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    Refugee resettlement to begin in Niagara Falls in 2017

    Refugee resettlement to begin in Niagara Falls in 2017

    As many as 50 refugees from one of the world's troubled spots are likely to resettle in Niagara Falls next year as Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and Erie County expands its services northward.

    The U.S. State Department recently approved Jewish Family Service's application to begin refugee resettlement in the Cataract City, said Marlene A. Schillinger, the local group's president and CEO.
    Jewish Family Service will be the first refugee resettlement agency working in Niagara Falls, and Schillinger said it makes sense to do so.
    "There's capacity for this in Niagara Falls," she said. "There are employment opportunities."
    http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/27/re...ime=1480260933


    The only employment "opportunities" seems to be for Social Services and the flow of grant money to employee people at Jewish Family Service's

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    And despite fears that refugees from Syria might be a terror threat, "we have not had any pushback from the community," Scott said. "And there's certainly an economic benefit."
    What is the economic benefit comes from importing people from other countries?

    Dyster could not be reached for comment, but Schillinger and Scott said the mayor has been supportive, hoping a refugee influx in Niagara Falls could revitalize neighborhoods and stem falling population, just as it has in Buffalo.
    Where is the benefit? Just because you can import people from other countries to replace those residents who fled doesn't help anything. Specially when the reason people flee is a lack of jobs/high taxation.

    Rising housing prices on the West Side of Buffalo have been tied in part to the refugee influx, but they have also made it more difficult for the city's four refugee resettlement agencies to find affordable housing for newcomers. That should be less of a problem in Niagara Falls, long a struggling small city whose population has fallen by half, to less than 50,000, since 1960.
    Doesn't affordable housing really mean "subsidized" housing? Section 8 or what ever label you want to place on it?

    A Jewish Family Service caseworker will be based in Niagara Falls, but otherwise, much remains unknown about how the refugee resettlement effort will work out.
    Where does the money come from to pay the caseworkers salary?

    Agency officials still don't know where the refugees will come from, but they hope the newcomers will be from just one country, so that a nascent community support system will develop as soon as they arrive.
    Who pays for the support system? Are the groups being imported completely cover their costs?

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