State Dept. Redacts Big Chunks of $22.8 Mil Contract to Resettle Muslim Refugees

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State Dept. Redacts Big Chunks of $22.8 Mil Contract to Resettle Muslim Refugees

By kchild2013 on May 28, 2017   • ( 3 )

Source: State Dept. Redacts Big Chunks of $22.8 Mil Contract to Resettle Muslim Refugees – Judicial Watch

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars to “resettle” foreign nationals and transparency on how the money is spent depends on the agency involved. Judicial Watch has been investigating it for years, specifically the huge amount of taxpayer dollars that go to “voluntary agencies”, known as VOLAGs, to provide a wide range of services for the new arrivals. Throughout the ongoing probe Judicial Watch has found a striking difference on how government lawyers use an exemption, officially known as (b)(4), to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to withhold records. All the cases involve public funds being used to resettle foreigners on U.S. soil and Americans should be entitled to the records.

The (b)(4) exemption permits agencies to withhold trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person which is privileged or confidential. Depending on the government agency and the mood of the taxpayer-funded lawyers handling public records requests, that information is exempt from disclosure. In these cases, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) disclosed a VOLAG contract to resettle tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) that entered the U.S. through Mexico under the Obama administration while the State Department withheld large portions of a one-year, $22.8 million deal to resettle refugees from Muslim countries. Most of the UACs came from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and the Obama administration blamed the sudden surge on violence in the three central American nations. The agency responsible for resettling the minors and issuing contracts for the costly services is HHS.

As a result of Judicial Watch’s work HHS furnished ..

Continued:  https://sentinelblog.com/2017/05/28/state-dept-redacts-big-chunks-of-22-8-mil-contract-to-resettle-muslim-refugees/

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One of my MIL's friends worked for a number of years with several agencies that resettle refugees in this area.  She quit because she believed agency policies were doing more harm than good for both the refugees and the Country.  She says they are given a place to live, food, medical care, English classes, clothing, furniture, bus passes, etc.  Within a few months, what you hear on a follow-up visit is, "Where is my big screen TV?  Where is my car?"  And they are not nice about it, demanding, angry, threatening.  What really frustrated her is that the overwhelming  number of young male refugees, drop out of school (or never start) and become criminals.  Among female refugees, drop out of school (or never start and get pregnant.