Refugee Resettlement Roundup Plus
05/12/2015
This is from Refugee Resettlement Watch’s most recent weekly roundup (you should bookmark RRW, and go there regularly)
Here are the Top Posts of the past week (daily top posts are in the right hand sidebar):
2. Baltimore: Thousands of impoverished refugees poured into city in last ten years; fuel for the fire?
3. Breaking news: Spartanburg, SC targeted to be colonized as next refugee “seed” community
The top ten countries this past week (excluding the US) from which readers arrived at RRW had a couple of surprises. Two countries worked their way into the top ten that I don’t think have ever been there before — Czech Republic and Malaysia.
UK
Canada
Australia
Czech Republic
European Union
Germany
South Africa
Malaysia
Netherlands
France
If you're wondering why people in the Czech Republic are interested in the problems of refugee resettlement in the the US, the answer is here: Czechs grapple with Islam and Syria refugees By Rob Cameron, Deutsche Welt, January 16, 2015.
But see also by Ann Corcoran on RRW these:
- Nutty Norwegians: Christian Party wants 10,000 Syrian Muslims admitted to the country
- Did you know that disabled and senior refugees get SSI? Fort Wayne, IN Somali case is illustrative
- 1.6 million green cards issued to immigrants from Muslim countries; refugees in the mix
- Virginia: African refugee from Togo in US for nine days before attempted rape