Is Obama Opening the Floodgates for Hamas?
A Clarification

Yesterday we emailed you information regarding President Obama’s presidentialmemorandum authorizing $20.3 million in funds to help Palestinians under theMigration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962. In that email we raised thequestion as to whether or not some of these Palestinians could end up“migrating” to the United States.

There have been some postings on the web that are maintaining that Obama’saction will lead to a mass immigration of Palestinians into the U.S. Oneposting we know of asserts that this is in error because the fund in questionis for “migrating” not “immigrating.”

Here’s an excerpt from thatpost:

“Just to be sure, I talked to an official at the StateDepartment. He said the fund in question, known as ERMA (the U.S. EmergencyRefugee and Migration Assistance fund), is run out of the White House. That is,the president has discretion to use it for what he determines are emergencies. Itis for providing funds for people in place — that is, where they are inneed in other countries, not here. He pointed out that “migration” is not thesame as “immigration.” It means people moving around, that’s all.”