KY: Illegal Aliens need individualized services in domestic violence

KY: Illegal Aliens need individualized services in domestic violence...The goal is to create a safer community for all, and make sure we have language access and culturally competent services when legal immigrants, illegal Aliens and refugees come seeking help..Hispanic population more than doubled in both Kentucky and Jefferson County in the past decade, while the Asian-American population grew by more than 60 percent in both locations, according to U.S. Census figures. Jefferson County Public Schools had 4,774 students with limited English proficiency as of November 2010, with languages ranging from Spanish to Somali to Nepali to Burmese.
Thousands of refugees have arrived in Kentucky from countries torn by war and persecution.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110529/NEWS01/305290088/Immigrants-need-individualized-services-domestic-violence-cases-experts-say?odyssey=mod

Refugee Resettlement...A System Badly in Need of Review

Refugee Resettlement...A System Badly in Need of Review...Loss of U.S. Control. Policy about who is admitted as a refugee to the U.S. has been surrendered to the U.N. and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that stand to benefit from the program. In recent years, up to 95% of the refugees coming to the U.S. were referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or were putative relatives of U.N.-selected refugees. Given the impact that refugee resettlement has on all other forms of immigration — both legal and illegal — the U.N. can be thought of as setting U.S. immigration policy for future generations of Americans.

http://cis.org/refugee-system-needs-review

Ex-CIA agent says Libyan refugees are coming to New Jersey

Ex-CIA agent says Libyan refugees are coming to New Jersey (that means they are coming to other states as well) We don’t know if a final decision has been made, but we reported exactly one month ago that Human Rights First was calling for an emergency action by the US government to get Libyans to America ASAP (and expedite the security process!).

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/ex-cia-agent-says-libyan-refugees-are-coming-to-new-jersey/

Iran refugee program survives in budget

Iran refugee program survives in budget...House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has granted a temporary reprieve to a program aimed at making it easier for religious minorities in Iran to be granted asylum in the United States.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/Iran_refugee_program_survives_in_budget.html?showall

Report: 230,000 displaced by Mexico drug war - may be in the U.S.

MEXICO CITY — A report suggests that at least 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence and that about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/latinamerica/7491302.html