Michigan to get walloped with
refugees this fiscal year, by Ann Corcoran, 3/20/16
It wasn’t too
many years ago that the US State Department made a point of not sending new
refugees to Michigan because of the poor job prospects for everyone there.
But, all that has changed and now Michigan is regularly in the top five
resettlement states in the nation. See
here. These
numbers would move Michigan to the #3 spot behind Texas and California in
national ranking.
Michigan will get over 5,000!!! Lutherans are
lead agency. Security concerns to be ignored!
From the
Detroit News: Michigan is expected to take in more than
5,000 refugees this year, the highest number since 2002, amid renewed concerns
about security and the latest effort in Congress to overhaul the U.S.
Resettlement Program.
Since 2002, the
earliest year for which U.S. officials say they have reliable state-by-state
data, Michigan has resettled between about 500 and 4,500 refugees annually.
State social service agencies say they plan to take in about 5,100 this year.
The expected
influx comes as intelligence officials warn Islamic State members posing as
refugees will likely launch an attack on U.S. soil this year. A bill seeking to
cap the number of refugees and strengthen security measures was approved
Wednesday by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
Dick Manasseri of Rochester Hills questioned
the decision to bring in more immigrants after U.S. intelligence officials said
they expect a terrorist attack this year by extremists posing as refugees.
“The entire
country is watching Michigan officials being criticized for not protecting its
people from toxic water,” he said. “Could the runaway refugee resettlement
program be another case of government officials failing to protect citizens?”
Lt. Gen.
Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress
last month Islamic State extremists posing as refugees “will probably attempt
to … direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016.”
In testimony before the House Homeland
Security Committee last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson said accepting Syrian refugees escaping their country’s civil war could
pose a security threat, adding that security has been stepped up. More
here….
And, by the
way, it isn’t just security that concerns local resettlement restrictionists.
The Refugee Admissions Program is costly to state and local taxpayers as
well—think schools, medical care, subsidized housing.
See our entire
Michigan archive by clicking
here. Our
post of just last week on the testimony by Jeh Johnson is here.
And, one last
thing, if your city or state has been a “welcoming” one, expect a jump in your
numbers. The resettlement contractors had a hard time finding places to
seed 70,000 refugees in the 2015 fiscal year and this year Obama has instructed
them to find locations for 85,000 third worlders. That means there will be very aggressive
campaigns ongoing to expand existing sites and find new ones (like Montana).
For diligent
researchers: They have the data going back to the early 1980s. You can find it
by laboriously looking through ORR annual reports to Congress. They just didn’t transfer the data to
the new
data base.
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