More than half of refugees in US receive
food stamps, by Ann Corcoran, 8/14/18.
Cutting numbers is a good start and we applaud the President, but the whole program must be reformed.
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That
is from a recent Center
for Immigration Studies report by
Jason Richwine who analyzed the most recent Office of Refugee Resettlement Annual Report
to Congress.
The
news comes at a time when the President is deciding how many refugees could be admitted to the US in FY19 which begins on
October first.
John
Binder at Breitbart penned
a short piece on the CIS study entitled: More Than Half of Foreign Refugees Are
on Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps
More than half of the annual inflow of foreign refugees arriving in the
United States are on food stamps, a government report reveals.
Since
2008, as Breitbart News reported, the U.S. has permanently resettled more than
1.7 million foreign nationals and refugees through a variety of humanitarian
programs like the Special Immigrant Juveniles and the Nicaraguan Adjustment and
Central American Relief Act. This is a foreign population larger than Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania — a city with more than 1.5 million residents.
An
annual report by the Office of Refugee Resettlement was analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies’ Jason Richwine, in which the analyst revealed that
about 56
percent of households headed by foreign refugees who arrived in the U.S.
between 2011 and 2015 are using taxpayer-funded food stamps.
Nearly
30 percent of refugees received cash welfare of some sort, while 34 percent of
refugees 18-years-old or older said they had no health insurance. Of the
refugees who said they did have health insurance, about 50 percent said they
were either on Medicaid or Refugee Medical Assistance, both of which are
taxpayer-funded. More here.
Frankly I suspect the numbers are much worse. The sampling used by the Office of
Refugee Resettlement is tiny and dependent on how many of the refugees they can
find via phone calls and how many will even participate by answering questions
if they are found. A large number are not even participating in the survey
because of language barriers.
We
have told you about the Annual Reports for
years. Here is just one post in 2013 where we reported that food stamp
use was 70% in Obama’s first year in office—2009! Even in spite of the possible
under counting in the welfare use sections, the reports are treasure troves of
information for those of you trying to better understand how the refugee
program works and what it might be doing to your towns and cities.
One
of the things you will see in the reports is information on how many other
grants and goodies the contractors receive over and above their per refugee
head payment.
The US is no doubt importing poverty, something that the designers of
the original Refugee Act of 1980 promised would not happen.
And,
if you are saying to yourselves that new immigrants aren’t supposed to be
eligible for welfare, remember that prohibition does not apply to refugees! Below
is the table from the 2016 Annual Report:
SNAP is of course food stamps. Note that
nearly 20% receive Social Security disability benefits—yikes! Next after food
stamps, taxpayers fund medical care for a very large percentage of refugees.
Just
so you know we admitted 69,933 refugees to the US in FY2015 and for the whole
accounting period above (FY11 through FY15) the total was 324,508 according to
data at Wrapsnet.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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