Refugee Resettlement Watch Back Up
10/28/2014
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Yesterday, I reported "Refugee Resettlement Watch Taken Down By WordPress", today they're back up—check them out at http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com!

However, I'll repeat my warning that if your blog is hosted on a free platform like WordPress, someone can complain and have it turned off. Ann Corcoran reports receiving no explanation of what happened.

The latest post is

Wyoming citizen asks county health trustees to oppose refugee resettlement for the state

Posted by Ann Corcoran on October 27, 2014

Why introduce the program to Wyoming when states with refugee resettlement are having problems?  That is the gist of what Michael Elmore, a representative of a citizens’ group, told Campbell County Health trustees last week.

What is in it for Wyoming?

Why talk to a hospital board?  Because county health departments/hospitals are on the front lines of taking care of newly arrived refugees with myriad health problems.

Just this morning I see a report from Philadelphia where Children’s Hospital is reporting on the Burmese refugees the hospital must clear of health problems at taxpayer expense (or is it at the expense of the hospital?):

The CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Refugee Program works with three of the 3 resettlement agencies to care for Burmese children who come to Philadelphia within the first 30 to 60 days of their time in the U.S. CHOP physicians perform physicals, give immunizations and ensure the children will have no medical barriers to enrolling in school.

Regular readers know that we have been following the controversy in Wyoming for months.

In September of 2013, Republican governor Matt Mead wrote a letter to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement expressing his intention of welcoming a resettlement program and thus making Wyoming the 50th state in the nation to invite in the UN, the US State Department, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services and a Lutheran resettlement contractor to change the demographic makeup of the state.[More]

And GOP governor Mead actually attacked Refugee Resettlement Watch: see Wyoming GOP Governor Slurs Patriot Website Refugee Resettlement Watch As Racist, by
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