Entitled Obama Refugee Family Sue U.S. After Being Given Free Tax Payer Funded Housing
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In response to the civil war that has been ravaging Syria since 2011 resulting in the displacement of more than 11 million people from within and around the country’s borders, the United States has chosen to assist with the effort to accept for resettlement a significant amount of refugees.
More than 6 million people have been uprooted from their homes in war-ravaged Syria, many living in dire conditions in temporary camps and settlements in the Middle East. In the United States between October 1, 201,1 and December 31, 2016, a sum total of 18,007 Syrians were resettled within our borders. Refugee families live in within US borders under the federal government’s Temporary Rental Assistance or TPA which pays for their housing for a limited period of time.
These Syrians are then granted Temporary Protected Status or (TPS) which in turn allows the refugees to assimilate to a new language and culture in a country that is very different than her own. These are apparently not refugees selected and screened through the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program. Which in turn means that the American taxpayer is footing the bill for refugee housing and for anyone with Temporary Protected Status to live and to be here. Yet Americans do not have a choice as to whether these refugees live among them if their children’s education is sacrificed because of them, if public sanitation is compromised because of them, or numerous other issues that can and often do arise.
What has become even more outrageous that these same people who are here in the United States within our borders on our dime and at our discretion are now suing the federal government! These same people were living in squalid tents with fetid water and bombed out buildings that were uninhabitable, yet apparently, even the opportunities available in coming to America are good enough for these folks. The refugee program in America has become a joke!
“Lina Alhomsi and her family, all Syrian refugees, recently awoke in the middle of the night to the sight and sounds of a drunken man breaking through the roof of their New Jersey apartment.
Fed up with the living conditions, she and seven other refugee families this week filed a federal lawsuit against their landlord and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claiming neglect, uninhabitable living conditions, breach of contract and emotional distress.
More than 6 million people have been uprooted from their homes in war-ravaged Syria, many living in dire conditions in temporary camps and settlements in the Middle East.
Many of those who made it to the United States like the Alhomsi family, among the roughly 7,000 Syrians with temporary protected status, hoped for better.
Alhomsi, her husband and four children have lived in the Paterson, New Jersey apartment, some 50 miles northwest of New York City, since they arrived in the United States nearly two years ago.
The other refugee families suing also live in buildings owned by the same landlord in the run-down neighborhood, complaining of leaking ceilings, cockroaches, mice and bedbugs.
Due to the pest-filled housing, “the kids have a lot of anxiety,” Hend Elburi, programs and operations manager at SMILE for Charity, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Alhomsi’s 4-month-old daughter Linda recently fell ill from what the family suspects was exposure to rodent droppings. The baby and one of her brothers are covered with bug bites, the little boy so bitten that he was sent home from school, according to his mother.
Another refugee signed onto the lawsuit, Mohammad Hilal, who fled his hometown of Daraa, Syria, said the bed bugs, roaches and mice are causing mental health problems and conflicts for his family.
The refugee families live in the United States under the federal government’s Temporary Rental Assistance, which pays for their housing for a limited period of time.
Their future is clouded by President Donald Trump’s administration which has shown deep skepticism toward the program established by Congress in 1990 to provide temporary reprieve for immigrants whose home countries face disaster or conflict.