Do you live in a preferred refugee resettlement community?
There are 82 of them in America, and a lot of them are in small towns where you’d least expect to find them.
Refugee resettlement is big business, and nine organizations, called volags, have a virtual monopoly over the business.
They are the ones that Department of State has selected because they are located or use subcontractors in communities where refugees have “ample opportunities of sustained economic independence.”Or so the State Department would like you to believe.
In reality, there is little follow up on whether this assumption merges into reality.
Our local refugee resettlement contractor in Walnut Creek, California, a preferred community, even denies preferred communities exist.
She claims there are not refugee resettlement communities but grant recipients, as if these grant recipients operate in cyberspace without a geographical location.
...The Minneapolis area, for example, has been a preferred area for resettling Somalis.
It was ground zero for recruiting for the jihadist group al-Shabab, and a decade later it is the focal point for ISIS recruitment in America.
...The volags and the community influentials that support them would tell you that their refugees are well vetted, citing a State Department site to verify this.
But as noted by Michael Steinbeck, the assistant director of the FBI, there is no way to adequately vet refugees that come from a failed state..."
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