A reader has just alerted us to yet another federal refugee contractor, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), one-upping the other two contractors we have reported on, hereandhere both demanding that Obama admit65,000 Syrians in FY2016. We thought those were outrageous demands! Linda Hartke, CEO of LIRS, sent out the urgent e-mail to their members. LIRS is approximately 97% funded with your tax dollars! https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2015/01/16/how-much-of-your-tax-dollars-are-the-federal-refugee-resettlement-contractors-receiving/ But get this….. LIRS wants 100,000 Syrians! Either they are completely insane or they know Obama is on the edge and needs a little push! Maybe if they say 100,000, Obama will settle for 65,000!
Here is what our reader says was in his e-mail alert:
“Refugees fleeing Syria need you.
I am asking you to join us with three simple actions that can make a real difference:
Act – In response to this global refugee crisis, the largest since World War II, you can urge the President and Congress to increase the annual refugee admissions goal, or “Presidential Determination” from the 2015 number of 70,000 to 200,000 for 2016 and prioritize receiving 100,000 Syrian refugees in this number.
Click here to send to urge President Obama and Congress to increase the number of refugees resettled this year and to prioritize Syrians.
We’ve been telling you about the importance of the timing on all this right now with the “Presidential Determination” due to be sent to Congress for “consultation” within a couple of weeks. The escalating migrant crisis in Europe isn’t helping either.
This will be a great test for the Republicans running Congress—will they once again rubber stamp what Obama wants?
I don’t think it is any coincidence that community organizers at Welcoming America have chosen mid September to put on “welcoming” events across the country. They know that this is the month when Obama will tell Congress how many refugees will be admitted in FY2016 which begins October 1st. In his book describing the agenda to erase America, James Simpson goes into greater detail about the insidious community organizers at ‘Welcoming America.’
As we have been writing ad nauseum over the last few days, the federal contractors and14 US Senators (we call them the Senate Jihad Caucus!)want an emergency plan from Obama to open our normal refugee flow of 70,000 (all nationalities) and add another 65,000 Syrians nearly doubling our usual refugee admissions for the year.
You better check out this public relations plan, here at Welcoming America (hat tip: Dick).
Find an event near you during Welcoming Week. Maybe you will find a way to counter the impact—perhaps letters to the editor in your local paper about the strain of bringing in over 100,000 impoverished and culturally diverse people will have on your local communities.
Welcoming America says,
During the week of September 12-20, 2015, Welcoming America and its partners across the country will host National Welcoming Week, a nationwide event that will highlight the contributions of immigrants to American communities. Throughout the country, these events will bring together immigrants and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
This is all part of Obama’s plan to change America by colonizing your towns and cities with third world immigrants.
I first learned about Welcoming America in June of 2013. Originally funded with start-up money from one of George Soros many groups, they also receive grant money from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (from you that is!). We were told at that meeting in Lancaster, PA that Welcoming America had been hired by the feds to try to push back against growing “pockets of resistance” (their words!) where citizens were beginning to question the wisdom of bringing more poverty to America.
James Simpson in his book, ‘Red-Green Axis—Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to erase America’, goes into greater detail about the players and the funders involved with Welcoming America. Click here for all of our previous posts on Welcoming America. See this one for sure: Big smooch from Obamato Welcoming America founder David Lubell.
Editor: I know some of you who have subscribed to RRW don’t like getting too many e-mails in one day, but honestly this issue is reaching a fever-pitch and we must at least try to keep up with the news being driven by the events in Europe and the uptick in lobbying activity by Obama’s federal refugee contractors as they push for massive numbers of refugees, especially Syrians, to be admitted to the US in fiscal year 2016 which begins on October 1 (in a few short weeks). As a subscriber you will be getting more e-mails that are directly generated by wordpress. Also, if you are a longtime reader and think we are repeating too much information, keep in mind that we have hundreds (yesterday thousands!) of new readers every day and they need to be brought up to speed. ***Update*** If you would like to keep up with more news that interests me, but I can’t post, follow me on twitter, here @refugeewatcher.
