The Biden administration, which this week tried to push off its flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan on former President Donald Trump, also muffed the initial resettlement of 72,000 refugees in US cities, according to a new audit.
Church-based agencies that were paid hundreds of millions to scatter pro-America refugees around the country said they received little notice of arriving refugees and couldn’t line up jobs or housing, sometimes putting families in vacation rentals.What’s more, they said that many of the refugees had no knowledge of American culture, especially modern political culture, and subjected their handlers to racist and sexist remarks and treated some like handymen.
Topping the list was the surge of 72,000 refugees into the United States during the short withdrawal program. Many were those who worked with Americans during the war. The report said the number was the highest “ever” that the nine resettlement agencies working with the State Department had handled in a condensed period.
Finding housing during the coronavirus crisis was also difficult. The audit said the emergence of corporate ownership of rentals also made it difficult to get housing because refugees often had no or wrong identification.
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