RIGHT SPEAK: D.C. Resettled Refugees Everywhere Else Except In It. Why Doesn’t the Capital of Refugee Resettlement Want to Take in Refugees?

D.C. Resettled Refugees Everywhere Else Except In It:

Why doesn’t the capital of refugee resettlement want to take in refugees?

From 2018 and 2024, the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. arranged for the ‘resettlement’ of 6,299 ‘refugees’ in Maryland. Nearly 1 in 5 of them came from the Islamic terror state of Afghanistan and 1 in 10 came from the equally violent and dangerous terrorist state of Syria. Nearly 70% spoke no English. The second most common language was Arabic.

However in Washington D.C., once part of the state and likely to be part of it again if retrocession reform advocates get their way, only 73 ‘refugees’ were resettled in 6 years.

The Immigration Research Initiative listed an even smaller number in D.C. of 66 in ten years.

There is no information on those lucky 73 or 66.

D.C. is small, but Vermont, which has an even smaller population, had 1,260 ‘refugees’ inflicted on it. 1 in 10 were from Afghanistan. 77% don’t speak English. North Dakota was plagued with over 1,000 ‘refugees’ including the usual assortment of Afghans, Somalis, and Venezuelans.

Even Alaska was saddled with resettling over 400 refugees (the Afghans and Somalis couldn’t make it, only the Ukrainians could apparently handle the bitter Alaskan winter.)

Why doesn’t the capital of refugee resettlement want to take in refugees?

Washington D.C. has been the hub for resettling migrants, some pretending to be ‘refugees’ around the country, yet of the 288,709 ‘refugees’ forced on Americans in big cities and rural towns alike, only 73 were consigned to D.C.

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Some people might argue that housing in D.C. is too expensive for everyone except a small elite, but no one was proposing to resettle Afghans and Somalis in Georgetown mansions (not that there wouldn’t be a certain amount of justice to it). Despite being a nexus of wealth for government contractors, lobbyists and the well-connected, 1 in 7 people in D.C. live under the poverty line. And nearly 50,000 people in D.C. already live in subsidized housing.

There is no reason that the ‘refugees’ couldn’t have been placed in D.C. low-income housing the way that they have been all over the country (occupying space meant for America’s poor.)

Nor is D.C. unready to take in the ‘wretched refuse’ yearning to bomb marathons.

Indeed, the D.C. government maintains the usual ‘refugee office’ contracted out, as usual, to Catholic Charities and offers cash assistance and social services. Lutheran Social Services runs an operation there. The Office of Refugee Resettlement claims to have dealt with only 261 ‘refugees’ in D.C. in the last financial year and there’s little sign that they actually stayed.

When you go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, every state listing links to a collection of local resources. The D.C. directory page mysteriously links only to “Page Not Found.”