Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 31, 2017
Stephen Bauman, a former CEO of World Relief, one of nine federal resettlement contractors*** (paid by the head to place refugees in towns that are kept in the dark about the resettlement process) was speaking to an interfaith gathering in North Carolina recently when he said some annoying things.
We love refugees, but regular ol’ Americans obviously not so much!
The one that really got me is the one about needing refugees to teach us how to love.
What the heck, what’s wrong with loving the neighbors in your own town, the low income Americans of all colors who are suffering. In fact the first question I get when someone first learns about refugee resettlement is:
We have our own poor people why aren’t we taking care of them first?
Here is the story from Baptist News Global:
America needs refugees as much as refugees need places like America, says Stephan Bauman, former president and CEO of World Relief, which has helped to resettle thousands of desperate wanderers. ...
"Desperate wanderers," oh that's rich. So desperate they can afford to wander from the Congo to Idaho and get set up with a dozen governmental programs--plus free translators!
It is only about a 265-mile round-trip between my home and San Francisco, and when I need to travel there, to see my doctors, it is always a significant economic hit. But then I'm disadvantaged by merely being an American citizen.
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