In Kenya, tens of thousands of registered refugees aren't refugees at all. A CNN investigation has determined that from the late 1990s through 2016 an untold number of these fake refugees were resettled in the US and elsewhere.
Like other families who arrived as Somali refugees, he says they first depended on food stamps to get by. But the family of seven successfully navigated their new life, and his siblings grew up to become nurses and teachers. "We took the opportunity that was in front of us and we didn't take it for granted," he says, speaking in a broad American accent."We have followed the American dream, as they call it. We have all gone to school and we have all graduated.
Like 'winning the lottery' UN officials liken resettlement, even as a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment has spread through Europe and the US, to"winning the lottery." The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that there were more than 20 million possible resettlement candidates by the end of 2018; less than 1% of them were resettled during that year.
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