Update September 3, 2009: Here is the missing link to the Wall Street Journal article sent to me by a reader when I wrote this post yesterday.
Yesterday a reader sent me a story written by Miriam Jordan at the Wall Street Journal, but you would know it, the Wall Street Journal wants a subscription before you can read the whole thing. I wasn’t looking forward to copying large sections of it from a pdf file, so this morning I was happy to see that American Renaissance has done that work for me here. They didn’t take all the sections I thought interesting but they do have enough of the story for you to get the gist of it as well as some comments worth reading.
Our volag worker, Mike, told us this week that Refugee resettlement should be about economics—-bringing healthy workers into the US—the Wall Street Journal pretty much confirms with this story that it is. I think it’s time for refugee advocates to drop the pretense and stop beating the citizenry over the head with the humanitarian angle and admit much of this program is driven by big business—like Swifts or Tysons Food— and their big business head hunters in the State Department and some of the volags.
I wrote about the refugee situation in the Texas panhandle back in early May here and here.
Note: The health department for Cactus, TX needs to check with the health department in Ft. Wayne (Allen County), IN where they do have huge expenses related to the health of the Burmese refugees, esp. involving TB.