Obama Thanked For Extending SSI To Refugees

[Ayatollahgondola]

Now we know where the money went insted of the State Criminal Alien Program that paid the states to keep Obama's pet illegals in jails. He's giving it to his newly arrived voters. Now refugees are getting the Supplemental Social Security Income too. Americans Social Security safety net is going broke, but Obama feels that what's left should be shared with newly arrived mexicans, Iraqi's Somali's....you name it.

February 15, 2012
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Refugee Advocates Laud President Obama
for Stable Budget

(Washington, D.C.)-U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
President & Chief Executive Officer, Lavinia Limon, today praised
President Barack Obama for proposing a fiscal year 2013 budget for
refugees that demonstrates continued support for current funding
levels and avoids steep reductions. The President's
spending proposal, released Monday, also includes needed increases to
meet higher costs of refugee-related medical services and assistance
for unaccompanied migrant children.

"Refugees struggling to attain self-sufficiency in our country
can be grateful to President Obama for his budget proposal that
imposes no cuts," said Lavinia Limon. "Vulnerable,
unaccompanied migrant children who turn up on our shores and borders
will have more protection and help, as will refugee families driven by
war and persecution and who strive to build new lives here. We
hope that the Congress will approve these important budget measures,
and I applaud President Obama for his leadership for refugees
throughout the United States."

The President's FY 2013 budget plan would maintain current
funding for most refugee programs administered through the departments
of Health and Human Services, and State. It contains a $37
million increase for the Office of Refugee Resettlement under HHS to
cover increases in medical costs of newly-arrived refugees, and for
care for unaccompanied alien children. The President's
budget blueprint also provides funding necessary for the extension of
SSI benefits for eligible refugees for two years.
"In the current economic and political climate, it is not easy
to stand up for the most vulnerable among us, but that is exactly what
President Obama has done today," added Limon.
USCRI has been protecting refugees, serving immigrants and upholding
freedom since 1911.


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The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants is a Washington, DC
area based nonprofit organization, dedicated to addressing the needs
and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by
advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing
direct professional services, and promoting the full participation
of refugees and immigrants in community life.