Hey New Orleans, get ready....here come the Syrians

[Matt504]

Not sure how I feel about this as a New Orleanian displaced by Katrina.

 

[Primetime21]

Spoiler

 

[Yehuda]

How many Syrian refugees are in the New Orleans area? 13, officials say

Despite blog posts and social media rumors indicating that thousands of Syrian refugees had already arrived in the New Orleans area, the U.S. State Department reported only 14 Syrian nationals have resettled in Louisiana since Jan. 1.

The State Department's Refugee Processing Center handled three cases, settling seven refugees in Kenner, six in New Orleans and one in Baton Rouge, a spokesperson said.

Seven Syrian refugees arrived in Louisiana in April, and another resettled in June. Six more refugees arrived in November, according to processing center data.

Reports of 10,000 Syrians pouring into the New Orleans area began circulating online following the terrorist attacks in Paris Friday that left more than 129 people dead. Many, including Gov. Bobby Jindal, expressed concern about the immigration of Syrian refugees who are fleeing the violent civil war and terrorism in the Middle East and Africa.

Oh.

 

[Sithlord Piff]

How many Syrian refugees are in the New Orleans area? 13, officials say

"The White House in September announced plans to resettle a total of 10,000 Syrian refugees throughout the United States during the 2016 fiscal year, the State Department spokesperson said."
So the 10k still coming, just more spread out.

 

[Groanman]

Thanks Obama

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Lot of French Culture down that way too.

 

[Data-Hawk]

About to take some of yall jobs. I think people are always for the refugees coming until it personally affects them.

 

[KOohbt]

that propaganda

 

[Dr. Acula]

Interesting they never resettle these individuals in maybe...Beverly hills or orange county

 

[UnoVon]

They always move illegal immigrants into poor black areas..and it's not by accident.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Have they made any real efforts to bring back the displaced former residents of New Orleans? I mean, they had the gall to call them refugees in their own country the least they could get is a similar deal.

 

[horizon]

Sensationalist and misleading tbh.

10,000 people are coming spread out through the country, mostly in larger cities. NOLA literally only has 14 refugees.

 

[1thouwow]

May Allah protect Cafe Du Monde

 

[George's Dilemma]

Why New Orleans of all places?

Don't get me wrong. I think humanitarian efforts like this are great.

But the NO area hasn't even gotten over the Katrina disaster ten years later.

I'd think there would be better places to welcome these Syrians.

Not to mention how offensive New Orleans might be to the sensibilities of the more conservative Islamic types. Bourbon district is the complete opposite of Sharia Law. That sh!t was probably a culture shock to them. The only thing some of those Syrians might be able to relate to is heavy handed police and prejudice. (Funny they probably still look down on Black people regardless of their own sad plight) Hopefully they're carefully screening who comes over here. Cuz after what happened to Paris, and Russia...........I'm sure they've got something planned for over here. It's one of the few times I agree with gun rights types with arguments of tooling up the citizenry. The folks in Paris didn't have a chance once those AK's starting riffing. Like Prodigy said, "at least to have the opportunity to bust back." That might not help in an explosives situation, but in a firefight it would nice to be able to defend oneself.

 

[Elle Driver]

About to take some of yall jobs. I think people are always for the refugees coming until it personally affects them.

What jobs? Menial labor? Unless they are educated and know English, they ain't taking no jobs. Life's tough here especially when you come from an entirely different country and you've witnessed war and massacres. They won't be taking no jobs, they'll probably be on some kind of assistance and get mental health care. Plus people ain't too fond of Arabs, idk who would hire them.