US won’t make Syrian resettlement goal this year say refugee contractors, by Ann Corcoran, 6/21/16
This is a strange turn of events. For the last couple of months we have been told (repeatedly) that the Obama Administration is on target to get its 10,000 Syrian Muslims placed in your towns by September 30th (the end of fiscal year 2016). We were told Obama sent an army of people to the Middle East to step-up the security screening process and now we are to believe that they can’t make the goal.Don’t get me wrong, if true, that is good. But….Eskinder Negash (a former refugee), a Veep at USCRI (a federal contractor) before he went to the Obama Admin to be head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and is now Veep again at USCRI (the contractor/govt. revolving door on full display!) is still hopeful they will reach 10,000 Syrians this year. What’s up with this! Have they found more security concerns? Are the contractors downplaying expectations to protect Obama?
Here we have the Huffington Post (in a story that reads like it was planted) quoting many officials from the refugee resettlement companies matter-of-factly saying there won’t be 10,000 Syrians coming. Huh?
In September, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the U.S. would go from taking in 70,000 refugees per year to accepting 85,000 in fiscal year 2016 and 100,000 in the year after that. President Barack Obama specified, in the days following the Paris terror attacks in November, that at least 10,000 refugees taken in would be Syrian.
Kerry explained that the numbers of people resettled in America can’t realistically be any higher because of the rigorous post-9/11 screening requirements. The U.S. refuses to take any shortcuts on security.
It’s
unlikely that the United States will resettle a total of 85,000 refugees in the
2016 fiscal year, let alone 10,000 Syrians, according to experts.
The
quota is “not a hard and fast rule, it’s kind of just what people are hoping
for. It depends on how processing continues overseas,” William Haney, associate
director for external relations at Church World Service, one of the nine
domestic resettlement agencies, told The Huffington Post.Since Oct. 1, 2015, 2,805 Syrians have been resettled across the U.S., according to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration’s latest figures, released after May 31, 2016. That’s almost 30 percent of the 10,000 goal.
It’s progress from last year, when only 1,682 Syrians were resettled in total, said Eskinder Negash, senior vice president at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. “Things are slower than we anticipated,” added Helen Molinaro, the assistant director for refugee pre-arrival services at the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
But it’s rare that the U.S. meets its refugee resettlement targets, Negash said. Although it wouldn’t be unusual for the 10,000 figure not to be reached, it would represent “another disappointment,” he added. Large pushes to reach the quota are common in July and August, before the fiscal year ends.
More than one-third of all Syrian resettlements so far this fiscal year happened in May, meaning that similar figures in the summer months could bring the U.S. closer to its target.
“I’m hopeful that there will be some expedited processing and we’ll have a better number to show,” Negash said. What are the numbers so far?
I just checked the numbers and we have resettled 45,736 refugees this fiscal year as of June 15th. That means that in order to get to their dream number, 85,000 from all over the world, they have to get 39,264 seeded in towns in 49 states with only 3 and 1/2 months to go in the fiscal year. They might not make it!
Very strange in light of the fact that the O-man and Kerry bragged about this 85,000 goal for the year. And, they want 100,000 in here in 2017! (If Trump is elected in November he can halt the program or revise the numbers downward, but if Hillary is to be our next President, you can assume this program will not be slowed or reformed in any way.)
And what about that big Obama show in September at the UN, won’t he be embarrassed? Could they have run into some really serious screening problems with the Syrians? Or, maybe they don’t have enough capacity in your towns to ‘welcome’ such large numbers? LOL! or maybe they couldn’t find enough Syrians who want to come to the US!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/us-wont-make-syrian-resettlement-goal-this-year-say-refugee-contractors/
Sec. of State Kerry visits “Jihad Central” to celebrate
World Refugee Day, by Ann Corcoran, 6/21/16
The White House tells us that Sec. of State
Kerry went to the ADAMS Center (aka Jihad Central) yesterday to celebrate World Refugee Day! Watch and
listen to Kerry praise the “wonderful work” the ADAMS Center does, by clicking
here. I had a good
laugh when I saw this
press release from the White
House tooting the Administration’s own horn about what great things they are
doing for (Muslim) refugees and for America. What B.S.!
I don’t get how
the obviously planted stories (like
this one) about how we
ARE NOT going to get to Obama’s and John Kerry’s goal of admitting 85,000
refugees this year meshes with the White House message. And, I especially
laughed when I thought of that dreadful
Idaho case making the news 3 weeks late, but
ironically on World Refugee Day.
Here is Ms. Cecilia Munoz with the horn-tooting message: Every year, on World Refugee Day,
communities across the globe honor the courage and resilience of refugees and
celebrate their contributions to the communities where they have started life
anew. Cecilia Munoz,
Obama’s right hand Hispanic, working to change America by changing the people.
As the
President highlighted in his World Refugee Day statement, this year’s commemoration
comes at an especially challenging time. More people are fleeing persecution
and being displaced by violence than at any time on record. That’s why the
President has challenged his team – and world leaders – to do even more in
response to today’s unprecedented challenge.
At the White
House, we are honored to work alongside a deeply committed team that is focused
on strengthening our response to the needs of refugees around the world. Our
colleagues at the Departments of State and Homeland Security are working hard
to meet the President’s goal of admitting 85,000 refugees this year, including
at least 10,000 Syrian refugees, and to prepare to resettle even more refugees
next year, a process that involves extensive reviews and security screenings.
And the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing resettled
refugees with critical resources to fully integrate and maximize their
potential once they arrive.
We are also preparing for the President’s
Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, which will take place later this year on the
margins of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. At this global gathering, President
Obama and other world leaders are seeking to generate broader and deeper
commitments to increase humanitarian aid for refugees, provide refugees in more
countries with new resettlement opportunities, and help more children go to
school and allow adults to work and support themselves and their families. [How is Obama going to explain to the UN the
huge backlash in America against the idea of resettling more Muslim
refugees!—-ed]
More confirmation that “interfaith” groups and
mosques are using the refugee program to increase the Muslim population of the
US: And later today, Secretary of State John Kerry
will meet with interfaith leaders, refugees who have been resettled to the
United States, and representatives from refugee resettlement organizations. He
will also give remarks as a part of an interfaith iftar at the ADAMS center, a
mosque located in Sterling, Virginia, which has a strong history and record of
working with interfaith partners to support the resettlement of refugees. Again, visit Kerry’s remarks at the ADAMS Center. He takes a whack
at Trump and you “bigots.”
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/sec-of-state-kerry-visits-jihad-central-to-celebrate-world-refugee-day/
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