How more of your money flows out of Washington to
non-profit groups that ‘help’ immigrants and refugees, by Ann Corcoran, 10/31/18
The grant program is known as the ‘Ethnic Community Self-help Program’
run out of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS).
At
one point I followed their activities closely and began a file on it, see here,
but too much breaking news pushed the subject to the back burner.
First,
as you know, nine federal resettlement contractors*** are hired by the US State
Department to place refugees in your towns and cities. Their job is to
help the refugees settle in and get them signed up for their ‘services.’
You also know that the nine are paid by the head to place those
refugees, but in addition the Office of Refugee Resettlement doles out many
millions more each year to non-profit groups including those nine in the form
of discretionary grants.
But,
what you might not know is that an entire cottage industry of non-profits have
sprung up which get federal grants in most cases to benefit their specific
ethnic group—Ethnic
Community Based Organizations (ECBOs
for short).
The
grants are ostensibly to help the refugees integrate into a community, but one might wonder
then why
the funding is specific to groups that are maintaining their own cultural
identity.
If
such a helping hand is needed in certain cities, why isn’t the money given to
local government agencies to help all ethnic groups, all races and all
religions, instead of favoring one ethnic non-profit group over another?
Seems to me that the present system creates division rather than integration.
Here is what ORR says about
the grant program.
Pay
attention to the list of what you are paying for—getting refugees their
resources, building their community, getting them involved
in local “civic participation” (aka voting!), and getting local citizens minds
right about the immigrants’ presence in the community!
In
other words, you are paying for ethnic non-profit groups to organize in your
community. Remember ACORN? Well these are little ACORNs! (Don’t you just
love this deceptive language!)
The Ethnic Community Self-Help program supports ethnic community-based
organizations in providing refugee populations with critical services to assist
them in becoming integrated members of American society.
Program Description - The Ethnic Community Self-Help program
provides assistance to refugee community-based organizations and other groups
that: Address community building, Facilitate cultural adjustment and
integration,
Deliver mutually supportive functions, Information exchange
Civic participation, Resource enhancementOrientation and support to new and established refugees
Public education to the larger community.
What is up with ORR that much (maybe all!) of their grant information is out of date!
Ethnic Community Self-Help programs connect newly arrived refugees to community
resources [aka welfare!—ed]. Ethnic
Community Self-Help programs target all ORR populations, and all U.S.-based
governmental and certified non-profit organizations are eligible to apply.
Over
the years, I’ve visited ORR and found lists of who was receiving grants and for
how much, but that information is not available now.
Oh
sure, you can get the old ECBO grants list. But those grants have
expired. Check it out and see that they passed out nearly $4.5
million to a list of ECBOs around the country. Those grants expired in
2017.
So, maybe the Trump Administration has cut out the program? The answer
is NO!
Just
this month the ORR put out a notice of two upcoming grants. One of those
is for ECBOs. Although the money is less than in the past—$2 million
instead of over $4 million—13 non-profit groups will rake in $100,000-$200,000
each.
Here
is the information on the ECBO grant offering:
Comments
We are creating Indian
Reservations of refugees scattered everywhere across the US to ensure that they
do not assimilate.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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