Under the Trump Administration, the nine major refugee resettlement agencies operating in the US have hit upon hard times. These groups, six of which are religious organizations, were collectively paid over a billion dollars a year on this endeavor. Many of them rely almost entirely on this taxpayer windfall to operate*. But the Trump administration has cut back on the number of refugees allowed to enter and the funding that goes with them.
The rent-seekers are, not surprisingly, a bit upset.
Our good friend Ann Corcoran, writing at Refugee Resettlement Watch, has links and details aplenty on their dismay, but this is the one thing Ann wants everyone to see as often as possible.
- Church World Service (CWS) (71%)
- Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
- Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) (99.5%)
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) (57%)
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
- US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) (97%)
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) (97%)
- World Relief Corporation (WR) (72.8%)
These resettlement agencies only exist because the US government funnels that billion plus dollars a year into their hands. In exchange for that, they dump refugees on the doorsteps of municipalities with almost no support leaving local taxpayers on the hook to deal with housing, food, culture shock, education issues, and a host of other ills that come from transplanting people into a completely alien culture.
A majority of these refugees should be transplanted into nations with cultures or languages similar to their own. And there are ample options and means. But the fake non-profits (who pay their executives vast sums in payroll and benefits) don’t get their taxpayer booty for doing these refugees a favor.
And that’s without touching the vetting and security risks created when the refugee resettlement process is used by foreign interests to put professional trouble-makers in our midst.
Mr. Trump’s policies have whittled back new entrants to historic lows. The effect of which, as Michael Patrick Leahy, writing at Breitbart notes, means that,
“More than 20 refugee resettlement offices across the United States will close as President Trump’s administration cuts down on the costly, taxpayer-funded process of mass relocating foreign refugees across the country,” Breitbart News reported last month.
It’s not enough. As Ann reminds us,
For the umpteenth time, if Congress doesn’t reform the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program in its present window of opportunity, you can expect the numbers to explode again as soon as Trump is no longer in the White House (unless someone like Trump is elected next time).
Mr. Trump was elected because regular America want’s to see the illegal immigration, refugee, and legal immigration policies put on Ice (ok, pun sort of intended) until we see some evidence that those arrivals are integrating and embracing American culture.
We don’t care who you are or where you come from, but the idea of allowing you in is so that you will integrate into society and by contributing benefit from the unique advantages the United States provides.
You are not expected to abandon your own culture, but we cannot allow you to subjugate ours in a manner that puts natural rights and protected liberties at risk.
House rules.
Given the open-spigot policies of the left, it might take a generation to work it out, not unlike most of the twentieth century.
Can we expect leadership willing to commit to this sort of America first approach? Doubtful. But then, only the voters can decide that, which is why the left wants those illegals and refugees to vote.
Work out for yourselves what their motives are for that if you have not already.
