Alert - Governor Mead planning a refugee center in one "lucky" WY town (Sheridan: apartments, credit)

[Dances with WYo]

So this is how 'they' are going to turn Wyoming into a blue state? I do feel for people who are caught up in war and crisis in other countries but why do we always have to be the savior of the world? And at the expense of my tax dollars. I read the article and several related ones, they will never get off public assistance. I hate to sound like a spoiled whiner but I'm and truly tired of working my ass off to pay for others to sit around and watch tv. I happen to like how quiet and sparse the population here is. I never thought I would be able to survive the winters here but you know, it's not so bad. I guess my next move is going to be Canuck, LOL. The whole country has 36 million people where as there is that many here just in California.

Governor of Wyoming plans to flood state with high risk Conglese refugees at taxpayer expense

I'll be calling the Governor's office on Monday.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by Land_Girl

Contact Governor Mead's office and let him know you don't want a refugee center in your town for high risk refugees from the Congo. This is no joke! The students in the UW Law program are currently studying all of the towns in WY to determine where the best location for the center will be and the center is expected to be ready in one year. While our dumb governor believes he can control how many refugees are sent to WY, it’s not true. Other states have been sent far more than they ever expected. Even a few hundred, all sent to one town, will have devastating consequences on communities social services and rental rates. WY doesn’t have a city/town large enough to absorb the negatives associated with this sort of thing. Please check the link, call the governor’s office, and pass this info on to everyone you know in Wyoming. Send it via email and post it on your Facebook pages.




Former child soldier wants Wyoming refugee office - SFGate

Send them to Minnesota, people there are more welcoming and less scared of refugees.

[notoriouskelly]

What an asinine idea.

Maybe a state with a climate closer to the Congo's?

I couldn't even find a rental for $1200 in Wyoming last year; where would they live?

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by notoriouskelly

I couldn't even find a rental for $1200 in Wyoming last year; where would they live?

The occupation government and left wing foundations have plenty of money to pay their rent. They have a reputation for paying legal expenses too when these "refugees" are charged with crimes.

[ElkHunter]

This happens already, although on a smaller scale.

The local McDonalds had a hard time hiring people. They actually pay pretty good, at $9.75 an hour to start, plus differential pay, plus bonus's and such. But they finally run out of local kids wanting an extra buck. So the owner sponsered a dozen people from Bosnia. He brings then into the country, gives them a job, he furnishes housing (3 people to a house, and they are houses, big yard, attached garage) and he furnishes them transportatiion to and from work. The deal is that they have to work for him for 1 year as part of a contract for him sponsering them. All of them speak very good English and are hard workers. Over the years he has had several of them stay with McDonalds and become Managers. He's had several of them go on to bigger and better things. NONE of them have become a strain on society.

One year he sponsered Filipeano's, then a few years later he sponsered Bosnian's, etc.

For sponsered programs like that, these folks have to come into the US and work for the sponser for 1 year before they can apply for licensing for a trade they had back home. Some of the people brought in to work at McDonalds are Nurses, Architects, etc... They have to work for the Sponser for one year and then they are allowed to pursue their trade.

A company I used to work for did the same thing and it was kind of funny. We built wire harness and fiber optics for robotics. One of the guys on the assembly line, soldering wires, was a Doctor prior to leaving his home country.

The Government decides where these folks will be distributed in the US. For instance, when my company hired the group of 12, there were actually approximately 100 brought over. 12 went to Tampa, 12 went to Boston, 12 went to Dallas, etc... It wasn't like they dumped 100 in a neighborhood in Tampa.

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

This happens already, although on a smaller scale.

The local McDonalds had a hard time hiring people. They actually pay pretty good, at $9.75 an hour to start, plus differential pay, plus bonus's and such. But they finally run out of local kids wanting an extra buck. So the owner sponsered a dozen people from Bosnia. He brings then into the country, gives them a job, he furnishes housing (3 people to a house, and they are houses, big yard, attached garage) and he furnishes them transportatiion to and from work. The deal is that they have to work for him for 1 year as part of a contract for him sponsering them. All of them speak very good English and are hard workers. Over the years he has had several of them stay with McDonalds and become Managers. He's had several of them go on to bigger and better things. NONE of them have become a strain on society.

One year he sponsered Filipeano's, then a few years later he sponsered Bosnian's, etc.

For sponsered programs like that, these folks have to come into the US and work for the sponser for 1 year before they can apply for licensing for a trade they had back home. Some of the people brought in to work at McDonalds are Nurses, Architects, etc... They have to work for the Sponser for one year and then they are allowed to pursue their trade.

A company I used to work for did the same thing and it was kind of funny. We built wire harness and fiber optics for robotics. One of the guys on the assembly line, soldering wires, was a Doctor prior to leaving his home country.

