Evangelical ‘leaders’ out of touch with their
flocks on refugee admissions, by Ann Corcoran, 8/10/18.
Last year, the Pew Research Center found that 76 percent of white evangelicals supported Trump’s first executive order on immigration, which restricted refugees and travel from some Muslim-majority countries. In another poll published this May, 68 percent of white evangelicals said they believed the U.S. does not have a responsibility to accept refugees. Only 25 percent agreed that this responsibility exists.
Last year, the Pew Research Center found that 76 percent of white evangelicals supported Trump’s first executive order on immigration, which restricted refugees and travel from some Muslim-majority countries. In another poll published this May, 68 percent of white evangelicals said they believed the U.S. does not have a responsibility to accept refugees. Only 25 percent agreed that this responsibility exists.
The Evangelical Immigration
Table is
a conglomeration of evangelical groups on the Religious Left, and like all
skilled Leftwing activists they know how to get media attention.
Write
a letter to the Trump Administration and you get headline stories…..
Here at HuffPo we see that the Table group has sent a letter to the
Secretary of State and others who will make the decision on how many refugees
could be admitted to the US beginning October first.
They
want the President to set the level of refugee admissions for FY19 at 75,000
(that is the agreed upon level that the contractors have come up with for this
coming year, a number that would keep them financially afloat.)
What
I would like to know is why don’t evangelical conservatives now get together and
counter the liberals with a letter of their own. After all, they far out
number the Libs!
LOL!
See if HuffPo writes a headline story about your letter—-Evangelicals tell President to place
moratorium on refugee program until reforms are in place! Instead,
a small number comprising the Religious Left says this….
Evangelical Leaders Urge White House To Raise Refugee
Admissions For 2019
Seven
evangelical Christian organizations have jointly criticized the Trump
administration for allowing refugee resettlement to hit a historic low at a
time when the global refugee crisis is intensifying.
One of the signatories is Russell Moore,
here with Obama. Moore was and is anti-Trump with ties to George
Soros. http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/12/21/the-long-history-of-russell-moores-break-with-southern-baptist-values/
In
a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen and religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback, the leaders of
the Evangelical Immigration Table told the administration its drastic cuts to
refugee admissions could be undermining its pledge to protect religious freedom
worldwide.
The group, a coalition of seven evangelical organizations united around
immigration issues, called for the administration to bring refugee resettlement
back to “a level consistent with historical norms.” It recommended resettling
at least 75,000 refugees in fiscal year 2019.
Last
year, President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions cap at 45,000 ― the
lowest level since the modern program was enacted in 1980. In practice, data
suggests that the U.S. is admitting even fewer than that. It’s on track to
admit about 20,000 refugees during the current fiscal year, CNN reports.
The
administration has until September to decide the cap for fiscal year 2019,
which begins on Oct. 1. New reports from The New York Times and The Daily Beast
suggest the White House is considering dropping the official ceiling even
further, down to 25,000 people.
Doesn’t
it make you wonder how the Evangelical Immigration Table can
exist when it doesn’t represent most evangelicals?
But while they confront the Trump administration on the issue, members
of the Evangelical Immigration Table also face another challenge ― the fact
that rank-and-file white evangelical Protestants are more inclined to side with
the president.
The
studies suggest that, along with petitioning the White House, leaders of the
Evangelical Immigration Table also face an uphill battle in convincing fellow
believers about the importance of welcoming refugees.
Go here for the full story, and see the letter, here. Note how concerned they now appear to
be about Christian refugees when in years past they were eagerly welcoming the
large number of Muslim refugees Obama was admitting.
The
nine federal resettlement contractors that are mostly funded by you, the
taxpayer, are below. One of the nine, World Relief, also belongs to
the Evangelical Immigration Table. And, we know they
need more money from the US Treasury for their Christian ‘good works.’
Another
low year, perhaps lower than this year’s 20,000 plus year, could completely
blow to smithereens the budget of one or more of these federal contractors which are demanding a cap
of 75,000. (Obama had a cap LOWER than
that in 3 consecutive years, see here.)
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees into your towns and cities and get them signed
up for their services
(aka welfare)!
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%)
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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