Posted on 01/30/2017 4:37:19 PM PST by Pinkbell
The U.S. government has granted waivers to let 872 refugees into the country this week, despite President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday temporarily banning entry of refugees from any country, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document seen by Reuters.
A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect. Refugees preparing for resettlement typically have severed personal ties and relinquished their possessions, leaving them particularly vulnerable if their plans to depart are suddenly canceled.
The waivers, granted by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), came amid international protests against Trump's rushed executive order. Critics said the order in some cases was not clearly communicated to the agencies responsible for implementing it.
It was not known if additional waivers would be granted, the official said. The document did not give the nationalities of the refugees who will be admitted into the United States.
Over the weekend, non-refugee visitors from seven majority-Muslim countries also targeted in Trump's executive order were detained, deported and in some cases blocked from boarding flights to the United States. The countries covered by the traveler ban were Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen.
The internal DHS document said that between late Friday and early Monday 348 visa holders were prevented from boarding U.S.-bound flights. In addition, more than 200 people landed in the United States but were denied entry, the document showed.
More than 735 people were pulled aside for questioning by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in airports, including 394 legal permanent U.S. residents holding green cards, over the same time period.
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I'm a bit confused on a couple things. I read the order when it first came out, but it may have addressed this:
1) Are people with residency visas allowed to come in just like someone with a green card?
2) The refugee cap set by Obama (I saw this in an article from 2015) was set at 70,000. It was supposed to go up this year. Based on this executive order, it was supposed to go to 110,000. Trump has reduced it to 50,000. Under Obama, over a thousand a week (close to 2,000 if he was still in office) were coming in. That's a lot of people, and how many were from these countries that have ties to ISIS and terror?
The time has come for a moratorium on ALL immigration. From everywhere.
Are there any facts or links to just how much these “refugees” get in cash, housing stipends etc? I’d like to see some hard numbers to throw in the faces of rapeugee supporters.
Severed personal ties, sold their possessions, blah blah blah.
Are they muslims? That’s the crux.
So wait a second. He said no one in the MSM had kittens. He gives 872 refugees exemptions, the MSM has kittens.
Whatever...your view on this is awful. You would destroy the American economy.
But but but, we need immigration!
For “growth”, or jobs Americans won’t do, or something.
If the American economy is reliant on uncontrolled invasion by ignorant 3rd worlders so as to depress wages, then I don’t want to be right.
There have been articles on what “vetted” refugees can get in the way of financial/etc support from both the federal government and from some state/local governments for food, housing, clothes, education (often instate tuition rates), transportation, etc.
However, you have to search for data on Middle Eastern war refugee programs versus those for illegals coming through Mexico or from Haiti and African states.
If that’s the case, then the economy should be destroyed.
Although we do not consider all costs, our best estimate is that in their first five years in the United States each refugee from the Middle East costs taxpayers $64,370 — 12 times what the UN estimates it costs to care for one refugee in neighboring Middle Eastern countries. The cost of resettlement includes heavy welfare use by Middle Eastern refugees; 91 percent receive food stamps and 68 percent receive cash assistance. Costs also include processing refugees, assistance given to new refugees, and aid to refugee-receiving communities. Given the high costs of resettling refugees in the United States, providing for them in neighboring countries in the Middle East may be a more cost-effective way to help them.
http://cis.org/High-Cost-of-Resettling-Middle-Eastern-Refugees
Nonsense.
How about we let in 900 Christians instead?
Deal.
Reuters is one of the most biased Hard Left news agencies in the world.
Anyone who would leak internal government documents or comment anonymously to Reuters is clearly sympathetic to the Left Wing political agenda.
How many of these refugees have been welcomed into an oil rich Persian Gulf country?
I’ll guess...
Zero?
During the campaign, Trump talked about sending back the ones who are already here. I do hope that`s a promise he is able to keep. It might be difficult from a legal standpoint, though.
So we always need more and more people else our economy will fail?
That sounds like a Ponzi scheme.
I am talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives. A country that refuses the elite from other countries is a pile of crap.
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