This is just one of those warm and fuzzy articles we find ourselves needing to ‘balance.’ It is all about how Syracuse, NY has become a primary resettlement site. In fact, it is officially a “preferred resettlement site” according to the feds.
Puff pieces like this usually run when there is trouble afoot. News outlets work with the resettlement agency to get ‘news’ like this out—it is meant to make any complaining citizens feel like they are in the minority and force them to shut up. In other words, if you aren’t “welcoming” you are mean-spirited and surely a racist boob!
The article is here at Time Warner Cable News (CNY’s refugee community thrives as global refugee numbers climb):
But when a refugee is finally cleared, the highest number end up in the United States, and Syracuse has emerged as a prime city for resettlement.
Experts say that’s because of New York State’s robust public assistance programs and a combination of Syracuse’s relatively low cost of living and inviting community.
“We really are a welcoming city and I think most of the communities that have been resettled here have been well integrated into the Syracuse community family,” said Malina. [Helen Malina head of the local contractor—ed]
Out of the approximately 70,000 refugees that come to the United States every year, Central New York receives about 1,200 of them. About half of those are helped by the InterFaith Works Center for New Americans. The center helps refugees find homes and jobs, learn English and adjust to American society. However, the transition can be a difficult one….
Read it all if you feel like it.
Here is one story about the generosity of the taxpayers of New York and this Interfaith gang. A new Iraqi refugee came with hypertension. He had emergency heart surgery and spent the next six weeks comatose and in intensive care while others cared for his wife and kids. Imagine what that must have cost the generous citizens of Syracuse and New York state!
InterFaith Works of Central New York is a subcontractor of Church World Service (one of nine contractors which then subcontract to hundreds of other smaller contractors making it very difficult to follow the taxpayer money trail).
We mentioned Church World Service just yesterday as one of their head honchos is running the lobbying arm of the resettlement industry—Refugee Council USA.
RRW owes a lot to Church World Service because it was they and their subcontractor—Virginia Council of Churches—that first introduced us to the program when they tried and failed to get a foot-hold and establish a resettlement office in our rural Maryland County. There would never have been an RRW without their ham-handed Hagerstown adventure.
Check out our archive on Syracuse which recently made the news because a Catholic Church was turned into mosque and it became a major controversy there. Looking back I see refugees demonstrated against “racism” in Syracuse a few years ago. No mention of any of that in this warm and fuzzy piece.