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Help! Forensic Accountant Needed: International Rescue Committee Rolling in Taxpayer Dough!

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 4 Comments

And, the most maddening thing about it?  They are working to assure illegal aliens are not deported.

Yesterday, I told you that the International Rescue Committee is diversifying its business model and is soliciting grants to set up legal offices to help illegal aliens fight deportation.

As I have been saying the Refugee Resettlement Contractors are now full service Open Borders organizations that you fund with your tax dollars!

 

Dallas: Refugee Contractor Expands Role, Works to Stop Deportations of Illegal Aliens

David Miliband, a British national and IRC CEO is doing well by doing good. No pay cuts for him! See my David Miliband archive bff Hillary and George Soros. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/?s=David+Miliband+

 

So I figured it was time to see how the big kahuna of the US refugee industry, the International Rescue Committee was doing under the Trump administration especially since they are among the chief wailers and moaners about the low refugee admission numbers that they say has led to a need to close some of their subcontractor offices and let some low level staffers go (hint! It looks like the big honchos are still in a job).

Using data from USASpending.gov I’ve now had a look at five of the nine federal resettlement contractors.  The IRC will be number six.

So far only the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has seen a significant decline in its federal funding.  In fact the three who recently sued to stop the Trump refugee reform effort—Church World Service, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and HIAS—are doing very well.  USCRI (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) is financially fine as well.  So I don’t know what all the crying is about!

Follow the money! (if you can)!

First here is how the IRC is doing at USA Spending.

They sure jumped on the federal gravy train in the last couple years of the Obama Administration and are still riding it for all it is worth!

 

A very big chunk of their federal dough comes from USAID—a money pit that doesn’t get enough attention!

 

Next I went over to Charity Navigator where they always provide these handy little pie charts to tell us what percentage of their income you contributed (involuntarily) via the US Treasury—a hefty 60%!

But, wait, notice they say over $422 million is government boodle.

 

 

Okay, so thought I might solve the mysterious discrepancy by visiting their annual reports.

And, too funny, see who is co-chairman of the board!

Remember Obama’s Treasury Secretary who couldn’t get his taxes done correctly!  Turbo-tax Geithner himself!

 

 

Yikes, now Geithner’s annual report shows $544 million from grants and contracts for the same year. That would be taxpayer funding.

 

These numbers would put them at 73% taxpayer funded. They could barely survive if they had to depend on private donors.  You might want to see who they are—you will recognize the names of many rich and famous celebs!

 

Surely their IRS Form 990 would help us!

Here is page nine of the Form 990 for the same recent year:

 

That number for government grants matches Charity Navigator but not their annual report. Don’t ask me why!

 

And, definitely these numbers do not match USA Spending numbers.  I’m guessing that the IRC is getting funding from other governments around the world other than ours.

Alas, there is no taxpayer group working for us that might have the skill to unravel all of this!

However, here is one thing that is not a mystery—doing ‘charitable’ good works is lucrative business as I said in a post at ‘Frauds and Crooks’ this week: Tell your kids to grow up to be non-profit execs!

Just have a look at the salaries at the top of the International Rescue Committee! 

Warning!  Don’t look if you have high blood pressure or a heart condition!

 

https://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/document/3857/ircfy18990r.pdf

That is largely your money!  See page ten!  Over $300 million for salaries and benefits! And, travel alone was $40 million! Does Miliband travel first class (or private jet!)?

And, now they are making sure illegals scheduled for deportation in Dallas (where else?) have a lawyer.

I wonder, if one of those illegals they defend commits a crime, could the IRC fat cats be sued?  Hmmm!

 

 

USCRI Who? This Refugee Resettlement Agency is Laying Low, and Doing Well

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 3 Comments

I’ve been noticing the absence of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), one of the top nine federal contractors***, in all the anti-Trump media hubbub and wondered if they were shrinking financially and therefore laying low to stay out of Trump’s line of sight.

So I checked today, and guess what?

USCRI is approximately 96% federally funded, and…..

