Presidential determination for the number of
refugees that COULD be admitted to the US in coming fiscal year “due
Sept. 30”? by Ann Corcoran, 9/6/18.
Is Congress shirking its duty to America on refugee admissions? Yes, and has done so for more than 2 decades!
I’m suggesting that 15,000-25,000 is too high. It should be ZERO until Congress undertakes to reform the whole US Refugee Admissions Program.
Actually,
no, it is due weeks before the 30th of September as we told readers here in 2015!
Although
the President is tasked by law with setting the CAP (aka CEILING) for the
number of refugees that could be admitted in the coming fiscal year, his
administration is supposed to hold a consultation with Congress (House and
Senate Judiciary Committees) after those committees have held hearings on the
President’s proposed plan.
You
might be saying, well yes, but if Congress holds hearings, the Open Borders
Left will turn them in to a circus. That could happen, but it is no
reason for the Refugee
Act of 1980 to be
ignored as it has been for decades! Either follow the law or dump it!
What
got me thinking about this today is a news story from the National
Catholic Reporter which
says the plan is due on September 30th (new refugees would be arriving the next
day!) and where
we learn that Catholic lobbyists are on the Hill trying to get the attention of
lawmakers so they might rain hell down on Trump.
Rumors
are that Trump may set the refugee CAP for FY19 at 15,000-25,000 the lowest
since the Ted Kennedy/Jimmy Carter law came in to being in 1980 and the
contractors which include the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are steaming
mad.
As
usual, the report never mentions that the contractors are paid on a per refugee
head basis, and so a huge drop in numbers means a lot less of your money will
flow to the Bishops’ bank account.
Advocates
prepare for possible cuts in refugee admissions to the US
Amid reports that this trend [low admission levels—ed] could continue,
with a possible presidential determination of 15,000-25,000 for fiscal year
2019 when the decision is due Sept. 30, Catholic groups are combatting
misinformation about refugees and advocating to members of Congress and
administration officials in an effort to convince Trump to raise the cap.
Most Reverend Joe Vásquez, Bishop of
Austin is chairman of the USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services Office.
A
refugee ceiling of 15,000 during an unprecedented refugee crisis “would be so
low it’s laughable,” said Donald Kerwin, executive director of Center for
Migration Studies of New York, an educational institute connected with the
Scalabrini International Migration Network.
During
past refugee crises, “the United States’ response was central to the global
response and to resolving the situations of these massive levels of refugees
and it’s not playing that role right now,” Kerwin added, calling reduced support
for refugees “totally antithetical to our own history and our own values.”
Although the decision of how many refugees to admit is up to the
president, the administration is required to consult with members of the House
and Senate judiciary committees. Congress authorizes funding for the program.
Bill Canny, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ conference’s
Migration and Refugee Services and Joan Rosenhauer, executive director of
Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, both said their organizations have been engaging
with Congress and administration officials in an effort to influence the
decision.
The
Justice for Immigrants webinar called on participants to visit or write their
representatives in Congress, or sign a letter from Catholic leaders calling for
a higher presidential determination. More here.
These
below are the nine federal refugee resettlement contractors. You might be sick
of seeing this list almost every day (it has been 4 whole days since I posted it!), 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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