Ho-hum another Trump fear article reveals an
interesting bit of information, by
Ann Corcoran 11/16/16
Apparently some refugee advocates
blame the US State Department’s decades old secrecy about the Refugee
Admissions Program (RAP) for the backlash against it! He (resettlement
contractor Christopher George) places some of the blame on the State
Department, which encourages resettlement programs to operate at a low profile
(in secrecy!).
US STATE DEPT. NO-SHOW! More than
100 people came out to a refugee forum in Bloomington, Indiana last week.
Experts Don Barnett and Jim Simpson debated one lonely pro-refugee immigration
lawyer, when Barbara Day, representing the US State Department, was a no-show
and purportedly discouraged refugee agencies in the state to not participate as
well, thus confirming what Connecticut contractor George told NPR. Photo and
story from Bloomington, here: http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/11/locals-discuss-concerns-for-refugee-families
This is from NPR (no
surprise), but buried in its many paragraphs of sad stories about poor Muslim
refugees we
found a point of agreement with a resettlement contractor (emphasis below is mine):
Donald Trump’s election has sent
tremors through America’s refugee advocate community, and caused fear and
uncertainty among the most recently resettled refugees, the Syrians. They
listened with alarm as candidate Trump called them “terrorists” and blamed
them, incorrectly, for violent attacks in America.
“That rhetoric has had an impact,”
says Becca Heller, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, a
legal aid program. “Trump has been successful in politicizing refugee
admissions in a way that they have not been politicized before.”
Advocates argue that backtracking on
American commitments could encourage other countries to follow the U.S.
example, deepening a humanitarian crisis for allies and giving talking points to Muslim
militants who claim that the West is hostile to Islam. [Is our goal here to make Muslim militants
happy and prove we are good anti-hostile people or to
help legitimate refugees, I wonder—ed]
But bipartisan support for refugee
resettlement unraveled after last November’s Paris terrorist attacks,
when early reporting erroneously identified one of the attackers as a Syrian
refugee. Support further declined following last December’s terrorist attack in
San Bernardino, Calif., and a mass shooting in June at the Pulse nightclub in
Orlando.
Remember this is about
money (your money!)
These so-called charities can’t help
refugees until they have wads of your tax dollars in their pockets! I say
if the general public is supportive, people should contribute private money,
not steal from tax payers!
NPR continued: Now that
Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House, refugee
advocates fear there will be severe funding cuts for their work.
Note in the following paragraph from
the NPR story, how an employee of a resettlement agency spins his
rhetoric about fears of terrorism by saying there have been no arrests
for domestic terrorism in the refugee
community. He is completely discounting all of the arrests and
convictions of refugees for planning terrorism abroad.
Somali refugee Hamza Ahmed sentenced
to 15 years just yesterday for attempting to join ISIS. We gave you a few cases here the other day (including domestic jihadists like the Somali Christmas tree bomber,
and don’t forget the St. Cloud knife attacker!), but here is news just this morning about another terrorism conviction
of a Somali refugee.
You
raised this Islamic jihadist wannabee with your tax dollars.
NPR (apparently reporter Deborah Amos is too lazy or too biased
to get the facts about refugees and terrorism, so George spins unchallenged!): Refugee
advocate Chris George says the campaign rhetoric could undermine a program that
has resettled 750,00 refugees since Sept. 11, 2001 — with not one
arrest for a domestic terrorism charge.
However, here is the part of the
story I found most useful: “This all goes back to a fundamental
lack of information about the refugee program and lack of contact,” he says.
George is the executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant
Services, a nonprofit agency in New Haven, Conn. His organization has resettled more than 250 refugees
this year in a distinctive program that partners with private groups to place
refugee families in communities, “so people can meet them and have them live
down the street and walk to school with their children.”
Most Americans have never met a
refugee, says George, and that is part of the problem. He places some of the blame on the State
Department, which encourages resettlement programs to operate at a low profile.
And, why does the US Department of State operate in secrecy? I maintain it is
because if the general taxpaying public knew the full story about the RAP it
would be rejected almost everywhere! IRIS is a Church World Service subcontractor. Go here to learn about CWS finances.
Comments
Trump’s
comments about refugees includes shutting the program down in the US. On the question of what to do with those
refugees who are already here, Trump said that he would like to send them back
to their home countries and would support using tax dollars to fund refugee
resettlement camps in other Muslim countries. The assumption is that Trump
would meet with these countries and have these camps set up. If this is done, it would give Europe a path
forward to send its refugees back as well.
Trump
will need to support the banning of Sharia law in the US because it undermines
US law to send a message to Muslim Americans..
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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