Number of refugees moving to Buffalo plummets under Trump administration

[WNYresident]

Good News. I totally understand people have it very hard on earth. What people have to realize is there are BILLIONS of people on earth. You simply can't help everyone. Specially to the point of causing the cost of living in your community to climb so high that businesses and people flee the state.

Number of refugees moving to Buffalo plummets under Trump administration

Buffalo's influx of refugees dwindled to its lowest level in a decade last year, as the Trump administration's myriad efforts to crack down on immigration took a toll on a trend that's helped to prop up the city's population in recent years.

Some 680 outcasts from around the world came directly to Buffalo to begin their new lives in 2017, according to State Department data. That's down from 1,929 the year before, and it's the smallest number of admissions under the federal program to bring refugees to America since 2007, when 617 refugees resettled in Buffalo.

The largest number of refugees, 132, came to Buffalo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while 126 of last year's newcomers are natives of Burma, the Southeast Asian nation that has been the source of Buffalo's largest refugee population. But the city also welcomed a total of 186 refugees from Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Iran – four of the six Muslim majority nations subject to a Trump travel ban that was tied up in the federal courts for most of last year.

http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/21/nu...s-under-trump/

Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown termed the drop "disheartening."

Well of course it is if the controlling political party is doing a bad job and causing net tax payers/businesses to flee the community. They don't have a buffer of people brought in to offset the population loss.

"While this decline has the potential to negatively affect Buffalo’s projected population growth, we are wholly committed to work even harder to maintain our city as a welcoming place that offers employment opportunities, quality education and an affordable cost of living," Brown said. "It’s our goal to continue to attract immigrants and refugees, as these communities have had a significant impact on our diversity and our revitalization."

What the Mayor fails to mention:

Refugees arrive in America virtually penniless, meaning they rely on government assistance at first. In fact, as waves of refugees came to Buffalo, Erie County's social services costs for the refugee population increased nearly tenfold in a decade, although County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz noted that most refugees only stay on social services for a short time until they get settled and start working.

And you know who pays for this? We do. I'm going to assume there is federal assistance but that assistance is doled out by our county employees. Correct? We cover the cost for those employees to handle the needs of the refugees.

Ten fold. I wonder how much that is.

Poloncarz, a strong supporter of the refugee influx, said it's naive to think that people who fled their countries – often running for their lives – could easily go back home.

"If they went home, they might die," Poloncarz said.

Well if you feel so strongly about this start cutting your own checks and adopt a family.

All of those policies combined to reduce the number of refugees coming to Buffalo, but they also have led to hardship for refugees who already live in the city. Dr. Myron Glick, founder and chief medical officer of Jericho Road Community Health Center – a West Side institution that both serves and employs refugees – said at least two of his employees have not been able to bring their wives to America because of the Trump administration's new refugee policies.

So this must be the chain migration President Trump is talking about. First the wife. Then relatives afterwards. It never stops. I know they all might have some assistance for a short while but enough is enough.

[grump]

Well, that’s 680 too many. Especially since such a large number are coming from hotbeds of Moslem terror and hatred of the West. Why don’t all these wonderful people just go to some other country. For example, why don’t they head to all the places Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and Rosie O’Donnell and all their entertainment friends are going since Trump got elected. Oh wait, you mean the entertainment crowd haven’t left and aren’t going to? I’m stunned. Those who say that these people aren’t welfare charges from day one are liars, pure and simple. The retard Poloncarz and his friends should take them in and care for them. There’s loads of empty Catholic Churches, convents and rectories in the area. Put them up there and have the Catholic Church pay for them...they want them here so damned bad. Just think, under this Pope the young boys could go right back to getting “hands on” sex education again from some of the clergy.

[joe d.]

GRUMP....YOU should run for public office...we need someone to tell the population "like it is"!
Kidding aside..you do make some valid observations.