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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 06, 2018, 01:17:01 pm
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Trump refugee admissions slowdown shows US refugee program built on budgetary quicksand
Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 6, 2018
The structure of the US Refugee Admissions Program as designed by then Senator Ted Kennedy (with his sidekick Joe Biden) and signed in to law by Jimmy Carter in March 1980 is crumbling (crumpling, whatever) and I want to know—
Where is Congress?
The original concept—non-profit groups being paid by the head to place refugees—is flawed. How do you run an organization and create an annual budget when the program is almost wholly dependent on that per head government payment?
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/trump-refugee-admissions-slowdown-shows-us-refugee-program-built-on-budgetary-quicksand/