Pennsylvania: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society rep says
Trump low admission numbers could end the program, by Ann Corcoran 8/23/18.
Cathryn Miller-Wilson said this to the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday referring to a rumored ceiling
number for FY19 of 25,000: “Those kind of numbers are the elimination of the refugee resettlement
program.”
Cathryn Miller-Wilson http://hiaspa.org/news/press-release-hias-pennsylvania-announces-new-executive-director.
I think HIAS overstates the case, and I want all of my readers to know that although low
numbers might push some of the agencies (contractors) under financially (because
the government pays them by the head for each refugee they place), the program
won’t be eliminated as long as the Refugee Act of 1980 is
still on the books in its present form.
I continue to advocate for the Trump Administration to pressure
Congress to reform the entire process. And, frankly time is running out! If the
Republicans lose the house in November, then it is all over for years. And, if
the Republicans survive and Trump is not our president after 2020, there will
be no reform. So it is now or never! Message to the White
House: Think big! Go on the offense!
You are going to be blasted for any number lower than the 75,000
refugees the contractors are demanding. So, my recommendation is that
you set the level at zero and tell Congress to reform the program. If they
want refugees, then review and reform the law! (And, we know that the White
House could send recommended legislation to The Hill right now!)
There is no legal
requirement that we take even one refugee! And, there is no legal
requirement that American taxpayers support these nine supposed non-profit
groups!
Here
is some of the The Inquirer story with a title we have come to
expect:
Immigrant advocates fear U.S. will no longer be a beacon
for refugees
The
fear among immigration advocates is not only that thousands of refugees could
remain stuck in overseas camps. Or that staffers at resettlement agencies in
Philadelphia and elsewhere could be laid off or reassigned.
HIAS helped organize this protest
against the President. That is their banner at right. Is this what they do with
our money?
They’re
afraid that the United States’ historic mission of welcoming the world’s most
vulnerable people [like
those in the photo?—ed] could
effectively be coming to an end, with President Trump expected to again lower
the annual limit on refugee admissions.
The talk filtering from Washington to on-the-ground agencies is that
Trump could put the new cap at 25,000, with perhaps only half that number
actually entering the country, the result of bureaucratic delays and other
factors. He
set the current year’s figure at 45,000, a nearly four-decade low. Less than half
that number have been admitted as the end of the fiscal year approaches on
Sept. 30.
By
law, the president, in consultation with Congress, must issue what is called
the Presidential Determination before the new fiscal year starts on Oct.
1. Generally, the number
begins to leak from government officials around Labor Day.
Refugees
come to the Philadelphia region from Afghanistan, Iraq, Bhutan, and elsewhere
around the globe, but now in smaller numbers.
“We can’t just be quiet about this,” said Cathryn Miller-Wilson,
executive director of HIAS PA, which provides legal and support services to
immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. “Those kind of numbers are the
elimination of the refugee resettlement program.” More here.
These
below are the nine federal refugee resettlement contractors. You might be sick
of seeing this list almost every day, but a friend once told me that people
need to see something seven times before it completely sinks in, so it seems to
me that 70, or even 700 isn’t too much! And,
besides I have new readers every day.
The present US Refugee Admissions Program will never be reformed unless
the system of paying the contractors by the head stays in place and the
contractors are permitted to act as Leftwing political agitation groups and
community organizers paid on our dime! And, to add insult to injury they
pretend it is all about ‘humanitarianism.’
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)! And,
get them registered to vote eventually!
From
my most recent accounting, here. However, please see that Nayla
Rush at the Center for
Immigration Studies has done an update of their income!
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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