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    Republican Senator Lankford Opposes President's Low Refugee Ceiling for FY2020

    Republican Senator Lankford Opposes President’s Low Refugee Ceiling for FY2020

    10/03/2019 ~ Ann Corcoran

    But he is not alone. Continue reading to see which other Republican Senators have joined with some of the most vocal Open Borders Dems in opposing (slamming!) the President on the refugee ceiling for the new fiscal year which began on Tuesday.


    From The Oklahoman:
    Lankford slams Trump plan to reduce refugee admissions

    Sen. James Lankford on Friday came out against the Trump administration’s plan to reduce the number of refugees allowed into the United States.


    “I’m disappointed to see that the administration has once again decided to decrease the number of refugees we allow into our country,” Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, said.





    Lankford leader of the pack in 2018 as ‘faith’ leaders gather on the Hill to oppose the President and support ‘Dreamers’ and to push for more refugees for your towns and cities. https://stream.org/immigration-debat...faith-leaders/


    “Over the last few months, the Department of Homeland Security implemented multiple policies that have resulted in a decrease in migrants at the U.S. southern border.


    “While I appreciate the administration’s focus on curbing illegal immigration and caring for asylum seekers, that doesn’t mean we should continue to reduce the admittance of refugees who are fleeing from persecution in their home countries to support these policies.”
    [….]


    Lankford and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., sent a letter last month wrote a letter signed by other senators to three of Trump’s cabinet secretaries urging the refugee cap to be raised from this year’s level. [That would mean they were pushing for more than 30,000!—ed]


    The letter, signed by several other senators from both parties, states, “At a time when we are facing the ‘highest levels of displacement on record,’ according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, we urge you to increase the refugee resettlement cap and to admit as many refugees as possible within that cap. America has a responsibility to promote compassion and democracy around the world through assistance to vulnerable and displaced people.”
    More here.


    The letter is here, but as I mentioned previously no specific number of refugees is proposed leaving them free to blast the President for whatever number he recommended. (The Open Borders agitators were pushing for 95,000 knowing full well that would never happen.)


    Here are the signers of the letter in addition to Lankford and his sidekick, Senator Chris Coons (D) of Delaware.
    I think it’s kind of handy to have this list of the hardcore promoters of more refugees in the US Senate. (Rs are on the Left and Dems on the right.)


    Is your Republican Senator on this list?





    https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org...ng-for-fy2020/
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    We have our own "displaced" people living in the streets, millions homeless, lost homes due to floods, tornados, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides.

    Vote these swamp rats out of office!

    We have our own people to take care of and we are not the ATM machine or dumping ground for the world.

    Send them to Safe Zone in their country. Let them build their own villages and governments!

    These people need to be on birth control and stop breeding in the dirt, living in poverty, and fighting each other in never ending wars!

    We are 22 TRILLION in debt. It is expensive to live here. There is NO housing, over crowded schools, roads, healthcare system. We do not want to pay their bills out of OUR wallets! Not one dime and shut this damn program down!
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    Refugee Industry Agitators Launch Social Media Campaign; 95,000 Refugees Each Year by Law!

    10/07/2019 ~ Ann Corcoran


    Today, while reading one more story about how the President is killing the US Refugee Admissions Program, it reminded me that I wanted to go back and have a look at the Refugee Council USA report where they list the many refugee offices that have closed in the last two years.


    Longtime readers may remember that in the heyday of the Obama Administration the US State Department was working feverishly (and secretively) with its nine major contractors to find new locations to place refugees. We wrote about it many times.


    In fact, in June of 2018, Judicial Watch sued in an attempt to get the list of proposed Obama sites and the criteria used to choose them, see here. I don’t know where the case stands, but will find out.





    However, when I went to the Refugee Council USA site for their report on Trump-era office closures this morning, the report was blacked out. WTH! Readers were directed to a new initiative.


    This is a good opportunity to hammer the point again—they never give up!


    The Open Borders pushers are always on the offense coming up with some new effort to show their supporters they are working hard to move the needle in their direction in support of mass migration.


    Frankly, other than Trump, people who want to see restraint used in how much immigration America can sustain are almost always playing defense!


    Anyway, here is their latest initiative which began yesterday. For some strange reason they want their supporters to black out their social media accounts. But, more importantly they are looking for support for the so-called GRACE ACT which seeks to set a minimum refugee number each year of 95,000!








    Go here to see the GRACE ACT which would. among other things, set the minimum number of refugees to be admitted to the US each year at 95,000.


    You are probably saying, that it won’t go anywhere and you would be right.


    However, with each of these campaigns where they are on the offense and the media laps it up, they move the needle in their direction.


    So why can’t we do that and demand a moratorium—zero admissions—until our whole US immigration system is revamped?


    We could (and it would help Trump!), but it would look extreme and heaven-forbid the immigration control groups running the show in Washington don’t want to look extreme, not ever!
    How about a new group! Something like Migration Moratorium NOW!


    https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/


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    116th CONGRESS
    1st Session
    H. R. 2146

    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, and for other purposes.

