Good luck getting data on refugee welfare usage when Congress can’t get it!
Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 15, 2017
There have been many efforts in recent years to press local and state governments to cough up data on the cost of refugees placed in communities—most recently in North Dakota and Minnesota.
This Congressional Research Memo to Congress from 2015 gives you a glimpse in to why they aren’t able to do it (assuming they were willing!).
Refugees are not identified (separately from other immigrants) at the local level when they go to the local social service agency to get their “benefits.” Indeed, immigrants may not even be designated as such on welfare applications.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/good-luck-getting-data-on-refugee-welfare-usage-when-congress-cant-get-it/
