Bowling Green, KY not getting
enough Muslim refugees says refugee contractor, by Ann Corcoran, 8/4/18.
I’ve
already posted a bunch of stories similar to this one from several different
cities in what is an obvious media campaign to blast the
President as
he approaches his deadline to say how many refugees the US will ‘welcome’ in
FY19.
I
don’t intend to publish them all because it gets boring, but will note
interesting points when I see them.
We
have written a lot on Bowling Green, KY over the years.
It
is Senator Rand Paul’s home town.
In
2011, two Iraqi Muslim refugees were arrested there and ultimately found guilty
of attempting to help a terrorist group in Iraq. The arrest resulted in
the US State Department temporarily halting resettlement from Iraq and
rescreening thousands of potential refugees.
At
that point, Senator Paul came out strongly against the program, but his
criticism vanished when he ran for President in 2016.
Prior
to the Islamic terror arrests, we had already written many posts on how
resettlement contractors were not taking adequate care of refugees they had
placed there (many work in the local slaughterhouse industry, btw.) So you
might want to go here to learn more about the often
troubled resettlement program in Bowling Green.
Here
is the latest from WKU (an NPR station!). NPR seems to be
taking the lead in the orchestrated media campaign in support of the
federally-funded refugee contracting agencies***.
“It
Hurts My Heart”: Muslim Refugee Resettlement in Bowling Green Virtually
Eliminated
Tougher
federal guidelines on refugee resettlement are having a big impact on a
southern Kentucky agency.
The
Trump administration has cut the overall number of refugees allowed into the
U.S., and has added increased layers of security that have drastically cut the number
of refugees from majority-Muslim countries. The advocacy group Human Rights
First says there’s been a 90 percent decline in the number of refugee Muslim
admissions in the U.S. compared to the 2017 federal fiscal year.
Listen
Listening…3:54 Albert Mbanfu discussed the impact federal refugee resettlement
policy is having on his agency’s efforts to bring refugees to Bowling Green.
“They’re not coming in,” the native of Cameroon said. “We’ve not
received any refugee from any Muslim countries since the beginning of this
fiscal year. In
fact, we received one Somali kid, and it’s because that’s a kid, and the child
took refuge in a country that was not a Muslim country.”
Before
the new federal policies, the International Center of Kentucky helped resettle
refugees from countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan [and Somalia—ed]. Mbanfu
says his agency is now focusing on resettling refugees from a small number of
countries, mostly in parts of Africa and Asia.
“Most of them are coming in from Congo, Rwanda, Burma, Bhutan, and a
few who are trickling in from Ethiopia.”
None of those countries are Muslim-majority countries. Mbanfu said
most of the refugees settled by his agency so far this federal fiscal year have
been Christians.
These
are the nine federally-funded refugee contractors you pay with your tax
dollars. The International Center of Kentucky is a subcontractor of USCRI below.
Since
USCRI is approximately 98% funded by the federal government, you can imagine that
they must be pretty nervous about more cuts in the refugee program where the
agencies receive funding from the US Treasury on a refugee per head basis.
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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