Refugee resettlement has become very lucrative for voluntary agencies that now receive government $$$$$. Some 17 private refugee bureaus received about $37 million in government money in FY 2011.
Before taxpayers were tapped, these organizations appeared true to the biblical imperatives to love your neighbor as yourself. Now taxpayer money has skewed the focus and perspective. Rather than maintaining pure motives and focusing on the charitable work, there is a temptation to preserve government funding sources and build organizations with taxpayers monies.
There is a great deal of financial interest vested with increasing the refugees admitted for USA resettlement. More refugees = more free money. Some programs resemble decadent charities that spend inordinately on fund raising and administration rather than actually helping their cause.
Refugee resettlement policy and programs are ripe for auditing and are overdue for congressional scrutiny and reform. Organizations receiving federal monies deserve close assessment. iIt is high time religious refugee bureaus look introspectively. Is it possible to serve both God and money (Luke 16:13). Their efforts have become harmful to their fellow countrymen and communities when they sponsor criminal murderers, rapists, and those who steal American's possessions and American jobs. Churches need to forced back to reliance on private funding and many of the problems will disappear when greed is removed from the equation.
If you took a national survey asking if Americans knew what a VOLAG was, I guarantee you that less than 3% would respond affirmatively.
There are usually plenty of other choices beyond the Dems and Repubs - here is a list of 2012 election results for all the candidates (Romney, you loser, you never even ran to win).
2012 Presidential General Election final vote (with 95% of precincts reported) – from Wikipedia and Google Elections:
-Barack Obama (Democratic Party) – 65,909,451 – 51.02%
-Mitt Romney (Republican Party) – 60,932,176 – 47.16%
-Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party) – 1,275,950 – 0.99%
-Jill Stein (Green Party) – 469,572 – 0.36%
-Virgil Goode (Constitution Party) - 122,378 - 0.09%
-Roseanne Barr (Peace & Freedom Party) – 67,359 – 0.05%
-Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) – 42,995 – 0.03%
-Tom Hoefling (America’s Party) – 40,609 – 0.03%
-Jerry Litzel (independent) – 12,895 – 0.01%
-Jeff Boss (independent) – 12,895 – 0.01%
-Randall Terry (independent) – 12,895 – 0.01%
-Merlin Miller (American Third Position Party) – 12,895 – 0.01%
-Jill Reed (Twelve Visions Party) – 12,032 – 0.01%
-Richard Duncan (independent) – 12,032 – 0.01%
Yep. And the religious leaders promoting immigration would be well advised by their parishioners that more money is likely to flow to the collection plates when said parishioners are gainfully employed. And such immigrants can best get assistance through missionary work in their homelands rather than importing them into the United States where their knee-jerk reaction of the majority of them is to vote to make the United States more like the $#*+hole countries they ran away from and where religious liberty is curtailed.
It is howlingly funny that Hofer will face the Green Party candidate in the Austrian runoff. The regular ‘conservative’ finished 3rd, and the Social Democrat finished 4th.
Bttt.
Phyllis Schlafly is a true American treasure.
BUMP!
I see Shafley is back in charge of Eagle Forum. Good for her.
They seem pretty serious about it. They’ve approached numerous people.