Christopher Coen
Melissa Sogard
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Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas back in the headlines
Posted by Christopher Coen on April 30, 2010
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas (LFSC) has now announced that they will stop vital immigration services for refugees in Greensboro, and this is, ”exclusively a financial decision” (here). This comes on the heels of the agency announcing in late February that they would discontinue resettling refugees in Greensboro (here and here).
We spoke with a State Department official who stated that they had been aware of the series of newspaper articles late last year that revealed that refugees were not being cared for at LFSC, but she claimed that the decision to stop refugee resettlement at LFSC was made by LFSC and its national partner LIRS. So in other words, the State Department is refusing to say what their involvement was. How’s that for open and transparent government that President Obama has called on the federal agencies to carry out?
In either case, refugees are once again left hanging.
LFSC Greensboro contarct non-compliant long before media involvement « Friends of Refugees said
[...] We just received a State Department inspection report from April 2007 which shows that Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas (LFSC) in Greensboro was already neglecting their refugee clients a year-and-a-half before they got caught by the local media (here). Previous coverage is here, here and here. [...]