The endgame for refugees should be to return to
their home countries as quickly as possible. Their original citizenship should
be retained.
Why I think a refugee cap of 30,000 was a bad decision, by Ann Corcoran, 9/18/18.
He should have, in my opinion, halted the entire
program until it was completely reformed. Simply
cutting the numbers for a few years will do NOTHING. If the basic flawed structure is left in place
the big contractors will simply hold out until Trump is no longer in office.
They have already said so!
Here are some of the reforms I want to see
(assuming there is a demand for a refugee admissions program at all!):
More as I think of them, but this is getting too long! Simply reducing the numbers for a few years does nothing to solve the problem going forward.
More as I think of them, but this is getting too long! Simply reducing the numbers for a few years does nothing to solve the problem going forward.
I’m
going to try to be brief because faithful readers have heard this all before.
The
President was going to be vilified if he had come in anywhere under the 75,000
the ‘humanitarian’ refugee industry was pushing for anyway. (See Pompeo
announces 30,000 cap here yesterday.)
Yes,
one or two of the contractors might go belly-up with a paying client number of
30,000 or less to be divvied up by the present nine contractors, but the
giants, like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the International Rescue
Committee, will survive. Why do political activists who want to see lower
immigration numbers always play small-ball?
A Church World Service employee in
Lancaster, PA said: “We’re just going to wait it out. If anything happens,
we’ll wait it out until the next president”.
If the President said no refugees will be admitted until the program is
reformed that would be the hammer to get the job done because those in Congress
who want the cheap labor and those who want more Democrat voters would have
been forced to cooperate with the White House.
The present contracting system must go. For non-profit groups to be paid by
the head for each refugee they place is an insane system that only encourages
them to beg for more refugees each year whether our towns and cities are
already in overload or not! And, it sets up an advocacy (read political
agitation) system potentially using taxpayer dollars to promote policies and
candidates.
States must have a larger role (the largest role!) in determining the
number of refugees placed in their states since the federal government is at
present burdening states by requiring state taxpayers to carry much of the load
for refugee care (medical, schooling, housing, translation services, criminal
justice and so forth).
In
the present system the US State Department and the contractors sit down every
week and determine which refugees will be your new neighbors without any input
from state and local governments (LOL! Unless those governments have been
determined to be friendly in advance!).
The program must be reformed to promote transparency. Local citizens have a right to
know who is coming to their towns. When President Trump first came in to
office, his early executive orders on refugees actually mentioned that the
Administration was going to visit refugee placement towns and cities to hear
testimony and ascertain the impact the refugees are having in those locations.
What happened to that idea?
In
fact, right now, we can’t
even find out which towns are targets. At least during
the Obama years we could find which contractors and subcontractors were working
in each location. That list maintained by the Refugee Processing Center is no
longer available under the Trump Administration. Why?
Continuing
on reforms that would promote transparency—for many prior years (although Obama
cut this off toward the end of his Presidency) there were “scoping meetings”
held by the US State Department in May or June of each year where people like
me (us!) could at least voice our opinions about admissions for the coming
fiscal year. They are no longer held even by Trump’s State Department.
Citizens must be assured that the vetting process is as fool-proof as
it could be and that additional steps are taken to
eliminate fraud.
By just reducing the numbers and not telling us—the public—about what measures
are being taken to eliminate dangerous refugees and the ones committing fraud,
we are still being left with great uncertainty and frankly fear!
The United Nations should be removed from our decision-making
process. We
should pick our own refugees based on our own US interests and concerns. We
don’t need the UN to tell us which people in the world need help.
If big business is looking for cheap laborers, let’s have that debate. Stop talking about the refugee
program as solely a humanitarian program. Have them come forward and
identify themselves so citizens in communities, where the business is located,
know who is coming to their towns and why.
We must stop stretching refugee law by picking up illegal migrants from
places like Malta, South Africa, Israel or Australia.
The window for serious reform is rapidly closing. Does the Trump
team assume the House and Senate will remain in Republican hands and they will
get it done next year? Big assumption!
Or, is this (reducing numbers for a few years) it?
If
so, in 2021 or 2025 it will be business as usual for the refugee industry and
we might as well go lay on a sunny beach somewhere with a cool drink in hand!
*To
head off the complaints from even people on the immigration restriction side,
there could have been provisions made for the admission of some extreme cases.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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