Refugees coming to Northern Nevada
By Julia Ritchey, KUNR
The U.S. State Department has greenlighted a Northern Nevada nonprofit to help resettle refugees escaping hotbeds of conflict around the globe beginning this fall.
Carina Black, executive director of the Reno-based Northern Nevada International Center, says their application to become an official resettlement agency was approved in February. They’ve since been laying the groundwork, and building a stakeholders’ network, before those first few families arrive.
Black says initially about two families — approximately 10 people — could arrive by September. For the federal fiscal year running October 2016 through 2017, they’ve asked to resettle at most 75 refugees.
All refugees relocating to Reno will go through a vigorous, federal screening process, which can take between 18-24 months.
I wonder about the length of vetting period, if true.
I wonder if the refugees seek to become part of America
Carina Black wants to educate public officials about refugees. I wonder how knowledgeable she is about experiences elsewhere.
It starts with two families and becomes a colony. Witness Minneapolis and the state of Maine
Welcome foreign residents but go through the process that has worked for centuries.
Carina Black, how much do you hate America? These refugees should be resettled in safe zones in their own
country not here to become welfare queens and kings.
Carina why not invite them into your own home and take care of them yourself and not demand your neighbors pay for it all.