the pied piper of fish sticks and fox news himself, old tuckins himself, responded predictably. attacking the congresswoman. the truth is, this is our fault. omar is proof that we are not good at settling refugees. she was saved as a child by the kindness and generosity in america and yet she has grown to hate america and the people who live here. where did she learn those at constitutes? well, of course in college. she became worse after she got here. joining me now is christina greer. christina, obviously, you re right. it s an absolute failure. this young woman comes here from somalia as a kid, goes to college, graduates with a degree and become a congresswoman. i guess the guy who got rejected
watch. than you have these crazy people on the right, doing, you know, what they always do, with their fearmongering and their hateful rhetoric. and i know what some of these people are worried about. it s that they re worried that refugees like myself when they come to this country will outshine them. tucker: so the obvious response to that is to attack for ilhan omar, but we are not going to do that. the truth is this is our fault. she is our fault. ilhan omar is living proof that we are not very good at resettling refugees. she was saved from a refugee camp in kenya as a child by the kindness and generosity of america, and yet she has grown to hate america and the people who live here. where did she learn those attitudes? well, of course, in college.d our colleges. we taught her to hate our country. she became worse after she got here. we ought to pause before we do that again to anyone. even if they have been translators. lera logan is one of the very few journalists who actual
place afterwards. the you has the u.k. settling refugees over the next years. shannon: you have a unique perspective. you were in afghanistan when the taliban fell in late 2001. what s it like watching them return and see things coming full-circle 20 years later. it s incredibly emotional of course. i have the same worries that people observing from the outside have about how minorities and the poor and women are going to survive under this new regime but there is one impression that has lasted me that i will share with you and that was going to a woman s clinic back in 2001. the line snaked around the block. women who had not been able to go to a doctor in all the years that the taliban have been in power. they were aged beyond their years. they looked so terribly unhealthy, many of them. they given birth at home without
Local resettlement organizations receive $2,075 per refugee with which they must pay staff and overhead while providing the refugee with transportation, a fully furnished apartment for three months, a kitchen stocked with food, English lessons and cultural orientation, a cash allowance, assistance with school enrollment, and job placement services.
about the work that you re doing now and a message of what we saw in the u.k. and what we have seen here is an attempt to look inward and not outward. the refugee crisis is one that is going if not ignored i m the president of the international rescue committee. it was an organization founded by albert einstein to help refugees. we work around the world helping 27 million refugees and displaced people last year as well as resettling refugees in the u.s. and the point you make is an interesting one. the global order has been established by western countries willing to look outwards and recognize what jfk said we re in a world of interdependce and i think it is a threat to global stability at a time when there s more and more need for international cooperation. and when you hear people talking about the new geopolitics around the world. the rise of china, the instability in the middle east, it seems to me that if we