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Christian charities profit from $1 billion federal program to resettle refugees

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Selling their people’s future for a buck today. How Christian: “The national security concerns surrounding the Syrian refugees has not prompted these Christian non-profit VOLAGs to reconsider their refugee resettlement programs. Instead, as Refugee Resettlement Watch reported on Friday, they have just launched a massive public relations campaign to change the minds of the majority of Americans, whom three major polls show oppose letting any more Syrian refugees in the country.”

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“Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim,” by Michael Patrick Leahy, Breitbart, November 29, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, and several other Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States.

Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.

In FY 2015, the State Department, through the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, spent more than $1 billion on these programs, which settled international refugees “vetted” by the United Nations High Commission on International Refugees in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The federal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars more than that on refugees, however. The Department of Health and Human Services also provided a number of “entitlements” to these refugees.

Much of this $1 billion in annual revenue goes to voluntary agencies (VOLAGs), several of which are Christian non-profits, such as Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Domestic and Foreign Missionary Service of the Episcopal Church of the USA. (also referred to as Episcopal Migration Ministries), who are contracted on behalf of the government to help these refugees get settled in their new homes in America.

Five of the top nine VOLAGs are Christian non-profits. The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.

After providing three to four months of resettlement services to these refugees, having been well compensated for their assistance services, these Christian non-profit VOLAGS stop providing services and are not required to keep track of their location within the United States.

As Ann Corcoran wrote recently at Refugee Resettlement Watch, the arrangement benefits the VOLAGs but provides little comfort to Americans worried about the national security implications of bringing in so many unvetted refugees:

Refugee resettlement is profitable to the organizations involved in it. They receive money from the federal government for each refugee they bring over. They have almost no real responsibilities for these refugees. After 4 months the “sponsoring” organization is not even required to know where the refugee lives.

A good percentage of the revenues of these Christian “non-profit” organizations, many of which were originally established to provide charitable services to the poor already within local American communities, now comes from their work as subcontractors to the federal government to relocate these foreign, often Muslim, refugees.

In effect, critics argue, these VOLAGS have become agents of the federal government whose new mission is to import terrorism to the United States under the false flag of Christian compassion.

As Refugee Resettlement Watch reported, there are multiple ways for these VOLAGs to generate revenue from this program:

a. $1,850 per refugee (including children) from the State Department.

b. Up to $2,200 for each refugee by participating in a U.S. DHHS program known as Matching Grant. To get the $2,200, the Volag need only show it spent $200 and gave away $800 worth of donated clothes, furniture, or cars.

c. The Volag pockets 25 percent of every transportation loan it collects from refugees it “sponsors”.

d. All Volag expenses and overhead in the Washington, DC HQ are paid by the U.S. government.

e. For their refugee programs, Volags collect money from all federal grant programs – “Marriage Initiative,” “Faith-based,” “Ownership Society etc., as well as from various state and local grants.

The program is so lucrative that in some towns the Catholic Church has lessened support for traditional charity works to put more effort into resettlement. It uses collection offerings to promote the refugee resettlement program.

Despite claims that these Muslim refugees have been “vetted” to keep out terrorists, numerous reports, including those by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, indicate that this process is flawed, especially for refugees from countries like Syria, where virtually no data bases to perform background checks exist.

Of the approximately 2,000 Syrian refugees who have come to the United States over the past several years, an estimated 97 percent are Muslim.

President Obama wants to bring in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States in FY 2016 (which ends September 30, 2016). At least 26 governors and the vast majority of Americans oppose this plan on national security grounds, but the President is doubling down.

Indeed some reports, which GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been referencing frequently, indicate that the President wants as many as 65,000, and perhaps up to 250,000 Syrian refugees in the United States in the very near future.

President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) of the far left Democrats and Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) of the establishment GOP use the same language to dismiss opposition to the entry of these almost-exclusively-Muslim Syrian refugees.“That’s not who we are,” they say, claiming that it is “Un-American” to deny entry to the country to a group of refugees, 97 percent of whom are Muslim, and potentially 10 percent are ISIS sympathizers.

Obama, Warren, and Ryan all fail to acknowledge that the current population of the United States is barely one percent Muslim.

The likelihood that some number of these Muslim refugees—whether from Syria, Iraq, Somalia, or any of the other predominantly Muslim countries that send refugees to the United States—are Islamist terrorists is very high.

For instance, a recent Pew Research Poll indicated that approximately 14 percent of Muslims in 11 major Muslim majority countries sympathize with ISIS.

