Although its old news now, it was interesting to discover that Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, a subcontractor of Church World Services located in East Tennessee, joined an ACLU lawsuit challenging the Patriot Act in 2003.    Bridge’s involvement stemmed from an incident in which the FBI sought information on Iraqi refugees that the resettlement agency had … Continue reading Strange bedfellows: Refugee resettlement group/ACLU/CAIR

Since we have been unable to get all the facts directly from the various refugee resettlement agencies and non-government organizations, we wrote this intial fact sheet to help local citizens and elected officials understand the mechanisms involved in our county. This will be Vol. 1 No. 1 since we anticipate adding new information or correcting … Continue reading Our initial research