Watchdog Files Suit for Refugee Travel Loans Info
Feb 7, 2017 TIM BROWN
The watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit seeking to obtain the records from the US State Department regarding the “Refugee Travel Loans” issued by State’s Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration to the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration from 2010 to the present.
Among the records they are seeking in their lawsuit, Judicial Watch wants to know exactly how many of those loans were defaulted on and how much money was written off on each of the defaulted loans.
The State Department failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s February 5, 2016 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in which they sought, “All records reflecting the number of Refugee Travel Loans furnished by the State Department’s Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) per year; the number of travel loans that are defaulted upon per year; and the amount of money written off per defaulted loan.”
Judicial Watch reported in June 2016:
The U.S. government gives refugees on public assistance special “loans” of up to $15,000 to start a business but fails to keep track of defaults that could translate into huge losses for American taxpayers, records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal. The cash is distributed through a program called Microenterprise Development run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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HHS is not the only government agency doling out huge sums of cash for this cause, though its focus on refugees appears to be unique. Others, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Labor (DOL) also dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to various microenterprise causes. For instance, in one recent year alone USAID spent $223 million on microenterprise development activities, according to figures released by the agency. The USDA also allocates large sums to provide loans and grants to microenterprise development through a special “Rural Microloan Revolving Fund” and the DOL regularly pours lots of money into various microenterprise projects that are promoted as workforce investments in areas with high rates of poverty.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration provided the funding in the instances of aid and relief work, as well as the admissions office handling the settling of refugees in the US. According to their website, they spent almost $545 million “to provide new beginnings to the world’s most vulnerable refugees” in 2016. They also sent more than $2.8 billion to “humanitarian assistance overseas,” as well as providing $103 million directly to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The Geneva, Switzerland-based IOM provides interest-free loans “furnished by the Department of State” to “all refugees arriving in the United States.”
And just who is really providing that money? Is it the Department of State? Nope, They don’t make money. They obtain it from Congress and Congress gets it from you!
According to their website:
All refugees arriving in the United States are offered interest-free travel loans by IOM. Refugees who accept these travel loans are required to sign a promissory note prior to departure, committing themselves to repayment of the debt within 46 months after arrival in the United States.
IOM arranges for refugee travel using funds furnished by the Department of State, and is mandated to subsequently effect collections on behalf of the Department of State. Repayments made by refugees toward their loans are returned to the Department of State for use by the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to defray the cost of future refugee travel.
The IOM works with an annual budget of $1.4 billion.
For another reason for the US to leave the United Nations, the IOM was adopted into the UN in July 2016 via a resolution.
What’s even more disturbing that using our money in this fashion is that nine other resettlement agencies contracted with the State Department to help resettle refugees in the US, and they made more than $5 million each year in commissions on refugee debt collection!
According to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, “The State Department has stonewalled our request for refugee loans and associated taxpayer losses for a year – an unlawful delay that screams ‘cover up. This is an opportunity for the Trump State Department to come clean and clean up this refugee welfare program.”
Yes, well, let’s hope that there is not just a coming clean about it, but doing what actually needs to be done and that is removing the United Nations from our shores and ending all funding to the anti-American organization.
Charity for refugees is not the responsibility of government, but individuals. To take the people’s money and use it in this manner is unconstitutional and unlawful. Those who have approved of this misuse of public money should be immediately removed from office and held accountable for their violation of oath of office.
http://freedomoutpost.com/watchdog-files-suit-for-refugee-travel-loans-info/
The Muslim Plot to Colonize America
Feb 7, 2017 by TIM BROWN
Is there a plot by Muslim supremacist groups to colonize America and eventually turn it into an Islamic Sharia government? According to one woman, the answer is an emphatic “Yes.”
Ann Corcoran, the woman behind Refugee Resettlement Watch, claims that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is “under the influence of a powerful Muslim supremacist group.”
Corcoran, author of Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America, described Muslims migration as “hijra.”
“Mohammed told his followers to migrate and spread Islam, in order to dominate all the lands of the world … and that’s exactly what they’re doing now,” she said.
She is not far off either. Historical evidence is on her side when she warns of this. Author Robert Spencer has written not only of the history of Islam, but also the means they will use to accomplish global domination as instructed in the Koran and the Hadiths.
Ms. Corcoran is a former environmental lobbyist from Maryland, who was made are of African refugees that were being resettled near her in 2006. That’s when she began to blog and document the concerns she had and what she discovered.
Ms. Corcoran has a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Rutgers and a master’s in environmental studies from Yale. She used her background to lobby for the Nationa Audubon Society from 1975 to 1980.
