This story is from Boise, Idaho. One of hundreds of Iraqi interpreters (among thousands of other Iraqi refugees) entering the US can’t find work. Tell me something I don’t know! This fellow (Mohammed) at least doesn’t think we owe him a job.
But now he’s joined the ranks of Idaho’s unemployed at a time when the state’s economy lost more than 9,500 private sector jobs between September and October.
Jobs once available to refugees are being taken by Idahoans who have been laid off.
We asked the regional director of the International Rescue Committee in Boise if it is fair to bring refugees into the United States now to compete for jobs with Americans.
That is my question too. And, how can the International Rescue Committee and its sidekick, Refugees International, justify telling our newly elected President to bring in a hundred thousand Iraqis this fiscal year that began October first? It makes no sense, unless they are really trying to bring down our country.
IRC’s response to the fairness question:
“It’s not a question of fairness,” said the IRC’s Lesyle Moore. “We are extending humanitarian protection to them. If I was in the same situation I would want somebody to reach out to me”
The IRC says 1,000 refugees resettled in Boise during fiscal year 2008.
Once it was relatively easy for them to find work.
Not anymore.
Yesterday I gave you a list of the states where we have unhappy, out of work, Iraqi refugees.
Lets see so far we have unhappy Iraqis in Arizona, Maryland, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, Michigan, Ohio and now Georgia.
We can now add Idaho.