There is one person who could write a book and tell us how the US Refugee Resettlement Program has gone awry and that person is Terry Rusch. I had seen the news about this last week (or the week before) but really don’t know what to say about it. So, I’ll let you see what Chris Coen at Friends of Refugees, who has spent years and years trying to get the State Department’s Office of Population Refugees and Migration to pay attention to mounting problems with the program, says about her departure.
Will she write that book? I doubt it, but it would be a welcome opportunity for her to make some effort to fix a program I believe has gone very wrong —-for the refugees and for the communities in which they are placed.