Would someone please explain to me how communities are “enriched” by becoming magnets for impoverished refugees, many from Muslim areas of the world.  I hear that phrase, or how about this one—“diversity brings strength” —all the time.

A plea to those in the refugee industry—please explain what that means.  Are we talking about colorful clothing and foreign foods — what?   The taxpaying citizens surely aren’t enriched by the costs involved with social services and education needed by the refugees.

Lexington, Kentucky is being “enriched” we are told.  Remember “Mustafa” from Louisville, KY who is charged with ripping-off Kentucky Refugee Ministries?  Did Mustafa bring cultural enrichment?

And, by the way, readers, it is a good thing we captured some of Mustafa’s facebook page about his travels in recent years to Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and his role “working” with the FBI because all that has been removed since we last visited.

Did the Iraqi refugee terrorists bring enrichment and the joys of cultural diversity to Kentucky, or how about the Congolese woman recently sued by another Congolese “refugee” for human trafficking.  Did Sifa bring enrichment to Lexington?

You are going to see fluffy articles like this one all week as World Refugee Day approaches on Friday, the 20th.

From Kentucky.com (Hat tip: Dan)

Carine [of the Congo*** and star of this story—ed] will talk about that transition at the “World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” at the Central Library June 20. It is Lexington’s celebration of the rich, overlooked pockets of diversity throughout this community.

World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations in 2001 to pay tribute to the courage and strength exhibited by those forced to flee their homelands and familiar routines to escape conflict.

Lexington’s celebration has a twist, however.

“Unlike New York … and many larger cities with a rich history of immigration, Lexington is not yet used to helping new neighbors resettle,” said Lindsay Mattingly, multicultural liaison at the Lexington Public Library. “We do not yet have a well-developed infrastructure that can support nonnative English speakers.”

Here is an example of a deceptive line (there always are a few in stories like this one):

While the Kentucky Refugee Ministries does a great job, she said, that organization has to adhere to time limits set by the federal government of up to six months.

The only “time limit” is that their federal dole ends at that point.  There is no law that says a resettlement agency can’t  raise PRIVATE FUNDS to continue to care for refugees they bring to your town.  In reality their job for the first six months is to find refugees a job (if they can) and get them enrolled in all the welfare programs available to them.  Then they move on to the next paying “client.”

If you are in the Lexington area, you might want to attend Friday’s event:

“World Refugee Day Summit: Lexington’s Bridge to the World” begins with a conference at the Central Library, 140 East Main Street, from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

***The Congolese in Lexington:

“Lexington has the third-largest population of resettled Congolese immigrants in the country,” Mattingly said. Phoenix and Houston are ahead of us. And there are more than 90 languages spoken in the homes of students in Fayette County schools.

Bowling Green, KY (more pockets of diversity!):  population of foreign born is 10% of the city’s population!

Bowling Green, where those Iraqi terrorists were living when they were arrested, is ahead of the rest of Kentucky in its demographic change (and enrichment!) thanks largely to the resettlement of refugees that has gone on there for decades.  See this story (hat tip: Robin).   That Daily News story also tells us this:

Whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S., and by 2050, whites are projected to become a minority of the U.S. population, according to the Pew report. U.S. Census Bureau results show that from 2000 to 2010, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7 percent of the nation’s growth. In 2000, 11.1 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born, which increased to 13 percent by 2011. By 2050, 19 percent of the nation’s population is projected to be foreign born, according to a Pew report.

We have been writing about problems that cultural diversity has brought Bowling Green for years, click here for those posts.