A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying illiterate, uncivilized, unskilled Somali MUSLIM families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line.
Loading up on freebies at the Good Will
UK Daily Mail: Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry refugee resettlement, joining counterparts in New Hampshire and Maine in largely rare tensions with the State Department, which helps resettle refugees in communities across America. The mayor is drawing criticism from those who say this country has a moral obligation to help the outcast and refugees who say they’re being scapegoated for problems the city faced long before their arrival.
Why not talk about the problems in the city, why not talk about the houses that are unstable and in bad conditions, why only talk about the Somali Muslims and Somali Bantus?’ Mohammed Abdi, 72, said through an interpreter.
Sarno, leader of the state’s third-largest city, first demanded last summer that the U.S. government stop sending refugees. But after recent inspections found Somali families living in overcrowded, pest-infested apartments without electricity and sometimes heat, he stepped up complaints, saying resettlement agencies are bringing in ‘warm-weather’ refugees and dumping them into cold climates only to leave them dependent on the city.
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‘I have enough urban issues to deal with. Enough is enough,’ Sarno said in an interview. ‘You can’t keep concentrating poverty on top of poverty.’
Madino Idoor, a 35-year-old Somali Muslim over breeder with seven children, spent 12 years in a refugee camp before coming to the U.S. in 2004. She works two jobs — one at Goodwill at Springfield and another as a dishwasher at the Barnes Air National Guard Base in nearby Westfield.
Somali Muslim mother with five kids under the age of 8
She and others wonder why the mayor is targeting an already vulnerable population, an idea reiterated Friday in a Boston Globe editorial.’While Sarno raises valid points about needing adequate resources to accommodate newcomers, his stance is far too rigid and ignores both the moral imperative to help Muslim refugees and the problems those refugees can bring,’ the editorial read.
Tens of thousands of Somali Muslims have come to the United States in the past decade, seeking refuge from civil war. Most have settled in Minnesota, California, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
In Lewiston, Maine, where there is a proliferation of Somali Muslims, a Somali teenager was charged with setting fires to 4 buildings
In 2004, more than 100 Somalis came to Springfield, placed there because it met criteria including public transit and other urban infrastructure. The community has grown as others reunite with family members.Sarno said the State Department has not been receptive to his requests to stop sending refugees, echoing sentiments sometimes heard elsewhere.
ONE Somali Muslim refugee family in America
Lewiston, Maine, Mayor Robert MacDonald, who in 2002 asked Somalis there to help ‘reduce the stress on our limited finances,’ took heat a decade later for saying immigrants should ‘accept our culture and, and you leave your culture at the door.’ He later clarified that he didn’t expect them to abandon their religion or language but said: ‘I’m not going to apologize for “leave your culture behind.”‘
Any extra money they get from Welfare goes back to Somalia but a lot of it ends up in terrorists’ pockets which is why banks are refusing to honor money transfers to Somalia
Manchester, New Hampshire, Mayor Ted Gatsas in 2011 asked the State Department to stop resettling refugees there. Last year, he told the AP he still believes the city could benefit from a break in arrivals to ‘get these people into working society.’ ‘We make every effort to work with local officials and other stakeholders to ensure the resettlement of refugees is acceptable,’ he said.
Even in a local community center, Somali Muslim men on one side, women on the other per sharia law
The Department, he said, does not place refugees unless an area is equipped to handle them. The government’s work with refugees in Springfield is mostly about family reunification, and it cannot keep families from moving there if they are placed elsewhere, he said.
America is no longer a melting pot but a sewer of multiculturalism
Federal funding of about $1,800 per person helps resettlement agencies assist refugees for as long as eight months, but Springfield argues that is not enough time for some refugees to adjust. (Yeah, that’ll last about 2 weeks)
Somali refugee Adan Abdi, 28, came to Springfield in 2004 with his parents and six siblings after years in refugee camps where security, food and water were scarce and a couple of pounds of corn per person had to stretch for two weeks.
‘There is no comparing our new life in America to living in those camps,’ said Abdi, who has a wife and three children. ‘Springfield is my home. It’s where I began my new life.’
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