Refugee contractor: 100 refugee offices
have closed, by Ann Corcoran 4/26/18
If this is true, then nearly 1/3 of all refugee resettlement offices
have closed around the country. Really?
And,
if this is true, why has the Refugee Processing Center (Wrapsnet)
not deleted any of the contact information for those now supposedly
non-existent agencies from its database, or updated their resettlement site
map? What are we paying them for?
First,
here is the news I’m referring to. It’s one more pro-more
refugees/anti-Trump story about Trump’s (trickling, falling, plummeting)
refugee admission numbers—this time at the Christian Science Monitor:
US has cut inflow of refugees to
a trickle, dousing hopes upstream.
Shutting down the entire refugee program would require Congress to act, and there’s no sign of that happening, say refugee agencies. Instead, the administration is trying to gum up the process, a death by a thousand paper cuts that is both constitutional and highly effective.
“They’re dragging their feet. They’re deliberately slowing things
down,” says Mr. Thielman. More
here at
the Christian Science Monitor.
So why is the Refugee Processing Center not updating its information on those offices? Don’t we (the taxpayers) pay them through the US State Department to provide information as they say here:
Several paragraphs in….Jeffrey Thielman claims 100 resettlement
agencies have closed in the last year.
Choking the overall pipeline of refugees means fewer federal dollars
for the nonprofit agencies that are tasked with resettling them, which could
make it harder to ramp up in the future under a more supportive administration.
Local
refugee agencies have cut staff and closed offices; nearly half of all
resettlement agencies in Florida have shut down due to the drop in caseloads.
Before the 2016 election, 351 agencies worked on resettlements. A year
later, around 100 had closed, says Jeffrey Thielman, chief executive of the
International Institute of New England, which places refugees in Boston, Lowell, and
Manchester, N.H. and is working with the Jalhoums. [The International Institute of New England is a subcontractor of the US
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, one of the big nine)
Under Trump, the nativist wing of the Republican Party that
wants both to slash legal immigration and expel undocumented residents has
become ascendant. But
the vexed politics in Congress on immigration reform has so far thwarted major
changes. Refugees make an easier target since the president has discretion to
set quotas and priorities for who comes to the US.
Who We Are
We
are the creators of WRAPS, a collaborative computer system built to assist in
the processing of refugees to the United States. People all around the world
use WRAPS (Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System) to process and track
the movement of refugees from various countries to the U.S. for resettlement.
What We Do-
The Refugee Processing Center (RPC) provides the technical and functional
support for WRAPS so that it is accessible, current and easy for our
stakeholders to use. Our Operations teams sit on the front lines, helping solve
problems and make the most of the WRAPS software system. Our Development teams
are constantly innovating, collaborating, testing and fixing things. And behind the scenes, we have trainers and
communications teams working with our end users. We are here to make a difference.
Our Role -
The Refugee Processing Center (RPC) is operated by the U.S Department of State
(DOS) Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). We assist DOS/PRM in
achieving its annual U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) objectives.
Check
out the most recent map of resettlement sites—from December 2015—what good is
this? (I know it is impossible to read, you will be able to see it better here, but
it is pretty useless since it is so out-of-date.)
That legend in the bottom right hand
corner represents the nine contractors that monopolize all resettlement in the
US. The 351 (?) are their subcontractors. And, click here to see the full list (a list that has not been updated since
January 1, 2017). Come on, get with it! We all have a right to know
which 100 of these offices have been shuttered!
I
post the contractor list almost every day because I want new readers to know
exactly who is responsible for driving the US Refugee Admissions Program (in
addition to the UN!).
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with (low paying) jobs in food
production and cleaning hotel rooms, and get them signed up for their services (welfare)! 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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