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• One year ago, a private profit detention center saw a spate of riots in reponse to a detainee death

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 119
  On December 12th 2008, 32 year old Jesus Manuel Galindo died in solitary confinement at Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in Pecos, Texas. Galindo was a Mexican citizen whose death was caused by multiple seizures and inadequate medication and medical care. He had been in solitary confinement in the ’security ...
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• Somali suicide bomber was from Copenhagen, grew up in Denmark

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  Perhaps you heard on the news that more than twenty, including graduating doctors, had been killed in a suicide blast in Somalia last week; well the BBC is reporting that the Jihadist responsible was a former refugee raised in Denmark.   Note to do-gooders: it is just one more reminder that Islamic supremacism ...
  14 hours ago

• Vytautas Cekanauskas, Honorary Consul General Of Lithuania In Los Angeles, Dies At 80

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Vytautas Cekanauskas, a former Hughes Aircraft electrical engineer who served as honorary consul general of Lithuania in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, has died. He was 80. Cekanauskas died of cancer Nov. 30 at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, said his daughter, Vida Bruozis. The ...
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• Michigan couple may set new model for refugee resettlement

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  Jim and Karen Jacobson are now the parents of 12 children having just adopted 8 Burmese refugees.   To all of our readers who persist in supporting the failed model for refugee resettlement that we are witnessing in the US and which has become an even starker failed reality as the recession continues—no jobs for ...
  19 hours ago

• REFUGEE INTERNATIONAL:India: Close the Gap for Burmese Refugees

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
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• “American Dream” elusive (also) in New Hampshire

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  This is a story I missed almost a month ago from Manchester, NH (Mr. Parker, you should have sent it to me!).  I only learned about it yesterday when I had a private e-mail from a woman whose daughter and son-in-law are both developmentally disabled and cannot get government supported housing (they have been on a ...
  23 hours ago

• Teenager helps Burmese refugees find their way

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 106
  Sui Ngun Hei, an 18-year-old freshman at Howard Community College, was recently recognized by FIRN for her efforts to assist fellow Burmese refugees. Here, Hei works with Bollman Bridge Elementary kindergartners, from left, Fili Na, Zing Hlei and Mercy Famduring a Dec. 1 session of Club Leap, an after-school tutoring ...
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• REVEREND AL TYSICK CONFESSES: ‘We’re certainly not doing everything we can’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  ‘THERE’S NOTHING OPENING ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY’ New police powers not helpful if shelters not open, says the Rev   In a candid admission, Reverend Al Tysick of the Open Door street ministry at Our Place on Pandora Avenue, says ‘we’re certainly not doing everything we can,’ in a CFAX Radio News ...
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• LOUISE WARNER ON BUS FARES: ‘$1.10 difference represents a 79% increase’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  TRANSIT HIKE TOO EXTREME FOR SENIORS, STUDENTS   The proposed jump in single-fare transit tickets for seniors and youth, from $1.40 to $2.50, is too large. The $1.10 difference represents a 79 per cent increase . Many seniors and youths will find that takes too much of a bite out of their available ...
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• Jobs in Florida scarce for refugees, so what else is new

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  This is another of those older stories I’ve had kicking around in my queue hoping to find time to post on it.  It is an article lamenting the lack of jobs for refugees in South Florida.  I bet there are a lot of other South Floridians not working either with a state unemployment rate of 11.2%. From the Sun ...
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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 106
  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
  2 days ago

• [nndl] From Principal Gloria: Austin Community Urged to Take On-Line Budget Survey

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  --- On Tue, 12/8/09, jgloria [at] austinisd [dot] org jgloria [at] austinisd [dot] org > wrote: Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 5:10 PM read more
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• Lesbian Who Fled Army Opens Legal Ground in Canada

  
  womensphere — Authority: 429
  After fleeing abuse at Fort Campbell, a lesbian now living in Canada is hoping for asylum on the unusual grounds of anti-homosexual persecution within the U.S. military. Her case could affect other claims by asylum seekers from democracies. For months, Pvt. Bethany Smith silently endured taunts and physical abuse ...
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• Refugee who fears fatwa in Guinea gets reprieve

  
  Persecuted Church Weblog — Authority: 131
  Last week, we reported about Lamine Yansané, a Muslim convert from Guinea who is seeking to stay in Canada after his own father, an Muslim imam in his homeland, issued a call for his son’s death during his Friday prayers at the mosque in Boké. The National Post reported today that a federal judge has granted him ...
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• DENNIS ROBINSON ON HOUSING HOMELESS @ TRAVELLER’S INN: ‘City could buy similar properties on market with million of dollars it would save refurbishing JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 136
  TRAVELLER’S INN NEWS WELCOME   The news that one of eight Traveller’s Inn properties up for sale has found a buyer who wants to use it to address the homeless problem is a Christmas story if there ever was one. The 27-unit motel could be converted to use very quickly if the rezoning for long-term stay is ...
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• South Korea is considering US model for its refugee program?

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  That’s what this sounds like , but did no one tell them this self-sufficiency bit isn’t working these days?   And, it sounds like jobs are pretty scarce in South Korea too! Lee Ki Young, a professor of social work at Pusan University, explained, “After allowing the admission and resettlement of refugees, the ...
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• Canadian Somali youths missing too!

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  This story , sent to me weeks ago by Baron at Gates of Vienna , is another I have shamefully left in my queue.  But, it’s important to post it because I believe on our pages we have covered most of the news on Somali former refugees becoming Jihadists and we need to keep our archives complete.  Use our search ...
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• The Somali threat at home

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  I am so pathetically behind in posting stories in my queue, so I’m going to try to get a bunch of stuff up this morning (and not yak too much about each story).  Incidentally, I only have a few hours each day to work on RRW and find myself easily distracted reading posts at Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch, New Zeal, ...
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• Refugee Council condemns new UK immigation and asylum bill

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 420
  Source: Refugee Council The government published a raft of documents relating to asylum and immigration on Thursday 12 November, the crucial ones being the draft Immigration Bill and a long-awaited consultation on asylum support. The Bill is the piece of legislation heavily trailed by the government that they say ...
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• Update on UN camp for ‘Bhutanese’ in Nepal, security village established

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 554
  We haven’t had any news on this in a long time, so here is a quick update.  It seems that the Maoists in refugee camps in Nepal are continuing to subject refugees wishing to be resettled by the UNHCR to violence or threats of violence, so much so that security villages have been set up within camps to further ...
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