The Office of Refugee Resettlement is required by law to send an annual REPORT TO CONGRESS by January 31st of the year following the previous fiscal year (fiscal years end on September 30th). So, by my calculation the Office of Refugee Resettlement (that is in the Department of Health and Human Services) is now three years behind!
Christopher Coen at Friends of Refugees is reporting (based on correspondence with a US Senator) that there is still no sign that that 2008 Annual Report is anywhere near being ready to release to the public!
Readers not familiar with these reports should visit the 2007 Report (here) and see how valuable these are to taxpayers wishing to see how their money is being spent (it’s filled with lists of grants and handy charts on such things as refugee employment and welfare usage).
The ORR obviously doesn’t want Congress (or us) to know the truth about how much money is going into the program through contractors over the last three years!
And, apparently Congress doesn’t care if ORR is breaking the law! What else can we conclude?
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