US Refugee admissions plummet even further by Ann Corcoran 1/17/18
On the first of January we reported the facts about the extremely low refugee arrival
numbers so far in this fiscal year (FY18 began on October 1, 2017) and now
Michael Leahy (Breitbart) has a summary of where we stand during the first two weeks
of January.
201 is the number for the first two weeks and the fact that it is
low is the reason you are seeing so many articles popping up in local papers
quoting resettlement agency employees wailing about Trump-the-meany.
For the umpteenth time, these ‘non-profit’ groups’ federal funding is
tied to the number of refugees arriving, so budgets are being wreaked and thus
the hissy-fits.
Frankly, if they had raised
sufficient private money (in the ways normal charities do), they wouldn’t be so
on-the-edge in lean times.
In fact, if they had raised private
resources they could keep themselves busy by taking better care of the refugees
they previously dropped off in your towns!
But, here is the truth of the matter, they can’t raise enough private
money because the general (giving) public isn’t behind what they do! They
need to have their hands in taxpayers’ wallets in order to survive!
Refugee admissions to the United States fell to a new low during the
first two weeks of January.
Between January 1 and January 15, the number of refugees admitted into
the country fell to a mere 201, the lowest number admitted during any two week
period in more than a decade.
Below is a map of where the 201 went. The numbers are hard to read,
but top five ‘welcoming’ states for the first two weeks of January are:
Washington, California, New York, Ohio and Minnesota.
Leahy continues….Seventy-nine
percent of these refugees, or 158 out of 201, came from four countries: Ukraine
(80), Burma (29), Bhutan (28), and Eritrea (21).
The religious mix of arriving
refugees continued the trend seen in the first three months of FY 2018 from
September 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017: More Christians and fewer Muslims than under
the Obama administration.
Eighty-five percent of these
refugees, or 171 out of 201, were Christian, while only four percent, or eight
out of 201, were Muslim.
This contrasts dramatically with the last full fiscal year of the Obama
administration, FY 2016, when 46 percent of the 84,995 admitted refugees were
Muslim and 44 percent were Christian.
Voluntary agencies (VOLAGS)***, who
have been paid more than $1 billion a year by the federal government for more
than the past decade to resettle refugees, are beginning to feel the financial
pressure caused by the reduced revenue associated with fewer refugee arrivals.
A number of local resettlement agencies operating under the broader
umbrella of the VOLAGs around the country are either shutting down their
operations or shrinking them dramatically.
“Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese of Dubuque [Iowa] is preparing to end its refugee resettlement
program after 77 years in operation. The primary reason the program is closing
down is because the numbers of refugees are down,” Catholic News Service
reported last week.
In September, President Trump set
the ceiling of new refugee admissions for FY 2018 at 45,000.
Based on the current rate of admissions, total FY 2018 numbers are
likely to be well under that number. If refugee admissions continue at the same
pace as they have for the first three and a half months of FY 2018 for the
remaining eight and a half months of the fiscal year, total refugee arrivals
for the fiscal year will be slightly less than 19,000.
VOLAGs is what the nine federal
refugee contractors like to call themselves. I call them government
contractors. As long as taxpayers pay
them by the head to place refugees in your towns and cities while
they, at the same time, are permitted to act like political community
organizers and agitators, there can be no reform of the UN/US Refugee Admissions
Program.
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular)
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