….and what is Samantha Power up to?
Check out the pro-migration blog MicEvHill from time to time to keep up with what is happening with immigration generally in Washington. A government shutdown has been averted for now and here is what blogger Michael Hill is reporting as of 10:50 a.m. this morning on the status of funding for refugee and other immigrant programs:
Consequences for Fiscal Year 2011 Immigration and Refugee Spending?
At the very least, the deal that Congress and the White House have reached will require that refugee-related programs sustain an across-the-board cut in fiscal year 2011 of a yet-to-be-revealed percentage below fiscal year 2010 spending levels. However, the full consequences for immigration-, border security-, and refugee-related spending and policy of the full-year fiscal year 2011 deal were not yet known at the time of this writing.
Insiders who are familiar with the details of the deal indicate that it does not include the deep cuts in refugee resettlement, overseas refugee assistance, and refugee admissions funding that were contained in the House-passed version of H.R. 1, a full-year fiscal year 2011 continuing appropriations measure. Moreover, insiders indicate that the only significant immigration-related policy rider that was contained in the House-passed version of H.R. 1, a provision that would have barred federal funding for immigrant integration programs, also will not be in the final fiscal year 2011 measure. Notwithstanding the assertions of insiders, however, no firm word on those matters can be relied upon until the text of the measure that the House and Senate will take up emerges.
Samantha Power! Now, I am beginning to see why it was so important to place the refugee issue with Power in the White House!
Readers may recall that in January 2010 the Obama Administration doubled the funding for the refugee program (so cutting to before 2010 levels would only take it to the amount it was supposed to be before the Obama money bomb). This increase in spending came as a result of a stepped up PR campaign by federal contractors and was supposed to be part of an overall (and much needed) reform of the Refugee Resettlement Program.
That reform was being coordinated by Samantha Power’s office in the White House. But, as far as I know Mrs. Cass Sunstein (aka Power) hasn’t accomplished much in the way of reform (or they’ve been awfully quiet about it). I suppose Power/Sunstein has been too busy getting us involved in a “humanitarian” war in Libya.
Unleashing the refugee weapon on Europe!
Uh oh, come to think of it, Ms. Power with her ‘humanitarian interventionism‘ has been busy creating more refugees as we just reported here and here. Scary thought—what if these Marxists are using refugees as weapons to create chaos behind a smokescreen of humanitarian concern. First Europe, next stop Israel?