U.S. to Accept Somali Bantu Refugees..

[Quite -Storm]

 

 

 

The United States said yesterday it would proceed with a plan to take in as many as 12,000 Somali Bantu refugees, starting this spring, despite delays in many other U.S. refugee resettlement programs.

 

The Somali Bantus, descendants of slaves from Mozambique and other parts of southern Africa, have been living in camps in northeastern Kenya for most of the past decade because of the violence in Somalia.

 

The State Department said the first group would arrive in the United States in the spring after interviews to find out if they are eligible. Those eligible will then undergo rigorous security checks, medical examinations, literacy training and cultural orientation, it said in a statement.

 

The United States agreed to consider them for resettlement in 2000 but all U.S. refugee programs were disrupted by the tighter security imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

 

The State Department said the Bantus would be placed in extended family groups in as many as 50 cities and towns across the United States throughout 2003 and 2004.

 

In October, a U.S. official in East Africa said the United States was likely to exclude families in which the women have recently undergone genital mutilation, a common practice among some ethnic groups in the region.

 

A State Department official said the U.S. government strongly condemned the practice of female genital mutilation, but she did not take a position on whether the families who have practiced it would be excluded.

[rudy-Diiriye]

why would they take u? is it just cuz u living with them now! did u see the monkey!lol..

[SomeAlien]

Originally posted by Quite -Storm:

 

 

In October, a U.S. official in East Africa said the United States was likely to exclude families in which the women have recently undergone genital mutilation, a common practice among some ethnic groups in the region.

 

A State Department official said the U.S. government strongly condemned the practice of female genital mutilation, but she did not take a position on whether the families who have practiced it would be excluded.

thats not fair is it? i mean the women werent exactly askin for one...wtv

[Quite -Storm]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL OG GIRL

 

Me 2 I look like Bunto and I think I Can easily be Qualify

[silent-sistah]

somalien....walaahi thats true ,,,,,nearly all somali women from Africa are mutilated,,,,,soo, how can they exclude them,,,,,what they planning to do?....take the young children and leave the mother behind?

 

uuuuf!

 

and these somali's will fall for it thinking US is doing their kids a favour!

 

 

quite,,,,aint it unfair?

[Quite -Storm]

U R Very right silent sista, all they want is the kids so that they can brain wash them and make them forget about thier religion and i am sure that the somali ppl will fall for it.