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    Refugee Resettlement Costs State of Tennessee $165 Million Annually in Unfunded Feder

    Refugee Resettlement Costs State of Tennessee $165 Million Annually in Unfunded Federal Mandate

    by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
    6 May 2016

    Don Barnett, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, tells Breitbart News that the federal government’s operation of the refugee resettlement program in Tennessee costs the state more than $165 million each year.

    Tennessee is one of fourteen states that have withdrawn from the federal refugee resettlement program. The Obama administration continues to resettle refugees in the Volunteer State under the questionable statutory authority of the Wilson-Fish alternative program.

    In April, the Tennessee General Assembly declared its intent to sue the federal government on Tenth Amendment grounds over its resettlement of refugees into the state.

    The operation of the federal refugee resettlement program there, as administered by Catholic Charities of Tennessee, costs the state “at least 165 million annually” Barnett tells Breitbart News.

    “And that is just for three programs,” Barnett adds.

    Those three programs which force the state to pay for resettled refugees include Medicaid, public education, and ESL (English as a Second Language). Those costs include “the portion of those programs that the state must cover,” Barnett says. “This does not include the cost in federal taxes which Tennesseans pay,” he notes.

    Barnett breaks down the $165 million annual costs to the state of Tennessee of these three programs this way:

    1.Per a 2013 state study, refugees [participating] in TennCare (Medicaid) cost Tennessee taxpayers $25.6 million. (This does not include the federal portion of the cost, which is 3 times larger.)

    But the study assumed that refugees use Tenncare at the same rate as all Tennesseans, i.e about 18.8%. A federal study has shown that even refugees here for 5 years use Medicaid at a rate of 44%. Also the study left out whole categories which are treated just like refugees when it comes to contractor compensation and rights and entitlements for individuals in the program. Groups left out include Asylum Seekers, Cuban/Haitian Entrants, Special Immigrant Visa holders (Iraqis mostly) and others.

    My wildly conservative estimate for this cost is $60 million annually. That’s just the Tennessee portion of one program, Medicaid.

    2. Per the same study, public education for refugees cost Tennessee local and state taxpayers $72.3 million in 2013. Again, this excludes Asylum Seekers and others. This figure today is at least $85 million, a very conservative estimate.

    3. Tennessee spends about $80 million per year for ESL [English as a Second Language]. Some of this number is already included in the public education figures above. Refugees are numerically a relatively small proportion of ESL users, but they have an outsized impact because they bring new languages that Tennessee has no experience with. The cost for ESL for refugees, asylum seekers, etc. is at least $20 million annually.

    Tennessee withdrew from the federal refugee resettlement program in 2008, after then-Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, sent a letter of withdrawal to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

    In fiscal year 2015, more than 1,600 refugees were resettled in Tennessee by Catholic Charities of Tennessee, the voluntary agency (VOLAG) was selected by ORR to administer the program locally.

    Many of these resettled refugees come from countries with Muslim majority populations. 332 came from Iraq, 214 from Somalia, 393 from Burma, 206 from the Congo, and 30 from Syria, according to a report provided by Catholic Charities of Tennessee.

    More than 22,000 refugees were resettled in Tennessee between 1996 and 2014.

    The Obama administration pays VOLAGs, many of which, like Catholic Charities, are affiliated with Christian organizations, more than $1 billion annually to administer the refugee resettlement program in states around the country.

    Annual costs to the thirteen other states (Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Vermont) that have withdrawn from the refugee resettlement program, but where it is operated by VOLAGs under the Wilson-Fish alternative program, are likely proportional to those experienced by Tennessee.

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    Where does all this money keep coming from? Loans does that make sense to any of you? Burrow money to help law breakers. Yet our kids yours and mine can't get a decent education, our veterans are dying waiting for healthcare at the VA. Our healthcare system is broken and near useless. We can spend millions of dollars to keep illegals in our country but we can't help the people that will have to pay this debt off? The fools in Washington think it is great to allow more of them and keep running our debt up. When we and our children are footing the bill.
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    We are paying for this at the federal AND state level. Why doesn't somebody remove that act? It is sheer lunacy to continue taking in central americans; they will petition for their entire family which will ten times the numbers - it is a takeover of USA by hispanics to force us to pay for their livelihood and pay for their continued overpopulation. O is a socialist but remember he is not acting alone - this is an agenda that has been in the works for years.

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    Undocumented illegal aliens are having a documented effect on New York City's finances.

    New York's flailing left-wing mayor is proposing $2 billion for the city's hospitals as part of an $82 billion budget. A budget that the city can't afford. What's driving the costs? Illegal aliens and ObamaCare.

    Closer to home, de Blasio said the growth in tax revenue that has swelled city coffers is starting to slow — with projected growth of 3.6% in 2016 and 1.9% in 2017, compared to an average of 7% in the last five years.

    The executive budget would bring city spending on Health and Hospitals to $2 billion, up by $700 million since the mayor took office.

    Health and Hospitals, which runs 11 hospitals around the city, has been reeling from financial troubles that officials say threaten its survival, necessitating last-minute injections of cash to keep it afloat.

    The trouble comes in part because Obamacare included funding cuts assuming more people would have insurance, but the public hospitals still have to care for large numbers of undocumented immigrants who aren't eligible.

    New York has 375,000 illegals and they tend to use public hospitals.

    To make things even tougher for Health + Hospitals, New York has a staggering 375,000 undocumented non-citizens who lack health insurance, according to the Mayor’s Task Force on Immigrant Health Care Access.

    Under the federal Affordable Care Act, they are specifically barred from getting government-subsidized private health insurance — so they end up using public hospital facilities for even routine health needs, putting more strain on the system.

    “They’re our fellow New Yorkers. We believe in supporting them,” de Blasio said at his budget briefing of the undocumented who don’t have insurance. That’s in keeping with the liberal New York assumption that any and all city services, no matter the cost, should be provided to undocumented immigrants.

    A 2014 report by the Citizens Budget Commission flagged the problem with having so many people use hospitals for normal health needs, noting that nearly a quarter of admissions to H+H facilities are “preventable” — not medically necessary.

    It’s an expensive proposition. Another budget-buster is the administration’s position, announced in its new report on H+H, that “unlike what has happened in other cities, Health & Hospitals will remain a vibrant public system — it is not for sale and the city will not abandon it.”

    Until it does. New York City hospitals are frantically consolidating or being sold off due to ObamaCare. Catholic acute care hospitals in New York City vanished in a puff of smoke. Which puts yet more strain on city hospitals. On top of that, city hospitals are basically giant urgent care clinics for illegal aliens. Which no one wants to pay for.

    And New York isn't alone in this boat. California is trying to get ObamaCare for illegal aliens.

    In a potentially precedent-setting maneuver, legislators are attempting to clear the way for undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance through Covered California, the state’s Obamacare exchange.

    The math remains quite simple and quite impossible.


    OBAMACARE, ILLEGAL ALIENS PUSHINGNEW YORK TO BANKRUPTCY

    May 5, 2016 Daniel Greenfield

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    Spend the money to DEPORT...not IMPORT!

    No refugees, no asylum, no illegal aliens, no anchor baby from anywhere!

    How dare they say they have NO money to deport...but have BILLIONS to fly them in???

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