We told you that earlier this week a coalition of groups joined up in Washington DC to begin a concerted lobbying campaign to Congress on the issue of Iraq’s displaced people (no word from them about Iraq’s truly persecuted Christians). Check out the wrap-up at something called The List Project.
Watch the film clip of various speakers that ends with a clip of bully boy Dingell (Congressman John Dingell of MI) where he exhorts the audience to put pressure on Congress.
The List Project is comprised of two law firms and a non-profit called Upwardly Global that appears to be an employment agency for a higher class of refugee and immigrant since they say they work with Fortune 500 companies (no meatpacking jobs here). I wonder if they could get over to Rhode Island and help the unemployed Iraqi refugee there, or those unhappy Iraqi refugees in Arizona, the ones cleaning motels. So, where is Upwardly Global for these people?
Before they arrived here, the refugees said they were told by U.N. representatives that they could get jobs based on their professional qualifications. But they said they have now been told that they should work as hotel housekeepers, an occupation many of them have refused because they deem it degrading.
Graduation season will soon be upon us, if you have a kid graduating from high school or college who can’t find work, you might wonder why we need to be bringing in their competition via lobbying campaigns run by lawyers in Washington.