In Washington, it is all about the cap! One report:
Trump would consider a cap of 5,000 refugees, by Ann Corcoran, 8/3/18.
You
might call it refugee ‘cap wrangling season’ as the players in the refugee
resettlement circles in Washington jockey for position for the coming fiscal
year.
Everyone is waiting to see what Sec. of
State Pompeo will say. A lot rides on the ceiling, or cap, the President, by
law, sets for the coming fiscal year—how many refugees could be admitted and where they might come from. It is a
power assigned to the President by then Senator Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter as
they pushed through, and Carter ultimately signed, the Refugee Act of 1980.
Besides
the push from the Leftwing Open Borders gang for more diversity for America,
and Dems for more voters, a lot of federal money for nine federal resettlement
contractors is at stake.
I
hope not to be talking about it every day (see yesterday’s post), but when I saw this Politico story I figured it included a
little nugget that you should know about, namely that the President threw out
the number 5,000 in last years ‘cap wrangling season.’
Just a reminder, whatever number the President sets, it is a cap, a
ceiling! He could set the cap at 50,000 and still only admit 5,000!
This year the cap is 45,000, but the total admitted likely won’t pass 23,000.
Politico: ‘Miller is not deterred’: Top
immigration aide pushing cuts in refugee numbers. The president suggested going as low as just 5,000, according to a former
administration official.
President
Donald Trump last year advocated dropping the refugee cap as low as 5,000
people, down from 50,000, according to a former administration official – a cut
far more drastic than even his most hawkish adviser, Stephen Miller, proposed
at the time. Stephen Miller: It drives his political enemies nuts that he
is so young!
Ultimately,
the administration restricted to 45,000 the flow of refugees into the U.S. this
fiscal year – the lowest since the program began in 1980, and less than half
the target of 110,000 that President Barack Obama set in his last planning cycle.
By
the way, they love to trot out Obama’s last ridiculously high (unattainable!)
cap of 110,000 set two months before the November 2016 Presidential
election. In all of his earlier years Obama set caps of tens of thousands
lower. The 110,000 was all part of election year maneuvering.
Politico continues….But
the discussion set the terms of the administration’s refugee policymaking. Now
Miller and a group of like-minded aides are pressing to reduce drastically the
number of people entering the U.S., both legally and illegally. The immigration hawks are moving forward….
One
Republican close to the White House and a former White House official familiar
with the discussions predicted the cap could fall as low as 15,000 in 2019,
continuing a contraction of overall immigration, both legal and illegal.
A tiny group of key administration officials led by the National
Security Council’s Mira Ricardel were planning to meet Friday to debate the
coming year’s refugee cap. Late Thursday, however, a White House official said
the meeting about refugees had been postponed. It is not yet determined when it will
be rescheduled.
“Inside the Washington beltway, this is a numbers game that’s being
carried out by people who don’t care about refugees and are orienting this to
their base,” said Anne Richard, who was assistant secretary of state
for population, refugees and migration in the Obama administration.
Behind
the scenes, Miller,
32, has been contacting every relevant Cabinet secretary to
convey his interpretation of the president’s thoughts on the refugee cap in an
effort to sway the decision, said a former White House official familiar with
the discussions.
LOL!
Note that they don’t put the ages in for Anne Richard or anyone else quoted in
this article. It drives the Left insane to know that Miller is young. The
wild card is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. No one is quite sure where he
stands on the matter. More here at Politico.
These (below) are the nine federal resettlement contractors which are
largely paid for their ‘humanitarian’ work by you, the US taxpayer.
As
the numbers of incoming refugees decline so too does their income (they are
paid by the refugee head!). A continued reduction in the number of
incoming refugees could cause one or more of these supposed non-profits to go
under due to poor budgetary management—they never planned for a rainy day when
federal bucks might dry up!
Another
low year, perhaps lower than this year’s 20,000 plus year, could completely
blow to smithereens the budget of one or more of these federal contractors
which are demanding a cap of 75,000.
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the
refugees into your towns and cities and get them signed up for their services (aka 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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