As usual, the devil here is in the details.

The Red Don administration closed all funding for #refugees through the ORR. So how are they bringing over these Afrikaner so-called "refugees"?

They're relying on a smaller, still-funded (so far) program known as PCP, the "Preferred Communities Program". Many (but not all) refugee relocation agencies participate in PCP.

Notably, the Episcopalian Church does not participate in PCP. They therefore wouldn't have been able to settle the Afrikaners anyway.

So what they're doing is refusing to participate in a program in which they already have no part, and in addition they're closing up shop so they'll be unable to serve any actual refugees going forward.

Sounds a lot less heroic now, don't it?

#immigration #resist #Ω #DoNotComply #WelcomeTheStranger

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65988/episcopal-church-white-afrikaners-ends-partnership-u-s-government

Presidio’s Immigrant Point Overlook, Washington Boulevard in the Presidio. “We opened the gates to all the world and said: ‘Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.'” –Woodrow Wilson Address at Independence Hall: "The Meaning of Liberty, July 04, 1914.

#sanfrancisco #presidio #goldengate #immigration #immigrants #welcome #welcomethestranger #freedom #nps #sfparks #nationalpark #woodrowwilson #stonemason #california #usa #landofimmigrants

Friends: #Refugees have been quite literally left out in the cold by the administration's cruel 1/24 order stopping any work on their behalf. These are people who were forced to leave their home country, then wait in another country while the US fully vetted them and processed their application, a process that could take two years or more.

Suddenly (in many cases, only days after their arrival) leaving families without food, shelter, language assistance, job counseling, or other support is an abomination and a betrayal of the highest order.

But you can help. Please consider a donation to the Refugee Program of the #Jewish Family & Children Service, or to the refugee #resettlement agency of your choice (such as #HIAS). Thank you!

Please boost this message so that others are given the opportunity to show our new neighbors that Americans can be welcoming and generous.

#immigration #homeless #poverty #WelcomeTheStranger #asylum #hope #sanctuary

https://secure.qgiv.com/for/refugeeassistanceprogram?blm_aid=11944435

Know your #rights! Interactions with ICE

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#ICE #CBP #policeState #immigration #fascism #FirstTheyCameFor #WelcomeTheStranger #asylum #sanctuary #border #refugees #displacedpersons #Orwellian #Kafkaesque

Emigrants and refugees face daunting challenges following their entry into the United States. David Harberger invites Alamedans to volunteer with two local organizations that are seeking to bridge the gap—Welcome the Stranger and Shelter in Peace.

https://alamedapost.com/op-ed/welcome-the-stranger-shelter-in-peace-programs-support-refugee-families/

#alameda #ShelterInPeace #volunteer #WelcomeTheStranger

#AsylumSeekers have not "crossed the border illegally". International law recognizes the right to seek #asylum as (in theory) does US law. Yes, there is plenty of illegal activity on our border—but it's on the part of US officials who are callously refusing to honor the rights of the most desperate among us.

#immigration #afghanistan #ukraine #sudan #guatemala #honduras #venezuela #immigrationLaw #WelcomeTheStranger

How sickening to hear @RobertJenrick trying to take the moral highground from the Archbishop of Canterbury

#CultureOfTheShameless
RT @GreenPartyMolly: Kudos to @justinwelby for swingeing critique of Tories’ odious bill to ban refugees

And respect to Jesus for giving him the moral justification

#WelcomeTheStranger

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyMolly/status/1656273170305892361

Kudos to @justinwelby for swingeing critique of Tories’ odious bill to ban refugees

And respect to Jesus for giving him the moral justification

#WelcomeTheStranger

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyMolly/status/1656270499620573184

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And economic migrants? Why, those would be the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free—the very people whom we profess to welcome, just as we did the ancestors of the plurality of American citizens alive today.
We defy our Founders and shame our ancestors when we fail in our duty to #WelcomeTheStranger.

I’m really quite surprised that Fareed seems to feel otherwise.

#FareedZakaria #immigration #asulymSeekers #refugees #migrants #law