Regular refugee numbers don’t tell the whole story; thousands of Afghans getting in to US each year in separate program
Posted by Ann Corcoran on September 3, 2018
They are called Special Immigrant Visa holders (SIVs for short) and they supposedly helped the US in some way (or they could have helped an NGO!), sometimes as interpreters. They and their immediate family members are welcomed to the US and treated with the same package of goodies refugees receive.
Also, we are told that the resettlement contractors are paid (by you) to place them as well, and those funds we’ve heard are helping to keep the contractors from completely going belly-up!
(See my post yesterday about the number of regular refugees admitted this fiscal year, the number is relatively low, but the SIV number is not! 2,196 Muslims were admitted as regular refugees, but add to that 9,166 Afghan Muslims in the last 11 months!)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/regular-refugee-numbers-dont-tell-the-whole-story-thousands-of-afghans-getting-in-to-us-each-year-in-separate-program/
