LISTEN: Texas refugee group details plethora of services for incoming Syrians

LISTEN: Texas refugee group details plethora of services for incoming Syrians | The American Mirror
Is it possible Syrian refugees will be better off in America than many Americans?

Liberty News recently published an audio recording it says is a phone call between a representative of Refugee Services of Texas and a man posing as a potential volunteer.

The services detailed in the call — being paid for by U.S. taxpayers — is staggering.

“Every refugee receives a sum of money from the government that’s welcome money. It’s $925 per person — a one-time sum,” the organization employee tells the caller.

That’s only the beginning. 

She also rattled off a laundry list of services offered to incoming refugees intended to make them “self-sufficient and independent,” including:

• Being picked up at the airport
• Finding and securing an apartment
• Setting up the apartment “so it’s livable”
• Providing bus orientation
• Transporting them to Social Security office to apply for card
• Helping find employment
• Eight weeks of English as Second Language (ESL) classes

The employee says volunteers help by setting up apartments. 
The organization gives the volunteer a Walmart gift card to buy “all the items needed for the refugee’s apartment....”