The Government decides where these folks will be distributed in the US. For instance, when my company hired the group of 12, there were actually approximately 100 brought over. 12 went to Tampa, 12 went to Boston, 12 went to Dallas, etc... It wasn't like they dumped 100 in a neighborhood in Tampa.

What you describe is nothing like what we've been discussing. Those people are sponsored by private companies who assume responsibility for them. They pick the best of the best as any intelligent employer would. Some of these people are temporary but are able to prove themselves and remain. Refugees on the other hand need to prove nothing once they have been declared refugees. They are never expelled.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Happy in Wyoming

What you describe is nothing like what we've been discussing. Those people are sponsored by private companies who assume responsibility for them. They pick the best of the best as any intelligent employer would. Some of these people are temporary but are able to prove themselves and remain. Refugees on the other hand need to prove nothing once they have been declared refugees. They are never expelled.

I realize that, but what I was trying to put across is that we do get pockets of Foreign bodys right now. Certainly not on the scale that Mead is looking at doing and I suspect that large groups will come in with no prior skills or education. It can really impact a community. It was mentioned that Wyoming doesn't do this sort of thing yet, but they do, just on a really small scale and selected, as you say.

[ScottStielow]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

This happens already, although on a smaller scale.

The local McDonalds had a hard time hiring people. They actually pay pretty good, at $9.75 an hour to start, plus differential pay, plus bonus's and such. But they finally run out of local kids wanting an extra buck. So the owner sponsered a dozen people from Bosnia. He brings then into the country, gives them a job, he furnishes housing (3 people to a house, and they are houses, big yard, attached garage) and he furnishes them transportatiion to and from work. The deal is that they have to work for him for 1 year as part of a contract for him sponsering them. All of them speak very good English and are hard workers. Over the years he has had several of them stay with McDonalds and become Managers. He's had several of them go on to bigger and better things. NONE of them have become a strain on society.

One year he sponsered Filipeano's, then a few years later he sponsered Bosnian's, etc.

For sponsered programs like that, these folks have to come into the US and work for the sponser for 1 year before they can apply for licensing for a trade they had back home. Some of the people brought in to work at McDonalds are Nurses, Architects, etc... They have to work for the Sponser for one year and then they are allowed to pursue their trade.

A company I used to work for did the same thing and it was kind of funny. We built wire harness and fiber optics for robotics. One of the guys on the assembly line, soldering wires, was a Doctor prior to leaving his home country.

The Government decides where these folks will be distributed in the US. For instance, when my company hired the group of 12, there were actually approximately 100 brought over. 12 went to Tampa, 12 went to Boston, 12 went to Dallas, etc... It wasn't like they dumped 100 in a neighborhood in Tampa.

EH. They do the same thing out here on some of the farms. The owners can't find enough local workers to work in the fields. So they contract out to bring people from Thailand or the Philippines, to work on one year contracts. They work under a work visa and are documented.
Scott

[kanhawk]

Any idea what percentage of Wyoming residents actually support this? Has there been a poll? Does Wyoming have a referendum process to block this?

[NDak15]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

This happens already, although on a smaller scale.

The local McDonalds had a hard time hiring people. They actually pay pretty good, at $9.75 an hour to start, plus differential pay, plus bonus's and such. But they finally run out of local kids wanting an extra buck. So the owner sponsered a dozen people from Bosnia. He brings then into the country, gives them a job, he furnishes housing (3 people to a house, and they are houses, big yard, attached garage) and he furnishes them transportatiion to and from work. The deal is that they have to work for him for 1 year as part of a contract for him sponsering them. All of them speak very good English and are hard workers. Over the years he has had several of them stay with McDonalds and become Managers. He's had several of them go on to bigger and better things. NONE of them have become a strain on society.

One year he sponsered Filipeano's, then a few years later he sponsered Bosnian's, etc.

For sponsered programs like that, these folks have to come into the US and work for the sponser for 1 year before they can apply for licensing for a trade they had back home. Some of the people brought in to work at McDonalds are Nurses, Architects, etc... They have to work for the Sponser for one year and then they are allowed to pursue their trade.

A company I used to work for did the same thing and it was kind of funny. We built wire harness and fiber optics for robotics. One of the guys on the assembly line, soldering wires, was a Doctor prior to leaving his home country.

The Government decides where these folks will be distributed in the US. For instance, when my company hired the group of 12, there were actually approximately 100 brought over. 12 went to Tampa, 12 went to Boston, 12 went to Dallas, etc... It wasn't like they dumped 100 in a neighborhood in Tampa.

Is this the same way the National Park Service hires their foreign employees?