This is a lengthy personal story of a Bhutanese refugee. He wants the US to get the economy moving so there will be work for the refugees who are on the way. Don’t we all want to see the economy improve!
Month: October 2008
Catholic church groups resettle nearly one-third of all refugees in US
This is another of my short posts just to clear my backlog! The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (that’s the mothership to all the other Catholic resettlement agencies) resettled nearly 18,000 refugees during the last fiscal year. See the story here.
Somali murdered in Rochester bar fight: racist hatred?
Aurora, CO struggling with students who speak 84 different languages
Here is the next of my quicky posts. Check out this Denver Post story about the challenges of educating children in 84 languages.
Melting Pots in Hell: Slaughterhouse towns
I have so much material backed up I’m going to give you some links to follow-up. Here is the first. It is a good roundup of some of the towns we have been discussing, towns roiled by multicultural conflicts over meatpacking jobs.