http://www.boston.com/news/loc…
There is no reason why Massachusetts cannot relive vermont by beginning to take many of these refugees into Boston, Brockton, N. Bedford, and perhaps Cambridge and Brookline.
Time to open the wallets and homes—talk the talk and walk the walk. No reason that Burlington should bear the brunt and there are hundreds of thousands of torture victims in Africa seeking solace in USA.
Please share widely!
Reading the article, the Congolese are attracted to Burlington, VT for some of the things the Massachusetts cities you list aren’t. For example, small.
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p>Generally, too, immigrants tend to follow other immigrants. If you were from the Congo, you’d want to go where other people who spoke your language had already settled, no?
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p>Consequently, it’s not clear what you’re concretely suggesting.
Do I detect a theme here? Last post asserted Americans were stupid. This one insinuates Bay Staters are ungenerous.
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p>Don’t you like us?
to substantiate his implication that Massachusetts is not currently home to any refugees. We certainly have had large numbers in the past – perhaps he remembers John Silber’s remarks on Lowell’s Cambodian population.