Friends of Refugees (FOR) has a post this week about their experiences in Chicago some years ago involving so-called Sudanese “Lost Boys” who became targets for gang violence. When FOR complained to the agency that had resettled the refugees and to the State Department, FOR’s complaints were dismissed yet ….
A month after the State Department monitors dismissed our concerns, the Latin Kings gang attacked a group of ‘Lost Boys’ while they played basketball at a park in the neighborhood. The gang beat the young men with fists, metal rods, and coke bottles and stabbed three of the refugees.
I realized then that the State Department and the Illinois refugee coordinator had absolutely no interest in accurately documenting the abuses that the refugees were experiencing.
I’ve only posted this small segment of FOR’s post because I want you to go to their new website and read the whole story. Be sure to check out the State Department monitoring reports, here, that are being loaded on the site.
Note, we have reported on this Chicago refugee contractor on several occasions. Here is one post where you can learn more about them. The State Department is obviously still sending the refugees.