When do-gooders don’t do good! by Ann Corcoran 8/23/16
Two stories I
want to bring to your attention were posted over the last couple of days that
call in to question whether the resettlement industry (both the federal Office
of Refugee Resettlement and its NGO contractors) is even taking proper care of
the migrants they are responsible for.
So the next
time you hear the pleas of government-funded bleeding heart humanitarians
saying that we need to bring more poor souls to America, remember these reports
and know that some refugees are very sorry they came! [Congress could
tweek the Refugee Admissions Program if it had the will! see below!]
The first story
is at World
Net Daily about how the federal Office of Refugee
Resettlement has LOST
some of the so-called unaccompanied alien children they claim are refugees—one
little boy in particular—but reportedly thousands.
After telling
the story of ‘Missing child W,’ reporter Leo Hohmann reports on comments from
Jessica Vaughan, an immigration expert at the Center
for Immigration Studies:
Sadly, the case
of missing child “W” is not unique, says an expert in federal immigration
policy. 10-year old
Walter was supposedly placed in this South Carolina home, but no one there
knows anything about him. Asking as few
questions as possible’
The problem has
become endemic under the Obama administration’s slack procedures for dealing
with unaccompanied minors from Central America, said Jessica Vaughan, director
of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington. And
local communities often end up getting stuck with the problem – and the cost.
“From the
beginning, instead of putting the welfare of the kids first, the priority of
the Obama administration has been to turn over the kids to anyone who would
claim them, asking as few questions as possible, and deliberately oblivious as
to whether the child was being placed in a safe environment,” Vaughan told WND.
For the sake of
political expediency, she said the government wants a rapid turnover, and is
willing to sacrifice all checks and safeguards to ensure the safety of the
kids.
“The
contractors [this includes the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee
Service—both receive millions of tax dollars to care for the children.—ed]
who were awarded public funds to handle the kids admit that they have lost track
of most of them, and a U.S. Senate investigation has found that some were
turned straight over to indentured labor camps or to abusive adults,” said
Vaughan, who in February testified before a House subcommittee on the problem
of child migrants being swept up into human trafficking networks.
“The Obama administration wants the public to
believe that we are saving these kids, but in reality their policies are
enriching human smugglers and traffickers and resettlement contractors, while
putting too many of the kids in more danger,” she said. Continue
reading here.
Then there is this
story by Michael
Patrick Leahy at Breitbart which chronicles some of the horror stories from
refugees placed in the care of nine major federal resettlement
contractors—stories, some of which, we have reported on these pages over the
years. Leahy begins: When Eritrean refugee Mulugeta Zemu Mana was recently
arraigned in a courtroom in Twin Falls, Idaho, on charges of aggravated
battery, he told the presiding judge, “The only guilt I have is the day I
decided to come to this country.” Refugee Mulugeta Zemu Mana wishes he never
came to America! Mana’s lack of
gratitude and anti-Americanism is a painful revelation of the social turmoil
and economic pain among the 70,000 refugees, half of whom are Muslim, who
arrive in the U.S. every year.
But it is also
the predictable outcome of the lucrative, federal taxpayer financed refugee
resettlement industry which is now headed by former Clinton and Obama administration
appointees. The industry rejects America’s traditional policy of assimilating
refugees into the country, and instead treats refugees more as
revenue-generating opportunities that boost their income and political power.
There is much more here.
Where is Congress? One fix that Congress could quickly
make is to set up a
repatriation fund so that unhappy ‘refugees’ (and other immigrants too) could tap into it
for a plane ticket home. And, I
don’t want to hear any squawking about the cost—it would be much cheaper than
incarcerating them or keeping them on welfare! The true humanitarian
do-gooders should have no objections! Right? LOL!
There is one
other side benefit: such a plan would help sort out the resettlement
contractors by helping to identify which are doing the best job of taking care
of the refugees they have acquired in their federal contracts.
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