{"id":12897,"date":"2016-06-16T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:24:15","slug":"irli-sues-the-obama-administration-for-records-related-to-its-unlawful-refugee-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/06\/16\/irli-sues-the-obama-administration-for-records-related-to-its-unlawful-refugee-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"IRLI Sues the Obama Administration for Records Related to its Unlawful Refugee Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gavel\"On behalf of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit\u00a0in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about the Obama Administration\u2019s unlawful and politicized refugee programs. (Federation for American Immigration Reform v. Department of Health and Human Services<\/i>, Civil No.1:16-cv-01163). The records being sought span five separate requests, each of which have been stonewalled by the agency.<\/p>\n

Under\u00a0U.S. immigration\u00a0law, only those who face persecution on account of \u201crace, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion\u201d can be admitted into the country as a refugee. The refugee law does not cover those fleeing from \u201chigh-crime\u201d regions of the world, such as Central America. The Obama Administration, however, has used this premise to establish the \u201cso-called\u201d In Country Refugee\/Parole Program for Central American Minors (CAM) program, which uses taxpayer-dollars to actually <\/span>fly-in<\/i> Central American juveniles to be \u201creunited\u201d with their mostly illegal alien-parents and potential legal guardians residing in the country. It\u2019s believed over 100,000 have entered the U.S. through the program so far. Through its FOIA request and lawsuit, FAIR is building a case that clearly shows the Obama Administration\u2019s violation of U.S. refugee law as well as executive parole authority, which it\u2019s also misusing to facilitate the unlawful CAM program.<\/span><\/p>\n

FAIR\u2019s requests also cover communications between key officials within HHS\u2019s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and refugee advocacy groups and contractors (many of whom these officials previously worked for), communications between the White House and ORR regarding the Syrian refugee program, records relating to the agency\u2019s monitoring of refugee resettlement-contractors (which is reportedly grossly insufficient), as well as certain cooperative agreements between the federal government and several refugee advocacy groups sponsored by open-borders globalist, George Soros. It is hoped much of the information (so far unlawfully withheld by HHS) will, for instance, assist state governments wishing to put a halt to the Administration\u2019s plan to take in \u201crefugees\u201d whose mass influx will put further strain on their already burdened school, health care and welfare systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

IRLI Executive Director, Dale L. Wilcox, commented, \u201cThe records we expect to obtain in response to our suit we hope will raise public awareness regarding Obama\u2019s lawless, open-borders policies, and assist states across the nation who must bear the burden.\u201d Wilcox continued, \u201cIt is average working Americans who are being affected by these programs and it is they who are naturally and rightly concerned for the social cohesion of their communities, for the fiscal strains on their states\u2019 budgets, and for the sanctity of our immigration law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint is attached <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span>