Refugees joyful about going home!
Posted by Ann Corcoran on December 15, 2017
“I am so happy for the chance to return. Even if we face challenges at least we will be in our home country, among our relatives.”
Halima Ibrahim happy to go home! http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2017/12/5a33b44c4/refugees-fly-home-darfur-security-situation-improves.html
The whole UN/US Refugee Admissions Program needs to be redirected to do this: Protect refugees close to their home countries and repatriate them as soon as possible.
The US is too quick to bring (expensive) refugees to the US for PERMANENT resettlement disrupting their cultures and disrupting American towns and cities.
From UNHCR News (Hat tip: Joanne):
SOUTH DARFUR, Sudan – Mother of six Hamila fled insecurity in Darfur a decade ago, seeking safety in the neighbouring Central African Republic, or CAR.
But this week, she was among more than 230 former refugees returning home on a UNHCR flights from a camp near Bambari.
“I am so happy for the chance to return to Sudan, especially for my children,” said Hamila, who had four more children while in exile. “Even if we face challenges at least we will be in our home country, among our relatives.”
Continue reading here.
Time for a repatriation fund!
It is the humane thing to do!
Now that Donald Trump is in the White House maybe we can go back to the idea a reader presented to us a couple of years ago—-let’s have a repatriation fund for refugees who are unhappy with America and want to go home.
And, I don’t want to hear from critics who don’t want their money spent for such a fund. Believe me, the cost of returning them is going to be far less to you than the cost of their dependence on our social services going forward.
The refugees should not be blamed, any blame for their unhappy presence here rests with the Congress, the US State Department, and the contractors whose income depends on paying refugee clients.
There would be one other side benefit to this fund!
It might well show which of the nine contractors*** were doing the worst jobs of helping refugees get resettled. In other words, it could be a gauge of sorts that might highlight the resettlement agencies doing the lousiest work and producing the most unhappy refugees.
*** I try to post the names every day or so of the nine contractors (aka VOLAGs) that monopolize all refugee resettlement in America because every day we have new readers:
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)
- Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM)
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular)
- US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular)
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
- World Relief Corporation (WR)
3 Responses to “Refugees joyful about going home!”
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tmasierrahills said
Should redirect US efforts to helping refugees in-place and creating a repatriation fund! (a huge bargain) Remembering all the while that in-place aid has to be very limited in amount and time span because we do not want to create US welfare islands in Africa and elsewhere, no doubt with their teeming inhabitants angry at us because we are not providing enough goodies. We also have to keep in mind that we are really no longer a ‘rich nation,’ but, thanks to our endless far-off wars, a multiracial multicultural strife-torn empire that is obscenely in debt.Yes, with a rising European American populism that is encouraging.
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Robert K Pavlick said
Apparently it is only DSS workers and Church organizers , who get big bucks from the government for settling these people, who will be sad about their going home
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Bonnie Loranger said
excellent idea
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