Tell President Trump "NO REFUGEES!"
Mary Doetsch, a retired U.S. State Department employee, worked extensively in "refugee" admissions. (See what follows to understand my use of those quotation marks.) The first five paragraphs of her current piece at The Daily Caller are a terrific, hit-them-over-the-head-with-a-2-by-4 overview of the disgraceful U.S. "refugee" program:
As refugee contractors — who make money on every refugee they resettle — break into hyper-lobbying mode to demand that the Trump administration resettle “at least 75,000” in the coming fiscal year, the recent lies and criminal activity of five refugees who were resettled via the fraud-laden U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) are, once again, being willfully ignored....
[Failures In Refugee Vetting Process Lead To Criminal Activity In Our Hometowns, August 27, 2018; links in original]
Ann Corcoran, the hyper-productive proprietess of Refugee Resettlement Watch, has been pounding away at the point that it's about time for President Trump to set the refugee-intake number for the 2019 federal fiscal year (October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019), so he needs to hear from us immigration patriots. Because he's, for sure, hearing from the refugee industry, as Ms. Doetsch said above. (The number set by the president is a cap for the fiscal year.)
Ann (whom I've known since 2007) wrote recently:
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!
[Pennsylvania: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society rep says Trump low admission numbers could end the program, August 23, 2018]
The law needing reform that Ann referred to is the 1980 Refugee Act, yet another of the late Senator Edward Kennedy's gifts to the American people....
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