Winchester, VA: Letter Writer Not Happy with Opening City to Refugees

This is Dadaab in Kenya, one of the largest refugee camps in the world. It is where most of our Somali refugees lived before coming to America (including Rep. Ilhan Omar). Kenya wants the camp closed by June 2022. So where do you think thousands of the 430,000 housed there now will go? Anytown, USA?  https://www.dw.com/en/kenya-to-close-2-refugee-camps-next-year/a-57382561

 

***Update*** Another Letter writer says he is happy refugees will be placed in his “rural community” where people know and love their neighbors.  The point is that when Church World Service does its work, they soon won’t know their neighbors.

Editor: This is a follow-up to my post on Saturday:

It Begins: Federal Contractors Out Scouring America for New Target Towns for Biden Refugees

A letter writer who lives in Frederick County (Winchester is the county seat) is critical of the plan to begin moving Biden’s refugees into the city.

But as interesting as the letter is, it is the comments that are most informative.

First, here is the letter from county resident Dale Watten to the Winchester Star:

Letter to the editor: Winchester wrong location for refugee settlement

I think that Winchester is the wrong place and this is the wrong time to place a refugee resettlement office in our community. As Kim Herbstritt pointed out, Winchester does not have any excess housing, much less affordable housing for refugees. Our schools are overflowing as are the English as second language classes. After a year of COVID lockdowns and business closures, I don’t think this area has enough jobs for our own citizens let alone foreign refugees who can’t speak English.

I don’t think rural America should have to bear the burden of the Biden administration’s misguided policies that most of us in rural America did not vote for. Might I point out what has happened to once lovely Minneapolis in large part due to refugee resettlement. Send the refugees to NYC, San Francisco or Biden’s home state of Delaware. Don’t send them to Winchester. I strongly urge Winchester City Council to reject the proposed refugee resettlement office.

Dale Watten

Now, check out the comments.

They have devolved into controversy mostly between two commenters, one arguing that rural people (mostly Trump supporters!) should basically shut up about what the city does, demonstrating the great and growing divide between rural and urban America.

The fact is, and what readers need to know is, that once a resettlement office is established, refugees may be placed up to 100 miles of that office.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2021/04/21/nyt-biden-himself-blocked-increased-refugee-admissions-for-the-year/

And the other area of discussion relates to the illegals flooding our southern border and whether Winchester will end up being the recipient of some of those illegal aliens, demonstrating exactly what supposedly Biden, or at least whoever is Joe’s brain, feared when expanding refugee admissions in the middle of the border crisis.

I found this tiny segment of a Politico story from Monday of interest.

The story is about the flip-flop-flipping the White House has been doing for the last couple of months on the issue of setting the refugee cap at a level 4 times higher than Trump had left it.

Near the end of Politico‘s report is this bit of information.

Biden, or his other brain, feared conflation of the two issues—expanded refugee resettlement and the border invasion would be one and the same in the minds of the increasingly angry general public:

Several sources have said that Biden himself has expressed distress over immigration issues overall and raised concern about lifting the cap before the system could catch up. The White House has also been sensitive to the steady stream of bad press coming from conservative media about the border and predicted that if Biden announced a large number of refugees would be allowed in on top of it, critics would purposely conflate the two issues to accelerate a “open borders” false narrative.

There is nothing false about it, the Biden administration has gone full-on Open Borders and they know their time is limited to flood America as the 2022 Midterm elections loom!

The vast majority of Americans will see this for exactly what it is—an invasion run by Democrats to relocate poverty from every corner of the world and thereby putting Americans Last!

You have been told what they fear, and so it is incumbent on you to make sure the “steady stream of bad press” keeps coming!

Get some pockets of resistance going!

As I said yesterday, call your local government officials and find out if your community is being fingered as a new home to the third world, and if so, make your views known just as Frederick County, Virginia resident Dale Watten did yesterday.

But, be prepared for the vile verbal attacks that will come from the Socialist Leftwing pressing Harris/Biden for double 62,500 for admission to the US in FY22 which begins in less than five months.