Refugee industry advocates pinning a tiny bit of
hope on Pompeo to save refugee program, by Ann Corcoran, 8/9/18.
Refugees as pawns for other diplomatic purposes?
I have argued for years that the US Refugee Admissions Program should be about humanitarianism only and not for diplomatic power plays and fat CEO contractor salaries!
….but they know the odds are not good that the Secretary of State will
buck the White House on the number of refugees to be admitted to the US in the
coming fiscal year.
Will Secretary of State Pompeo go with
the White House or with the embedded refugee advocates employed at the State
Department?
However,
as the deep-staters (and their contractor buddies)
feed news to Politico, indications are that Pompeo could at
least keep the shrinking Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration at the
State Department.
Here is Politico which appears to have a direct pipeline
in to the refugee industry both inside and outside of government.
Trump’s refugee crackdown plans put Pompeo on the spot
The secretary of state may be forced to choose
between his boss and his workforce.
[The workforce is the staff at the State
Department that has completely bought in over the years to the notion that
there are never enough refugees coming to the US.—ed]
A Trump administration debate over whether to clamp down on refugee
admissions into the U.S. is forcing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make a
tough political choice between pleasing his employees — or his boss. [LOL! How
about sticking with the Prez and dumping this particular group of
employees!—ed]
President Donald Trump’s top diplomat could side with Trump and other
anti-immigration hard-liners and agree to proposals that slash the number of
refugees the United States admits and gut the State Department bureau that
deals with them.
But
in doing so, he could alienate many State Department employees who strongly
oppose those moves, while disappointing foreign governments unhappy that the
U.S. is not doing more to deal with a global migration crisis.
Pompeo’s record as a Republican congressman suggests that he will
support lowering the annual cap on refugee entries to 25,000 or less, as well
as a separate proposal to downgrade his department’s refugee bureau. But advocates for more liberal
refugee policies are holding out hope that he might defy expectations now that
he is America’s chief diplomat with a more global perspective and bureaucratic
turf to protect.
One
person close to Pompeo acknowledged that dynamic, saying that while the
rabble-rousing Pompeo of Congress would have “no problem” backing a sharp new
limit on refugee admissions, now that he’s at the State Department, “going
along with a cap that low is probably tough for him.”
An administration proposal believed to be backed by Trump adviser and
immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller, and set for debate among key administration
officials later this week, would slash by nearly half the current cap of 45,000
refugees who can be admitted into the U.S. per year.
That
ceiling was itself down from a 110,000-person cap proposed during President
Barack Obama’s final months in office. The reductions come as the global
migration crisis is worsening, with a record 69 million people displaced,
according to the United Nations.
So much for “robust”
vetting. Iraqi refugee and cop shooter Karrar Al Khammasi [See my previous post—busting the Obama 110,000 refugees mythology.—-ed].
Lawmakers
and advocates are hoping above all that Pompeo’s sense of pride will keep him
from ceding authority over refugee issues — not to mention a big chunk of his
budget — to others in the administration, such as the 32-year-old Miller.
In Congress, Pompeo supported action to ban and block funding for U.S.
refugee resettlement and used rhetoric that many human rights activists
consider anti-Muslim. In 2016, he co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed
suggesting that governments should limit migration in part to preserve “their
nation’s culture and character.” Heavily vetted! How about this Iraqi poster boy
who shot a cop in Colorado just last week?
Politico: Like Miller and other immigration
hard-liners, Pompeo cast his past calls to restrict refugees as an issue of
national security, even though advocates for refugees
say they are the most heavily vetted group of people allowed to immigrate
to the United States.
Pompeo
has also worked hard to ingratiate himself with Trump and appears to prize his
close relationship with the president, whose policies he has enthusiastically
supported.
“Most
of us see Pompeo as more of a purer Trump loyalist than Tillerson was, so I
don’t think there would be any big surprises if he went along with whatever the
White House wants on this,” one State Department staffer said.
The
contractors have a new talking point they are pushing and that is that we need
a “robust” refugee resettlement program so that we can manipulate other
countries in to doing things we want them to do.
Nezer (left), 49, is a contractor
working for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and formerly for USCRI, another
contractor, and Richard (right), 58, served under Obama at the Dept. of State
after leaving her perch at the International Rescue Committee (another
contractor dependent on refugee numbers for their federal payments).
In
other words, you get to have third-worlders quietly dropped off in your town so
that diplomats can wheel and deal with foreign governments.
Politico continues….“It’s a bargaining tool: We’ll take a certain
number of refugees. These are the things you will do for us,” explained Melanie
Nezer, a top official with HIAS, one of several organizations that helps
refugees.
“Why
give away a $3.4 billion budget account that is used to address crises but also
helps State wield influence with other countries and within international
organizations?” asked Anne Richard, who led the refugee bureau as an assistant
secretary of state under Obama.
Activists worry that Pompeo will listen to top State Department
staffers who are [Stephen] Miller allies and who control much of the refugee-related
information that flows to the secretary. They include Andrew Veprek, a relatively new deputy
assistant secretary in the refugee bureau, and John Zadrozny, a new member of
Pompeo’s Policy Planning Staff.
The man they love to
hate! “32-year-old Miller”. Former White House officials familiar with
Miller’s tactics suspect he orchestrated Veprek’s and Zadrozny’s placement at
the State Department to exert more influence over the administration’s
immigration policies. [Duh! Of
course!
Elections have consequences and this is
what the victorious should be doing! Trump should be doing more of it!—ed]
Neither
Veprek nor Zadrozny replied to requests for comment. But State Department
spokeswoman Heather Nauert dismissed the notion that the pair could misguide
Pompeo as “ridiculous.”
Staffers dismissed the possibility of any widespread internal State
Department campaign to push Pompeo to protect the refugee program.
Much more here.
As
usual here are the nine federal contractors that have been calling the shots
for decades regarding the number of refugees to be admitted to the US.
I
post this list nearly every day for the benefit of new readers….Numbers matter
because they are paid on a per refugee head basis! 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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