Refugee Racket coming to an end - for now

Article subtitle: 
Episcopal bishop lectures Trump while earning taxpayer millions to bring aliens into US
Article author: 
Don Barnett
Article publisher: 
New York Post
Article date: 
28 January 2025
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
immigration
refugee
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Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon to President Trump during an inaugural prayer service... reveals a striking hypocrisy — one that could be seen as self-serving and even a conflict of interest.

That’s because the federal contracting arm of the church, Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM), is paid to bring in people on resettlement programs that Trump has temporarily paused and targeted for re-evaluation.

EMM budget figures for 2024 are not available yet, but in 2023 it earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals...

EMM “sponsored” 6,400 individuals from 48 countries in 2024. The leading nationalities were Afghans... refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo...

There is even a contingent from Vietnam... Why, 50 years after the end of the Vietnam War, are we still running a taxpayer-funded program to help people immigrate from Vietnam to the US?

Unlike everyday immigrants, these new arrivals receive government assistance and, most importantly, are immediately eligible for all forms of welfare, such as Medicaid and cash assistance, on the same basis as a US citizen.

Further, they can immediately sponsor friends and relatives under a recent Biden expansion of the refugee resettlement program.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement was projecting 656,500 new arrivals in 2025, who would fall under its care. Clearly this is a program wildly out of control...

EMM brings in LGBTQ refugees and asylees in a special federal refugee program started during the Obama administration called “Preferred Communities.”...

It was never intended that the sponsoring organizations, formerly known as “Voluntary Agencies,” would be purely federal contractors, with all the behavior, untoward incentives, money, and influence-peddling that this brings, not to mention questions of church-state relations which are never raised in this context...

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The Refugee resettlement racket

Trump Should Cancel the Diversity Visa Program, American Conservative, 13 February 2025.

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