Refugees joyful about going home!, by Ann Corcoran 12/15/17
“I am so happy for the
chance to return. Even if we face challenges at least we will be in our home
country, among our relatives.”
Halima Ibrahim happy to go home!
The whole UN/US Refugee Admissions
Program needs to be redirected to do this: Protect refugees close to their home countries
and repatriate them as soon as possible.
The US is too quick to bring
(expensive) refugees to the US for PERMANENT resettlement disrupting their
cultures and disrupting American towns and cities.
SOUTH DARFUR, Sudan – Mother of six Hamila fled insecurity in Darfur a
decade ago, seeking safety in the neighbouring Central African Republic, or
CAR.
But this week, she was among more
than 230 former refugees returning home on a UNHCR flights from a camp near Bambari.
“I am so happy for the chance to
return to Sudan, especially for my children,” said Hamila, who had four more
children while in exile. “Even if we face challenges at least we will be in our
home country, among our relatives.” Continue reading here.
Time for a repatriation
fund! It is the humane thing to do!
Now that Donald Trump is in the
White House maybe we can go back to the idea a reader presented to us a couple of years ago—-let’s have a repatriation fund for refugees
who are unhappy with America and want to go home.
And, I don’t want to hear from
critics who don’t want their money spent for such a fund. Believe me, the
cost of returning them is going to be far less to you than the cost of their
dependence on our social services going forward.
The refugees should not be blamed,
any blame for their unhappy presence here rests with the Congress, the US State
Department, and the contractors whose income depends on paying refugee clients.
There would be one other side
benefit to this fund!
It might well show which of the nine contractors were doing the worst
jobs of helping refugees get resettled. In
other words, it could be a gauge of sorts that might highlight the resettlement
agencies doing the lousiest work and producing the most unhappy refugees.
I try to post the names every day or
so of the nine contractors (aka VOLAGs) that monopolize all refugee
resettlement in America because every day we have new readers:
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