Office of Refugee Resettlement planning ‘RefugeeCorps’ to employ refugees at contractor offices
The new RefugeeCorps will be patterned after AmeriCorps and and in partnership with AmeriCorps’ parent government agency.
It makes me laugh, they are very clever—very good at working all the angles!
Eskinder Negash is the outgoing Director of ORR. I wonder if they have picked his replacement yet, does anyone know?
The former refugees will be working for the refugee agencies (the federal contractors!) that operate in 180 plus cities across America. So, rather than the resettlement agencies using some of their government money to employ people they will be getting access to another pot of government money to hire refugees who can’t find work otherwise.
So tell me why we don’t just open federal refugee offices in those 180 cities and quit this charade where non-profits pretend to be non-governmental (charitable!) agencies.
They still spend our tax dollars, but as non-profits they are unaccountable to those of us paying their freight!
This is more news from the ORR outgoing Director Eskinder Negash’s annual review. We posted previous information from that document—58,000 unaccompanied minors entered the US in 2014 and were distributed to 124 locations around the country.
Here is the information on the RefugeeCorps (emphasis is mine):
ORR is pleased to announce the establishment of a new partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)—the agency that supports the AmeriCorps program, the RefugeeCorps. An entirely new initiative, this program places former refugees in positions at resettlement agencies to work directly with new arrivals. The goal is to improve the self-sufficiency and well-being of refugee populations and promote successful local integration. ...
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