They are doing financially better under the Trump Administration than they ever did in the Obama years. 

But, before I give you the data, let me tell you how much controversy they stirred over the years.

Memory lane:

Former USCRI CEO Lavinia Limon with Chobani CEO at the Clinton Global Initiative (all you need to know!).

Longtime readers may remember the huge controversy in Twin Falls, Idaho that I wrote about extensively for months that involved USCRI’s subcontractor there.  It revolved around Chobani Yogurt’s hunger for refugee labor and came to a media explosion over the sexual abuse of a child by refugee boys.

Then there was USCRI’s effort to open a new office in Rutland, VT that ended in failure when citizens rose up, protested, and threw out the ‘welcoming’ mayor.

Earlier I reported on the mess USCRI was embroiled in in Bowling Green, KY when Burmese refugees were placed in substandard housing.

(Here I am going to urge readers to use the search window top right at RRW and enter key words to find out more about Twin Falls, Rutland, Bowling Green, Lavinia Limon, Eskinder Negash etc. and save me some work putting in a zillion links!)

One point on the issue of subcontractors: 

Someone knowledgeable about the big nine recently mentioned that local agencies don’t have the same name sometimes as their parent organization.  Exactly right! Whether they do that on purpose I don’t know, but for those of you wanting to better understand how secretive this program is, that is one important piece of evidence.

Hundreds of subcontractors work for the big nine and those nine move federal funding to their subcontractors usually referred to as affiliates.

They have been wailing and moaning about having to close offices in the Trump era, apparently Trump isn’t hurting USCRI.

Go here to see USCRI’s affiliates:

 

Revolving door!

Also, USCRI is notable as a prime example of the revolving door between government contractors and the agencies from which the organization gets most of its funding.

Both USCRI’s previous CEO Lavinia Limon (headed Clinton’s Office of Refugee Resettlement) and its present CEO Eskinder Negash (headed Obama’s ORR) revolved in and out of government.  Both have done very well themselves in the process as you will see below.

First, here is the stunning financial information at USA Spending.  (I told readers how to use the invaluable site in Knowledge is Power V.)

Remember that we are only 4 months into FY2020 and that is why that number is so low. So check back in September.

 

Looking at the most recently available IRS Form 990, we can say that USCRI is 96% federally funded—that is funded by you, the US taxpayer!

That means they are acting like a government agency but without any of the checks and balances of a federal agency. For example you can’t use the Freedom of Information Act to get information out of a ‘non-profit.’

Check out the 6-figure salaries you pay!  Some are higher than US Senators or Supreme Court Justices!

Ms. Limon is gone, but apparently not at the time this Form990 was filed. By the way the next page lists four additional employees making above six-figures. https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2018/131/878/2018-131878704-1108fd6f-9.pdf

 

See all of my Knowledge is Power series.

*** Here are the nine major federal refugee contractors.  I’ve analyzed five so far including USCRI today and only the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken a serious budgetary hit under the Trump Administration.  Congress and the Deep staters are making sure these fake non-profits are staying in the black.

So far only the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has seen a significant decline in its federal funding.  In fact the three who recently sued to stop the Trump refugee reform effort—Church World Service, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and HIAS—are doing very well.  Now we know that USCRI is doing exceedingly well.

I will work on the remaining four in the coming days and weeks.

I continue to argue that these nine contractors are the heart of America’s Open Borders movement and thus there can never be long-lasting reform of US immigration policy when these nine un-elected phony non-profits are paid by the taxpayers to work as community organizers pushing an open borders agenda.

 

HIAS Blasts Trump on New Travel Restrictions While Receiving Millions from Taxpayers

~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Indeed much to my shock, USA Spending reports that the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is getting more federal dollars under the Trump Administration than it did under the Obama government!

HIAS is the 4th of the nine federal contractors I’ve analyzed at USA Spending and three of the four are doing exceedingly well financially under Trump in spite of their constant wailing and moaning about how they must close offices and reduce staff.

