THE Associated Press reported yesterday:

Scores of Baltimore-area religious leaders held an interfaith prayer vigil for unaccompanied children who arrived in Maryland after fleeing violence in their home countries.

Dozens of religious leaders and supporters marched along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Wednesday to draw attention to the influx of immigrant children into the United States, and specifically into Maryland and Baltimore. In the first seven months of 2014, 2,205 unaccompanied immigrant children have settled in Maryland. Most of those children have been reunited with family members or placed in the homes of sponsors.

What the story failed to mention is that these “religious leaders” included federal contractors who provide refugee services. Linda Hartke, CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, makes more than $200,000 a year, most of it from the federal government. See the report at Refugee Resettlement Watch. As Anne Corcoran points out, it is odd that Baltimore is the site of a vigil for foreign refugees who have fled crime.

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James N. writes:

I work with refugee contractors on a regular basis, and it’s my impression that most of them would do it for free, so strong is their ideology which elevates “diversity” above all other things.

Laura writes:

Let there be great bureaucratic forces helping refugees. But it shouldn’t, at least not now, be the extensive government-funded project that it is.

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