According to a summary of refugee arrivals for the first portion of fiscal year 2024, the Democratic Republic of Congo tops the list of refugees resettled in Tennessee in terms of national origin.
The report says that the total number of Congolese refugees resettled in the Volunteer State from October 1 through February 29 is 264.
The Central African country is the largest nation on the continent and the 11th largest in the world.
Congo has been engulfed in turmoil since it gained independence in 1960. The Second Congo War, which raged from 1998 to 2003 resulted in the deaths of nearly five and a half million people. The country’s only successful peaceful transfer of power occurred in 2018, though the country is still involved in military conflict in its eastern region. It is the fourth poorest country on earth.
Meanwhile, refugees from other unstable nations now call Tennessee home.
The second highest number of refugees by country of origin comes from Venezuela, at 110. Third is Burma at 68 and fourth is Afghanistan at 62. Other notable countries of origin include Syria, from which 75 people have arrived, Sudan, Colombia and Guatemala, from which more than 30 refugees have arrived, and Guatemala, from which 29 refugees have arrived.
Notably, Sudan is the poorest country on earth.
The Migration Policy Institute says that President Joe Biden’s administration has made refugee resettlement a priority compared to former President Donald Trump’s administration.
“U.S. refugee resettlement has fluctuated significantly over the past decade, reflecting the priority of presidential administrations,” the institute says. “While the Trump administration reduced the annual resettlement cap to a historical low of 15,000 by its last year in office (FY 2021), President Joe Biden reversed course and raised the cap to 62,500 for the remainder of FY 2021 and then to 125,000 for FY 2022 and FY 2023. Despite these increases, the pace of actual resettlement has lagged, although it has steadily ticked up as the pandemic has waned and processing resumed.”
“Approximately 11,400 refugees were resettled in FY 2021, 25,500 in FY 2022, and 31,800 in the first eight months of FY 2023. Over the 43 years of the modern resettlement program, an average of approximately 73,300 refugees have been resettled annually.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Photo “Congo Refugee” by USA for UNHCR.
A Netherland report says it is clear, poor immigrants must integrate and learn the language or the society and economy will devolve.
Everyone is missing the point here:
Who is the person/department here in Tennessee allowing this ???
import the 3rd world become the 3rd world
The Framers of the Constitution created a “Federalist” type of authority for Government, restricting Government only to the “Enumerated Powers” and a “Bill of Rights” that were reserved to the people and away from legislation by either States or Federal Government.
Tenth Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
“The Powers delegated by this Constitution are appropriated to the department to which they are respectively distributed.
So that:
the legislative department shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or Judicial,
nor the executive department shall never exercise the powers vested in the legislative or Judicial,
nor the Judicial department shall never exercise the powers vested in the legislative or executive,
Each Branch of Government was restricted to it’s respective branch.
Madison:
“It has been said, that in the Federal Government they (Bill of Rights) are unnecessary, because the powers are enumerated and it follows that all that are not granted by the Constitution are retained, that the Constitution is a bill of powers, the great residuum being the rights of the people”.
1789: Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments to the Constitution.
It’s not just the “Bill of Rights”, or “Second Amendment” governments are attacking but the “WHOLE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT THAT THE CONSTITUTION ESTABLISHED”,
Both State and Federal Governments are functioning far outside the “Enumerations of Powers” given to them in the Constitution.
“CITIZENS” have “MORE” authority and responsibility than the Military or Law Enforcement to enforce the Constitution upon the Governments,
but when they are as “WORTHLESS” as the people they “ELECT”,
Only “GOD” is left to demand “Justice” and hold the Worthless accountable.
We are pretty much on our own. I prefer to read Proverbs when I`m not sure of my course in life. There is much to learn about what God says to do, or not do.
It has always been this way, that each of us is an individual, formed in the image of God and given Free Will to make our own decisions. We can choose to follow the way of Man, or the way of God. Yes there are consequences for disobeying the laws of Man, and the laws of God. One is temporary, the other is eternal.
The laws of Man don`t mean much to me. They change according to popular whim, according to whoever is in power, according to whatever the media deems important. I disregard that and live my life according to God. I find peace in that, that I will defend myself, my loved ones, and my property my any means necessary according to the words of God, as established in the Book of Proverbs and other books in the Bible.
What’s the problem?
Insert humans from violent, desperate cultures into stable civil society…Equity!
Bring the whole society down, lower everyone’s standard of living…
This won’t end well