    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
    April 9, 2019
    Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Engel, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Norton, Mr. Raskin, and Ms. Shalala) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


    A BILL
    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the “Guaranteed Refugee Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act” or the “GRACE Act”.

    SEC. 2. ADMISSION OF REFUGEES.
    Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) is amended—

    (1) in subsection (a)—
    (A) by striking paragraph (1);
    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (4) as paragraphs (1) and (6), respectively;
    (C) in paragraph (1), as redesignated—
    (i) by striking “after fiscal year 1982”; and
    (ii) by striking “is justified” and all that follows through “interest.” and inserting “is—

    “(A) justified by humanitarian concerns or otherwise in the national interest; and
    “(B) not less than 95,000.
    “(2) Each officer of the Federal Government responsible for refugee admissions or refugee resettlement shall treat a determination under paragraph (1) and subsection (b) as the numerical goals for refugee admissions under this section for the applicable fiscal year.”; and
    (D) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:

    “(4) In making a determination under paragraph (1), the President shall consider the number of refugees who, during the calendar year beginning immediately after the beginning of the applicable fiscal year, are in need of resettlement in a third country, as determined by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the most recently published projected global resettlement needs report.
    “(5) The President shall determine regional allocations for admissions under this subsection, which shall—
    “(A) consider the projected needs identified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the projected global resettlement needs report for the calendar year beginning immediately after the beginning of the applicable fiscal year; and
    “(B) include an unallocated reserve that the Secretary of State, after notifying the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, may use for one or more regions in which the need for additional refugee admissions arises.”; and
    (2) by adding at the end the following:
    “(g) Quarterly Reports On Admissions.—Not later than 15 days after the last day of each quarter, the President shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that includes the following:
    “(1) REFUGEES ADMITTED.—
    “(A) The number of refugees admitted to the United States during the preceding quarter.
    “(B) The number of refugees admitted to the United States during the preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of the number of refugees authorized to be admitted in accordance with the determinations under subsections (a) and (b) for the applicable fiscal year.
    “(C) The cumulative number of refugees admitted to the United States during the applicable fiscal year, as of the last day of the preceding quarter.
    “(D) The number of refugees to be admitted to the United States during the remainder of the applicable fiscal year so as to achieve the numerical goals set forth in the determinations under subsections (a) and (b) for such fiscal year.
    “(E) The number of refugees from each region admitted to the United States during the preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of the allocation for each region under subsection (a)(5) for the applicable fiscal year.
    “(2) ALIENS WITH SECURITY ADVISORY OPINIONS.—
    “(A) The number of aliens, by nationality, for whom a Security Advisory Opinion has been requested who were security-cleared during the preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of all cases successfully adjudicated by the Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the applicable fiscal year.
    “(B) The number of aliens, by nationality, for whom a Security Advisory Opinion has been requested who were admitted to the United States during the preceding quarter.
    “(3) CIRCUIT RIDES.—
    “(A) For the preceding quarter—
    “(i) the number of Refugee Corps officers deployed on circuit rides, expressed as a percentage of the overall number of Refugee Corps officers;
    “(ii) the number of individuals interviewed—
    “(I) on each circuit ride; and
    “(II) at each circuit ride location;
    “(iii) the number of circuit rides; and
    “(iv) for each circuit ride—
    “(I) the duration of the circuit ride;
    “(II) the average number of interviews conducted daily on the circuit ride; and
    “(III) the percentages of interviews conducted for—
    “(aa) individuals who require Security Advisory Opinions; and
    “(bb) individuals who do not require Security Advisory Opinions.
    “(B) For the subsequent quarter—
    “(i) the number of circuit rides scheduled; and
    “(ii) the number of circuit rides planned.
    “(4) PROCESSING.—For the preceding quarter—
    “(A) the average number of days between—
    “(i) the date on which an individual is identified by the United States Government as a refugee; and
    “(ii) the date on which such individual is interviewed by the Secretary of Homeland Security;
    “(B) the average number of days between—
    “(i) the date on which an individual identified by the United States Government as a refugee is interviewed by the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
    “(ii) the date on which such individual is admitted to the United States; and
    “(C) with respect to individuals identified by the United States Government as refugees who have been interviewed by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the approval, denial, and hold rates for the applications for admission of such individuals, by nationality.
    “(5) PLAN AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.—
    “(A) A plan that describes the procedural or personnel changes necessary to ensure the admission of the number of refugees authorized to be admitted to the United States in accordance with determinations under subsections (a) and (b), including a projection of the number of refugees to be admitted to the United States each month so as to achieve the numerical goals set forth in such determinations.
    “(B) Additional information relating to the pace of refugee admissions, as determined by the President.
    “(h) Rule Of Construction.—Nothing in this section may be construed—
    “(1) to inhibit the expeditious processing of refugee and asylum applications; or
    “(2) to restrict the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to admit aliens to the United States under any other Act.”.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-...bill/2146/text


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    WE WANT ZERO REFUGEES, ASYLUM, TPS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS!

    NO "GRACE" ACT!!!

    WE WANT THE "CHAIN DEPORTATION" ACT!!!
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    “(A) justified by humanitarian concerns or otherwise in the national interest; and
    “(B) not less than 95,000.

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