Not all supposed refugee resettlement agencies are in the orbit of the nine major federal contractors that monopolize refugee placement in America or they wouldn’t be running out of money.
Close-reading of this article tells us that Vive Inc. in Buffalo, NY is taking care of asylum seekers and other migrants who are in legal limbo. They haven’t been contracted by the feds and therefore they can’t raise enough cash to stay in the black.
This is an important point: there would be a smaller number of migrants arriving in the US if they had to depend on private charity and/or finding work. Your tax dollars grease the skids of the migrant flow into the US.
From Buffalo News (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’):
The refugee resettlement organization Vive Inc. is contacting past and present supporters with an urgent plea for help. If financial support is not forthcoming, the message says, outlook is bleak. “We are facing the harsh reality of closing our doors,” the message states.
An email from Vive Executive Director Angela Jordan-Mosely this week describes the situation at the nonprofit as “desperate.” Vive celebrated 30 years of operation in March, but recent years have seen funding cuts by the county and federal government. The losses are compounded by delays in legal proceedings to get the immigrants Vive serves permanently settled.
“What used to take days now takes months or even years, leaving hundreds of refugees in limbo,” Jorden-Mosely writes.
The result is a significant increase in the length of time individuals and families stay with Vive at its Wyoming Avenue location and a need for the organization to reconsider how it can achieve its mission of helping international refugees build new lives.
Former Amherst Council Member Shelly Schratz, a Vive volunteer, said that the uncertain status makes it hard for the refugees to contribute to their own support.
“Many of these people want to work, but there are matters of transportation and language, and they don’t have a Social Security card yet,” Schratz said. “We have a business (Bing’s restaurant), but you can’t hire someone who isn’t legal yet.”
Schratz said that, in trying to get financial support, Vive may be hampered by misunderstandings about its clients. The refugees it serves arrived in the United States legally, often having received asylum or temporary residency while they work on permanent status in this country or Canada. Most live at Vive while their cases work through the legal system.
Asylum seekers, of course, have gotten into the US through various means—either as illegal aliens who came across our borders by land, sea or air, or came in on a visa of some sort and have over-stayed. Once granted asylum they can work and all of the welfare goodies other ‘refugees’ get are available to them. Others that Vive serves are aliens on Temporary Protected Status who are planning on staying no matter what. These are not ‘refugees’ the US State Department has brought in to the US.
Vive Inc. got its start in illegal Sanctuary Movement
Check out Vive Inc’s history, here. Originally called Vive La Casa, it sure looks like they got their start in the Sanctuary Movement in the early 1980’s (at the same time the notorious CASA de Maryland got its start) where Leftwing churches helped illegal Central Americans, including Sandinistas, get into the US and hid them in their “sanctuaries.” I guess Buffalo’s Casa didn’t get as firmly entrenched with the politicians who dole out the cashola as did CASA de Maryland.
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