Refugee resettlement is profitable... VOLAGS, who knew?

[abiG]

I just came across this article and was a bit shocked to find out the massive profits available to those in the refugee resettlement game.

Below are some of the sources of income for Volags:


a. $1,850 per refugee (including children) from the State Department.


b. Up to $2,200 for each refugee by participating in a U.S. DHHS program known as Matching Grant. To get the $2,200, the Volag need only show it spent $200 and gave away $800 worth of donated clothes, furniture or cars.


c. The Volag pockets 25% of every transportation loan it collects from refugees it “sponsors”.


d. All Volag expenses and overhead in the Washington, DC HQ are paid by the U.S. government.


e. For their refugee programs, Volags collect money from all federal grant programs – “Marriage Initiative”, “Faith-based”, “Ownership Society”, etc., as well as from various state and local grants.


The program is so lucrative that in some towns the Catholic Church has lessened support for traditional charity works to put more effort into resettlement. It uses collection offerings to promote the refugee resettlement program....


Tons more here: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/refugee-resettlement-fact-sheets/

The above figures were correct as of 2013. Is this still happening? If so, why?

 

[Rational Poster]

So we can make money off helping people and that's bad?

 

[abiG]

So we can make money off helping people and that's bad?

"WE" are paying for it, my backwards irrational friend. This comes right from American tax dollars. At least get that right.

 

[Rational Poster]

"WE" are paying for it, my backwards irrational friend. This comes right from American tax dollars. At least get that right.

Yeah.. and it goes back to American citizens.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

So we can make money off helping people and that's bad?

Umm, instead of 100% of the money being used to actually help the people its for, outside agencies are taking part of it to make a profit on a thing they should be no part of.

So yeah, its bad especially when there are so many non-profit companies AND volunteer organizations that do this stuff along with the government that is supposed to be doing it anyway.

 

[Kindacrazy]

So we can make money off helping people and that's bad?

Its actually grotesque graft and corruption, regardless of where you land on the immigration issue. It is a good example of the kind corruption that is rampant in the US though.

 

[abiG]

Yeah.. and it goes back to American citizens.

We get the immigrants, the money flows here:

There are 9 main major refugee resettlement organizations (Volags from “Voluntary Agency”) with approximately 450 affiliated organizations throughout the country; many are run by former refugees. Below are the 9 Volags that operate today:


US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),
Lutheran Immigrant Aid Society (LIRS),
International Rescue Committee (IRC),
World Relief Corporation,
Immigrant and Refugee Services of America (IRSA),
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS),
Church World Service (CWS),
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Service of the Episcopal Church of the USA,
Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC),...

At least click a link and do a little reading before embarrassing yourself like this.

 

[Rygu]

Liberals should start a "sponsor a refugee" program, and they can pay for them and let them live with them.

 

[Rational Poster]

We get the immigrants, the money flows here:

There are 9 main major refugee resettlement organizations (Volags from “Voluntary Agency”) with approximately 450 affiliated organizations throughout the country; many are run by former refugees. Below are the 9 Volags that operate today:


US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),
Lutheran Immigrant Aid Society (LIRS),
International Rescue Committee (IRC),
World Relief Corporation,
Immigrant and Refugee Services of America (IRSA),
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS),
Church World Service (CWS),
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Service of the Episcopal Church of the USA,
Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC),...

At least click a link and do a little reading before embarrassing yourself like this.

So.. the people that run the agency aren't Americans?

 

[abiG]

Wow, the numbers are in:

It is currently fairly widely accepted that there are approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States....

Our results lead us to the conclusion that the widely accepted estimate of 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States is too small. Our model estimates indicate that the true number is likely to be larger, with an estimated ninety-five percent probability interval ranging from 16.2 to 29.5 million undocumented immigrants....
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193

Almost 30 million now? Still with it?

 

[Phr3121]

I just came across this article and was a bit shocked to find out the massive profits available to those in the refugee resettlement game.

Why is that a shock to you? Do you think it was done for free? Just look at the profits in the prison (incarceration) business. The only thing that is free in this world is God's blessing.

 

[all caps]

Liberals should start a "sponsor a refugee" program, and they can pay for them and let them live with them.

I already do this by hiring them.

 

[abiG]

Why is that a shock to you? Do you think it was done for free? Just look at the profits in the prison (incarceration) business. The only thing that is free in this world is God's blessing.

I guess I was shocked by how open this is. I mean where in our Constitution does it talk about paying massive amounts of cash to special interest groups for 'resettling' 'document challenged' foreigners?

 

[Phr3121]

I guess I was shocked by how open this is. I mean where in our Constitution does it talk about paying massive amounts of cash to special interest groups for 'resettling' 'document challenged' foreigners?

I don't consider Volag to be an 'interest group'. The term refers to any of the nine U.S. private agencies dealing with reception and placement services for refugees arriving in the United States. They are contracted by the U.S. government. Similar to contractors during wartime.

Department of Defense (DoD) has 'Black Operations' funding approved on a yearly basis by congress for things that are classified. So, congress has no clue as to what they are voting on or to where millions of dollars is going to. Not even the president is allowed to know, reason being he is only in power for a short period of time. Need to know basis only. Some of this stuff is going on in Area 51 at Edwards Air Force Base. Classification is TOP SECRET or higher.

I think a small part of that money is going into drugs, escorts, and breast implants.

 

[abiG]

Hungary figured this out. Why can't we?

Hungary passes ‘Stop Soros’ law banning help for migrants

The Hungarian parliament has passed new legislation that criminalises lawyers and activists who help asylum seekers.


Anyone “facilitating illegal immigration” will face a year in jail.


Viktor Orban’s government has dubbed the legislation the “Stop Soros law”, after the billionaire philanthropist it accuses of supporting Muslim migrants....
https://yourperceptionisnotreality....ses-stop-soros-law-banning-help-for-migrants/