Brian Mosely, the reporter who wrote the controversial series of articles on the Somali refugee migration to Shelbyville, TN and who was vilified by multiculturalists for daring to expose the problems has today published an opinion piece that gets to the heart of the problem. If you recall, Mr. Mosely and his editor had a visit this week from the Tennessee Immigration and Refugee Rights Coalition prompting this editorial.
No advocacy group has given these folks a helping hand since they’ve been here. When I first contacted Catholic Charities, the organization that is resettling Somalis and other groups throughout the nation, they had “no idea” that the refugees were living in Shelbyville in such large numbers.
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Instead, their current policy apparently just brings the hapless refugees into the country, gives them extremely limited orientation on how to properly function in western society, and then sets them loose to fend for themselves.
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This is a very bad idea. To simply relocate members of a totally alien culture into a community without the needed support, services or training to help them adjust to 21st Century America is immoral and wrong.
Volags (voluntary agencies) like Catholic Charities have been contracted by the US State Department and resettled over 70,000 Somali refugees from 1991 to the present. Nomadic Somalis are moving from city to city in the US, so expect more clashes because contracted agencies send them out on their own after only 4 months in America.
We advocate the return of the old system of refugee resettlement where individual churches and groups take one family each under their wing to care for them and help them assimilate to America, and do that for as long as it takes. That would be true charity in the spirit of the Good Samaritan.