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Springfield, MA: State/city agencies stepping in to help impoverished Somali refugee family

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How many more like this family across America?     We recently learned that 63% of Minnesota’s Somalis live below the poverty line and in Oregon the estimate is higher than that (67% ).  I wonder what it is in every state where Somalis have been located? Massachusetts (home state of the ‘brains’ behind the … Continue reading Springfield, MA: State/city agencies stepping in to help impoverished Somali refugee family

Springfield, Mass. mayor (again) calls for moratorium on refugee resettlement for his city

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Update May 29th:  Jewish Family Services which initially resettled the Muslim Somalis says it will work to rectify the situation, here. Mayor: “No mas, no more!”  Wyoming are you listening!   Does anyone wonder anymore how “pockets of resistance” are building to this program that is overloading your cities and towns with impoverished third-worlders? And, even … Continue reading Springfield, Mass. mayor (again) calls for moratorium on refugee resettlement for his city

Springfield, Mass: Somali girls to stand trial for school fight

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They, and the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts (media campaign?), argue that they were responding to 12 years of bullying and that charges should be dropped.   I guess that will be the job of the trial court—to find guilt or not. Are you listening Wyoming? Springfield, in the “peoples’ republic of Massachusetts,” has been trying … Continue reading Springfield, Mass: Somali girls to stand trial for school fight

Update: Springfield, Mass. refugee task force to meet today

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For our previous posts on Springfield, Massachusetts where Mayor Domenic Sarno asked the US State Department to halt resettlement of more refugees to the greater Springfield area until the ones already resettled had assimilated and dug their way out of poverty, go here. This is the latest from The Republican, which had been thoroughly covering … Continue reading Update: Springfield, Mass. refugee task force to meet today

State Department responds to Springfield Mayor

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Barbara Day, the US State Department Office of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Domestic Resettlement Section Chief, in a letter Wednesday, said PRM would be reviewing the three major contractors resettling refugees to Massachusetts when they make their plans for FY2014 (which happens very soon as FY’14 begins October 1). When you read this consider … Continue reading State Department responds to Springfield Mayor