on September 9, 2016 in World News
Obama Administration to Oakland County, Michigan: No, We Won’t Comply with Refugee Law
by Michael Patrick Leahy Robert Carey, the Obama administration’s director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), recently told Oakland County, Michigan that the agency he directs has no intention of complying with the Refugee Act of 1980‘s requirement that it “consult regularly …with local governments concerning the sponsorship process and the intended distribution among the States and localities before their placement in those States and localities.” In a letter to Carey dated June 17, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson wrote: It has come to my attention that between October 1, 2015 and May 31, 2016, 1,860 refugees have… View Article
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