Once a city gets a refugee seed community started, it tends to grow, Corcoran said. Thats because the resettlement agency, the Lutherans in this case, then gets paid by the government to resettle the family members of the initial refugees
Spokane, Washington, has already welcomed one family of Iraqis that had fled to Syria under pressure from ISIS. In addition to the Iraqi family arriving from Syria, World Relief Spokane told KXLY-TV that a Syrian family will be coming in the next couple months with many more to follow.
Greek Catholic sources have said more than 300,000 Syrian Christians are among the refugees driven from their homes. But neither the United Nations nor the Obama administration has shown a willingness to bring large numbers of Christian Syrians to the United States, focusing instead on Muslim refugees which pose a greater security risk
Last months State Department announcement was careful to explain that the U.S. will take in only those Syrians who are persecuted by their government. Christians in Syria are being killed by ISIS and other Muslim rebels, not by their government, but the Sunni Muslims are being killed by the Shiite-led government.
So wrong on so many levels.