Feds put brakes on plan to resettle refugees in Athens
Georgia: General Sherman's preferred destination
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The U.S. State Department has shelved a plan to resettle refugees in Athens following objection from Mayor Nancy Denson and
The International Rescue Committee said it got an email last week from the federal agency saying it would consider the proposal “after additional planning and community consultation.”
J.D. McCrary, the IRC’s executive director in Atlanta, said in an email that he was “not entirely sure what is meant by additional planning and community consultation as this was extensively undertaken during the past year.”
“There is always hope in the future and the good news is that senior level officials from the State Department are planning a visit to Athens next month to view the area in person for future consideration,” he wrote.
“During the visit we will be clarifying with them what additional planning and consultations they are requiring, showing them firsthand why Athens has already become a preferred destination for refugees seeking a new life, and discussing a concrete plan to resubmit a proposal to establish an official resettlement site.”
You've got to love this. "Athens has already become a preferred destination for refugees." Wow, how does my quiet peaceful clean green low-crime almost entirely European-American little town get in on this impoverished uneducated unemployed non-English speaking gusher of countless invading refugees?!
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