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When Syria Came to Fresno: Refugees Test Limits of Outstretched Hand
NYT ^ | 07/20/2017 | By  MIRIAM JORDAN 

Posted on 07/20/2017 3:10:02 PM PDT by Rusty0604

FRESNO, Calif. — The police responded to a call about a loud party on East San Ramon Avenue, but it wasn’t just any party: A sheep was reportedly being slaughtered in a backyard.

“Muslim refugees were unaware that slaughtering sheep is not allowed in the city,” the police wrote afterward in their report, which also stated that those involved “were advised to clean up the blood and mess” and warned that in the future “they could be cited.” The animal, actually a goat, was killed by a Syrian refugee who later skinned, roasted and shared it with his Syrian neighbors in the apartment complex where they all live.

Refugees are typically placed in towns and cities such as Buffalo, N.Y.; Boise, Idaho; and Fayetteville, Ark., where resettlement agencies ease their transition to life in a new country. But they are free to move about the country like anybody else, and they sometimes land in places like Fresno that are not exactly prepared for their arrival.

Since late 2016, more than 200 Syrian refugees originally settled elsewhere in the United States have made a fresh start in Fresno, the largest city in California’s agricultural belt. They have been drawn there mainly by cheap housing.

But behind the low rent is a city struggling with high poverty and unemployment, making it more difficult for the refugees to secure jobs. And Fresno has no federally funded agency to help them find work, learn basics like bus routes and understand United States culture and rules, like with the practice of animal slaughter. Syrian children turned up unexpectedly at Ahwahnee Middle School, needing vaccinations, trauma counseling, English-language instruction and academic support ... “It was a shock at first,” said Jose Guzman, the principal. “We never had to teach students who speak Arabic.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: fresno; immigration; refugeecrisis; refugeeresettlement
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To: Rusty0604

Importing a 7th century culture is not a step forward.


21 posted on 07/20/2017 3:56:55 PM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Rusty0604

Bet they are also unaware of how indoor plumbing works or that every woman isn’t begging to be raped.


22 posted on 07/20/2017 4:22:33 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Lumper20

Wake up America as 22 states or more have Muslim Jihad training camps.


22 states or more have Muslim Jihad training camps—that we KNOW OF....


23 posted on 07/20/2017 4:23:30 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Freedom56v2

Exactly.


24 posted on 07/20/2017 4:50:18 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
what ever happened to ignorance of the law is no excuse? and where the hell is PETA???


25 posted on 07/20/2017 5:59:10 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Rusty0604

Resettlement agencies? This genuine bad juju. More of the same and once again brought to us by those in government.


26 posted on 07/20/2017 7:19:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Fiddlstix

YES KICK ALL MUSLIMS OUT. The have zero allegiance to the USA. They are TRAITORS to us and loyal to ISLAM.


27 posted on 07/21/2017 5:14:30 AM PDT by Lumper20
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