Trump refugee admissions slowdown shows US refugee
program built on budgetary quicksand, by Ann Corcoran, 6/6/18
The
structure of the US Refugee Admissions Program as designed by then Senator Ted
Kennedy (with his sidekick Joe Biden) and signed in to law by Jimmy Carter in
March 1980 is crumbling (crumpling, whatever) and I want to know—Where is Congress?
The
original concept—non-profit groups being paid by the head to place refugees—is
flawed. How do you run an organization and create an annual budget when
the program is almost wholly dependent on that per head government payment? Any legitimate advocate
for refugees, should be asking Congress to reform the entire program.
But,
of course the leadership (with fat salaries!) of the nine non-profit
contractors isn’t urging Congress to reform the program and instead is working
tirelessly, through the media, to show how mean Donald Trump is to have reduced
the number of paying
clients (aka refugees) with the assumption that in a few
years they will get rid of him and go back to the good ol’ days.
Here
is one more whinny story about
how the contractors are struggling and I’m posting it, even if it is the same
old sob story because ten years ago they never admitted in the press that they
were almost completely dependent on taxpayer funding and I want to hammer that
point. See Catholics whining here.
From Fronteras: As U.S. Refugee
Resettlements Drop, Infrastructure To Help Them Crumples. Reporter,
Matthew Casey, opened with the usual fluffy story about an attractive refugee,
then this…….the stream of refugees
flowing into the United States has been reduced to a trickle, which means
government funding has fallen for humanitarian groups that receive the world’s
displaced.
“We
have closed several offices,” said Patrick Poulin, acting regional director of
the IRC’s Pacific West Region. “We’re closing the Miami office. We’re closing
another office in Garden City.” Closing offices! Right, and so where is the
list of offices still open as I asked in my previous post this morning.
Poulin: system built for 85,000 refugees
with a per head government payment to the contractors? Does Poulin see the flaw
in such a system wholly dependent on the President each year?
The
national infrastructure for refugee resettlement was built to take in about
85,000 people a year, Poulin said.
President
Donald Trump’s administration cut the cap to 45,000 this year. But the United
States will likely let in less than half of that number. “This is a systematic attempt to try to
deconstruct resettlement,” Poulin said.
When
the government clears a refugee to enter the U.S., the groups that welcome them
get about two weeks of notice, said Connie Phillips, president and CEO of
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest (LSS-SW).
“And
we go into action,” she said.
They
find an apartment, furnish it and stock it with food. When the refugee arrives,
they’re met by a case manager who speaks their language. Next comes ongoing
orientation to U.S. society.
“For that, we’re paid a fee,” Phillips said. “And that fee is a
per-person fee that comes with the refugee. If we’re not doing resettlement
work, then we’re not receiving the fees.”
These
“fees,” of course, are taxpayer dollars! Don’t you love it! The
average reader probably has no clue who is paying the fees! Maybe the
fees are growing on Washington, DC money trees! More here.
These are the nine federal contractors whose budgets are being blown to
smithereens by the Trump slowdown in refugee arrivals because they receive
their payments on a per head basis. We hear that at least one will not survive
the year.
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees and get them signed up for their services (aka welfare)! From most recent accounting, here.
If
you are wondering, I post this list every chance I get because we have new
readers daily and because I want
all of you to know that for reform to be possible these nine fake non-profits
have to go.
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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