President Hostility: Language Classes and Rutland Plans

president hostility: High school students are helping collect furniture and housewares for them, and employers have inquired about giving them jobs, according to The Chronicle Herald. For the past several months, Rutland has been getting ready to receive 100 mostly Syrian refugees beginning early next year. Arabic language classes are drawing 25 to 30 people a week in preparation for the new arrivals in town. But with Donald Trump taking office in late January, Rutland plans and those of other U.S. cities that have agreed to take in people fleeing the civil war have been thrown into question, given the incoming president hostility to Muslim immigrants. In the fiscal year that just ended, the Obama administration screened and admitted nearly 12,600 Syrian refugees, who were resettled in cities and towns across the U.S. Thousands more are scheduled to arrive in the coming year. I am not even going to hazard a guess about the fate of the program, said Mayor Christopher Louras, who invited the newcomers in the hope they can help revitalize this shrinking, post-industrial, heroin-plagued city of 15,800. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.