Our government is spending more of our tax dollars on them than they are on us. From The Washington Free Beacon:
Feds Spend $564,231 on Farmers’ Markets for Refugees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending over $500,000 to start farmers markets for refugees on food stamps.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) enrolls 10,000 refugees in the United States every year onto the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. The group received the funding to provide “culturally-appropriate” corner stores and food markets.
“The IRC will expand and deepen the impact of its successful Fresh Fund incentive program over the next four years in seven refugee-rich neighborhoods across Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Baltimore, and Charlottesville,” according to the grant, part of a $16.8 million effort announced by the agency last week to get food stamp enrollees to eat more vegetables.
The agency said refugees and immigrants in the United States are simultaneously at risk for “under-nutrition and obesity, and are highly dependent on SNAP to meet nutritional needs.”
The funding will create one co-op farmers market, seven “farm stands,” and 10 corner stores for refugees in Utah, Arizona, Maryland, and Virginia.
The stores and markets will use a “culturally-appropriate products list” of 40 fruits and vegetables in an attempt to get newly arrived refugees to eat healthy food.
More at the site - the spending is huge. From this article also at the Washington Examiner:
Feds spend nearly $20,000 to settle every refugee
Federal taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $20,000 just to settle each refugee and asylum seeker, who are then immediately eligible for cash welfare, food stamps, housing and medical aid, according to a new report on the "refugee industry."
The report provided federal budget figures showing that the government spends $19,884 on each refugee the U.S. takes in.
95% of these people will never assimilate - we will have to pay for their custodial care for generations when we should be focusing on our own poor, mentally or physically ill and indigent.
