Slow the flow of impoverished refugees to Fargo,
ND say county commissioners, by Ann Corcoran, 9/11/16
Here we go
again, yet another story of a city overloaded (housing shortages, social
services strained), but the main reason I’m posting this is to point out their
(DOS and its contractors) little trickabout bringing the family over later. They can’t cut
back in North Dakota because LSS has a big brand spanking new building to pay
for. ( checked it out on my travels through the Dakotas this summer)
With all those
new seed communities being developed now: Rutland, VT, Missoula, MT,
Charleston, WV, Northhampton, MA, etc. we will ultimately hear the same story.
You see they get an ethnic ‘community’ established and then the contractors
give you the sob story about how they must reunite families. If you
squawk at that point you are a mean and hateful person. This is how
seeding/colonizing works! They put so-called “free cases” in Bismark, but next
year they will bring the relatives of that first group!
From the Grand
Forks Herald: FARGO — By a wide
margin, the Fargo area takes in more refugees than any other place in North
Dakota. Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., have received a total of
6,220 refugees since 1997 — over three times the number who arrived in Grand
Forks and Bismarck combined, according to Lutheran Social Services of North
Dakota (LSS), the nonprofit group hired by the federal government to resettle
refugees in North Dakota and Moorhead.
Cass County Commissioner Chad Peterson brought
up this discrepancy at a meeting of refugee resettlement officials on Thursday,
Sept. 8. He told the group he’d like to see refugees spread more
proportionately across the state, given that Cass County’s social service
system doesn’t have enough money to meet their needs.
“Right now, our
social services is overburdened to the nth degree,” he said. “There is a
substantive burden spent when we have folks in this quantity coming in that
make the lower salaries.” Shirley
Dykshoorn, who oversees refugee resettlement for LSS, said one reason so many
refugees land in the Fargo area is the availability of housing and support
services, as well as job and education opportunities.
Another factor is that the Fargo area has the
state’s biggest ethnic community, and a large amount of LSS resettlement work
involves reuniting incoming refugees with relatives already living here.
“Family ties help remove or reduce isolation, and support the families,”
Dykshoorn said, noting that refugees without ties are mostly being sent to
Bismarck.
Scherling
(county commissioner) agreed that western North Dakota could offer
opportunities for refugees. Though, she acknowledged that finding affordable housing
there is difficult and added that the same issue exists in Cass County.
“Affordable housing is tough everywhere,” she said. So what else is
new! A shortage of housing isn’t stopping them in
Missoula, MT or Buffalo,
NY either. By the
way, the parent
organization of LSS North Dakota is 95% federally funded.
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Fargo ND
has a population of about 120,000 and a land mass of about 49 square
miles. With 6220 Muslims, that’s 5.2% of
their population. This is the result of
damaging immigration compliments of Obama’s Saul Alinsky inspired “helter
skelter”, a blitzkrieg of abusive attacks by government on Americans.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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