New refugee seeding site: Youngstown, Ohio by Ann
Corcoran on October 20, 2016
We have been
trying to identify the new resettlement sites the US State Department has been
bragging about. They are very secretive about where they want to go next,
but they need new sites as they wear out their welcome in long established
sites and because Obama has determined that the numbers are being vastly
expanded for FY2017 which is already underway.
Mrosko was
involved with the Welcoming Cleveland initiative we mentioned here in 2013.
There are about 600 refugees being placed in Cleveland now. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/tom-negri-and-welcoming-america-are-planning-to-change-cleveland-starting-tonight/
There is no
list one can access (they have mentioned 47). There are only stories like this
one that sneak into local news that tip us off as to where they want to go
next. For new readers, Catholic Charities would be a subcontractor of the
US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Catholics in Youngstown must have run
out of poor Americans to care for there.
YOUNGSTOWN,
Ohio (WKBN) – The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown held a community forum to
discuss the thought of bringing refugees to Youngstown.
About 200 people, both for and against the
idea, attended the
meeting at Saint Columba Hall Wednesday night.
It was an
opportunity for those who are enthusiastic about the possibility of refugee
resettlement, as well as those who may be resistant to the idea, to learn more
about the issue, ask questions and engage in a dialogue.
“Maybe 25 to 30 people, which is not that
many, and help them by being involved in the work of the Catholic Charities
here,” said Cleveland
Migration and Refugee Services Director Thomas Mrosco.
On that last
point, we have been led to believe that a new resettlement site cannot be
established unless it starts with 50 refugees in the first year. Then,
like it or not, the pattern is that the next year they will get 100-150 until
they are like the town of Lancaster, PA be swamped with 700 needed third-worlders
arriving every year!
See our ‘Ten things you need to know if you are ‘welcoming’ refugees for
the first time.’ Once a site is opened, there will be no going back and
your town will not get to pick from the ethnic groups the DOS is bringing in.
And here,
below, are the new sites we have identified so far:
Asheville, NC
Rutland, VT
Reno, NV
Ithaca, NY
Missoula, MT
Aberdeen, SD
Charleston, WV
Fayetteville,
AR
Blacksburg, VA
Pittsfield, MA
Northhampton,
MA
Flint, MI
Bloomington, IN
Traverse City,
MI
Watertown, NY
(maybe)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/new-refugee-seeding-site-youngstown-ohio/
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