By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 17, 2016
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... "It might come as a surprise to American entrepreneurs that there is at least one group to whom the federal government is providing direct assistance for business start-ups: illegal aliens. In fact, these recipients of your taxpayer funds fall into an even more restricted category: illegal aliens who have been deported back to their native land.
"As part of an ongoing project he calls The Waste Report, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has called attention to these outlays, which are made by an obscure federal agency called the Inter-American Foundation (IAF). "Housed in a non-descript building a few blocks from the White House, IAF is spending up to $50,000 annually to help Salvadorans sent back to El Salvador to "reintegrate" into their communities, under the idea that doing so will make them less likely to seek to return to the United States. "IAF works through a local NGO called INSAMI, which stands for Instituto Salvadoreño del Migrante and which estimates that 500 Salvadorans are deported from the U.S. to El Salvador each week. The group says the IAF funds assist sixty Salvadorans a year, "including deportees," by helping to "facilitate their reintegration into their communities and support their enterprises." This is accomplished by "offering financial education, technical advice and assistance with business plans," all of which serves, in turn, to "assure that broader support and resources are available to the migrants, that their abilities are appreciated, their concerns understood and their needs met." "Once we deport them, we set them up in business? It makes no sense to me," Sen. Paul said in an interview with Fox News."Deportees are sent home to await their "business start-ups" by commercial flights and even on private jets:
"More than 40 per cent of those who had violated visa restrictions were convicted criminals while more than 1,000 were identified as gang members. "A group campaigning for taxpayers' rights have said the figures obtained by the Daily Mail Online are 'insane' and an 'outrageous waste of tax dollars'. "At one point they hired aa long-range, twin engine commercial jet that seats 261 passengers to take a single illegal immigrant to Nigeria." "They had to charter flights for so-called 'high-risk charters' on at least 34 occasions, because of the number of security personnel they needed on the flight." "David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, told Daily Mail Online: 'This is insane.'You can say that again, Mr. Williams. In fact, you should have it shouted from the rooftops. That's 'The Big Government Immigration Game' at work in the deportation department. At the open door to immigrants portal, this is what's new: "The State Department is hoping to bring an average of nearly 1,500 Syrian refugees to the United States per month in order to meet President Obama's target of settling 10,000 refugees in the country by September. (The Hill, April 16, 2016) What's the rush? Trying to look as pro-immigration as possible before November 8th's presidential election.
"About 1,300 refugees have already been placed in the United States since Obama first made the commitment in September."The settlement has supposedly provoked a "significant backlash", mostly from Republicans, who argue it puts the U.S. at risk from terrorism. What good is a "significant backlash" if it does nothing to stop the flow of 10,000 new refugees? You won't see many Tweets about it but showering money on immigrants after deportation has gotta be the biggest Marxist scam since Karl Marx promised Utopia for the world masses. Are any major taxpayer organizations or presidential hopefuls pointing out that government agencies like the State Department wouldn't have to deport immigrants if they didn't bring them in, in the first place? The generosity of the government doesn't come from the pockets of the politicians, but from those of their taxpayers. Questions should rise like proverbial dust in this latest government move. First, is the government deliberately stoking resentment and rancor among its civilian population by lavishing millions of dollars to first deport and then support back home the same illegals they invited to their shores in the first place? Where are the taxpayer organizations contemplating class action lawsuits against governments that seem to deliberately cause such chaos?
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