Idaho: More controversy surrounding refugee resettlement in Magic Valley Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 17, 2015
This is an update of several posts we have written lately about complaints against the College of Southern Idaho for hosting a refugee resettlement office. See our earlier coverage from Twin Falls, Idaho (click here for a complete archive).
Twin Falls is a federally-designated preferred resettlement site for UN-selected refugees!
From MagicValley.com (hat tip: Joanne). Emphasis is mine:
One speaker, Rick Martin, is quoted as saying the resettlement office is “disastrous” to the college’s reputation.
TWIN FALLS • Nearly 20 community members voiced a wide range of opinions Monday about the College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center and its role in resettling Syrians.
A crowd showed up to the college’s board of trustees meeting, launching what turned into a one-hour public forum.
Controversy has been brewing since an April announcement that an estimated 300 refugees — including some from war-torn Middle Eastern countries — will be resettled in Twin Falls over the next year.
The CSI board is proud and fully supportive of the Refugee Center, trustee Bob Keegan told the crowd.
He looked at a list of people who signed up to speak. “It looks like we have a bundle today,” he said.
Of the 18 speakers, six were supportive of the center’s operations. Many who spoke in opposition raised concerns about jihad, Sharia law and the Koran.
College officials say the federal government does extensive background checks on refugees, including those who will arrive starting in October. But some locals have raised concerns that new refugees may be radical Islamists.
House Homeland Security chairman IS WORRIED ABOUT SYRIAN REFUGEES!
Obviously the college officials do not know about the efforts by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul to stop the resettlement of Syrians to places like Idaho because the FBI has said the Syrians cannot be screened. See hearings this coming week in Washington!
Harry Turner, an attorney, said he received a call from a refugee couple who’s Jewish and have been harassed in Twin Falls by Muslims. [And, just wait until the resettled Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims resume their centuries-old conflicts right there in Idaho!—ed]
Read it all, here.
Local concerned citizens should also be demanding information from local and state government about the cost to Twin Falls and to the state of Idaho for the care of the impoverished refugees. Idaho is a Wilson-Fish state and citizens there need to learn more about what that means. (Hint! It isn’t good!)
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