Thread: Midwestern towns trying to cope with large numbers of refugees

Midwestern towns trying to cope with large numbers of refugees

Posted by Ann Corcoran on March 23, 2015

I’m speechless! After years of reading one fluffy-puffy piece after another about refugees seeing their first snow, we are beginning to see major mainstream publications (Christian Science Monitor in this case) reporting on the struggle small towns are having with the huge numbers of refugees the US State Department and its contractors*** are dispersing across America.

Pay attention Spartanburg, SC and any other town contemplating “welcoming” refugees!

The NYT might still be hiding the source of the influx by not reporting on the refugee program, but other media is not so deceptive. By the way, I expect every person who read the NYT story yesterday, scratched their heads and wondered how so many Somalis got here!

From the Christian Science Monitor entitled, ‘For small-town America, new immigrants pose linguistic, cultural challenges:’

In 2012, Burmese children drowned near Marshalltown resettlement site.http://forefugees.com/2012/07/07/thr...halltown-iowa/

Marshalltown, Iowa — The voice was frantic – and unintelligible to the 911 dispatcher. “Ma’am, I cannot understand you,” she said. After 80 seconds, one word leapt out: “Riverview.”

On a warm July evening in 2012, while Marshalltown, Iowa, celebrated Independence Day, three refugee children from Myanmar (Burma) drowned in the Iowa River.The drownings at Riverview Park cast a grim light on the challenges facing both the city and its newest immigrants, most of whom spoke little English and had scant understanding of life in their new home – including the perils, known to more established residents, of the river’s treacherous currents. [Where was their resettlement contractor which should have been assimilating the refugees to their new home?–ed]

“Many towns are struggling to cope!”

For two decades, rural communities across the Midwest have been finding ways to absorb Latino immigrants. Now, a new generation of immigrants arriving from far-flung places such as Myanmar, Somalia, Iraq, and West Africa has brought a bewildering variety of cultures and languages. Many towns are struggling to cope.

Again, speechless, a reference to the meatpackers wanting refugee labor (see our2008 post about Clinton bring Bosnians to Iowa for the meatpackers):

Experts say the changing face of immigration in the rural Midwest reflects stricter federal enforcement. Tighter border security has slowed the influx of immigrants from Latin America entering the United States illegally. Meanwhile, the meatpacking industry has looked to refugees, who enjoy legal status, as a way of avoiding problems with undocumented Hispanic workers.

By the way, they don’t say it here, but due to a Clinton Executive Order that Bush did not rescind, local governments (you the taxpayers!) or any agency getting any federal funding is required to supply interpreters for the myriad languages and dialects the refugees bring to your town!

Much of the difficulty surrounding the new immigration is linguistic. Language barriers complicate services from law enforcement to health care. Ms. Beach recalls a school expulsion hearing that required two interpreters – the first to translate from one dialect of Myanmar to another, the second to translate into English.

See Ten Things your town needs to know before ‘welcoming’ refugees. See also our archive on ‘Meatpackers changing the face of small town America’ with their insatiable appetite for cheap labor.

*** Nine major federal contractors. Go here for a list of all the State Department subcontractors working in a town near you!

• Church World Service (CWS)
• Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC)
• Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM)
• Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)
• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
• World Relief Corporation (WR)

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wor...s-of-refugees/

What was so hard to foresee? Big box discount stores whetted Americans appetite for less expensive merchandise. Without getting boring. cheap became acceptable in all phases of American life. Reagan made it a mission of his to destroy labor unions. Then cheap labor became a demand, even for in-home services. Yes, Americans we are responsible for what we have become and are today! Now we want no part of it after putting nearly all Mom and Pop businesses out of business. It has been proven over 30 years that there is NO hope of reversing it politically, so how do we get out of what we created?

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

What was so hard to foresee? Big box discount stores whetted Americans appetite for less expensive merchandise. Without getting boring. cheap became acceptable in all phases of American life. Reagan made it a mission of his to destroy labor unions. Then cheap labor became a demand, even for in-home services. Yes, Americans we are responsible for what we have become and are today! Now we want no part of it after putting nearly all Mom and Pop businesses out of business. It has been proven over 30 years that there is NO hope of reversing it politically, so how do we get out of what we created?

In construction, it's called deconstruction. In law, it's called repeal. In politics, it's called reversal. In business, it's called down-sizing. In government, it's called revolt. In America, it's called ... Elections.

We need to deconstruct this mess with a 10 Year Moratorium on Immigration.
We need to repeal Obama Amnesty.
We need to reverse the practice of Automatic Birthright Citizenship for children of non-citizens.
We need to down-size DHS and authorize state and local law enforcement to enforce US immigration law.
We need to revolt against all officials who promote the welfare of aliens at the expense of US citizens.
We need to elect politicians who agree with all of the above.