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ORR: two federal grants available to benefit refugees and their resettlement contractors

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This post falls in my ‘Special deals for special (non-citizen) people’ archive! I see that although Congress is debating the budget for the remainder of the year, there are still millions of taxpayer funds sloshing around HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement and those have been offered up for grabs starting this week. We’ve been reporting … Continue reading ORR: two federal grants available to benefit refugees and their resettlement contractors

Michigan: refugee contractors and employers boo-hooing; not enough cheap labor coming in

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Ten years ago they hid the fact that those poor third worlders coming in to the US as refugees were providing a steady supply of cheap labor for big business, now they are admitting it right up front and trashing Trump because he has cut their supply. Do you humanitarians out there really understand that … Continue reading Michigan: refugee contractors and employers boo-hooing; not enough cheap labor coming in

Regarding South Africa: Trump has thousands of African refugee slots available

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Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn and Tucker Carlson have all gone to bat this week for the white South African farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened by the black South African government now in power in the nation the International Left dubbed the “Rainbow Nation.” Here is Ann Coulter on twitter yesterday tweeting out … Continue reading Regarding South Africa: Trump has thousands of African refugee slots available

Cut to the chase—refugee labor is cheap labor

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For goodness sake, let’s have the debate. Do we need more low wage labor?  That should be the debate.  Anything else is just mud being thrown around to confuse the taxpaying public and make people feel guilty about questioning our LEGAL immigration programs. For instance, this story at something called ‘Workforce’ posits that refugees’ greatest … Continue reading Cut to the chase—refugee labor is cheap labor

Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans help refugee contractors stay afloat

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I heard recently that the refugee resettlement agencies (the big nine)*** which the State Department contracts to place refugees in your towns and cities were busy resettling ‘interpreters’ from Afghanistan and those federal payments were helping keep them financially afloat. So…I checked some numbers at Wrapsnet and was amazed by what I saw.  Sure enough … Continue reading Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans help refugee contractors stay afloat