Our often assumed connection between the number of refugees coming in and the nine contractors’ financial well-being is out the window!

So far only the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has seen a significant decline in its federal funding.  In fact the three who recently sued to stop the Trump refugee reform effort—Church World Service, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and now HIAS—are doing very well.

I think that the Deep State is undermining Trump by funding his political opposition with our money!

Does the White House know?

Here is HIAS raising money off of the President’s latest effort to keep us safe with new travel restrictions (refugees are exempt!):

 

Now see that they are not hurting financially and are still receiving millions of tax dollars as they work against President Trump every day!

From USASpending.gov:

See that in FY2019 HIAS received more than they did in any Obama year!

 

Smallest Number of Refugees Entering the US in Last Ten Years

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 2 Comments

As you know President Donald Trump set the ceiling (as it is his right to do under the Refugee Act of 1980) at 18,000 for fiscal year 2020.

Four months into the year (the fiscal year began on October 1, 2019) we have admitted 4,686 refugees from leading sending countries of Afghanistan, Burma, DR Congo, Eritrea, Moldova and Ukraine.  Smaller numbers came from dozens of countries. About 918 of the 4,686 are Muslims.

Here is the big however—Special Immigrant Visa holders from Afghanistan numbered 4,585 in just the last four months bringing the total to 64,280 since 2006. And, those majority Muslim Afghans that supposedly helped us somehow in Afghanistan are given the same privileges as regular refugees. Iraqi SIVs numbered 129 (18,677 since 2006).

Before I get to the details of where they were all placed, don’t miss John Binder’s Friday Breitbart story where he provides the astronomical numbers of migrants coming into the US through myriad legal pathways from the President’s travel restricted countries.

See how many regular refugees were admitted to the US in the last ten years. Note that Obama didn’t set an extremely high ceiling until he was leaving office in 2016 and setting the ceiling for 2017.

Every time I see the deceivers in the media tout Obama’s 110,000 I want to scream at them to tell the whole truth! Don’t forget that the Dem candidates for President are talking 125,000 and up for their refugee importation plans.

 

Here is a map from the Refugee Processing Center for the first 4 months of this fiscal year.  I showed you how to find this kind of information yourself in Knowledge is Power IV.

You might want to compare this map of where new refugees are being placed right now with the map in my previous post which shows some states that don’t want any, or have not yet made a decision, but are definitely getting some.

 

The top five states ‘welcoming’ regular refugees (4,686) are Washington, California, Texas, New York and Minnesota.  Minnesota doesn’t usually rank this high.

The top five states that are unknowingly getting the Special Immigrant Visa holders from Afghanistan (4,585 nationally in the last 4 months) are California, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Maryland.

Using my instructions I gave you in Knowledge is Power IV, you can find the towns and cities that host new refugees. For the SIVs you can find only the states by first going here and clicking on “Cumulative arrivals…” (or see below) to find how many went to your state.

Play with the data at the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center, it is fun (sort of) as a cold winter day project!

Cumulative Arrivals by State for Refugees and SIV Reception and Placement (R&P) Recipients – Afghan

42 Governors and 100 Local Elected Bodies have said YES! to More Refugees

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 2 Comments

[Correction: In my first headline I said 43 governors said yes. 42 said yes, and one, Texas, has said no.]

When I saw this story at the New York Times this morning bashing some local communities for saying no to more refugees, it reminded me to tell you where the consents stand to date.

The NYT reporter, besides slamming elected officials like Mayor Sarno of Springfield, Mass (a Dem. who echoes Trump) also informs us that the federal refugee contractors are still pushing for more consents to come in even as the Trump refugee reform effort has been stalled by a friendly liberal judge.

To see who exactly has said yes so far to accepting more financial responsibility for state and local taxpayers (and increased societal tension) I went back to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s website.

LIRS, which has a lot to lose since it is 85-90% federally funded in any given year, has been keeping track.  They are also one of three contractors that filed the lawsuit to stop the President’s reform effort because they want to place refugees in locations they choose as they have been for decades.  You, local citizens, should have no say!

