Refugees from war-torn Congo appear headed for Missoula

Missoulian ^ | 7-20-2016 | Kim Briggeman

[libh8er]

It looks like Missoula’s first round of refugees will be from sub-Saharan Africa, not Syria.

“We haven’t finalized when they’ll be coming, so I can’t give you specifics, but it will most likely be Congolese to start, Congolese from the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Molly Short Carr said Wednesday.

Carr, Missoula’s new International Rescue Committee director, arrived in Missoula two weeks ago to start preparations for a resettlement office that was approved earlier this year by the U.S. State Department. A native of Buffalo, New York, she spent most of the past two years as an administrator based in Nairobi, Kenya, working on “the other side” of the international continuum of refugee resettlement efforts.

Carr said she has been in the three camps the Congolese refugees to Missoula are most likely to come from – Gihembe in Rwanda, Nakivale in Uganda and Nyaragusu Refugee Camp on the coast of Tanzania. She was in Nyaragusa just a month ago.

[libh8er]

The first batch has already arrived.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/first-congolese-refugees-touch-down/article_6e1858cc-26f3-57b2-b665-1d1131e8b01c.html

[MagUSNRET]

One more city about to be turned to chit!!

[BenLurkin]

Send them to China.

[CincyRichieRich]

ahhhhhh!

Winter should be real neat for them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Kenyanesian Usurper intends to infect every part of the country so it can never recover.

[Comment Not Approved]

45 miles north of me. We are already preparing a welcome party for when they migrate south.

[Joe Brower]

Oh, I'm sure they'll fit right in. < /s>

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to effectively do the second part of the 3S solution where they can never be found.

[Comment Not Approved]

You need a buddy with a back hoe. I’ve got a couple.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Montana?

They are sending people from the Congo to Montana?

[DoughtyOne]

Put your daughters and dogs inside...


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[SeeSharp]

Missoula?

They'll freeze.

[LucyT]

Comment with the article:

"Anybody cares to know they are being housed at the Hilton."

[Drew68]

The Kenyanesian Usurper intends to infect every part of the country so it can never recover.

He's standing side by side with the GOP on this.

[soycd]

More cowards afraid to fight for their country. Lazy, welfare sucking scum here to pinch off more of their inbred varmints. No excuse for their stealing our hard work to build America.

[Drew68]

They are sending people from the Congo to Montana?

Yes. That's how it works. When the Republicans stand aside and let the Democrats import new voters, they get sent to red states. Otherwise, what's the point?

[RoseofTexas]

Ebola and other diseases carriers!...oh boy!!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

A very, VERY liberal city in Montana. Home of the University of Montana, called the “Berkeley of the Mountain West”

[mumblypeg]

Well, according to wikipedia, the official language of the Congo is French, with English as a second language mandatory in Congolese schools.
And the country is 70% Christian, and either 1.6 % or 10 % Muslim, depending on which source cited by wiki you believe.
Curiously, the Congo is a host country receiving a lot of refugees from other African nations, while at the same time exporting many refugees of their own.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo