The International Rescue Committee: Federally Funded, but Working to Undermine Federal Policy
By Nayla Rush on November 5, 2019
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a New York-based non-governmental organization mostly funded by the U.S. government, is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration's refugee and asylum policies and has been looking at ways to circumvent them. David Miliband, a former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, has been the head of IRC since 2013. His annual salary in 2017 was over $900,000 (up $240,047, or 35.7 percent, from 2015). In 2017, almost 60 percent of IRC's funding came from the U.S. government.
CNN recently described how IRC was heading south to help asylum seekers who could not reach the United States because of this administration's new measures to limit asylum flows. IRC began providing assistance to asylum seekers "waiting under dangerous conditions" in Mexico, its spokesperson told CNN. Last year, it started providing "emergency cash relief and lifesaving information services in El Salvador to people fleeing violence" and plans on expanding this outreach to Guatemala and Honduras. IRC's director of immigration further explained how her organization is helping asylum seekers inside the United States by expanding its legal immigration program and adding lawyers who can provide direct representation in U.S. immigration courts.
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