As I mentioned last week, the US State Department was taking testimony yesterday on the FY2012 recommendations from mostly “stakeholders” on how many refugees should be resettled in the US in the next fiscal year (Obama will send a Presidential Determination letter to Congress in late September with his recommendations partially based on this hearing which Congress will then dutifully rubber stamp!).
However, I think that this year those hearing testimony might have heard from some who, let’s just say, are not too thrilled with the whole program. Here is one comment sent to me from an unknown sender:
Testimony for the May 12 “FY 2012 Refugee Admissions Program” Meeting
Yemenite Jewish Refugee Fraud as an example of the Gross Fraud in the USA Refugee program
My concern is the fraud that exists in the US refugee program. As an example of fraud there is the situation with the Yemeni Jews recently brought into New York. Section 101 (a) (42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act requires that refugee suffer persecution or have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, etc.
But few if any of the 150-200 Yemeni Jews met “the well-founded fear” requirement Section 101 (a) (42). Some wrote relatives saying that they did not fear and others, under pressure, would acquiesce and say that they would leave Yemen, but only after someone bought their house. Representatives in the USA were quoted as saying that the Yemeni Jews didn’t know what danger they were in and that they would soon be brought to the USA.
Tellingly, a representative of the Yemenite community in Monsey, who would not give his name, said he did not want the refugees talking to the media while involved in the immigration process.
The State Department falsely supplied paperwork saying that the Yemenite Jewish community was in danger. The State Departmetn granted them Tier One refugee status. As such, the Yemeni Jews can receive visas and receive services from resettlement agencies. And those agencies then get federal funds. Some State Department employees, forced to engage in fraud, are very angry. But they can not speak openly.
The big question is how much fraud is there in the US refugee program. I suggest that a neutral party, not the State Department, examine first the Yemenite Jew situation. Fraud will be found. Then all the funds expended must be recovered. The agencies engaging in fraud and their personnel must be individually named and barred from ever working in the refugee industry.
Then the examination must continue to all refugees and refugee service agencies in action since from the First of Fiscal Year 2008. The admission of refugees should be zero until the fraud examination is completed and the problems corrected and wrong-doing, not the coerced, State Department officials sent to prison.
Readers! If you submitted testimony and wish me to publish it, please send it my way! AND, PLEASE SEND YOUR TESTIMONY TO YOUR US CONGRESSMAN AND YOUR SENATORS (EVEN IF YOU BELIEVE THEY WOULD DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!)
Not the first such fraud we’ve heard about!
Ironically, one of those receiving testimony was State Department employee David Robinson. We told you previously about Mr. Robinson’s declassified war college report from 2000 in which he admitted that the US State Department was pressured by political operatives and these increasingly powerful VOLAGS (federal contractors) to bring refugees to the US from Bill Clinton’s Bosnian war (the volags needed money—your money). They brought refugees in, received their grants and the unhappy refugees were subsequently airlifted back home. From my post last year:
Ahhhh!!!! I just came across this report from the National War College about how the volags (supposedly voluntary agencies but really federal contractors*) were basically in need of warm bodies to resettle (for $$$) in the US in 1999 so they pushed Gore and the National Security Council to go against professionals in the State Department and even against the wishes of the UN and airlifted tens of thousands of Kosovar “refugees” to the US during Bill Clinton’s phony baloney Bosnian War.
And, then airlifted them back….
Read all about it here!