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ORR’s Report to Congress for 2008 finally available

Posted by Christopher Coen on May 18, 2011

The ORR has finally released its mandated Report to Congress for fiscal year 2008 — two-and-a-half years late.

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3 Responses to “ORR’s Report to Congress for 2008 finally available”

  1. Mary said

    May 18, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    Do you know why they never reach the admission ceiling? They are below since the program began.

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    • christophercoen said

      May 19, 2011 at 5:45 pm

      There are all sorts of uncertainty as to whether refugees will make it here during the fiscal year – UNHCR bureaucracy, US Dept. of Homeland security checks/clearances, medical check-ups which can expire and need to be redone if there are delays in security clearances, etc (they call this the refugee “pipeline”). In addition some refugees decide not to resettle here, or are away helping a sick family member when their name is called, get pregnant while waiting, have health problems and can’t get here, etc. The State Dept cannot go above the ceiling limit so they attempt to get as close to it as possible. From 2001 to 2007, or so, they never got close to the ceiling limit due to problems establishing all the post 9-11 security clearances for each refugee.

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  2. Gedlu Metaferia said

    May 24, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    I have looked at the funding amount for ORR’s Anti-Human Trafficking Services in this report. The total funding amount for 2008 is $9.7 million. The number of certified victims is 267-317. If we divide the funding amount by the highest number of victims identified and certified, we get a figure close to $30,599 per head. The victims certified can also receive public assistance. I believe that this is the most expensive program of ORR. I wonder how much of this funding goes to staff salaries and related costs like fringe benefits, retirement and insurance for senior staff of funded agencies. The award level I have seen for funded agencies is about $425K. I have a difficulty to see how ORR measures benefits and services for vitims of human trafficking and torture vitims for its significant amount of funding with less certified clients or beneficieries.

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