{"id":14538,"date":"2017-07-17T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:44:01","slug":"deep-state-goes-rogue-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/07\/17\/deep-state-goes-rogue-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Deep State’ Goes Rogue on Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Donald J. Trump was elected president, he knew he\u2019d face opposition to his main policy objectives by the Democratic Party and activist judges. Now the\u201cDeep State” inside his own U.S. State Department<\/a> is defying the White House, wasting tax dollars and endangering Americans by lifting restrictions on refugees entering this country.<\/p>\n In a protest letter to the president, U.S. Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, put the move in blunt context:<\/p>\n \u201cThe State Department announcement came the same week that the son of a Libyan refugee committed a horrific act of terrorism in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people. The week before, individuals from Pakistan, Libya and Morocco savagely killed seven people in brutal attacks in London.\u201d<\/p>\n State\u2019s maneuver was revealed in an email to private agencies that help refugees settle in the United States. The New York Times quoted State Department officer Jennifer L. Smith\u2019s email as saying refugee groups could now process people \u201cunconstrained by the weekly quotas that were in place.\u201d<\/p>\n In circumventing Trump\u2019s call for tighter vetting, the embedded bureaucrats at State say they are using funding from the department\u2019s Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) program. The funds support the processing of 70,000 incoming refugees.<\/p>\n But MRA regulations give the administration discretion to allocate the dollars to refugee processing or<\/em>, alternatively,<\/em> to support refugees in or near their homelands.<\/p>\n In some cases, the latter option makes more sense \u2013 both in terms of economy and security. Studies show that for every one refugee brought to the U.S., MRA could aid 12 refugees overseas with food, shelter and basic necessities in designated safe zones.<\/p>\n