal year,
total refugee admissions for the 12 months of the full fiscal year will be
under 21,000, less than half the ceiling number of 45,000 President Trump
announced in September.
The nine VOLAGs (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, U.S.
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, the International Rescue Committee,
HIAS, Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Ethiopian Community
Development Council, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Catholic Charities), and
World Relief), all of whom are almost entirely dependent on federal
funding tied to the number of new refugee arrivals they resettle around
the country through local affiliated agencies, are now in the midst of a cash
crunch unheard of in the agency.
Consequently,
they and their political allies are complaining loudly and often about both
Trump’s lowered refugee ceiling admission number and the increase in the time
and length of the Department of Homeland Security’s security vetting of
potential refugees.
One
of those complaining is Bob Carey: Bob Carey,
a prominent critic of the recent reduction in refugee admissions by the federal
government, is a
prime example of the cozy revolving door the Trump administration has
disrupted. Carey spent most of his career as an executive
with the International Rescue Committee, one of the nine VOLAGs
supported almost exclusively by government funding. While there, he served as
chair of Refugee Council USA. [And headed the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement in Obama’s
second term.—ed] Much
more here. Have a
look at this recent (2015) Form 990 salary page for the International Rescue Committee. Doing well by doing good!
Think
about this: the IRC is a federally funded non-profit. A Member of
Congress/Senator makes $174,000 a year! A Supreme Court Justice $213,000!
Where is Congress? The refugee slowdown has demonstrated
that the Refugee Act of 1980 set up an insanely flawed system that must be dumped now!
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees and get them signed up for their services (aka welfare)! From most recent accounting, here.
If
you are wondering, I post this list every chance I get because we have new
readers daily and because I want all of you to know that for reform to be
possible these nine fake non-profits have to go.
Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
International Rescue
Committee (IRC) (secular)
(66.5%)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/breitbart-roundup-refugee-contractors-whine-as-revenue-plummets/
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Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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