Almost from its inception, the foundation has run refugee programs.

Also, the fundamental structure to support the refugee program has not been proven effective.

Officials at the department say that any refugee program must also be geared to those vulnerable groups.

"But in any refugee program, it's the operational details that have so much to do with how it comes out," he said.

"Who ever heard of a political party, which is what the Foundation really is, being allowed to run a refugee program?"

State Department officials, who oversee the refugee program, say they are working hard to move the refugees through the pipeline.

From there, via a refugee program, she immigrated to Canada.

It's an odd transaction: these are people going on refugee programs.

So is the refugee program generally if other first-asylum countries don't see to it that Thailand gets help.

The refugee program was halted recently because it was a failure.