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Springfield city officials decry housing for refugees, ask for accountability
The Republican ^ | August 18, 2013 | Stephanie Barry

Posted on 08/18/2013 12:11:47 PM PDT by libertarian27

SPRINGFIELD — From a refugee camp in a war-torn area of Africa, to a stopover in Turkey to an apartment building near downtown Springfield, 21-year-old Hiboxasan Iyai found the challenges of her birthright were not yet over.

Among hundreds of Somali Bantu refugees resettled here since 2003, Iyai – a mother of a 3- and 1-year-old, has been struggling to feed and clothe her children since she arrived two months ago – she said during an interview hobbled by communication barriers.

With her limited English, Iyai attempted to sum up her plight through what amounted to an elaborate game of charades and about a dozen words of English.

“America good,” she said with a broad smile, standing in the hallway of her apartment at 400 Franklin St, a triple-decker home that houses three families of Somali refugees run by a landlord based out of Meriden, Conn.

The property was one of several cited by the city for deplorable, “uninhabitable” living conditions earlier this year – primarily because mice and rats had infested the building so pervasively they were nibbling on a disabled child’s feeding tube on the third floor, according to city records linked to the house.

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: charities; refugees; un

1 posted on 08/18/2013 12:11:47 PM PDT by libertarian27
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Springfield, Massachusetts


2 posted on 08/18/2013 12:12:38 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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Springfield, Massachusetts

Solid blue town in a solid blue state. What a wonderful place for refugees. Load 'em up.

3 posted on 08/18/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by upchuck (My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that!)
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To: libertarian27
For those unfamiliar with Massachusetts...Springfield is just Detroit in miniature.
4 posted on 08/18/2013 1:20:17 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Makes you wonder how many slum landlords are benefitting from these refugee programs.

www.refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com


5 posted on 08/18/2013 2:46:08 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Springfield is one of those “no visible means of support” cities. Don’t need jobs, don’t need businesses, don’t need factories...just welfare.


6 posted on 08/18/2013 2:47:56 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: libertarian27

I have strong beliefs that many of these refugees from such places as Africa have been helped to immigrate apart from our regular immigration procedures. Further I believe many such cases come by way of church organizations and the likes of Bill Gates. These people have no problems on foisting off on the USA taxpayer their feely-goody picadllos. They are the people who should be by conscience be paying for these immigrants instead they play the old societal blame game.


7 posted on 08/18/2013 3:57:28 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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The liberals from Mass should be ashamed. Where’s Patrick? Where’s Kerry? Why aren’t they doing what they tell everyone else to do?


8 posted on 08/18/2013 3:58:53 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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