Sorry, for the last couple of weeks, I have not been very good about keeping up with the weekly roundups of the top stories of the week. And, this is going to be a quickie.
The Top Three Posts of the last week that readers were most interested in are as follows (top daily posts are in the right hand sidebar):
60 Minutes spewing B.S. on refugee screening/travel costs
New refugee seeding site: Youngstown, Ohio
Obama State Department bringing refugees in at the astronomical rate of over 400 a day!
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Also, see our newly updated Frequently Asked Questions and our fact sheet (out of date but still useful) in the header. In the FAQ you will see a link for ‘Ten things your town needs to know.’
I’ve been tweeting a lot and sometimes if I can’t write about a story you send, I tweet it. See my twitter feed (over 5,000 followers at this moment) in the right-hand side bar. Even if you aren’t on twitter, you should be able to open the links to the news embedded in the tweet. I am@RefugeeWatcher.
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If you are looking for fellow grassroots activists in ‘pockets of resistance’ see the Refugee Resisters facebook page here (Jim Simpson).
All previous round-ups and this one are archived in a category simply called ‘blogging.’
My FIRST video about how the refugee program works is here (over 2.5 million views as of this writing).
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As much as I would love to see you all in your hometowns, I hate speaking. I think I am more useful right here researching and writing.
In two weeks and two days we will know if there is any hope of reforming this out-of-control refugee program or not! Go Trump!