By the way, Chris Coen at Friends of Refugees is doing a good job of pointing out the failings of the Refugee program itself and you might be more satisfied by visiting FOR.

When i first started looking at your blog, I found it a useful source of information about problems with the the refugee resetllement system etc. However it is becoming more and more political and i believe you are doing a disservice to those Muslim refugees who have made it in America. My biggest concern is that we have unstable folks on all sides and the incidents in Norway, Colorado and Milwaukee are just the tip of the iceberg and I am concerned that your anti refugee and Islamaphobic rhetoric will incite someone to attack refugees. I read the Intelligence Reports from the SPLC and is scary to see the increase in White Supremacists, Anri Abortion, Ant gay and Sovereign nation groups and the number of reported hate crimes. A lot of these are tied to the economics of today and scapegoating always increase in bad times..

As to the Somalis community, there is no question that there are issues, however do you really believe all Muslims are here to subvert our system? I know you do not want to be source of “goody goody” information, however your readers should be aware of some of the good things refugees are doing. My Burmese Muslim friend has a son who will go into international politics more tan likely and was selected as a keynote speaker at his colleges alummi banquet. His brother, now a junior in high school and is in ROTC and wants to be an Air Force Pilot. My Afghan friend has left his family of 6 behind to work for us in Afghanistan for the last year. Two Bhutanese families totalling 12 pooled their resources to buy a nice house in Lilburn, Ga and have a huge Amercian flag outside. 4 people ar working at low paying jobs yet they worked together to afford a $175,000 house.

PBS runs a series called “Need to Know-America by the Numbers”-the September program profiled Clarkston, Georgia, the most diverse community in the US. It does deal with some folks who have issues with resetltlement Please watch it,

America has always been Multi Cultural. In our history, Italians, Irish, Chinese etc came and they all had those on the fringes that created the Italian Mafia, The Irish gangs of NY or the Chinese drug dens. But all these nationalities succeeded in America and do we not celebrate Columbus and St Patricks day as an example?

i wish you could see the benefits of a multi cultural education at the International Community School in Atlanta. Ann-I abhor politics and as i have mentioned before, I want a more transparent and shared refugee program, but for every refugee that comes here and succeeds and who teaches their children their ethnic heritage and yet loves American values, I feel a great deal of pride for

Recently a Islamic organization in Atlanta had a food drive for the poor of the whole community. I do not believe that for the most part people are doing this to crate a good image. There is a lot of work involved and it is sincere. By the way, as to food stamp fraud, what percentage overall is immigrant and refugee driven? We recently had a big bust here and I believe the criminals were African American. You only report on selective incidents.

I believe you should be more balanced, less sarcastic and perhaps a bit more positive without sugar coating. I support more resettlement with better screening etc, and I look at it as a moral issue for myself and if the best way to do it is with with government funding, so be it.

My perspective is based on 17 years of adopting families mainly Muslim up until the last 4 years, where I have worked the Bhutanese of 3 religions. I believe Atlanta has been more fortunate then other cities,although crime is an issue.

If you look at your entries, it seems like the Bosnian and Meshketian Turl Muslim populations have done well with little radical;ism Maybe because they came from Europe, the extremes were not there. I think you need to stop with stereotyping by religion/natiionality and reconize that it is a minority of people who seeks to attack America and that i truly believe that most refugees car only to survive and create a better life for themselves.

Arrange for George Soros, an avid open borders advocate, to finance the refugee agencies and get his people appointed to our government immigration department, and work with the pro-Islam State Department and anti-US United Nations to flood areas of the USA with radicals from Islamic/Sharia countries.

Then Saudi Arabia will build a mosque in the community so that they will have a base of operations.

Add a pro-Islam, anti-Christian saboteur President Obama who will issue a few favorable executive orders in support and you have the basis for a monopoly.

Throw in a couple of czars and there you have it, all done without consulting our elected representatives once.

There will never be anything like America again.