Refugee Resettlement in Baltimore
May 5, 2015
Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Service in Baltimore
DESPITE its high unemployment rate, Baltimore is a federal “preferred refugee resettlement site” and has taken in thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the last ten years, as Ann Corcoran reports at Refugee Resettlement Watch. She writes:
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is one of the Top Nine refugee resettlement contractors in the country and it is headquartered in one of Baltimore’s better neighborhoods. This is what we said in 2014: Gotta keep up their real estate holdings! The Lutheran Center (LIRS headquarters) is a six-story structure constructed in 1999 on property owned by Baltimore’s historic Christ Lutheran Church. The building is located near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the historic Federal Hill neighborhood, a charming area rich with history and an eclectic array of eateries and shopping venues.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fell for the feds ‘progressive’ scheme here in 2012 when she said that bringing more refugees and immigrants to the city would boost the economy completely failing to understand that, just because African Americans are black, they wouldn’t simply ‘welcome’ the rainbow colors of the world to compete with them for jobs, housing and scarce social services.
During last week’s riots, there were reports that looters had targeted businesses owned by Asians and Arabs.