I see they have listed over 100 local consenting elected bodies and governors in 42 states.

So it seems to me that all refugees coming in should be directed to those 100 local communities (assuming the governor has said yes as well).

Isn’t 100 enough?

Here is their most recent map of governors:

Wyoming has never been part of the refugee program and note that liberal Hawaii has not yet opened its arms to more diversity! LOL! Readers have been asking me where they might move. I see some good options.

 

And here below are the local governments that have said yes so far.

You would have to exclude any from Texas because the governor has said no, and unless governors of Georgia and Florida say yes, the local governments from those states would be blocked from ‘welcoming’ refugees.

  1. Mayor Ben Walsh – Syracuse, NY
  2. Mayor Jacob Frey Tweet of consent– Minneapolis, MN
  3. Mayor Andrew Ginther– Columbus, OH
  4. Mayor Steve Schewel and Letter of Consent – Durham, NC
  5. Mayor Jenny Durkan Letter of Consent – Seattle, WA
  6. Mayor Nancy Vaughan Letter of Consent – Greensboro, NC
  7. Alexandria City Council resolution, statement from Mayor Justin Wilson – Alexandria, VA
  8. Durham County, NC Board of Commissioners – Letter of Consent
  9. Knoxville City Council Consent – Knoxville, TN
  10. Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price (R) letter to Governor Abbott
  11. Erie County, NY – Letter of Consent
  12. Mayor Byron Brown Letter of Consent – Buffalo, NY
  13. Mayor Patti Garrett Letter of Consent – Decatur, GA
  14. Chatham County, GA – Letter of Consent
  15. Polk County, IA – Letter of Consent
  16. Warren County, KY – Letter of Consent
  17. Daviess County, KY – Letter of Consent
  18. Mayor Nicole LaChapelle Letter of Consent – Easthampton, MA
  19. Mayor Alex B. Morse Letter of Consent – Holyoke, MA
  20. Mayor David Narkewicz Letter of Consent – Northampton, MA
  21. Mayor Kimberly Driscoll Letter of Consent – Salem, MA
  22. Mayor John Engen Letter of Consent – Missoula, MT
  23. Mayor David Engen Letter of Consent – Grand Forks, ND
  24. Mayor Frank G. Jackson Letter of Consent – Cleveland, OH
  25. Mayor Michael P. Summers Letter of Consent – Lakewood, OH
  26. Mayor Timothy J. DeGeeter Letter of Consent – Parma, OH
  27. Mayor Nan Whaley Letter of Consent – Dayton, OH
  28. Erie County Pennsylvania – Letter of Consent
  29. Mayor Jorge O. Elorza Letter of Consent – Providence, RI
  30. Bexar County, TX – Letter of Consent
  31. Mayor Ron Nirenberg Letter of Consent – San Antonio, TX
  32. Mayor Levar Stoney Letter of Consent – Richmond, VA
  33. Kalamazoo County, MI – Letter of Consent
  34. Kandiyohi County, MN – Letter of Consent
  35. Pima County, AZ Letter of Consent – Pima County, AZ
  36. Mayor Kim Maggard Letter of Consent – Whitehall, OH
  37. Mayor Betsy Price Letter of Consent – Fort Worth, TX
  38. Mayor John Dailey Letter of Consent and Proclamation – Tallahassee, FL
  39. Burleigh County, ND – Commission Vote
  40. Franklin County, OH – Final Resolution / Commission and Article
  41. Mayor of Dallas Letter of Consent – Dallas, TX
  42. Mayor Thomas McNamara Letter of Consent – Rockford, IL
  43. Winnebago County, IL – Letter of Consent
  44. DuPage County, IL – Letter of Consent
  45. Mayor Jim Bouley Letter of Consent – Concord, NH
  46. Mayor Kate Gallego Letter of Consent – Phoenix, AZ
  47. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild Letter of Consent – Tucson, AZ
  48. Mayor Edward Terry Letter of Consent – Clarkston, GA
