The UN Refugee Program
has been a disaster for all countries who participated. Trump needs to end it.
Dire warnings at The Atlantic about the imminent
collapse of US refugee program, by Ann Corcoran, 9/10/18.
First, we are reminded that the US State Department is rumored to be preparing to cut one of the nine federal contractors completely off the federal dole!
What a joke! Now they want consultation when for at least the last decade the consultation was a sham. It was a cursory little meeting where some State Department bureaucrats went to the Hill to meet with a couple of lawmakers/staff in a closed-to-the-public setting.
Litany of layoffs!
Priscilla Alvarez writing at The Atlantic runs through a partial list of the nine federal
refugee contractors and tells us how many staffers have been fired because of
that mean old Donald Trump not sending them enough refugee paying clients.
Doing well by doing good! Writer Alvarez features the International
Rescue Committee. Bet she doesn’t know its head honcho, Brit David
Miliband, makes a cool nearly $700,000 annual salary. He won’t be losing
his job!
There
really isn’t much new here (like so many of the fear-mongering stories the
lapdog media is publishing these days, there isn’t much here that you haven’t
heard over the last few months), however, it is worth posting for a couple of
reasons.
Which
will it be?
My
guess is that they might cut out the smallest—The Ethiopian Community
Development Council. It surely won’t be the giants: International Rescue
Committee or the US Conference of Catholic Bishops!
It
could be one of the others (besides ECDC) that is almost COMPLETELY funded by
you through your tax dollars. See the list below.
Here is
The Atlantic headline: America’s System for Resettling Refugees Is Collapsing
And,
here is a mention of one of the nine getting the ax:
Part
of the current downsizing has come about as a result of a State Department
order last December that said agency offices handling fewer than 100 refugees
in fiscal year 2018 would not be authorized to resettle new arrivals.
The department also warned that it expects to eliminate one or more
agencies from the refugee-resettlement process in fiscal year 2019, effectively
slimming down the resettlement operation—and reducing its ability to quickly
staff back up, should a future administration expand the nation’s refugee
ceiling.
Mary Giovagnoli is the director of the
Refugee Council USA, the LOBBYING arm of the refugee industry in Washington.
“Every
time an office has to shut its doors, the impact isn’t just about the initial
people affected,” said Mary Giovagnoli, the executive director of Refugee
Council USA, a coalition of 24 nongovernmental agencies focused on refugee
protection.
“Once
that office has closed, the people with the expertise and the knowledge of
working with particular groups have to find other jobs, find other work, and
it’s not necessarily going to be in refugee resettlement. We start to lose the
skills and capacity, the more you do that, the more you’re likely to lose the
critical infrastructure.”
As
I have reported previously, and don’t doubt me. They will “staff back up” in a heartbeat as soon as Donald Trump is no
longer in the White House.
And, that is why it is vitally important that this administration makes major
PERMANENT reforms in the program NOW.
And, here is the second reason I’m posting this:
We
learn that Senators Grassley and Feinstein told the Trump Administration to
follow the law and hold required “consultations” with Congress. The Refugee Act of 1980 requires
consultation with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees as I have pointed
out here most recently.
However, the decision about how many refugees will be admitted is the
President’s alone.
Alvarez
continues: What
remains true is that support for refugees is a bipartisan issue. Members of
Congress have recently chimed in, relaying their concern about the lack of
discussion between lawmakers and the administration about the refugee cap. In
August, Senators Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein demanded that the
administration continue collaborating with lawmakers to set a figure, as
is custom.
See
the Grassley/Feinstein letter here. Go here for
the whole Atlantic story.
In
fact, the law requires public hearings prior to the beginning of the fiscal
year that have never happened since I’ve followed the program (11 years).
A rare hearing was held after October 1.
They
don’t want real hearings because they have wanted to keep the whole program
running in a secretive manner that is until Donald Trump came along! And, one more time on the
“bipartisan support” for higher numbers of refugees.
The
Republicans are the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who want more refugees for
cheap labor for their big business donors—meatpackers, other food processing
companies, manufacturing and hospitality (maids and janitors for hotels!).
The
Dems of course see the refugees as their future voter base! And, to heck
with the average American taxpayer who pays for it all, and lives next door to
it!
These
below are the nine federal refugee resettlement contractors. You might be sick
of seeing this list almost every day, but a friend once told me that people
need to see something seven times before it completely sinks in, so it seems to
me that 70, or even 700 isn’t too much!
And,
besides I have new readers every day.
The present US Refugee Admissions Program will never be reformed if the
system of paying the contractors by the head stays in place and the contractors
are permitted to act as Leftwing political agitation groups, community
organizers and lobbyists paid on our dime! And, to add insult to injury they pretend it is all about
‘humanitarianism.’
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)! And, get them registered to vote
eventually!
From
my most recent accounting, here. However, please see that Nayla
Rush at the Center for Immigration Studies has done an update of their income!
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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