The Republican-American in Waterbury, CT has an update on the situation there regarding complaints by Burmese Karen refugees that they have not received decent treatment from the International Institute of CT. Yesterday we reported on a critical report from the US State Department from a year earlier. It is that document that the Republican-American reports on now. This is how it begins:
WATERBURY — A year before the International Institute of Connecticut placed Burmese refugees in squalid Waterbury apartments, the U.S. State Department “expressed serious concern regarding substandard housing” for refugees the institute had resettled in Bridgeport.
The word about Waterbury is spreading and reporter Brian Mosely picked up the story in Shelbyville, TN. You will recall that Mr. Mosely came under fire for his lengthy and often critical series in the Times-Gazette regarding Somali refugees brought to that southern city by employer Tysons Food.
Mosely begins:
As many of you well know, I took a lot of heat for my opinions about how the refugee resettlement program has handled the introduction of Somalis into our society, and particularly, the lack of help these folks get once they are deposited in this country.
Read the whole blog article here and don’t skip the comments. I’m amused to see how loquacious those southerners are; almost no one comments in Waterbury!