[ April 19, 2024 ]
President Donald Trump’s travel ban is apparently good for business — or, at least, for the bottom financial lines of anti-Trump organizations.
Refugee resettlement programs in particular have been using the Trump travel ban on six terror-tied nations to do some serious fundraising.
The International Rescue Committee, for example, has been busy blasting out the email warnings about what Trump’s ban will do to harm refugees — and following that fear factor with requests for money.
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As Breitbart noted (thanks to Jihad Watch):
Refugee organizations wasted no time in capitalizing on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that stayed two lower courts’ rulings on President Trump’s temporary travel ban. The groups quickly used President Trump’s victory in temporarily banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries to send out fundraising messages.
The New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) sent out an email asking for donations which began: “The Supreme Court has reinstated parts of President Trump’s misguided travel ban and the impact on refugee families is immediate and devastating.”
The website for IRC says:
The United States has a long tradition of offering refuge to those fleeing persecution and war. However, the Trump Administration, citing unfounded security concerns, has moved to suspend the refugee resettlement program for 120 days and slash refugee arrivals in 2017 by more than half.
The IRC says people should get involved and donate because:
So far, only 17,000 of 4 million Syrian refugees have been re-settled in other countries.
More than 800,000 people arrived on the shores of Greece in 2015, an estimated 57% were fleeing the conflict in Syria.
An average of 50 Syrian families are forced to flee their homes, every hour of every day.The Church World Service (CWS) another “Voluntary Agency” listed by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, issued a statement after the Supreme Court’s opinion was released Monday saying:
‘Enabling any variation of President Trump’s discriminatory refugee and Muslim ban to go into effect-even temporarily-is an imprudent, devastating blow to our fundamental values of justice and humanity. We will continue to use all measures at our disposal to fully rescind this un-American ban and urge our elected officials to exercise political courage in the face of this legal and humanitarian setback.’ ‘Together, our spirit will never yield to such exclusionary policies.’
After this statement, CWS includes a link to GreaterAs1.org which asks for a donation.
The organization also tweeted the following which included a link to their GreaterAs1.org donation page.
CWS has also issued a statement urging people to “Tell the White House & Congress that you OPPOSE Trump’s Announcement to Grind Refugee Resettlement To a Halt & Bar Refugees from Certain Countries.” It includes the phone numbers to call “President Trump” and “Your Senators and Representatives” and a script on what to say, including: “I am strongly opposed to President Trump’s announcements to stop the resettlement of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.”
The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) did not directly ask for money, but it emailed out a script and asked people to “Tell Congress and the [Trump] Administration to conduct the review of the refugee admission process in good faith and as quickly as possible, and resettle at least 75,000 refugees during Fiscal Year 2018.” The statement was entitled, “Advocate for 75,000 Refugees.”
Can you say “thank you, Mr. President?”
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14 Comments
6 years ago
Record every cent raised–take names. IRS might be interested.
6 years ago
Reply to
12banjo
Only duly privileged 501c3s… the point is more to gather info on who is donating.
6 years ago
Reply to
12banjo
501c3s are required to disclose. And it’s public.
Except for Planned Parenthood who gets to keep their donors secret–at least from their end.
6 years ago
Reply to
12banjo
I didn’t say any such thing. You just want to waste time.
If transparency of funding is over reach — then put me down as in favor of it.
TAKE STEPS TO EXPOSE MONEY TRAIL.
D
6 years ago
Fleecing gullible elderly ladies out of their life savings, thinking they are doing good works, by contributing to phony charities. They go into debt to make charitable contributions, take out home loans, end up losing their houses, and living out their golden years in poverty.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
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6 years ago
Good that they are raising money, as it will be required when refugees are not automatically given welfare. Those organizations importing colonists can get used to the idea that they will be financially supporting them until they find work.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
WONG! Minnesota will hand out money to these dirtballs.. Its a sanctuary state
, if the FEDS would like to start arresting mayors, Start with Roseville
6 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
And this is the next nepotism community that will take the jobs your kids used to and sue when they get them if you so much as look funny at those burkas and robes harboring untold amounts of health department violations.
6 years ago
Don’t let people get by with telling you that we are a nation of immigrants. We are not, most Americans are not immigrants. This is just a political-psychological trick to make you more amendable to open borders – after all, they’ll say, we are immigrants too. Reject this BS.
6 years ago
Reply to
Canto28
Maybe our fathers’ fathers and grandfathers’ fathers etc were but we are Americans and should demand the same of all coming here. The attitudes and lawbreakers should go.
6 years ago
6 years ago
Its never about the refugees or should I say tools. Its always the agenda and playing the expendables with the barbarians and the appeasing masses.
