Lutheran Social Services getting blasted by Iraqi refugees in NH

A month ago today, I told you about the unhappy Iraqi refugees who have been resettled in Concord, NH.  Well, things are getting worse. Note to reporter Chelsea Conaboy:  Keep up the good work!  Your fellow reporters in Shelbyville, TN and Waterbury, CT are winning awards for their investigative work into how refugees are settling … Continue reading Lutheran Social Services getting blasted by Iraqi refugees in NH

“Refugee chic” helps two gay Iraqi refugees be more attractive

A couple of years ago, when I envisioned who came to America as refugees, I envisioned poor women with bunches of kids who had lived in squalor in some godforsaken corner of the world.    Of course that was before I started to look into the Refugee Resettlement program run by the United Nations and executed … Continue reading “Refugee chic” helps two gay Iraqi refugees be more attractive

Why don’t we just invite all the Iraqi refugees to move here?

No matter how many Iraqi refugees we admit, we’ll always be told we need to take more. The IPS news agency reports: Despite a marked increase in the number of Iraqi refugees admitted into the United States, experts on Iraq and human rights and refugee organisations are calling on Washington to open the door wider … Continue reading Why don’t we just invite all the Iraqi refugees to move here?

He’s baaaack! AP reporter with monthly whine about Iraqi refugees

We wondered where AP reporter Matthew Lee, the pet of the International Rescue Committee and Refugees International, had gotten to.  I hadn’t seen his monthly sob story for awhile about how we weren’t bringing enough Iraqi refugees to the US.  Here he says the Bush Administration actually surpassed its goal for FY 2008, but Bush continues his … Continue reading He’s baaaack! AP reporter with monthly whine about Iraqi refugees