Something I learned last year—refugees are provided three months of support from agencies once they are settled in the U.S. Occasionally, that can be extended to 9 months.
I want more people to consider what it'd be like to be forced from your country, to spend years in limbo in refugee camps having no clue where you will end up (or if you'll ever get to leave), come to a new country where you don't speak the common language and rarely understand how it operates, only have access to low-wage jobs, get your children started in a new school that is incredibly different from what they've known, often encounter hostile and racist people—only to have support for 3 months before you're on your own.
Great column!
Something I learned last year—refugees are provided three months of support from agencies once they are settled in the U.S. Occasionally, that can be extended to 9 months.
I want more people to consider what it'd be like to be forced from your country, to spend years in limbo in refugee camps having no clue where you will end up (or if you'll ever get to leave), come to a new country where you don't speak the common language and rarely understand how it operates, only have access to low-wage jobs, get your children started in a new school that is incredibly different from what they've known, often encounter hostile and racist people—only to have support for 3 months before you're on your own.
I don't even think Vance veils his racism at this point.
Sometimes I try to be charitable. Often, I don't know why, lol.