Here then is additional confirmation that the nine major federal refugee contractors*** are going warp speed to press the Obama Administration to bring 65,000 Syrians to the US in the closing months of the Obama Administration. I know the number 65,000! sounds like insanity (and it is), but remember these are hard left NGOs that are working to change American communities by colonizing them with third world ‘diversity’ and to top it off they are paid by the head to do it—by you, the US taxpayer!
They need to get as much done as possible in case a certain Republican is elected in 2016.
Yesterday we told you about the International Rescue Committee David Miliband’s press releasepushing for 65,000 (and remember the UN is picking the Syrians from their camps and that so far of the 1,400 or so we have admitted since January 2012—95% are Sunni Muslims). The percentage jumps to 97% for this year. They are not clamoring to save Christians! This is Lavinia Limon the CEO of USCRI. She was Bill Clinton’s director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. To learn more about her see our many posts over the years here: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/?s=Lavinia+Limon
Now we see that another contractor, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), has started a White House Petition asking Obama for 65,000 Syrians!
Time is of the essence! Obama will be sending his annual “Determination Letter” (for FY2016)to Congress for consultation in a few short weeks. Congress usually rubber stamps whatever the President asks. You must make sure they don’t rubber stamp it this time! Here is the White House Petition (no mention of persecuted Christians!):
Resettle Syrian Refugees in the U.S
By the end of April 2015 , the UN estimated 6.5 million people had been displaced in Syria, while more than +4 million refugees had fled to countries such as Lebanon (1.2 million), Jordan (608,000) and Turkey (1.75 million) and thousands more in Europe.
Germany expects to accept 800,000 asylum seekers this year, four times more than in 2014 and more than any other EU country. The US has so fare admitted less than 1000 Syrian refugees.
United States of America; the most powerful nation, the largest economy, and the champion of democracy and human rights should stands for its values .
The International Rescue Committee has argued for the U.S. to accept at least 65,000 refugees.
We are asking the President and the government to pledge to resettle at least 65,000 Syrians by 2016.
As of this writing they have 10,180 signatures and hope to reach 100,000 this month!
Citizens concerned about what is being done to their communities are only asking for a say in how much resettlement they get, while the contractors are looking to virtually double the number of needy people to be “seeded” into unsuspecting towns. (In recent years, Obama has admitted about 70,000 refugees each year from all over the world, 65,000, of course, would nearly double the number for FY2016).
For our thousands of new readers, here (below) are thenine major refugee contractors that like to call themselves Voluntary Agencies but are largely paid by the US taxpayer to colonize American towns. These nine phony non-profits (quasi government agencies!) are choosing the townswhere Syrians will be resettled.
If you are affiliated with one of the six (in red) so-called faith groups, it is time to ask what the h*** are they doing to America in your name!
One final thing! This is a list of USCRI subcontractors around the US. Note they are the contractor operating in Twin Falls, Idaho. This petition tells you exactly what USCRI has in mind for your town—-hundreds, perhaps thousands! of Syrians for each of them! You need to look at the list!
On second thought, one more thing! Go here to the list of 190 or so refugee subcontractors around the US. If your town or city is on the list, or even within 100 miles of any of these offices, you are a target! Contact local elected officials and do some preemptive community organizing and demand that your community have a say in the secretive resettlement process.
I put the word “permanently” in the title of my post because I think some new readers think that we take refugees on a temporary basis. Make no mistake! If the civil war in Syria ended tomorrow and the pipeline of Syrians was fully open, the resettlement would go on for years and all those getting in would be US citizens in short order.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) headed by a Brit—David Miliband the former British Foreign Secretary—restates its demand that Obama admit 65,000 mostly Muslim Syriansto the US ASAP.
He also praises Germany, Iceland and Sweden for opening their nations to the hundreds of thousands of migrants swarming into Europe! Hillary and David Miliband. She described him as cute! When he arrived in NYC to head up the IRC he was feted by George Soros, Bill Clinton and Samantha Power among others. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2013/12/09/new-york-times-slobbers-over-david-milibands-arrival-in-nyc-to-lead-refugee-contractor/ Click hereto learn more about David Miliband, brother to “Red Ed” Miliband. See our post hereabout Miliband’s initial call back in April for 65,000!