  49. Mayor William Reichelt Letter of Consent – West Springfield, MA
  50. City of Ypsilanti, MI – Council Resolution and Consent
  51. Olmsted County, MN  Letter of Consent
  52. Mayor Lyda Krewson Letter of Consent – St. Louis, MO
  53. Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin Letter of Consent – Raleigh, NC
  54. Cass County, ND – Letter of Consent
  55. Mayor Alvin Brandl Letter of Consent – Madison, NE
  56. Mayor Jim Donchess Letter of Consent – Nashua, NH
  57. Mayor Joyce Craig Letter of Consent – Manchester, NH
  58. Hamilton County, OH – Letter of Consent
  59. Montgomery County, OH – Letter of Consent
  60. Mayor Lucy Vinis Letter of Consent – Eugene, OR
  61. Mayor Christine Lundberg Letter of Consent – Springfield, OR
  62. Mayor Wayne Evans Letter of Consent – Scranton, PA
  63. Mayor Andy Berke Letter of Consent – Chattanooga, TN
  64. Cache County, UT – Letter of Consent
  65. Salt Lake County, UT – Letter of Consent
  66. Weber County, UT – Letter of Consent
  67. Fairfax County, VA – Letter of Consent
  68. Mayor Sherman Lea, Sr. Letter of Consent – Roanoke, VA
  69. Mayor Kelli Linville Letter of Consent – Bellingham, WA
  70. Pierce County, WA – Letter of Consent
  71. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway Letter of Consent – Madison, WI
  72. Mayor Fischer Letter of Consent – Louisville, KY
  73. Mayor Kenneth Miyagishima Letter of Consent – Las Cruces, NM
  74. Mayor William Peduto Letter of Consent – Pittsburgh, PA
  75. Mayor Mark Behnke Letter of Consent – Battle Creek, MI
  76. Macomb County, MI – Letter of Consent
  77. Washtenaw County, MI – Consent Resolution
  78. Wayne County, MI – Letter of Consent
  79. Oakland County, MI – Letter of Consent
  80. Mayor David Berger Letter of Consent – Lima, OH
  81. Mayor Martin Walsh Letter of Consent – Boston, MA
  82. Mayor Joe Hogsett Letter of Consent – Indianapolis, IN
  83. Dallas County, TX – Letter of Consent
  84. Ingham County, MI – Consent Resolution
  85. Mayor Stephen C.N. Kepley Letter of Consent – Kentwood, MI
  86. Las Vegas, NV – Article on Consent
  87. Henderson, NV – Article on Consent
  88. Reno, NV – Article on Consent
  89. Wake County NC – Letter of Consent
  90. Buncombe County NC –  Letter of Consent
  91. Onondaga County, NY – Article on Consent
  92. Cook County, MN – Article on Consent
  93. Cumberland County, PA – Article on Consent
  94. Ramsey County, MN – Article on Consent
  95. Minnehaha County, SD – Article on Consent
  96.  Boulder County, CO – Article on Consent
  97. Grand Traverse County, MI – Article on Consent
  98. New Castle County, DE – Article on Consent
  99. Utah County, UT – Article on Consent
  100. Otter Tail County, MN – Article on Consent
  101. Twin Falls County, ID – Article on Consent
  102. Spokane County, WA – Article on Consent
  103. Dane County, WI – Press Release on Consent
  104. Boone County, MO – Article on Consent
  105. Mecklenburg County, NC – Article on Consent
  106. Tarrant County, TX – Article on Consent
  107. Bernalillo County, NM – Article on Consent
  108. North Shore County, MN – Article on Consent
  109. Barry County, MI – Article on Consent
  110. St. Joseph County, MI – Article on Consent
  111. Missoula County, MT – Article on Consent
I just did a quick scan of the list and am interested to see that there may be states where the governor has said YES, but no local community has acted.  Take New Jersey or Vermont for example—has any local government said yes?