Posted on 11/26/2011 4:58:01 AM PST by reaganaut1
MANCHESTER, N.H. — This city has long been a resettlement site for refugees, sent here by the State Department for a chance at a better life. More than 60 languages are spoken in the school system, with Somalis, Sudanese, Iraqis and other recent arrivals mixing with children whose ancestors came from Quebec to work in the mighty textile mills along the Merrimack River.
But this year, after decades of taking in refugees, Manchester said, “Enough.”
In a highly unusual move, Mayor Ted Gatsas and the city’s Board of Aldermen asked the State Department in July to halt resettlements here for now. A tide of more than 2,100 refugees over the last decade — most recently, Bhutanese families coming from camps in Nepal — has been more than the city of 109,500 can assure jobs and decent housing for, Mr. Gatsas said.
“We’re just saying, ‘Let us catch our breath,’ ” he said last week in an interview at City Hall. “This is about giving people the opportunity for a better life, and until I can get that person working and gainfully employed and getting to learn the language, I can’t do that.”
The mayor, a Republican who just won a second term, says he has nothing against refugees. His problem is with the International Institute of New England, a nonprofit agency based in Boston that brings them to Manchester and helps them adjust for several months, providing cash and other assistance.
Mr. Gatsas, a former businessman whose grandfather immigrated here from Greece a century ago, said the institute had consistently refused to seek the city’s advice, most recently on its plan to bring 300 more refugees to Manchester in the current fiscal year.
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Your use of the word Yankee says alot about you. The war is over, grow up.
Please stop by our well-stocked state liquor stores on your next visit to New Hampshire, and of course take advantage of our sales tax free shopping.
What’s wrong with leaving them in SOMALIA?
When did the USA become the logical dumping ground for savages?
>>The New York Times is having a snit over this, obviously. They want to flood our country with so many foreigners we lose our identity and this makes Communism and fascism easier to implement.<<
Exactly.
Do you think this map is an accident? All the right to work states are in the south and mountain states. You grow up or grow a pair.
PS: This southern boy isn't going to vote for RINO Romney, ever. He is the poster boy for NE check pant republican politics.
As an aside, my wife works with Sudanese orphans in Manchester, and they are very sweet children.
Great map, thanks.
Great map, thanks.
You’re welcome.
You’re welcome.
NH passed a right to work bill in October, only to see it vetoed by our Democrat governor. Next year, we have a great chance to elect a Republican governor, and with strong GOP majorities in both state houses already, I think we’re finally going to get it done.
NE is a S—t stain on America, NH efforts not withstanding.
All I can say is I’m not in a union, never have been and never will be and have never supported one through my vote or through conversation.
LOL. The biggest users of the word "Yankee" ARE the Yankees. In fact, they stole it from the British and made it a term of approbation (Yankee Doodle Dandy), just like the 'Cajuns have done with the words 'Cajun and "coon ass".
Maybe if your ancesters didn’t enslave all those Amish that came here for freedom we may not be such a S—t stain. Thanks alot S—t stain wad.
I call BS, everyone here is a Red Sox fan and hates the Yankees
Funny you chose vwbug as your moniker. The chosen car of the ‘60’s acid generation.
I can understand Colorado and NM, with the large influxes of leftists (from California for CO, and from the "up-east" for NM (the influx of "atomic researchers" during WWII who brought their politics with them)).
But MONTANA???
Manchester is a sewer nowadays...crime is exploding. It is effectively a suburb of Boston.
Who’d ever figure Alaska was not a RTW state. That surprised me also.
Damn good question, considering that Somalia has about the population density of Colorado, moderate rainfall over most of the country and 2000 miles of subtropical coastline. No society but an Islamist society could even begin to screw things up that bad.
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