….back to work, too much is happening on refugees and other legal immigration issues for me to keep ignoring the stories.   As many of you know I had to stop posting here daily because too much was happening in Maryland where I live and there are only so many hours in a day.   Things haven’t slowed down here, but I am still very much interested in tracking the news in the refugee field.

I’m going to try to keep posts shorter, so as not to turn them into massive writing/linking projects and I’ll direct you to our archives instead.

…I’m just not sure when!  As I said here some weeks ago, there is too much going on politically in Maryland where I live that I haven’t been able to keep up my research on the Refugee Program.  I do have a little pile of mostly Somali refugee stories building up and hope to get to at least give you the links in a day or so.

Much to my surprise, our readership has not dropped to any degree since we haven’t posted.  If you go to the right hand sidebar note the Top Posts that are being consistently read and distributed to new readers.

Matthew Lee (AP Reporter) is an activist, not a reporter!

I wondered why an old post I wrote about Matthew Lee was getting so many hits so I googled and at the top of my search appeared this article—Matthew Lee grilling the US State Department over a decision involving UNESCO and the “so-called Palestinians.”   In 2008 Lee was the mouthpiece for the activists trying to get more Iraqis into the US.   Here is that old  post about Lee that is getting a lot of recent traffic.   Please watch Lee in action here on Monday!  Watch him bully the State Department spokesperson.   Matthew Lee is not a reporter but a political activist!

Also that old post on ‘Why so many Somali refugees’ continues to be the most visited post at RRW.

Judy and I began Refugee Resettlement Watch in the summer of 2007 and now it’s time for a break.

We are entering one of the most critical political years in American history and there is much to do elsewhere.   Don’t get me wrong, this issue is still a very very important one and we aren’t going away completely.  From time to time, we will post things that interest us, but we don’t have time to read comments and sort through them—like (LOL!) the comment from ‘American Boy’ yesterday who speculated that we only write this lousy blog because we probably got fired from a resettlement agency for committing a felony.  Yeh, that’s it!  How did he guess!

Until we return full time, there is still lots of good information posted here.  We have written almost 4000 posts and you should be able to track any subject we’ve written about by using our ‘search’ function (it is really good), or check out our various categories.

If you have a good story or wish to reach me, write to Ann@vigilantfreedom.com.