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Refugees struggle as jobs dry up, fueling debate over U.S. obligation
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 01 Mar 2009 | JESSICA MEYERS

Posted on 03/02/2009 3:55:25 PM PST by BGHater

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1 posted on 03/02/2009 3:55:25 PM PST by BGHater
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To: BGHater

Those feet got you here ...


2 posted on 03/02/2009 3:56:06 PM PST by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: BGHater

Throw these foreign welfare bums OUT OF MY COUNTRY


3 posted on 03/02/2009 4:03:53 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: BGHater

Legal = sympathy; Illegal = no sympathy


4 posted on 03/02/2009 4:05:14 PM PST by IonInsights (T)
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To: IonInsights

These legal immigrants are using WELFARE.

They are no better than illegals who suck up MY tax dollars during a Depression.


5 posted on 03/02/2009 4:06:13 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: BGHater

Refugees arent the only ones facing expensive death bils. A funeral here averages $12,000 dollars. Thats a lot of money for one days rent in a funeral home and a truck ride to a hole in the ground.


6 posted on 03/02/2009 4:07:19 PM PST by Venturer
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That barely covers the $555 in rent and utilities each month for himself and his mother. Food stamps leave enough for rice and vegetables. They choose sweaters over heat.

The $445 he receives monthly from the International Rescue Committee will trickle to $187 next month and stop in July, along with the Medicaid for his sick mother.

“I see people under the bridge and I think, ‘Will that be me?’ “ he said in the halting English he learned in the camp. His Nepali ancestry put him at risk in Bhutan, and his refugee status left him shunned in Nepal.

“We are in the right place at the wrong time. This is a good country, but when we arrive here, it’s too much difficult to get a job for all people, not just us.”

About 60,000 refugees arrived in the U.S. last year – 8,000 more than in 2007. The number is expected to grow in 2009.

The State Department provides each refugee a $900 initial resettlement grant, intended to cover expenses for the first 30 days after arrival. About half goes to the overseeing agency for case management, travel and other logistics.

The solution is not to decrease the flow of refugees but to overhaul the entire system during the new administration, said Lavinia Limón, president of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and the former head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Clinton administration. She wants more resources channeled toward housing assistance as well as programs that focus on the increasingly diverse pool of refugees entering the United States.

“This is a decision to rescue people in extraordinarily dire circumstances,” she said, citing the nation’s longstanding history of moral obligation.

The U.S. took in more than 90,000 refugees in the early 1980s when the economy teetered just as precariously as now, she said.

But Limón worries that the resettlement process will remain on the back burner with a housing crisis to solve and pending confirmation of a new secretary of health and human services.


7 posted on 03/02/2009 4:09:33 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: Venturer

Like real estate agents and car dealers, funeral directors and cemeteries are typically very well connected to state politics.
They make sure to have laws in place to protect their control of the market.


8 posted on 03/02/2009 4:09:59 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: BGHater
fewer opportunities for Dallas' expanding refugee population – people from Myanmar (formerly Burma), Bhutan and Iraq who already struggle to find employment and housing with limited language skills, no support network and only a basic understanding of American culture

And yet they managed to get from one side of the planet to the other, and presumably were in worse shape then than they were now. No tears here.

9 posted on 03/02/2009 4:12:00 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: GOPGuide

>> nation’s longstanding history of moral obligation

Obligation my eye.

This is the problem with government. They pervert our longstanding Christian CHARITY into taxpayer “obligation”.

And the recipient need not be grateful; they can instead be demanding. Because after all it’s a US “Obligation”!


10 posted on 03/02/2009 4:17:26 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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And the recipient need not be grateful; they can instead be demanding. Because after all it’s a US “Obligation”!

And our schools will no doubt poison their minds with anti-Christian antiEuropean propaganda on top of the welfare we are payin them.

Aren’t we generous!


11 posted on 03/02/2009 4:18:43 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: Venturer

My ex-mother-in-law paid for her ex-father-in-law’s funeral (yes, confusing divorced family) when his family couldn’t afford it. It’s expensive. WA requires you purchase a coffin, even if you choose cremation, and even the cheapest one isn’t.


12 posted on 03/02/2009 4:20:31 PM PST by conservative cat (America, you have been PWNED!)
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Is America the ONLY place in the world that these folks can find refuge? The Obamunists generally love Europe more than their own country. Why don't the refugees share their preference for Euroland?
13 posted on 03/02/2009 4:25:34 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: BGHater

typical MSM lib-victim-nonsense

Being in poverty in the USA is 100 times better than being well-off in Nepal, and they know it.


14 posted on 03/02/2009 4:37:24 PM PST by PGR88
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Excerpt:

In 1979, Deng Xiaoping arrived here on an official visit. China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution, and poised to embark on the capitalist road. When President Carter sat down with Mr. Deng, he told him he was concerned over the right of the Chinese people to emigrate. The Jackson-Vanik amendment, Mr. Carter said, prohibited granting most favored nation trade status to regimes that did not allow their people to emigrate.

“Well, Mr. President,” Deng cheerfully replied, “Just how many Chinese do you want? Ten million. Twenty million. Thirty million?”

Deng’s answer stopped Carter cold. In a few words, the Chinese leader had driven home a point Mr. Carter seemed not to have grasped: Hundreds of millions of people would emigrate to America in a eyelash, far more than we could take in, far more than our existing population of 270 million, if we threw open our borders. And though the U.S. takes in more people than any other nation . . .

Patrick J. Buchanan Speach:
“To Reunite a Nation”
January 18, 2000
Richard Nixon Library


15 posted on 03/02/2009 4:42:18 PM PST by donna (No more twitterpated RINO talk!)
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To: BGHater

Deport the illegals. That’s a good start.


16 posted on 03/02/2009 5:15:12 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: conservative cat

“WA requires you purchase a coffin, even if you choose cremation,”

Whoa. That is ridiculous!


17 posted on 03/02/2009 5:17:50 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: conservative cat

WA requires you purchase a coffin

Okay, deliver it to my address and I’ll destroy it there.
A good bet that those coffins are reused many times.


18 posted on 03/02/2009 5:26:44 PM PST by Joan Kerrey
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The solution is not to decrease the flow of refugees but to overhaul the entire system during the new administration, said Lavinia Limón, president of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Only a dingbat liberal could come up with that statement. There's no money or jobs to take care of the ones that are here but we don't need to decrease the flow of refugees??? Duuuuh!

19 posted on 03/02/2009 7:46:53 PM PST by Reagan is King (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)
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To: Reagan is King

What’s wrong with you? Don’t you understand that American taxpayers are a bottomless pit of funds pilfered from elsewhere and it’s only right that we “spread our wealth” by taking in the third world rather than teaching the third world how to create their own wealth from capitalism?


20 posted on 03/02/2009 8:12:42 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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