Refugees impact homelessness
This letter to the editor in today’s Burlington Free Press has been under my skin all day. The author discusses the five families he knows that have become homeless because of various reasons and points the fingers at incoming refugee populations in Burlington. I am crafting a response to the letter based on how during difficult economic times it is easy to point to a group of people as the reason for your own troubles. This behavior leads to marginalization and persecution… some of the same reasons that have tragically made these families refugees in the first place…
Anna
