In the mid-1990s, the U.S. State Department began bringing large - TopicsExpress

Donna Hess Missal

In the mid-1990s, the U.S. State Department began bringing large numbers of Somali nationals to Minnesota, assigning them refugee status due to the civil war and general violence and poverty which still grips Somalia today. Most of those refugees were sent to Minnesota because state-based voluntary agencies (VOLAGS), namely Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities, and World Relief Minnesota contract with the State Department to settle refugees, mostly in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. These VOLAGS provide various services to the newly-arrived foreign nationals from making housing arrangements to providing English language classes, as well as help in navigating our welfare system. Of course, most of this is done at the expense of the American taxpayer, and not surprisingly, these groups often lobby rather fiercely to keep the refugees flowing into the country. In November 2010, using State Department data, the group known as Refugee Resettlement Watch reported on the number of Somali refugees brought to the U.S., between 1983 and 2010. Those figures follow

Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:38:17 +0000

In the mid-1990s, the U.S. State Department began bringing large - TopicsExpress

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