Al-Qaeda and ISIS won’t love us if we close more
refugee offices—waaahhhh! by Ann Corcoran 12/23/17
The groveling refugee contractors are
scraping the bottom of the barrel with this line of attack on the Trump
Administration’s refugee resettlement slowdown and Newsweek eats it up!
I don’t doubt that Al-Qaeda and ISIS
are angry, but it’s only because they have been laughing their heads off for
years with both Bush and Obama inviting them to come and get established in America
while the dumb taxpayers feed and house them!
We have to be nice to them and
invite Muslim refugees to America so they won’t kill us? They kill Christians
because their ‘religion’ instructs them to!
But, in addition to the backwards
and desperate ‘logic’ of this tired old argument getting to me, it is the fact that the
major mouthpiece for the attack, quoted by Newsweek, works for the super RICH International Rescue Committee
(IRC) leading the wailing and moaning here.
In 2015, the last year analyzed
by Charity
Navigator (I reported here), the IRC was the largest of the nine federal contractors.
Its budget was $688,929,920 with 66.5% of that coming from US
taxpayers. That is approximately $455 million you pay them out of your pay
checks!
Its CEO, David Miliband, a British national, received $591,846 in
annual compensation that year. (But, LOL! see
the salaries page below from a more recent Form 990. He got a huge pay raise!).
So now we have the IRC’s Hans Van de
Weerd (is he even a US citizen?) using this cockamamie logic
about making the Islamic terrorists mad at us and crying foul that their income from the US
Treasury might take a hit and they will have to close offices.
Leftist political
agitator! From Dutch citizen(?) Hans Van de Weerd‘s facebook page. He
wears two hats. In addition to his job at the IRC, he is Chairman of the DC
lobbying arm of the refugee industry that recently joined CAIR in their protest
of the Trump Admin. See his bio here: http://www.rcusa.org/staff/
I wasn’t planning to write again
today about the pending closure of small resettlement sites, see posts here and hereover the last couple
of days, but it seems that the contractorshave a propaganda campaign going on the issue and the
mainstream media is doing their bidding!
Why does no reporter ever ask them
about raising private money to take care of the refugees they placed in recent
years—the ones having such a hard time in America that they want to go home to UN camps!
There is nothing
preventing the contractors from caring for refugees with private dollars!
Why does no reporter ever ask if David Miliband and the other CEOs are taking pay cuts in order to
shift money to their smaller offices so they can take better care of their
refugee clients? Indeed, why are their do-gooder proclivities the
responsibility of all taxpayers?
Here is reporter Nicole Rodriguez at Newsweek falling for the twisted logic and the sob story (hat tip:
badboylookout):
The Trump administration’s decision to scale back the number of refugee
resettlement offices across the country puts American lives at risk by
providing terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda with ammunition for their
anti-U.S. propaganda and recruitment campaigns, refugee advocates warn.
Dozens of refugee resettlement
offices—which help integrate refugees fleeing famine, war and political
persecution—could potentially close. The move is part of a string
of reckless decisions President Donald Trump has taken to undermine
national security, advocates who oversee resettlement operations told
Newsweek. [Did reporter
Rodriguez actually get the word “reckless” from someone she interviewed or
simply decide on her own to editorialize?—ed]
The move to close some of the 300 offices
across 49 states, coupled with Trump’s immigration crackdown and travel ban
targeting six Muslim-majority countries plays right into the hands of terrorist
groups, advocates stressed.
“The administration is doing exactly what ISIS and Al-Qaeda want people
to believe about America—that they are against Muslims; that they are against
refugees,” said Hans Van de Weerd, vice president of U.S. programs for the
International Rescue Committee, which operates dozens of resettlement offices.
“It makes the position of this
administration so bizarre, because on the one hand, the Administration says it
wants to have much better integration of refugees—hinting at the fact that they
are not integrated—and now they’re going to basically close those agencies that are helping
those refugees integrate,” Van de Weerd said. If you want to read
the remainder of Newsweek‘s whinefest, go here.
The feds aren’t closing the non-profit groups, the non-profit just won’t be getting
any NEW refugees that come with federal funding. Those non-profits will not be precluded from
raising private money and directing that funding to the care of refugees who
arrived in previous months and years.
I’m telling you, all of
these leeches have gotten fat and lazy off of federal funding.
Let them put their energy (and their
considerable resources) into raising truly charitable private money for the
impoverished people they have been bringing to your towns for years.
Look at these salaries of IRC top staffers. If you work in one of
the smaller offices that the IRC will close (so they can stick it to Trump),
aren’t you just a little bit angry?
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