About 300 Afghan Refugees Expected To Arrive In Nashville
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The American Muslim Advisory Council confirmed that roughly 300 Afghan refugees will be coming to the Nashville area in light of the recent removal of U.S. military troops from Afghanistan.
The announcement was made on Monday by Catholic Charities, who will be hosting about 150 of them, and the Nashville International Center for Empowerment, who is responsible for around 140 more.
Faith communities in Middle Tennessee are working to come up with a plan for supporting them as they arrive.
Catholic Charities started a fundraiser for them, saying, “We stand in solidarity with our Afghani brothers and sisters, and we stand ready to welcome and serve those who are, in desperation, fleeing their home country.”
Diocese of Nashville director Rick Musacchio says resettlement departments will ensure that basic necessities are provided for the refugees and then will eventually work to find them employment.
“It’s clear as we see them in news coverage and see what’s going on, we know that they have significant needs,” Musacchio said.
Sabina Mohyuddin, executive director of the AMAC, says that refugees are expected to begin arriving later this week. They will not all arrive together but will resettle over the course of about six months.
“Refugee resettlement has been notified that four refugees will be coming soon but we don’t know when. Sometime in the next week,” stated Musacchio.
He continued, “Typically the local resettlement agency works with staff and local volunteers to set up affordable housing for people coming in. We have a long history of where refugees are self-sustaining and living their lives within six months of arrival in Nashville.”
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Moyhuddin says that organizations such AMAC will provide services to help transition through the culture shock.
“Learning how things work in the U.S., there’s a lot of differences for the refugees coming in. Someone who maybe speaks the language or someone with a similar background, ethnic or religious background, can be very helpful or comforting.”
Approximately 23,000 refugees have arrived in the United States and are currently being housed on military bases.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper tweeted on Tuesday that “America is a nation of immigrants, and Nashville will always be a welcoming city.”
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I suggest the residents of Nashville and our citizens proceed with caution. There are some that are good and need our help, agreed. However, inside of these refugees are some that are not good, do not have good intentions and are evil and are looking for opportunity to do us harm. PLEASE do not take eyes off of the men. AND, protect yourselves and ALWAYS have men with protection over our women and children and make that known to the Afghan men in these groups. Just last evening an Afghan refugee raped a civilian on base in Virginian. These refugees are mean to women and children and they are following their Sharia terms and have no regard for us. They have disease, skin conditions and health problems beyond Covid we have not seen in decades. They are not subject to laws and rules here as we are because they are not citizens.
Protect yourselves and your families and communities above all else and start out showing them what you will not tolerate and that you have strong American Men that will protect our women and children. If you do not, you will find unintended occurences and it will be too late
It is a disgusting shame that Catholic Charities are importing muslims to Tennessee. There are plenty of American families that are in need. Nashville needs to prepare for an onslaught of hatered and violence perpetrated by islamists.
Tennessee Leaders must be held accountable.
I am catholic and me along with many other Catholics are very unhappy with what they are doing! I think the donations will go down for them. I along with others dont contribute to their cause.
Share Jesus with them. Why didn’t President Biden bring home the Americans first. This maybe more of a political move by Biden to get votes.
This unfettered immigration of Muslims is a disaster for our state. Why hasn’t the governor said NO to this???
I agree with you 100%, Catholic Charities should do more for our own suffering poor in Tennessee instead of inviting more terrorisms.
This has to stop! We do not need these people here in our state or our country. They have not been vetted and we do not need anymore people that want to destroy our country. We have enough people doing that in DC
Unfortunately these Afghans have no clue of what it is to be an American or any the Christian/Judeo ethos this nation was built on. They do know War, How to Steal, How to cheat, How to rape young girls and how to hate Americans. Their whole existence is to take down our way of life and to bring Islam to the Infidels. Remember–Immigrate, Proliferate, Dominate–this has been the Koran’s teachings for 1600 years.
God help us all!!
My live close to Fort Campbell Ky and there are thousands being housed there. God help us all.
Governor Lee needs to step up and say NO to these “refugees”. They are not the people who worked with us in Afghanistan. They are the ones who mobbed the planes and we have no idea who they are. Look to Europe and the problems these have people created there It would be kinder to load them back onto the planes and return them to a Muslim country in their own region where they would be able to assimilate
Tennessee should not be taking in any illegals from the south or from Afghanistan. I feel the Democratic Party who wants these illegal immigrants should be putting them up in any blue state. This is a crime that this government is letting our country to be taken over by illegals. Sickening for anyone in a political position to agree with this and for agreeing with passports and masks. Same on you for being a controlled puppet. The Americans run this country not government. Americans have been voicing there feeling and government doesn’t listen. These Democrats need to be stopped before our American freedom is gone. Anyone that wished to live in a controlled government move out of America and let us live in peace. It’s sickening what’s going on in the land of the free. Any illegal immigrants needs to be turned away. It’s time to WAKE UP🙏🏻🙏🏻
It would be interesting to know how how much Catholic Charities and AMAC receive from the Feds to provide these services.
I wonder which Variant of the Covid they will bring to Our great State? Last group brought in apparently dropped a good one on us.