Update:  Just had word from a reliable source that the victims are not likely refugees, thus I surmise they must have arrived in the US either illegally or through one of myriad other ways ‘legal’ immigrants may enter.

I’ve been looking for some confirmation on how the victims in this drug-related murder case involving two women and two young children as the victims came to be in the US from the Congo.   No luck so far!   But, I thought the case was important enough to post.  Note that reporting involves lengthy discussions about the squalid conditions in which the vicitms lived.  Makes you wonder how they could possibly be benefiting from the drug trade they were supposedly involved in.

From the Washington Post:

Two drug couriers from Texas have been charged with first-degree murder in Friday’s shooting of two women and two young children in a squalid Prince George’s County apartment, police said, and law enforcement sources added that the killings stemmed from a drug debt the women failed to pay.

[….]

A woman who said she was a relative said the family was not transient and did not live in filth. “We are a proud family,” the woman said. “We are from a foreign country, and we respect ourselves.” She declined to give her name.

The woman said that the family had immigrated to the United States from Congo and that one of the slain women had an 18-year-old daughter who would soon be starting college.

“We are really hurt, and we want justice to be done,” the woman said. Other family members declined to comment or could not be located.

Read it all.  Will update this post if we learn how the Congolese got to Maryland.