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    The President May Postpone Decision on Refugee Numbers for FY2021

    The President May Postpone Decision on Refugee Numbers for FY2021




    09/11/2020 ~ ANN CORCORAN

    Here is the first news I am seeing about where the Trump administration is on the decision to admit refugees for FY2021 which begins on October first.

    I’ve been telling you in a series of posts (tagged FY2021) about the pressure the Leftist Open Borders agitators are putting on the White House to set a ceiling of 95,000 refugees for next year—a number way above anything the Obama administration ever admitted.

    From Reuters at the National Post:

    Trump administration considers postponing refugee admissions -U.S. official

    WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are weighing whether to postpone or further cut refugee admissions in the coming year amid legal fights over President Donald Trump’s refugee policy and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official said.

    The possible postponement – one of several options under discussion – would mean some or all refugee admissions could be frozen until a legal challenge to a 2019 Trump order on refugees is resolved “with some greater degree of finality,” the official told Reuters.

    It is not clear when that lawsuit may be resolved, especially if the case goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a process that could take months or even longer.







    Just as a side note, it was then Defense Secretary James Mattis (with other generals) who fought to keep refugee numbers high in the early years of the Trump administration thus making him a darling of the Left.

    https://www.niskanencenter.org/gener...raqi-refugees/


    The president typically sets yearly refugee levels around the beginning of each fiscal year and the Trump administration has not yet announced its plans for fiscal 2021, which begins on Oct. 1.

    The refugee cap was cut to 18,000 this year, the lowest level since the modern-day program began in 1980. So far, roughly half that many refugees have been let in as increased vetting and the coronavirus pandemic have slowed arrivals.

    The senior official said that even if 2021 admissions are not delayed, next year’s cap could be cut below current levels.

    “The arc of this administration’s refugee policy is going to continue,” said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing deliberations.


    Trump and his top officials have said refugees could pose threats to national security and that resettlement should take place closer to countries of origin. The administration also contends that refugee resettlement can be costly for local communities, although refugee backers reject those arguments.

    The possible moves remain under discussion and no final decision has been reached, the official stressed.
    [….]

    In addition to greatly reducing refugee admissions to the United States, Trump also issued an executive order in September 2019 that required state and local elected officials to consent to receive refugees, saying it would better ensure refugees were sent to areas with adequate resources to receive them.


    Three of nine federal refugee contractors successfully sued to stop the Trump order to give state and local governments a say in refugee resettlement. They have been deciding for four decades where to place refugees and they want to continue to have that power.

    Below, partially federally-funded HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) CEO Mark Hetfield holds a press conference.








    In January, a Maryland-based U.S. district judge blocked the order from taking effect, prompting Trump administration officials to consider a possible “deferral” of refugee admissions until the court case is resolved, the senior official said.


    The case is now on appeal, so the administration has a very good reason to postpone making any decision about numbers.


    The Refugee Act of 1980 leaves the discretion up to the President and there is no requirement in the law that says we must admit any refugees!


    More here. See the discussion about how Biden wants 125,000 refugees this coming year, but that Trump has successfully severed the pipeline into America which refugee promoters say will take months (years!) to rebuild.



    https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org...rs-for-fy2021/


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    Make it ZERO!

    We do not want these people.

    We do not want to PAY to bring them here!

    We do not want to PAY for them when they get here!


    Send the ones already here back home to reunite with their families and rebuild their own country. Take their oil money to pay for it!


    No more immigration.

    No refugees.

    No asylum.

    No TPS.

    No illegal aliens.

    No anchor baby.

    No citzenship!

    No DACA, No Amnesty #8, and NO path to stay here. They go home too!


    We are not the doormat, ATM machine, food bank, Motel 6, or dumping ground for the world any more! They need to get on birth control and solve their own problems!


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    Exclusive: Trump administration considers postponing refugee admissions, U.S. official says





    By Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg

    4 MIN READ





    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are weighing whether to postpone or further cut refugee admissions in the coming year amid legal fights over President Donald Trump’s refugee policy and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official said.






