FY2009 is rapidly coming to a close. Fy2010 begins on October 1st and we are on watch to see how many refugees the Obama administration will propose to bring into the US this coming year. Obama will shortly be releasing his Determination Letter to Congress that sets the ceiling for FY2010. I want to emphasize setting a ceiling here because that is what the determination letter does even if the refugee industry and its media lackeys want to say it’s a goal they expect to reach.
In light of the economy and the fact that we have one horror story after another of refugees not finding employment and being scared out of their wits they will be evicted from their already substandard apartments (see Houston, here for example), I would hope that Obama would lower the ceiling for the coming year. But, fat chance of that happening.
Obama and his fellow followers of the Alinsky/Cloward-Piven strategy know that to facilitate change they need hordes of unhappy poor people who need “services” and thereby bring crisis —so that the government will have to step in and take more control. I know it sounds insane and that is why it has taken us so long to figure out why anyone would purposefully use poor immigrants as pawns in a political game. It is to expand the reach of government.
Back to how many refugees came this year. I wish I had discovered it sooner, but that Cultural Orientation Resource Center website I just told you about has some handy dandy statistics. FY2009 wraps up in a few weeks and we are close to the ceiling set by George Bush last year. I would suspect that only in the year following 9/11 when refugee numbers plummeted was there any substantial deviation from the ceiling.
Bush set the ceiling for the year we are ending at 80,000 but you can see they are all doing their darndest to hit it. As of August 31st the US State Department had admitted 65,602 refugees. Look for more news stories this month of overwhelmed refugee offices around the country as there is a crush just before the deadline.
Go check it out. Burmese, Iraqis and Bhutanese top the list but there is a fairly hefty number of Somalis as well.