Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 12, 2017
CEO Harpstead pulls down a salary and benefits package of over $300,000 annually to head the $91 million a year operation. Link to Form 990 below.
Here (below) is the FY18 R & P Abstract for St. Cloud.
I maintain that if the program is a good one for the community, they should be able to sell it with all the facts on the table!
I maintain that if the program is a good one for the community, they should be able to sell it with all the facts on the table!
If they succeed they will be placing 27 more than they did in FY17 which ended on the 30th of September.
Checking Wrapsnet, here is a summary (below) of the refugees (mostly Muslims) who were placed by a subcontractor (Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota) of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Servicemothership located in Baltimore.
Refugees who went to St. Cloud in direct resettlement (there are no reliable numbers on secondary migrants) last year are below.
Secondary migrants are refugees placed elsewhere who migrate (legally!) on their own to another town or city.
Minnesota does have the highest number of secondary migrants in the country as we learned a few years ago when such information was published.
In FY17 St. Cloud received 198 of the 1,623 refugees resettled in the entire state.
Burma (4)
Ethiopia (19)
Iraq (9)
Somalia (166)
St. Cloud had the second highest Somali resettlement after Minneapolis (364).
This is the document that should be made available to the public BEFORE it goes to Washington. These numbers are determined by Lutheran Social Service in Minnesota (Harpstead’s organization) with the help of “stakeholders.” Stakeholders should include your local elected officials!
(See my post on St. Cloud yesterday)
Normally this document is kept from the general public, but we were fortunate enough to obtain it. Knowledge is power and that is the primary reason there is so little transparency with refugee resettlement. The feds and the contractors don’t want citizens to have all the facts!
Below are screenshots of the pages. Serious students should go to this post where I explained some of the numbers, categories etc. But, I am far from an expert!
Documents like this (reporting the capacity of your town to ‘welcome’ refugees and from where) come in to Washington from hundreds of towns and cities and are put together to become the basis for the Presidential determination which we know is a maximum 45,000 refugees for FY18 (which is now underway as of Oct. 1). ...
I don’t believe in attacking a person’s appearance, but is it just me, or do so many of these wealthy taxpayer-funded fake refugee contractor CEOs look like they’ve never done an honest day of work in the great outdoors in their entire lives? I propose each should be awarded a free fellowship of volunteer work for one week working on Ann’s beautiful farm.
I don’t believe in attacking a person’s appearance, but is it just me, or do so many of these wealthy taxpayer-funded fake refugee contractor CEOs look like they’ve never done an honest day of work in the great outdoors in their entire lives? I propose each should be awarded a free fellowship of volunteer work for one week working on Ann’s beautiful farm.
Imagine the bracing salubrious benefits as each is pulled out of their boring antiseptic office on top of some high rise and placed out in God’s country, from dawn till dusk mending fences and baling hay. Of course I’m definitely not talking about anything abusive. Far from it! Just tough love. And, besides, what do they say? ‘Spare the bullwhip, spoil the contractor.’
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