Michigan:
refugee contractors and employers boo-hooing; not enough cheap labor
coming in, by Ann Corcoran 3/19/18
Some local companies are feeling the squeeze in their workforces. Local manufacturing and retail employers that relied on new refugees as employees are calling the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Detroit on a weekly basis, said Tawfik Alazem, director of its Dearborn office. [USCRI is another of the nine federal contractors the US State Department hires to place refugees in your towns and cities.—ed]
Among them is Reino Linen Service, a company that launders and returns about 50 million pounds of linens to area hospitals, health clinics and doctors’ offices each year.
Don’t cry for Samaritas! Now just to show you how Samaritas (a subcontractor of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service) is rolling in taxpayer bucks, and the head honchos are pulling down huge salaries, here are a couple of screenshots from a recent Form 990. Here is there income page—$30 million from taxpayers! And here check out these huge salaries!
Some local companies are feeling the squeeze in their workforces. Local manufacturing and retail employers that relied on new refugees as employees are calling the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Detroit on a weekly basis, said Tawfik Alazem, director of its Dearborn office. [USCRI is another of the nine federal contractors the US State Department hires to place refugees in your towns and cities.—ed]
Among them is Reino Linen Service, a company that launders and returns about 50 million pounds of linens to area hospitals, health clinics and doctors’ offices each year.
Don’t cry for Samaritas! Now just to show you how Samaritas (a subcontractor of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service) is rolling in taxpayer bucks, and the head honchos are pulling down huge salaries, here are a couple of screenshots from a recent Form 990. Here is there income page—$30 million from taxpayers! And here check out these huge salaries!
Ten years ago they hid the
fact that those poor third worlders coming in to the US as refugees were
providing a steady supply of cheap labor for big business, now they are
admitting it right up front and trashing Trump because he has cut their supply.
Do you humanitarians out
there really understand that the US Refugee Admissions Program is first and
foremost for the pleasure of the Chamber of Commerce and businesses large and
small which want to keep wages low? Why do you think the Republicans in
Congress have made no serious move to reform the program? And, secondly it is about giant
‘non-profits’ like Samaritas (formerly
Lutheran Social Services Michigan) keeping their government funding flowing.
By the way Samaritas is a
made-up word and why they dropped “Lutheran” is a mystery. (It is like HIAS
dropping the “Hebrew” from its name!)
As I said here recently, if we have a labor shortage, let’s debate
that, but then shut up about this being all about saving the downtrodden of the
world and trying to silence those of us
questioning the business model (cheap immigrant labor brought to the US and
supported with welfare by THE TAXPAYERS!).
One of the things I’ve
wondered for years is: do the refugees coming in
understand that low wage, often very dirty and difficult, jobs await them?
The wailing has become
deafening as the refugee flow to America has slowed in the last year.
Here is Crain’s Detroit Business with this headline: “Refugee clampdown
hits local nonprofits”. The subheadline should be: Businesses aren’t getting their steady supply
of taxpayer-supported laborers!
Here is a bit of the story: Nonprofit
services to help refugees fleeing war or persecution resettle in Southeast
Michigan are a shell of what they were a year ago.
Local resettlement
agencies have laid off much of their staffs and closed offices, following
revenue decreases tied to a federal clampdown that has significantly reduced
the number of refugees coming to the U.S., especially those from Middle Eastern
and African countries that have been the mainstay of local resettlement efforts
in recent years. [Revenue decreases because they are paid on a per refugee head
basis!—ed]
We need immigrant laborers in Michigan
(to heck if we change America by changing the people)! Picture kind of
reminds one of picking cotton (just saying!). Steve Tobocman, executive
director of Global Detroit, a proponent of immigration as an economic
development strategy. http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/tobocman060610.aspx
Crain’s goes on….The slowdown
in acceptance of refugees and increased vetting was ordered by the Trump
administration over concerns about security. It has had an impact on not just nonprofits
but also employers who were relying on resettled refugees as a source of labor,
local nonprofits say.
Similar cuts have played out
at similar agencies in other parts of the country, said Steve Tobocman,
executive director of Global
Detroit, a
proponent of immigration as an economic development strategy.
“Ultimately, the current
state of affairs impacts the services agencies can offer to integrate new
refugees,” given the loss of economies of scale that come with larger
resettlement numbers, Tobocman said.
To continue providing
services to refugees already here, resettlement agencies are seeking
alternative funding such as grants from private funders.
And some are looking to
local churches and community groups for help.
It is about time, why haven’t
they been doing this (above)? Why? Because taxpayer funding was readily
available, so why bother trying to raise private charity—that is hard work! Crain’s continues….
Vickie Thompson-Sandy, president of
Samaritas makes over a quarter of a $million annually, according to a recent
Form 990. Will she give up some of her salary to care for refugees who are down
and out now?
“When we’re closing offices
in Ann Arbor, where does a refugee go? They can no longer stop by our office to
get basic support,” said Vickie Thompson-Sandy, president of Samaritas, a
Detroit-based social services agency that counts refugee resettlement among its
services.
The company’s location in
Brownstown Township, where public transportation is an issue, leads to high employee turnover, said Mary Onifer, a corporate
human resources specialist for the company. [Truly a sweat shop
says one commenter, here.—ed] Reino
has turned to organizations like USCRI Detroit for the past nine years to
engage refugees as employees.
Once again we see federal
refugee agencies are contractors (head hunters!) for businesses while they
collect federal dollars for their supposed good works!
There is much more here,
I’ve only snipped a tiny bit.
See more on Michigan by clicking here. The nine federal contractors you fund are here:
The number in parenthesis is
the percentage of their income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the
refugees, line them up with jobs, and get them signed up for their services! From
most recent accounting, here.
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/2018/03/19/michigan-refugee-contractors-and-employers-boo-hooing-not-enough-cheap-labor-coming-in/
Comments
The
low wage employees US companies need are US students who would benefit from
learning how to work much more than wasting their time and money on attending
college. For most, US colleges are toxic Marxist, anti-American Communist
indoctrination camps students should be advised to avoid. The only valid
subjects students should homeschool to study are pure engineering, technology
and occupational courses.
The
economics and history they should learn is only taught by colleges like
Heritage College in Washington State. Students should scour the internet
themselves to read Cicero, Edmund Burke, John Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, the US
Constitution, the founder’s writings and the Federalist papers. The law of
supply and demand that gives consumers control of prices and the Mises Austrian
economics explaining the free market private sector economy describes the only
economic model that is sustainable.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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