The empty screen told the story.
The day before, the screen had displayed a three-month calendar of refugees who had been cleared for resettlement in this country. Staff members at Catholic Charities used that information to arrange basic services such as housing, schooling and health care for those destined to make San Diego their home.
But when staff members logged on to the federal database the day after President Donald Trump issued executive orders suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days, the information had vanished.
“All of our process just died, right there,” recalled Nadine Toppozada, director of Refugee Services at Catholic Charities San Diego, the second-largest organization that resettles refugees in the region.
As of mid-February, the courts had suspended the orders and refugees and travelers from the targeted countries were once again being admitted into the United States.
But if the courts uphold them, the agency stands to lose half its caseload, $1.2 million in annual funding and possibly have to eliminate up to 11 positions, said its director, Robert Moser.
Under a contract with the U.S. federal government, Catholic Charities resettled nearly 1,100 refugees last year and expected to assist a similar number in 2017, Moser said. Of those 1,100 resettled last year, some 432 were from the seven countries targeted by the Trump administration.
“Many innocent and vulnerable people who have suffered persecution abroad based on political or religious reasons will continue to suffer due to political and religious prejudice displayed by the very country that historically has been the beacon of freedom and tolerance,” Moser said.
Full story at The Southern Cross.
National Security trumps $$$ greed!
Mother-of-two reveals she opened her home to Afghan ’12-year-old refugee’ but was shocked when he turned out to be a grown man who threatened to KILL her family
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4272510/Mother-took-child-refugee-threatened-kill-her.html
A mother-of-two opened up her home to a grown man posing as an Afghan ’12-year-old refugee’ who later attacked her family. The woman said she lives in fear after the man, who said his name was Abdul, threatened to kill her family after he was arrested for assaulting her relatives.
Yes, Catherine, this story was noted at Robert Spencer’s Jihadwatch.org site:
Also, this is the 2nd time the ‘ poor refugee’ had actually entered Europe (he had previously gotten into Belgium 2 years ago, when, then at last, his obvious jihad connections and true age were discovered and then deported. He is supposed to be at least 18 and perhaps 21 or more according to dental records). He just faked a new identity and got into the UK’. He is one of many according to German and Belgian citizens’ reporting the true hoax we are encountering.
But the sleeping Bob Ones and Fellow Catholics—eyes tightly shut— want us to know that our excellent “vetting process” prevents this thing from happening. Of course it…
“Many innocent and vulnerable people who have suffered persecution abroad based on political or religious reasons will continue to suffer due to political and religious prejudice displayed by the very country that historically has been the beacon of freedom and tolerance,” Moser said.
No, Moser, our country is “prejudice” against terrorists.
Gosh-a-Rootie! https://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2015/03/05/grief-counselors-dispatched-to-san-diego-after-new-progressive-bishop-named/ Hang in there; you’ll survive.