Another recent poll indicated that 13 percent of Syrian refugees coming to the United States “have a positive” or “positive to some extent” view of ISIS.

Since 1980, an estimated three million international refugees have entered the United States through this program, or approximately 100,000 per year for 35 years. Until 1990, very few Muslims were brought in. Since then, about 40 percent of refugees have been Muslim. In those 25 years, more than one million Muslims have been brought to the United States through this program.

Over the past five years, 680,000 green cards have been issued to Muslim immigrants (not all of whom came to the U.S. under the Refugee Resettlement program).

In 12 states that are designated as participants in “Wilson Fish” alternative programs, these programs are subcontracted exclusively to the VOLAGs. This program was established under the 1984 Wilson Fish amendment to the Immigration and Naturalization Act….

The irony is that these leading private Christian charitable organizations which were organized to serve their local communities have now really lost much of their original purpose and have become agents and supporters of the Federal government bureaucracy’s efforts many see as an attempt to Islamicize America.They are now no longer agents of private charity, but a new version of federal government “Beltway Bandits.”

That they are now no longer private Christian charities but instead well paid subcontractors of the federal governnment who want to keep the national security threatening Refugee Resettlement that pays them going is demonstrated by how heavily they rely on federal funding.

Catholic Charities has grown into a huge $3.8 billion operation with more than 65,000 employees. Half of its funding–$2 billion–comes from the Federal Government, through the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. A portion that funding… estimated at in excess of $70 million, is part of the more than $1 billion the Federal Government Spends on the Refugee Resettlement program

As Refugee Resettlement Watch reported recently after examining FY 2012 annual reports of these five Christian non-profits, they would all be hurt severely if the $1 billion refugee resettlement gravy train ended for them:

98 percent ($69 million) of Catholic Charities $70 million refugee resettlement budget comes from the federal government.

60 percent ($45 million) of Church World Service’s entire $76 million budget comes from the federal government.

97 percent ($42 million) of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s $43 million budget comes from the federal government.

68 percent ($38 million) of World Relief’s $56 million budget comes from the federal government….

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  2. And here we have some Germans waking up to what it will mean to have these refugees.
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/30/german-officials-warn-homegrown-islamists-trying-to-radicalize-refugees/

    “German officials warn of homegrown Islamists trying to radicalize refugees.”

    “The Wall Street Journal, citing interviews with security officials from across Germany, reports that an >>>increasing number <<< of refugees are attending services at mosques that investigators believe attract extremists.

    "However, security officials tell the Journal that they have already reported over 100 cases in which known Islamists have tried to contact refugees. Aid agencies report that the suspects have reached out to the new arrivals with offers of food, shelter, and German interpretation, as well as copies of the Koran and traditional Muslim clothing."

    And then there's this little tidbit that I haven't seen before: "You can’t put Afghans, Syrians, and Eritreans in the same place because they hate each other," Malte Lehming, editor-in-chief of the opinion page of Der Tagesspiegel newspaper told FoxNews.com in October

    That gonna be another big mess blowing up in their faces..
    A widely quoted Bedouin saying is "I against my brother, my brothers and I against my cousins, then my cousins and I against strangers" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin)

  3. Refugee vetting ??? Do these dodos expect that a Muslim ” refugee” trying to get into the USA is going to say ” yes, you Kaffir dog, I believe in Jihad and support ISIS and will do everything to destroy you and your society” ????

    • These “Christians” running this refugee scam are traitors to their religion by bringing in a religion that has been the enemy of Christians for 1,400 years. Let Muslim countries take in the Muslim refugees.

    • CAIR must be coaching Muslims and their collaborators to tweet that platitude in order to ‘grease the skids’ in advance of the Syrian invasion.

    • Yah, that’s why Christians are being murdered by the 100’s of thousands around the world. Because their brothers. Right! To radical Islam, their are 3 kinds of people. Infadels that pay to remain alive, Infadels that convert to stay alive, and Infadels that refuse both and die. Cain and Ablel were brothers …..

  5. Refugee vetting to identify Jahadists ?????
    Are these Dodos really serious ????? When questioned by a ” refugee Vetter” only a moron will think that a Muslim Jihadist is going to say ” yes, you Kaffir dog, I am a Jihadist and support all the objectives of ISIS and will do everything possible to kill you and destroy you society “

    • Bureaucrats and religious leaders are more interested in showing off how “tolerant” they are than vetting.

