Trump has not yet signed refugee determination,
therefore zero refugees being admitted to the US right now, by Ann
Corcoran, 10/4/18.
“Whatever that number is, it will absolutely
be driven principally by the capacity of my agency and the law enforcement,
security, and vetting practices.” (Francis
Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS))
Granted
we are only 4 days into the month of October so things could change tomorrow or
the next day, but so far zero refugees have been placed since the new fiscal
year began on Monday (October 1).
Here
we hear from Voice of
America and a
distressed resettlement lobbyist about the disappointment in the refugee
industry.
Trump Administration Misses Refugee Admissions Deadline
The
Trump administration has missed the end-of-fiscal-year deadline to set the
maximum number of refugees that will be allowed in the United States in the
next 12 months.
An “extraordinarily disappointed” Mary
Giovagnoli of the Refugee Council USA, the lobbying arm for the refugee
contractors.
“Consultations
and the subsequent Presidential Determination (PD) normally take place by Oct.
1. However, on some occasions, the consultations and subsequent PD have been
completed later,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson said in an emailed
statement to VOA. “We do not expect this will have any operational impact on
the Refugee Admissions Program.”
The
agency declined a request from VOA to provide a timeline for the consultations.
Last
month, the administration proposed a record-low refugee ceiling for the 2019
fiscal year of 30,000 refugees. By law, Congress must be consulted about the
cap before a final number can be issued.
“We are extraordinarily disappointed that the administration has failed
to honor the spirit and the letter of the law when it comes to consultations,”
said Mary Giovagnoli. executive director of Refugee Council USA .“For two years in a row now, the
administration has just failed to take it seriously.”
President
Donald Trump has dramatically cut refugee arrivals to the United States since
taking office.
Cissna: operational realities will
dictate the final number.
Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS), said at a
conference Monday that new vetting measures have increased processing times for
refugee admissions.
He
added that the suggested ceiling of 30,000 for FY2019 takes into account the
“operational realities” of those measures for “national security and public
safety.”
“The
number is not final yet. The president has not signed the proclamation.
Whatever that number is, it will absolutely be driven principally by the
capacity of my agency and the law enforcement, security, and vetting
practices,” Cissna said.
More here. Click here for my complete file on RCUSA (Refugee
Council USA).
Libertarian think tank continues criticism of Trump refugee policy, by Ann Corcoran, 10/4/18.
I
really don’t get it—why a Libertarian think tank, the CATO Institute is so hot for more
refugees for America. I can only assume it has to do with a pro-business
orientation (the LEGAL worker issue again). I’m not going to try to
figure it out today.
CATO immigration policy analyst David
Bier
However,
they had a handy graph in a story yesterday criticizing Trump for reducing the
overall number of refugees entering the US and pointing out that the number of
Christians entering has declined (which is actually a function of the overall
decline in numbers). Muslim entrants have declined at an even greater
percentage.
This
is the latest talking point from the refugee industry—that Trump isn’t
admitting enough Christians—and CATO is carrying their public relations water.
Let’s have the debate!
I would really like to see a serious and honest public debate about
the economic need for refugee workers, rather than the continued appeals to
Americans’ emotions as CATO does here.
This
is one of Bier’s wrap-up sentences: By
cutting the refugee program across the board, the Trump administration has not
just violated a campaign promise to resettle more Christian refugees—it has
condemned many more to desperate poverty, persecution, or death.
Have
a debate about labor needs, but leave out the ‘humanitarian’ appeal because we
know that isn’t was this is all about.
Here is Bier
at CATO: Trump Has Cut
Christian Refugees 64%, Muslim Refugees 93%. Below is the graph from the story
that you might find useful.
This
post is filed in my ‘Where to find information’
and ‘refugee
statistics’ categories.
See
graph at:
State Department finally posts map where refugees are resettled in US, by Ann Corcoran, 10/4/18.
Admittedly
I haven’t checked for a few months, so I’m not sure when this map was made
public, but here it is!
In
order to fit it on these pages, I opted for the smaller version, but if
you go here you can see it in an
easier-to-read size.
See
the legend which tells you which of the nine contractors are working in each
‘welcoming’ city. The sites with more than one contractor operating (often in
competition!) are sites that obviously get much larger numbers of refugees.
And,
notice that some sites that existed in 2016 (see that map) are now gone! I’m not seeing Huron, SD or Charleston, WV
on the new map, others?
Go here and see that Wrapsnet has maps back to FY11. You might
find it as interesting as I did to see what sites were primary resettlement
sites in your state then compared to the FY18 map above.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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