This is all timed to pressure the Obama Administration (probably won’t take much!) just as Obama is preparing to send his ‘Determination Letter’ to Congress! From the IRC yesterday (not a mention of the word “Christian” in here):
02 Sep 2015 – IRC president David Miliband: IRC renews call on US Government to resettle 65,000 Syrian Refugees before end of 2016
* In almost five years of war only 1,541 Syrian refugees have been resettled to the United States.
* Over 4 million Syrian refugees are living in limbo in neighboring countries IRC has assisted 270 of 1,541 Syrian refugees resettled to US, and is prepared to assist a lot more.
New York, September 2, 2015 —The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which so far has resettled 270 Syrians to the United States, said today that the country’s commitment to accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees before the end of 2016 can only be a first step. According to the IRC, the figure doesn’t come close to addressing the crisis in and around Syria, which is now engulfing Europe where Germany, for example, expects the number of refugees and asylum seekers to this year reach 800,000.
Last year UNHCR, the UN refugee resettlement agency, called on the international community to resettle 130,000 Syrian refugees before the end of 2016. Today the IRC reiterates its call on the US government, long recognized as a leader in humanitarian response, to resettle half of that number – 65,000 – before the end of 2016, a call that was endorsed by fourteen members of the U.S. Senate in May. [See the 14 member Senate Jihad Caucus here.—ed]
[….]
“The IRC renews its call to the US government to lead and resettle 65,000 Syrian refugees before the end of 2016.
“The IRC is heartened by the glimpses of humanitarianism which are pushing through. Ordinary citizens in countries like Iceland, Germany and Sweden who are taking it upon themselves to welcome refugees into their communities.”
More here. Help spread the word. This is very serious. Maybe send my65,000! Syrians Youtube to your friends who might not want to read much. We really need to get a message to Congress NOW! Go here to see how wealthy the IRC is thanks to the US taxpayer!
We have been reporting from time to time the number of Syrian refugees admitted to the US. You know that the resettlement contractorsand the Senate Jihad Caucus are looking for the US to resettle 65,000 before Obama leaves office. Ted Cruz fans! It is time to ask your man where he stands on refugees. Texas is the number one resettlement state in the Nation and is receiving the most Syrian Muslims at this time. Where is he? ***Update*** Cruz makes his position very clear, here on September 24th: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2015/09/24/senator-ted-cruz-syrian-refugee-flow-a-national-security-threat/
Using US State Department figuresgoing back to January 1, 2012 we see that 1,487 Syrians have been admitted as of September 1 (a few days ago) and the vast majority (95%) are Muslims—Sunni Muslims. However, if one only looks at the calendar year 2015, the percentage of Muslims jumps to 97%! That is because the UN is telling us which refugees to take!
By the way there are 40-some Christians in that number and 1 Yazidi (and a few other religions, or no religion).
The 1,487 have been distributed to 36 states.
The top ten states receiving mostly Sunni Muslim Syrians since 1/1/2012 are as follows (as of today):
Texas (173)
California (162)
Michigan (146)
Illinois (120)
Arizona (107)
Florida (92)
Pennsylvania (76)
New Jersey (63)
Massachusetts (58)
Kentucky (55)
I’ll bet that one criteria used to determine where they have been sent is the number of mosques in the state.
Don’t forget that back in February the FBI testifiedbefore the House Homeland Security Committee that they could not adequately screen the Syrians for security.
For those readers just joining us today—PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION! Watch for it! This month Obama will be announcinghow many Syrians he wants admitted to the US in 2016! I’ll be watching what those Senators running for the Republican nomination for President will say as their states will be getting the bulk of the Syrians. Ted Cruz (TX), Rand Paul (KY), Chris Christie (NJ) and Marco Rubio (FL)—where are you?
