Three Arkansas members of Congress question new
resettlement plan for Fayetteville area, by Ann Corcoran 11/13/16
Fayetteville,
Arkansas is one of the newest resettlement sites approved by the US State
Department to accommodate the large number of refugees that Barack Obama has
proposed for FY2017. We previously learned that there are 47 new sites, most
chosen in secrecy. Below is the list of those we have heard about so far.
From Talk
Business & Politics: Canopy Northwest Arkansas received final approval from the State
Department on Sept. 30 and is waiting for the assignment of its first refugee
family, which could come as early as mid-November.
Real test for
Rep. Steve Womack (R) is whether he will support defunding the Refugee
Admissions Program when Congress addresses the FY17 budget starting this week!
Canopy partners
with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), one of nine national
resettlement agencies that contract with the State Department to run the
refugee resettlement program. LIRS is the agency that will assign refugees to
Canopy after the refugees go through an extensive screening process, sometimes
lasting more than two years. [Learn
more about LIRS, here, 95%
taxpayer funded!—ed]
Over the course
of the coming year, Emily Crane Linn, resettlement director at Canopy, said
they expect to settle 20 to 25 families in Northwest Arkansas. [That would likely be over 100 refugees—ed]
It is the Syrian refugee possibility that
caused U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs,
and Steve Womack, R-Rogers, to send a letter dated Oct. 24 to U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry to “express our concern” about the resettlement program. (Link
here for a PDF of the letter.)
Sending a letter won’t
cut it. Sending a
letter makes constituents feel better, but we know how that turned out when
Rep. Trey Gowdy thought that he could slow the flow to then new resettlement
site Spartanburg, SC by writing to John Kerry. It did nothing!!! Defund!
Defund! Defund! Only one thing
matters, and if there is a ‘pocket of resistance’ forming in Arkansas you must
tell these three members of Congress to work to cut the funding in the upcoming
lame duck budget battle!
I see (here) that Arkansas has no members of
Congress who have tried to lift a finger to cut the funding so far. See Conservative
Review’s Liberty
score card for the
Arkansas delegation.
BTW, how many
poultry processing plants in Arkansas are hankering for cheap refugee labor? Is
your city one of the newest targets for resettlement of third worlders?
Asheville, NC
Rutland, VT
Reno, NV
Ithaca, NY
Missoula, MT
Aberdeen, SD
(may have been thwarted as a primary resettlement site!)
Charleston, WV
Fayetteville,
AR
Blacksburg, VA
Pittsfield, MA
North Hampton,
MA
Flint, MI
Bloomington, IN
Traverse City,
MI
Poughkeepsie,
NY
Wilmington, DE
Watertown, NY
(maybe)
Youngstown, OH
(maybe)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/three-arkansas-members-of-congress-question-new-resettlement-plan-for-fayetteville-area/
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