Unhappy refugee contractors not getting insider
information out of Trump Administration, by Ann Corcoran, 8/17/18.
The
story at The
Intercept by reporter Sara Aziza is
a rehash of much of the same old stuff the Open Borders Refugee industry has
been spreading far and wide as the time approaches for the Trump Administration
to announce its “Determination” for how many refugees the US will ‘welcome’ in
FY19 under the US Refugee Admissions Program.
The Intercept reporter Sara Aziza is overstating
the case. In my view, the Trump team could be doing a lot more to really
“dismantle” the program.
As
I have said repeatedly, the Administration can “slash” the numbers for a few
years, but without real reform of the seriously flawed program from the UN
picking most of our refugees to the US State Department and its contractors
secretly sending them to unsuspecting towns and cities (often to satisfy the
needs of globalist industries), the US Refugee Admissions Program will simply
pick right up where it left off in 2020 or 2024 if the present system isn’t
completely scrapped.
You
can read most of The Intercept story
(hat tip: Joanne) for yourself, but I have picked out a few nuggets that made
me chuckle in a story about “Trump’s
race to the bottom.”
DONALD TRUMP ISN’T JUST SLASHING
THE REFUGEE QUOTA, HE’S DISMANTLING THE ENTIRE RESETTLEMENT SYSTEM (So very sad…they don’t get insider information like
they did under Obama!) After many paragraphs….Adam Clark of World Relief is
lamenting that they no longer get any insider information from the government!
A
refugee ceiling of 25,000 would be the lowest since the passage of the 1980
Refugee Act, and it would follow the hard-line approach to all types of
immigration touted by White House adviser Stephen Miller.
Last
year, Miller pushed for even more aggressive cuts to the refugee resettlement
program — suggesting a cap of 15,000 — but faced pushback from other
administration officials, including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and
former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke.
With
Tillerson’s and Duke’s departures earlier this year, refugee advocates fear
that Miller may prevail this time around.
“We don’t get any insider information. We just hear what the government
chooses to announce to the public, and then we have to adjust accordingly,”
said Adam Clark, director of World Relief Durham, which has a State Department
contract to resettle refugees.
When
Trump set a cap of 45,000 last year, Clark said, roughly 60,000 already-vetted
refugees were left in limbo. “Since Trump took office, we’ve learned to prepare
for the worst. More cuts would be tragic, but they wouldn’t surprise us.”
Clark
goes on….The drastic decrease in refugee admissions has led to the weakening of
decades-old systems that help refugees transition to life in their new home,
making it likely that the program will have to be rebuilt if a future U.S.
administration moves toward welcoming more refugees.
Many refugee centers have shut down, while many others have been forced
to cut staff, said Clark. “What made matters worse was, at the beginning of the
fiscal year 2016, when [President Barack Obama] was pushing to take more
refugees, many of us were told to beef up our staff in order to be able to
accept 85,000 to 100,000.
Then, after the inauguration of Donald Trump, the number was slashed to
45,000. Several hundred staff members lost their jobs.” Obama promised us 100,000 so we beefed
up or staff and now we have to fire them!
Readers,
have you ever seen such a dysfunctional and chaotic way to run a program where
the government pays these supposed non-profit groups on a refugee per head
basis and then when numbers fluctuate, the agencies run to the media and wail
about their budgetary shortfall!
Where
is Congress? Why
can’t Congress get off the dime and dump this whole flawed system?
The
result has been the reduction of the overall refugee flow to a bare trickle.
“The pipeline has dried up,” said Clark of World Relief. “When there aren’t
enough people abroad to interview and process the cases, there is no way to
keep the stream of vetted refugees coming.”
In
the past year, Clark said, his Durham office has seen only about one-third of
its usual number of cases. “In 10 years of this work, I’ve seen numbers fluctuate somewhat, but the
changes under the Trump administration have been by far the most drastic,” he
said. “This feels like a different kind of change.”
Clark
goes on to report that they aren’t getting as many Muslims as they would like
in North Carolina. “We’ve definitely seen a shift in the nationalities of our
clients since Trump,” said Clark. “We’re getting fewer Afghans, no Syrians —
the pattern seems clear.”
Sirine Shebaya,
senior staff attorney at the national civil rights and legal organization
Muslim Advocates, said the religious makeup of the incoming refugee pool is
striking as well. “Despite
the fact that over half of the world’s refugees come from three Muslim-majority
countries — Syria, Somalia, and Afghanistan — admissions of Muslim-identifying
refugees fell by 94 percent between January and November 2017,” she said. [So
why is it our problem when Muslims can’t settle their differences?—ed]
As
of May, only about 2,000 Muslim refugees had been admitted this fiscal year,
down from 38,900 in fiscal year 2016. Syria, Iraq, and Somalia are no longer
among the top five countries of origin for refugees, reversing a trend that had
taken shape in recent years. Shebaya
blames a combination of burdensome vetting measures, Trump’s myriad bans, and
an overall anti-Muslim sentiment for the reversal. “It seems that the
government is intent on making it as difficult as possible for Muslims to come
to the United States, whether as refugees or immigrants.”
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 (as I said,
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
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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