Posted on 09/07/2019 4:39:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
The White House is considering a plan that would keep most refugees who are fleeing war, persecution and famine out of the United States, significantly cutting back a decades-old program, according to current and former administration officials.
One option that top officials are weighing would cut refugee admissions by half or more, to 10,000 to 15,000 people, but reserve most of those spots for people from a few countries or from groups with special status, such as Iraqis and Afghans who work alongside American troops, diplomats and intelligence operatives abroad. Another option, proposed by a top administration official, would reduce refugee admissions to zero, while leaving the president with the ability to admit some in an emergency...
The issue is expected to come to a head on Tuesday, when White House officials plan to convene a high-level meeting to discuss the annual number of refugee admissions for the coming year, as determined by President Trump...
For two years, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s top immigration adviser, has used his considerable influence in the West Wing to reduce the refugee ceiling to its lowest levels in history, capping the program at 30,000 this year. That is a more than 70 percent cut from its level when President Barack Obama left office...
Advocates of the nearly 40-year-old refugee program inside and outside the administration fear that approach would effectively starve the operation out of existence, making it impossible to resettle even those narrow populations.
“Pulling the rug out from under refugees and the resettlement program"...
(SecDef) Esper’s predecessor, Jim Mattis, had taken up the refugee cause with an almost missionary zeal... Mr. Esper’s position on the issue is unknown...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I may be wrong, but I believe refugee is not the same as asylum where the abuse is much larger.
Now we are getting thousands of Bahama refugees here. I feel sorry for them, but the US cannot continue to be the world’s nanny which will eventually bankrupt us and then what will all those refugees do once the government teat is cut off? Why doesn’t the UN take some of those billions they rake in every year, set up refugee camps in various countries, feed and clothe them and head up a worldwide drive to collect $$ and rebuild the devastated countries?
YES!
End the refugee racket!
Consider?
Just Do It!
Freeze ALL immigration, we can allow a very limited number from compatible cultures when we have solved our problems decades from now.
“Pulling the rug out from under refugees and the resettlement program”...
Yea, dumping tons of them in rural towns to turn the towns into democrat towns, changing the voting demographics in the region. Done time and time again.
I don’t think drastic means what you think it means.
We got some assimilating and some herd thinning to do!
No you are right
There is a distinction between refugee status and illegal immigrant....
However
The illegals are crying ‘refugee’ and jamming the system
So I don’ blame the President for being fed up
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