Miliband: US refugee admissions program under Trump
is managed with malevolence and competence, by Ann Corcoran 4/19/18
When
I saw this Washington
Post Op-ed penned by British National David
Miliband whose organization, one of nine federal refugee contractors (the International Rescue Committee) depends on just short of a
half a billion! (see below) from the US Treasury each year, I
thought it was kind of dumb to bite the hand that feeds them (and offers him,
Miliband, a comfortable annual income of nearly $700,000).
Perhaps I am wrong, maybe David Miliband
is giving most of his nearly $700,000 annual salary as charitable gifts to the
refugees he sends to your towns. Does anyone know?
But,
this is what the arrogant and entitled Far Left does because they have come to
expect those millions as their just rewards for their ‘humanitarian’ zeal. Of course I can’t resist an opportunity to
write about “Moneybags” Miliband either.
From
the WaPo (which
has never to my knowledge ever looked in to the cushy deals and ginormous
taxpayer-funded salaries the resettlement contractors have been receiving over the
years).
There
is nothing more annoying than a British Leftist lecturing us, and Trump, about
retreating from our US principles and practices! David Miliband is president and chief executive of the International
Rescue Committee.
At
a time of widespread need, the United States is in headlong retreat from the
principles and practices that for so long has made it a global beacon. It is no
exaggeration to say that if current trends continue, the U.S. government will
have no refugee resettlement program at the end of this administration.
In
other policy domains, scholars have asked whether the Trump administration is
malevolent or incompetent. In the case of refugees the answer is clear: There
is animus towards this program and that is being translated into action in a
highly organized and efficient manner. It is the worst of all worlds.
Despite
the success of this bipartisan program, it is being slowly and silently
strangled. Bureaucratic means are being used to subvert an agreed interagency
decision. There have been no
hearings in Congress,
no accounting for the result.
Here
is one of many deceptions Miliband regularly peddles. He says the 45,000
CEILING, the CAP, is a target! It is not! The President only needs to
stay under the ceiling he himself set. If he wants to exceed the ceiling he
would have to consult with Congress.
It is not too late to arrest the decline. Congress should be calling on
the administration to expedite refugee interviews to hit the 45,000 target. Homeland Security should speed up the
process for vetting refugees, which already takes far too long. And there is no
excuse for the shortfall in issuance of special admissions for brave Afghans
and Iraqis who have put their lives on the line for the United States.
I
agree with Miliband that Congress should look in to the UN/US Refugee
Admissions Program for other reasons, but frankly they are all a bunch of
do-nothings on both sides of the aisle.
The IRC would have a hard time surviving
without the infusion of federal dollars at this incredible level each year!
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 IRC is the financially largest of the
contractors. However if you add up the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
and all the individual Catholic Charities that receive federal funding the
Catholics might be getting the most boodle.
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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