11/6/2019 - Michelle Malkin Townhall.com
Over
the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of
18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows
news that America took a pause last month and refused to admit any new
refugees. On economic, public safety and national security grounds, this is a
very good thing for the 325 million people already in our country. But you
wouldn't know it from the grim headlines and hysterical condemnations by
globalist zealots and media sympathizers.
CNN
International led the open borders funeral procession last week, with a report
decrying, "No refugees will be resettled in the US in October, leaving
hundreds in limbo around the world." U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
hyperventilated that "Donald Trump is trying to destroy the very heart of
this nation. I won't let him." Social justice group CARE bemoaned this
"dark moment in our nation's history." Human Rights First complained
that Trump's proposal is "crippling the United States' status as a global
leader in refugee resettlement."
Heaven
forbid citizens in a sovereign nation have an effective say in who comes here,
from where and how many. Is one refugee-less month in America such a
catastrophe? Calm down, Chicken Littles. Get some perspective.
It
is most certainly true that America has a legacy of embracing people from
around the world fleeing persecution and war. After World War II, the U.S.
helped lead efforts to assist 650,000 displaced Europeans who had fled in fear,
were expelled and were victims of Nazi crimes and terror. Congress passed the
1948 Displaced Persons Act to accommodate them. Five years later, the Refugee
Relief Act of 1953 aided refugees from Italy and East Germany escaping
Communist regimes, adding another 250,000 refugees over four years. In the
1950s and 1960s, we welcomed Hungarians, Cubans and Czechoslovakians also
escaping Communist oppression. In the 1970s, we opened our doors to an
estimated 300,000 political refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The
Refugee Act of 1980 created the Office of Refugee Resettlement and office of
U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and raised the annual ceiling of
admissions to 50,000.
Under
Obama, that number soared to nearly 100,000 annually. The idea that we've
abandoned our humanitarian leadership role because of this refugee resettlement
reduction is ludicrous. Overall, since 1975, the U.S. has resettled more than 3
million refugees. Under Trump, the U.S. still accepted more refugees than any
other country in both 2017 and 2018. On top of that, America forked over nearly
$1.6 billion to support the U.N.'s refugee resettlement campaign. Moreover,
America remains the largest single country provider of humanitarian assistance
worldwide. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance was more than $8 billion in
fiscal year 2017, covering food, shelter, health care and access to clean water
for millions.
That's
enough.
Past
refugee admissions don't lock America into those same levels now or in the
future. America's constitutional duty is to Americans first ("ourselves
and our posterity"). The truth is that we've been generous to a ruinous,
open borders fault. Last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform
tallied refugee resettlement costs to taxpayers at nearly $9 billion over five
years.
In
my adopted home state of Colorado, a new University of Colorado Boulder study
acknowledged that refugees are often "trapped in chronic poverty"
after resettlement subsidies dry up and are unable to lift themselves out of
dependency on government aid such as public housing, Medicaid and food stamps.
Federal statistics show that nearly half of all refugee households receive cash
welfare. Chain migration perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
A
tiny cabal of government contractors, mostly religious groups cloaking their
profit-seeking in compassion and Scripture, perpetuates the refugee
resettlement racket. Openly hostile to American sovereignty, these people
spread their tax-subsidized syndicate's wealth to a vast network of
subcontractors, often tied to billionaire George Soros and his Open Society
Foundations, which promote global governance and unfettered migration espoused
by the United Nations, European Union and Vatican. These special interests have
systematically blurred the lines between legitimate refugees seeking asylum
from oppression and economic migrants from Central America clamoring for higher
wages or better welfare benefits. They're indifferent to the national security
risks of absorbing large numbers of Muslims whose adherence to repressive
sharia and religious jihad is utterly incompatible with our constitutional
principles.
Mass
migration champions have stretched the definition of refugee so thin that
"climate change refugees" seeking relief from uninhabitable
environments are now a phenomenon. Nuts. Doesn't America have enough residents
in need of shelter and support? If we let in millions of "climate change
refugees," where do Americans seek refuge when they render our climate
uninhabitable?
Only
a complete moratorium on immigration would give America the break it needs to
regain control of our system. Trump's refugee reduction is not an apocalypse.
It's a long overdue respite from the world's wretched refuse that deserves
cheers, not jeers.
Michelle
Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.
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