Similar complaints throughout the country. I'd truck then back to Washington D.C. and plunk them onto the White House Lawn/.


Flint, Michigan: ‘City Leaders Not Informed’ by Feds of Plan to Send 100 Syrian, Iraqi Refugees
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Sep 2016621

Breitbart News has learned that a resettlement agency funded by the Obama administration plans to send 100 Iraqi and Syrian refugees to Flint, Michigan, in the fiscal year that begins next month on October 1.

But that plan appears to violate a clause in the federal Refugee Act of 1980 which requires the federal government and director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement to consult with local as well as state governments prior to the placement of any refugees within their boundaries.

“At this point it appears city leaders have not been informed of the details regarding this matter,” a spokesperson for Mayor Karen Weaver and the city of Flint tells Breitbart News.

It’s the same story with the government of Genesee County, in which Flint is located.

“As of this time the Genesee County Board of Commissioners has not been notified of any settlement of 100 refugees from Middle East – South Asia,” Jamie Curtis, Chairman of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners, tells Breitbart News through a spokesperson.

Flint, a city of 100,000, is in the midst of a financial and public health crisis due to high levels of lead in its drinking water after a 2014 change in its source from the Detroit Sewage and Water System to the Flint River.

According to this FY 2017 abstract submitted to the Department of State by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which operates in Michigan as Samaritas, the resettlement agency plans to bring 100 Iraqi and Syrian refugees to Flint Michigan in the twelve month fiscal year that begins in less than three weeks. The document was obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

With all the financial and public health problems the city of Flint, Michigan faces, critics are wondering if it makes any sense to force 100 Syrian and Iraqi refugees upon the citizens of Flint, Michigan.

The Obama administration told Congress on Tuesday it wants to increase the number of refugees brought into the U.S. in FY 2017 to 110,000 — up 29% from 85,000 in FY 2016.

Unless Congress specifically rejects Obama’s plan, that 110,000 number will go into effect starting October 1.

Resettlement agency abstracts across the country are almost always rubber-stamped by the Obama administration. That is likely to be the case in Michigan in FY 2017, as Breitbart reported recently.

Weaver, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Mayor Dayne Walling, also a Democrat, in 2015. Walling, a Rhodes Scholar, participated in the decision to switch the city’s water supply to the Flint River in 2014 that led to huge public health problems due to lead contamination. Those problems remain unresolved.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Flint on Wednesday, where he quipped, “It used to be cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now the cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.”

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The failure of the federal government to consult with local officials prior to the resettlement of refugees within their jurisdiction, while a violation of the Refugee Act of 1980, appears to be commonplace in the Obama administration. Local officials are often completely unaware of the arrival of refugees until after they have been resettled in their jurisdictions, as appears to be the case in Flint and Genesee County in Michigan.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...iraqi-refugees/