Refugee fears divides Twin Falls

Zeze Rwasama, the director of College of Southern (CSI) Idaho’s refugee relocation center , has to shake his head at the firestorm that has erupted over his program in the farming town of Twin Falls, Idaho. “These people, they are working from false information,” he says ruefully. “All we can do is tell people the facts and hope they listen.” For more than 30 years, CSI has hosted a refugee relocation center tucked away on its Twin Falls campus, lending a hand to people from around the world uprooted by political violence and other upheavals. And for most of those years, it has gone about its work quietly, placing the refugees in jobs and living arrangements and helping them get educations and, often, become American citizens, with little controversy/ David Neiwer t, Southern Poverty Law Center. More here.

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