ORR: two federal grants available to benefit
refugees and their resettlement contractors, by Ann Corcoran
3/21/18
This post falls in my ‘Special deals for
special (non-citizen) people’ archive! Where is Congress?
I
see that although Congress is debating the budget for the remainder of the
year, there are still millions of taxpayer funds sloshing around HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement and
those have been offered up for grabs starting this week.
We’ve
been reporting on the fact that the nine federal refugee contractors,
which monopolize all resettlement in the US, are paid by the head to place
refugees in your towns and that they are hurting financially as the Trump
Administration slows the flow of new paying clients.
The
first is one of the most outrageous ones we have ever discussed. It is
the ‘Refugee Individual
Development Accounts (IDA) Program.’
In a nutshell, to be eligible, refugees must save some money toward a
house, a car, a business or education and their savings are MATCHED by you up
to a limited amount. For example, if a family saves $4,000,
you, dear taxpayer, will match them another $4,000.
The
match-money is managed (and doled out) by middlemen NGOs awarded the
grant—the contractors or their subcontractors usually. Don’t believe me, see here.
Incidentally,
one of the side benefits of the Leftwing government contractors/community
organizers as middlemen is that it endears the refugees to that local
non-profit. I’m
sure the refugees think the non-profit group is giving them money!
This
is the grant availability for the coming year for refugee savings accounts….
And,
here I went back to look at previous grants for the IDA and it sure looks like Idaho’s Mountain
States/Janus Inc. (they are one and the same) have figured out the racket as
the organization got a couple of big dips into the federal trough.
Federal
Grants to non-profits were in the $200,000 to $300,000 range. The total cost
was $2 million.
Besides
the fact that here we have the middlemen contractors and subcontractors getting
paid to help refugees set up businesses that of course will compete with
American businesses where the American citizen worked hard to establish her
daycare service, we reported here in 2013 that
the ORR program touted the fact that the children cared for by refugee day care
workers would get “culturally appropriate” care. So much for assimilating the kids!
And,
this will surely steam you—-the money is only available to those not yet US
citizens. ORR, here. All
low income refugees who are not citizens are eligible for services
under this program.
Here is the grant announcement: This post is filed in my ‘where to find information’ category.
You
can bet the nine contractors (below) and their subcontractors will be
scrambling for these millions of dollars made available a few days ago.
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with jobs, and get them signed up
for their services! From most recent accounting, here.
Ethiopian Community Development
Council (ECDC) (secular)
(93%)
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
US Committee for Refugees and
Immigrants (USCRI) (secular)
(98%)
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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