They are changing America by changing the people
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that US federal refugee contractors and lobbyists are pushing for more Rohingya Muslim refugee resettlement into the US. Here both the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Refugee Council USA (the lobbying arm of the refugee industry) asked for more Rohingya at the May 1 US State … Continue reading Rohingya Muslims pushing into India, want refugee status; already in the US
I guess the word “refugee” was getting a bit overused, so now its “statelessness.” We heard in July that Schwartz was leaving his post, getting out of the Obama Administration while the getting is good? Here at the Huffington Post Eric Schwartz (Asst. Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration in the US State Department) gives … Continue reading “Statelessness” the new buzzword? Rohingya the poster children
I was interested in this story—Nashua, NH fretting about whether it would get more refugees if Manchester gets a moratorium—anyway. But, then I note that we are quietly resettling Rohingya refugees in New Hampshire. For years I followed the story of Rohingya Muslim refugees leaving Burma and it interested me because for years the US … Continue reading Rohingya refugees being resettled in New Hampshire
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has reiterated support for the unification of Rohingya people (Burmese Muslims). From Burma News International: The Secretary General clarified that an agreement was reached during the first meeting on 9 June 2010 which established an organizational and coordination structure known as the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) with the … Continue reading OIC to continue pushing Rohingya refugee rights
….and likely will be resettled in the West. I haven’t written much about Rohingya (a Muslim minority group from Burma) lately (we have 96 posts on them here in a special category). My interest had been about whether the US State Department was going to resettle them to the US, and once we quietly began … Continue reading Waves of Rohingya Muslims still arriving in Thailand…