    FILE PHOTO: A Syrian refugee woman puts a face mask on a boy as a precaution against the spread of the novel coronavirus, in al-Wazzani area, in southern Lebanon, March 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/File Photo



    The possible postponement - one of several options under discussion - would mean some or all refugee admissions could be frozen until a legal challenge to a 2019 Trump order on refugees is resolved “with some greater degree of finality,” the official told Reuters.

    It is not clear when that lawsuit may be resolved, especially if the case goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a process that could take months or even longer.

    The president typically sets yearly refugee levels around the beginning of each fiscal year and the Trump administration has not yet announced its plans for fiscal 2021, which begins on Oct. 1.

    The refugee cap was cut to 18,000 this year, the lowest level since the modern-day program began in 1980. So far, roughly half that many refugees have been let in as increased vetting and the coronavirus pandemic have slowed arrivals.

    The senior official said that even if 2021 admissions are not delayed, next year’s cap could be cut below current levels.


    “The arc of this administration’s refugee policy is going to continue,” said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing deliberations.

    Trump and his top officials have said refugees could pose threats to national security and that resettlement should take place closer to countries of origin. The administration also contends that refugee resettlement can be costly for local communities, although refugee backers reject those arguments.

    The possible moves remain under discussion and no final decision has been reached, the official stressed.

    Democratic challenger Joe Biden has pledged to raise refugee admissions to 125,000 per year if he defeats Trump in November. However, Biden has not said how quickly he would raise the cap and advocates say the program could take years to recover after Trump-era reductions.

    If he wins, Biden could seek to raise the cap soon after taking office, just as Trump moved to halve refugee admissions in early 2017. But refugee groups say that restoring the pipeline of travel-ready refugees and rebuilding the organizations that receive them in the United States will take months or years as refugees will need to undergo renewed security and medical checks and shuttered resettlement offices will need to reopen.



    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2612SO



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    Send them ALL back to Syria to rebuild with their oil money.

    Send their MEN back, they need to go home and rebuild their own country.

    KEEP THEM ALL OUT OF HERE!

    WE HAVE NO HOUSING, IT IS EXPENSIVE TO LIVE HERE.
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    'I have never seen anything like this': Oregon towns emptied and confusion spreads amid fires




    Jason Wilson in Molalla, Oregon 2 hrs ago





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    'I have never seen anything like this': Oregon towns emptied and confusion spreads amid fires





    Hundreds of thousands of people in Oregon were ordered to leave their homes on Thursday as wildfires encroached on their properties. The evacuations clogged highways, emptied entire towns and sparked confusion in a state that has not grappled with wildfires of this size before.





    © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesLarge-scale evacuations in the state began within the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon’s largest city. Clackamas county, home to some 420,000 people in the metro’s south, was already under varying levels of fire alert when officials on Thursday afternoon told residents of the city of Molalla to leave.





    © Photograph: Nathan Howard/Getty Images Oregon residents evacuate north along route 213. The state is grappling with wildfires the size of which it has not seen before.From early afternoon, bumper-to-bumper traffic streamed north on state route 213 from Molalla towards Oregon City. The highway’s northbound lanes were clogged with RVs, trailers, trucks and smaller vehicles carrying tool boxes, luggage, trail bikes and horses.


    The caravan was just one part of a half-million strong evacuation in a state confronted by the worst fire conditions in recent history, and, according to the governor, Kate Brown, the possibility of the worst fatalities and property damage on record.

    In southbound lanes, meanwhile, dozens of local and state police cruisers, fire-and-rescue trucks and ambulances sped towards the town and the two megafires threatening its existence: the Riverside fire, which has burned 125,000 acres to the east of Mollala, and the deadly Beechie Creek fire, which has incinerated more than 182,000 acres, mostly in neighboring Marion county, while killing at least two, and destroying the lakeside town of Detroit.