Before you write her off, consider that she was targeted by the premier hate group in America, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In April 2015, Corcoran wrote. “There needs to be a national debate about how many refugees and other immigrants we take and from what cultures they come from. Frankly, we have made a grievous error in taking the Muslim refugees, Somalis in particular, who have no intention of becoming Americans. They are here to change America. Unfortunately, political correctness and a worshipful attitude toward multiculturalism have blinded us.”
She went on to warn, “The explosion on this front is yet to come and it will be like the Major Hasan slaughter at Ft. Hood and there will be much fingerpointing and gnashing of teeth about who is to blame primarily at the US State Department.”
Corcoran has also hooked up with Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy.
“It is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the MB [Muslim Brotherhood] or a derivative organization,” reads a 2011 Center for Security Policy report. “Consequently, most of the Muslim American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution.”
The effects of the resettlement program will not be fully seen for a generation or two, but unless Christians get busy presenting Muslims with the truth of the Gospel, America is headed for a destructive future. Before you say it can’t or wont’ happen, perhaps you should take a look at Dearborn, Michigan, or a glimpse at Tampa, Florida, or more recently, the streets of New York City.
http://freedomoutpost.com/the-muslim-plot-to-colonize-america/
Exclusive—Poll: 57 Percent Support Trump’s 90-Day Refugee Pause From Failed Middle Eastern Countries
8 Feb 2017 by Katie McHugh
President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing refugee resettlement enjoys support from significant majorities of voters, a poll provided exclusively to Breitbart News reveals.
McLaughlin & Associates, which polled for Trump’s presidential campaign, asked voters: “Do you approve or disapprove of President Trump’s executive order to stop immigration for 90 days from the following failed Middle Eastern Countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen so we can increase our security checks of these refugees?” A majority, 57 percent said they approved of Trump’s executive order, while 37 percent disapproved.
Of those who favored President Trump, 90 percent backed his executive order, while only six percent disapproved. Over a quarter of voters who viewed him unfavorably of him, 26 percent, still supported his executive order while 67 percent disapproved.
Republican voters overwhelmingly back the president: 88 percent support his executive order. Meanwhile, 53 percent of independents—and 31 percent of Democrats—also support an immigration pause that allows the U.S. to tighten security checks on refugees coming from unstable, terror-exporting countries. Similarly, 81 percent of conservatives, 50 percent of moderates, and 32 percent of liberals also support the executive order.
Then, McLaughlin & Associates expanded on Trump’s executive order in a detailed follow-up question:
The Trump administration is trying to ban terrorists. The terrorists happen to be Islamic radicals. These terrorists happen to get their support and come from certain Middle East countries who are majority Muslim. Without penalizing all Muslims, we need to screen out possible terrorists from the refugees coming to the United States. Since the current FBI and Homeland Security Directors, cannot certify that a refugee from these seven countries is not a terrorist, do you agree or disagree that we need to pause and take a 90 day break from allowing refugees from these countries to enter the U.S., until a system is in place that assures that each refugee is not a threat to Americans?
Sixty-one percent of voters agreed that the U.S. should take a 90-day breather in order to better screen out potential terrorists. Twenty-eight percent disagreed. Meanwhile, 87 percent of Republicans, 40 percent of Democrats, and 59 percent of independents agreed.
The second question, with its neutral explanation of the migration freeze also mustered more support from moderates: 60 percent agreed, compared to 36 percent of liberals and 82 percent of conservatives.
By contrast, overheated media reports falsely labeled the refugee resettlement pause as a “Muslim ban,” fueling hysteria and emotional protests. Republican strategist John McLaughlin said it was important to frame the question in a neutral manner.
“It’s really a terrorist ban,” McLaughlin told Breitbart News. “They’re portraying it as a Muslim ban. It’s not. It’s not. We dealt with this during the campaign when they were trying to portray it as a Muslim ban. It was really a terrorist ban.”
“They won’t call it a terrorist ban, because it would be popular,” he added.
The poll also sampled slightly more Democrats than Republicans—36 percent to 33 percent—and questioned more Hillary Clinton voters than Trump voters, according to McLaughlin.
“If you look at this objectively, the president has full majority approval,” McLaughlin said. “If someone is trying to spin this into something it’s not, they’re playing politics and they’re just trying to play politics with national security.”
The poll, commissioned by Secure America Now, surveyed 1,000 likely voters online from Feb. 2 to Feb. 6 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, and a confidence level of 95 percent.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/08/exclusive-poll-57-percent-support-trumps-90-day-refugee-pause-from-failed-middle-eastern-countries/
Who Needs Vetting: Dems Pwned by Muslim Bros
http://www.infowars.com/who-needs-vetting-dems-pwned-by-muslim-bros/
Related
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/02/08/cotton-immigration-serve-american-citizens-encourage-assimilation/
http://www.infowars.com/saudi-arabia-bribing-vets-to-lobby-against-911-bill/
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