Add Chad to the list of countries sending refugees to the US

A new and fairly large group of refugees from the central African country of Chad will soon begin arriving in the US.  Incidentally according to the US State Department, Chad would not be a top tourist destination (see travel warning here).

This new group of refugees will be resettled in Kentucky, Texas, Iowa and Utah, according to AlertNet here.

N’DJAMENA, Chad, June 23 – The UN refugee agency has begun a pilot programme to resettle 1,800 refugees in Chad to the United States, with a first group of 11 from several countries flying out of N’Djamena at the weekend.

The group that left on Sunday included seven urban refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), three urban Sudanese refugees and one person from the Central African Republic (CAR) who had been living in Dosseye camp in southern Chad. They will fly to New York and later be resettled in the states of Kentucky, Texas, Iowa and Utah.

UNHCR plans to identify a total 1,800 cases for possible resettlement in the United States this year. 

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The United States is the first country to agree to resettle vulnerable refugees from Chad.

I just checked my stats and in 2008 we took 23 refugees from Chad and this year through April none had arrived so far

Look who is preparing the refugees for life in America!

Besides the information about the new refugees this article had a bit of information about the process that readers often wonder about.  It’s the UN that identifies likely prospects for us.  Then, check this out:

It is a meticulous process that usually takes 7-9 months per case. Potential resettlement cases are identified by UNHCR protection officers in the field and the refugees undergo several interviews. The International Organization for Migration conducts medical screening and the International Rescue Committee runs orientation programmes to prepare the refugees for life in their new homes.

Don’t tell me it’s the International Rescue Committee (IRC) that supposedly prepared the Iraqis for life in America.   If anyone can confirm it is the IRC we would really like to know because uniformly the Iraqis are reporting they were told their lives would be like heaven here!    If you are new to Refugee Resettlement Watch, check our Iraqi refugee category to see at least 20 posts in which disappointed Iraqis complain that their live’s here aren’t what they expected.

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