Friends of Refugees has the whole story. Blogger Christopher Coen has been keeping track of the unsafe 15-passenger vans that refugees use to get often long distances to work at such places as meatpacking plants.
We are told that Catholic Family Services (the head hunter for big business in the Amarillo area—YES! the headhunter) is bringing more workers/refugees to Amarillo this year.
In 2010 we told you about how much the demographics of Amarillo are changing, thanks in part to the good folks at Catholic Charities. And, LOL! “welcoming” Amarillo.
For new readers: We have resettled over 100,000 Somalis in the US with the greatest numbers after 9/11. Visit this post for all the numbers. Also, note that in FY2011 (here) that ended on Sept. 30th 2011, we admitted another 3,161 Somalis through the program.