Think about Utica, NY before
you jump on the “welcoming refugees” bandwagon, by Ann Corcoran on 5/23/16
Two years before I started writing RRW, Utica,
NY was dubbed the ‘town that loves refugees’ by the United Nations. They even had some propaganda
show they took on the road to embarrass other cities into ‘welcoming’ refugees
just as Utica had!
Read the 2005
UN propaganda report used to entice (embarrass) other cities into ‘welcoming’
refugees. http://www.unhcr.org/publications/refugeemag/426f4c772/refugees-magazine-issue-138-town-loves-refugees.html
Now (11 years later) Utica has all sorts of
problems. Here
in January 2015 we reported on the school system there suing the state of New York for
more money. Why? Refugee overload! The school
system can’t handle the numbers of refugees who speak over 40 languages in
their schools.
From the Wall
Street Journal: Utica officials are grappling with high
poverty rates, rising enrollment and big deficits. Now,
just a week or so ago, the school system lost a lawsuit filed by six refugee
teenagers who claim they weren’t permitted to attend high school there.
Here is what
the NY
Times said about the case
(by the way, typical of mainstream media reports on refugees, the NYT implies
that the refugees simply made their way to Utica from the third world without
explaining that the city was targeted as a resettlement site by the federal
government and its contractors!):
The Utica City School District settled a
lawsuit on Thursday over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit
charged, were being excluded from the city’s lone high school because of their
age and because they did not speak English.
The lawsuit, filed last year on behalf of six refugees by the New York
Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York, claimed that
Utica shunted refugees who were older than 16 into lesser alternatives to high
school, like a G.E.D. program only for English-language learners. New York law
provides the right to a free public education until age 21.
Similar allegations, that refugee children are being excluded from
public schools, have been leveled at districts elsewhere around the state and
across the country.
Utica, in central New York, has become a
magnet in recent years for those escaping persecution in their home countries.
Today, nearly one out of six city residents is a refugee, according to the
Civil Liberties Union.
Message
to towns considering welcoming refugees—They do not bring economic boom times!
Refugees bring poverty and social and cultural strife! Utica Methodist
church becomes a mosque. Special treatment for special people!
Further
confirming that Utica has a problem with refugee overload, the White House has
singled out Utica’s refugee teen population for $2 million worth of summer
jobs! What about American kids who need summer jobs? From Syracuse.com:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Utica is among 11 communities nationwide that will
share $21 million in grants for summer jobs programs aimed at helping
disadvantaged youth, the White House and U.S. Department of Labor said Monday.
Utica will receive almost $2 million to help
400 students in the city’s refugee population receive summer work experience
and part-time jobs the rest of the year, White House officials said.
Again, think about the BIG LIE that refugees
will help your struggling city. They won’t! The only money they will bring in to
your town is the money Washington throws the city through myriad welfare
programs—food stamps, medicaid, section 8 housing, and now funding for summer
jobs. Washington doesn’t grow money on trees! The taxpayers of
America are propping up refugee saturated cities!
If
you live in newly targeted refugee placement cities—Rutland, VT, Reno, NV,
Missoula, MT and Ithaca, NY (and more!)—think long and hard if you want to be
like Utica, NY some day!
Click
here for our Utica archive.
The
resettlement contractor in Utica is the Mohawk Valley Resource Center and that
is a
subcontractor of Baltimore-based Lutheran Immigration
and Refugee Service (one of the US State Department’s top nine refugee
contractors).
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/think-about-utica-ny-before-you-jump-on-the-welcoming-refugees-bandwagon/
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