New House bill would go a long way to reform
Refugee Admissions Program, by Ann Corcoran on October 3, 2016
That is, if
Speaker Paul Ryan would give the go-ahead to the House Judiciary Committee (Reps. Goodlatte and Gowdy) to give
it a hearing, and that is the rub! It is not that all of Congress would
disapprove the bill (they might), but it will certainly never see the light of
day in this Congress or likely the next unless you act now.
Stop ranting
about Obama and focus your energy where it matters on two Members of Congress
who could slow the flow of Middle Eastern/African refugees to your towns if
they weren’t so afraid of Speaker Ryan (and his role in determining their own
personal upward mobility).
Correct me if
I’m wrong, but I believe that the House Judiciary Committee (Goodlatte and
Gowdy) never gave a look at another excellent bill by Rep. Brian Babin and
dozens of co-sponsors to put the RAP on hold until certain benchmarks were met.
That bill was introduced last year (the first year of this Congress) and so
there was plenty of time to hold hearings, mark it up and move it to the floor.
(By avoiding
moving any bills like this to the floor they don’t have to ever show their
constituents what they really believe and shamefully direct your anger at Obama
instead!)
We can argue the merits and demerits of the
different proposals until the cows come home, but none of it matters when Reps
Goodlatte (chairman of the full House Judiciary Committee) and Gowdy (Chairman
of the Immigration subcommittee) make NO effort to even entertain reviewing the
Refugee Act of 1980. (In fact, by not holding a hearing on Obama’s
‘determination’ for FY2017 before
the start of the fiscal year, they have already broken the law in the JUDICIARY
Committee)
Why? Because they do
what Paul Ryan tells them to do!
Here
is a good write-up by Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review about
this new bill:
House Speaker
Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (F, 53%) has made it clear that if voters reelect his party,
he will promote jailbreak legislation, the biggest priority of George Soros. Imagine if his
party would instead run on protecting the security and sovereignty of the
people by returning to the states the power over refugee resettlement?
Now, Rep. Scott
Perry, R-Pa. (C, 76%) has a bill to do just that. Sadly, his bill — a
reflection of amazing policy and a winning political strategy — is not as much
of a priority as George Soros and creating a permanent Democratic majority.
Perry’s bill,
similar to a plan I outlined in Stolen Sovereignty, would require that states
affirmatively sign off on refugee resettlement proposals before the federal
government and private [taxpayer-funded] refugee resettlement contractors can
seed their communities with refugees. Under this legislation, the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) would have to first submit a plan to the
relevant state legislature that includes all of the information concerning
costs, criminal history, and health records of prospective refugees.
They would also
have to provide information regarding said refugee’s affiliation with any
Muslim Brotherhood group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation case. Most importantly, any plan for resettlement must be ratified
by the state legislature and signed by the governor, otherwise no refugees can
be settled in that state.
No legal body in this country — from Congress
to state legislatures — would approve the resettlement of tens of thousands of
Somali refugees if they had to affirmatively approve it today.
Unfortunately, in the most grotesque violation
of the social contract and consent-based citizenship, the most radical forms of
cultural transformation are in the hands of unelected entities. Scott Perry’s bill would right this
ship and empower the people. Read it all here.
Rep. Perry
deserves praise for his willingness to put his name on a plan to put more power
over the resettlement of refugees in the hands of the states, but sadly this
Congress is over for all intents and purposes.
He will have to
resubmit his bill when Congress returns in January. However, it is not too late to make the
funding issue a major one before the election next month.
The Continuing
Resolution, passed last week, funds the government at the FY2016 level until
December. They need to address the entire budget when they return right after
the November election.
You still have
one more chance to stop Obama’s 110,000 flood of refugees that began on
Saturday and that is if you spend the next 36 days working to elect Donald Trump and to
figure out every imaginative way to figuratively beat-up (and I mean it!) your
Washington representatives by telling them to DEFUND THE REFUGEE PROGRAM FOR
THIS YEAR. Tell them you want a moratorium! (If you don’t ask for the
moon, you will get nothing).
REPUBLICANS! Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are the ones who ultimately hold your community’s
fate in their hands, not Obama! I told you the
other day that I would keep repeating what ‘Mom for Trump’ said, so here it is
again:
Ann, could you tell
all your readers on a daily basis to call our useless Congress @ 202 224 3121
and have them say DEFUND REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM. I call daily and if
enough of us do so, we can make a difference.
Stay tuned!
Look for more things you can do to get to your Washington, DC so-called
representatives while they are stumping in the home district starting tomorrow
and for the next month.
All of our
discussions about the budget process, and Congress generally, over the last
couple of months can be found in my tag ‘Where is Congress.’
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