http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...ssions-and-revenues/

The federally funded non-profits known as voluntary agencies (VOLAGs), who collectively have received more than $1 billion annually to resettle refugees, are whining now that refugee admissions, and their own associated revenues, are down dramatically during the first five months of FY 2018 under the Trump administration.

The nine VOLAGs (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, the International Rescue Committee, HIAS, Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Ethiopian Community Development Council, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Catholic Charities), and World Relief), all of whom are almost entirely dependent on federal funding tied to the number of new refugee arrivals they resettle around the country through local affiliated agencies, are now in the midst of a cash crunch unheard of in the agency.

Consequently, they and their political allies are complaining loudly and often about both Trump’s lowered refugee ceiling admission number and the increase in the time and length of the Department of Homeland Security’s security vetting of potential refugees.

President Trump ran on a platform of reducing refugee resettlement and increasing vetting for those refugees.

He won the 2016 presidential election, and he is now implementing the policies that put him in office.

Modern slavers?

Parasites.

Hope they all close due to no need....

I hope every single one of those agencies goes bankrupt after their profit motivated BS which resulted in tremendous social strife in MN.

Cry me a fricking river. Don't need 'em, don't want 'em, and don't care if these organizations fold up shop.

Cultural suicide, funded by our tax dollars.


Screw all of those organizations.

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Originally posted by IndianaBoy:
Cultural suicide, funded by our tax dollars.


Screw all of those organizations.

This.

a feel good story for today...

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
a feel good story for today...

Indeed! Choke those suckers into insolvency!

Lovers of mammon!

Dirty rotten bastards.

Well, don't that beat all? I was aware of some of those organizations, and see the reporting on the nightly news about all their wonderful humanitarian efforts in resettling refuges. But I had NO idea they were taxpayer funded. I had naively assumed they were funded by like-minded individuals, religious organizations, charitable trusts, etc......

I can personally vouch for the work the World Relief does in other countries (i.e. International Relief) as I have personally seen it in Rwanda and Congo. Work with AIDS, work with widows and orphans, agricultural development (e.g. Rwanda had a C grade coffee bean that wasn't marketable and they brought in researchers and worked with locals to plant A grade coffee beans that were marketable internationally), Microfinance (this is really cool), post-genocide conflict resolution, child immunizations, etc.

However, recently they've been pissing me off on their mailers and e-mails twisting the Bible for unchecked immigration. They're doing OK on preventing trafficking but other charities are much better at anti-trafficking.

Don't get me wrong as I can see both sides of the issue, and during my fist stint in Houston I did some ministry work with Bhutanese refugees through my church. Two generations of people had grown up in refugee camps because Bhutan's military forcefully evicted them and Nepal would only let them into these camps which peaked at over 100,000 people. The Bhutanese refugees I worked with in Houston were housed in the scariest apartment complex I've been to in my life. The UN resettlement program helped them learn English, helped them find a job, and in 6 months had to be supporting themselves (i.e. the reason the were in such a shithole apartment complex). Churches like mine became involved trying to make these people's lives better.

Really breaks my heart, but hope they all go broke. I realize they probably all started out with good intentions but, when they realized how much they got make from our tax dollars they started milking the system for all they could get.

Rhetorical question: what is it they're bothered by, the restrictions or the loss of the money?

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Originally posted by IndianaBoy:
Cultural suicide, funded by our tax dollars.


Screw all of those organizations.

Bingo.

Isn’t that what these organizations should be working toward, a world with no refugees?

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Originally posted by LoungeChair:
Isn’t that what these organizations should be working toward, a world with no refugees?

I've often wondered how nice of a "refugee camp" or "safe zone" could be made with all the resettlement and ongoing support paid for them to come here.

It's all about the money. Personally, if all these organizations went under it would be fine by me. If you want to resettle "refugees" pass the collection plate and take it out of that - and let them live in your house.