    © Provided by The Guardian An orange smoke-filled sky is seen above Molalla, Oregon on Thursday as fires burn nearby. Photograph: Deborah Bloom/AFP/Getty ImagesFire officials expressed concern that the two great fires might merge, after unsafe conditions forced firefighters to disengage from the Riverside blaze around 2pm. At that time it was just two miles from Estacada, fifteen miles north-east of Molalla, at the foot of Mount Hood.

    When the evacuation order came, even Molalla’s fire department was forced to leave town. By 3pm they were setting up a makeshift staging ground at the elementary school in Mulino, five miles north of their home base.

    As administrators were busy organizing their new headquarters, fire engines and volunteers’ pickup trucks continued to arrive, bearing members of the mostly volunteer force – some with faces caked with soot and grime from their encounters with the fires.

    Also there in force were the black and white cruisers of the Oregon state police. As intense planning discussions took place in the school’s car park, officers and tired volunteers unloaded bottled water and energy drinks donated by a stream of arriving locals and well-wishers.

    At the fringes of the action stood Tony Mann, the superintendent of the Molalla River school district, whose school became a temporary firehouse from Thursday afternoon. He said that although he had only received the request an hour before firefighters started arriving, he was happy to help.

    Although he had already evacuated from the area, he came back to give firefighters access to the school, he said. He added: “As a school district, we’re about how do we support our communities once first responders have done their jobs”.

    Describing himself as a “lifelong resident” of Clackamas county, he said of the fires: “I have never seen anything like this in my life”.

    David Scuito, a Molalla firefighter, agreed: “We have dealt with smaller fires in season, but never to this scale.”

    Of the parade of cars passing north past the school’s entrances, he said: “It’s a good sign. Police are getting everyone out of here.”







    © Provided by The Guardian Volunteers with the Portland mutual aid group PDX Witches deliver donated supplies to a fire command center on Thursday in Molalla. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesThe spirit of cooperation was not felt universally, however.

    As in other western towns, fear, uncertainty and disinformation gripped Molalla ahead of the evacuation.

    In preceding days, Facebook pages associated with the town were filled with rumors of looters and Antifa raids. On its Facebook page overnight, Molalla police were forced to amend an earlier call for residents to report suspicious activity.
    “This is about possible looters, not antifa or setting of fires,” the edit read. “There has been NO antifa in town as of this posting at 02am. Please, folks, stay calm and use common sense.”

    The effects of this disinformation were dangerously evident on the ground.
    On Thursday afternoon, three journalists were confronted by men with AR-15s and summarily ordered to leave Molalla. One of them, Sergio Olmos, who was on assignment for Oregon Public Broadcasting, said that the orders were given by the men – apparently civilians – without explanations or identification.

    Further afield, other men with similar sympathies appeared to be on patrol. Although few vehicles were left in Mulino save those belonging to emergency services, on the trip there and again on back roads en route to Oregon City, men in trucks bearing thin blue line flags – a badge of membership for rightwing movements – were observed in states of hypervigilance. Some appeared to be noting the faces and number plates of passersby.

    Others sent horn honks and supportive gestures towards trucks bearing similar regalia.

    By late afternoon, more of the county, including southern parts of Oregon City, had been subjected to evacuation orders. Although Mulino and Molalla remained eerily empty, the highways and bridges leading over the Willamette River into Portland were at a virtual standstill around 5pm, as a large proportion of Clackamas county residents fled the wildfires.
    While they queued at the gateways to Portland, that city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, declared that city was in a state of fire emergency, and closed all city-owned outdoor areas, while opening evacuation sites for fire victims.

    Wheeler’s move on Thursday evening underlined the fact that the fires, which had wholly consumed several rural, mountain towns, were now reaching into the west’s largest cities.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-...?ocid=msedgntp


    Last edited by Beezer; 09-11-2020 at 03:31 PM.
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    NO REFUGEES COMING HERE FROM ANYWHERE!

    NO ASYLUM

    NO TPS!

    NO ILLEGAL ALIENS

    NO DACA

    NO ANCHOR BABY

    NO CITIZENSHIP!

    NO MORE PEOPLE!

    WE HAVE OUR OWN TO TAKE CARE OF!
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