Tonight, at my regular coop shift, worked with someone who works at HIAS, an org that helps with Syrian refugee resettlement.
Apparently, the Trump’s “pause” at accepting refugees is very deliberately set at 4 months, and has everything to do with how refugee-helping organizations in the US are funded.
4 months is the magic number that would make them all run out of funding and lay off their staff.
Even with the current court orders in place, the damage is already being done, and the funding is drying up because there are a lot fewer refugees coming in!
This is very clever and has our Leninist-in-chief Bannon’s fingerprints all over it.
She didn’t know about the plan to make refugees’ sponsors reimburse the US government for any assistance refugees receive like Medicaid, food stamps etc.
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