  8. I notice on the list the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society? What is their position on this?

  9. VETTING reading TEST

    Can anyone deny the evidence?
    Wherever we find Muhammad — we find Allah’s blessing.

    Muhammad could not resist claiming his special exception for more than 4 wives.
    Sex with his daughter in law was required as per Allah.
    He boinked a six year old and then claimed, “I did not have sex with that young ‘woman’ ” well at least for three years. — Right Uh huh.
    We find him raping widows of men he had murdered and their children.
    Yet, he played the victim and threatened to hurl himself off cliffs unless he always got his way.
    He molested his sex slave wives in life and even in their grave (6 hour limit) per Allah’s wishes.
    But, Muhammad’s disgrace can no longer hide in a dark cave.

    Muslims wake up and come out of the darkness.

  10. WHAT CAN GO WRONG?

    Ask Paris. Ask Belgium. Ask the people in the towns of Sweden. Ask the Europeans who are forced to live near the 200 no-go zones in Europe…brought courtesy of Muslim immigrants and their inbred criminal clans and the naïve politicians who never ask “WHAT COULD GO WRONG”.

  11. While I know that are a lot of devout Christians anti Jihadists here posting on JW, I do not want be insulting to any of you, I hate all of these ORGS. They are leeches. m

    • Miriamrove, don’t fret about it and call it what it is. I actually have some
      worse names I’m thinking of.
      ………………………………….REASON………………….

      These **so called** Christian organizations are the ones that are lying, not you.
      For the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. They most certainly are putting money before Jesus and his flock. Shame on them.

      • Absolutely – they have forsaken the Gospel for “social justice”. They have no understanding regarding true “charity”.

    • MISSION CREEP (just say no)

      I don’t think it is all about money.
      They have painted themselves in a corner with their aid to Hispanic immigrants and Obama wishes to shame them into accepting Syrian MUSLIMS as well.
      Same with Merkel no doubt.

  13. “13 percent of Syrian refugees coming to the United States “have a positive” or “positive to some extent” view of ISIS.”

    Why didn’t Obo warn us that at least 13 % of these Syrians “cling to guns and religion”?

  14. All the “ideology of hate” is asking is for a little more time to get their mobs into all key locations. Ever feel you are in a 9/11 nightmare building and can’t finnd the exit. Jesus – that Obama is a leader of anything is beyond unbelievable.

  15. What benefit could there be to the Christian church from large numbers of Muslims who hate the cross and curse Christians in their prayers 17 times daily?

  16. Professionally run outfits chasing the money trail.
    Who was it again who turned over the tables in the temple many years ago?

  17. The ‘biggie’ in the making is visa-free entry into the Schengen Zone by Turks as a bribe to halt ME refugees.
    When there’s a million Turkish ‘tourists in Western Europe and they say ‘We ain’t gonna go home’.
    What are you going to do?
    New Zealand did the same for Pacific Islanders a few decades ago because the Government accepted at face value, assurances that the visitors only wanted a holiday.
    The warning bells went off when the visitors were seen disembarking carrying their worldly goods.
    ‘Were they going home after 30 days? Hell NO!’

    • What I haven’t found out yet is whether Turks will be given a departure date stamped in their passports, or just an arrival date with departure at traveler’s discretion..

    • Pacific Islanders wanting New Zealand residency is a minor problem for Kiwis. New Zealand immigration has reached an all time high of 120,000 in one year. Most of these came from India and China. Of the 3672 that came from the UK it isn’t known how many were foreigners with British Passports and it would be racist to record them other than British. .

  19. This is why I am sitting on my wallet. My food pantry contributions, now, are mostly pork products.

  20. Where are the Christians Refugees? You know the ones that are being slaughtered, the ones that are truly in danger! Why are they not bringing their own over? We The People do not fear them! We have heart for those who are truly in need and our security is not at risk. Chrisitan Charities have FAILED, your greed is astounding and disgusting.

  21. The demand for cringing invaders here is driven by our own government.
    But no one will call it treason.
    I guess you’d have to start with Obama but it wouldn’t stop there.
    The Dems and Repubes would whittled down to nothing.
    The are bipartisan traitors.

  22. I get so sick and tired of people calling them refugees when they are invaders on Hijrah. And you, Robert Spencer, of all people know that. So why are you calling them refugees? It reinforces the brainwash that most people have internalized to think of them as escaping something when they are aggressively here to invade and turn America Islamic.

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