St. Cloud, MN residents concerned with refugee resettlement told it is a federal issue

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 St. Cloud, MN residents concerned with refugee resettlement told it is a federal issue

Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 10, 2017

No it isn’t.  Local governments want to pretend they have no role so as to get the monkeys off their backs!

St. Cloud on Monday evening. http://knsiradio.com/news/local/residents-sound-refugee-resettlement#.WYvzdZCv3y8.twitter

First, here is the news about citizens appealing to the city council for a study about the costs of resettlement.  The council voted the proposal down by one vote and said this isn’t a local government issue.
Memory lane!  In 2015 we learned that the US State Department had only begun holding so-called “stakeholder meetings” with local government agencies in 2013!
This is what I said:

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/st-cloud-mn-residents-concerned-with-refugee-resettlement-told-it-is-a-federal-issue/