Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society at it again: this time lobbying for lawyers for the “children”
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is one of nine major federal refugee resettlement contractors (aka lobbyists) which live off of your tax dollars.***
Mark Hetfield is the CEO of HIAS.http://www.hias.org/leadership/mark-hetfield
They have been busy, busy, busy lobbying for everything from amnesty (S. 744, Gang of Eight bill), to more Syrian (mostly Muslim) refugees for America, for an expansion of the refugee program and now for more bucks for the Unaccompanied Alien Children.
This is from their latest Action alert:
When Congress returns to Washington next week it must vote to fund the government for the current fiscal year. Decisions will be made about funding immigration judges and lawyers, detention facilities, and whether or not to keep important protections in place for children seeking asylum.
Join us in urging Congress to ensure that children and others who are running for their lives are given a fair chance to seek asylum in the United States.
And, for the convenience of their supporters they even provide language for their appeal. Note they are pushing for the “children” to be granted asylum (they would then be “refugees” and get all the goodies available to them as full-blown refugees). ...
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