Not actually a surprise.
Some countries run their entire economies around remittances, promoting mass migration to America, and then profiting from the money sent back to their families. Once we enabled money to enter Taliban territory, this was inevitable.
But this little detail emerges from what is supposed to be a sympathetic profile of Afghan migrants by the Los Angeles Times, but is actually an exercise in entitlement.
In many ways, Musafer said, America has provided him and his family with the safety and opportunity they had hoped for. He quickly found a full-time job at an Apple warehouse. His children — Sefatullah, 18; Rabia, 16; Muqaddas, 12; and Subhanullah, 10 — are enrolled in school. He and Yalda take English-language courses. Many in Yalda’s family immigrated to California several years ago, during an earlier phase of the U.S. occupation, and on weekends the Musafers spend time with her sister’s family, cooking together or exploring Northern California.
But America sucks.
About 10 miles from Musafer’s home, Ali Zafar Mehran questioned why the resettlement process for Afghans hasn’t gone more smoothly. Since arriving in the U.S. in April, Mehran, 36, has struggled to find housing. His caseworker told him that it could take months for the resettlement agency to help him find a place to live.
It can take Americans months to find a place to live. And we do it without subsidies or a government-funded agency.
“This resettlement system and refugee services are not fair,” said Mehran, who worked as a budget advisor for the Justice Sector Support Program — an international partnership with the U.S. and Afghan governments to help reform the Afghan criminal justice system and curb the flow of narcotics. “Some of my friends received good services. But most are in bad situations like me.”
His resettlement agency didn’t help him find a home, he said.
Why should it? The vast majority of people coming to this country don’t have government agencies finding them homes. They have to do that on their own.
He found his current apartment through another friend, who said he knew the leasing office manager in a complex in the Arden Arcade area where many Afghans have resettled.
That’s how it works.
Mehran used his “welcome money,” about $3,500 disbursed by the resettlement agency, to pay for the apartment that he has furnished with hand-me-downs and items he’s salvaged from the street. His wife, Karima, 31 — a former nurse who gave birth to their second daughter after moving to California — sleeps on a mattress he pulled from the trash. The decorative pillow cases that he brought from Afghanistan are also filled with things he found in the garbage.
Mehran works in a warehouse, he got $3,500 in aid and is getting government aid now. Why can’t he afford a mattress for his pregnant wife?
He borrowed roughly $12,000 from friends to purchase a car, a rug and other household items.
Buying the rug is a priority, but your wife can sleep on a mattress from the trash. That’s a cultural value.
“I really didn’t expect it, that life will start like this in the United States,” Mehran said. “I have lots of other problems. I must earn money to send to my parents in Afghanistan.”
Each month, he receives roughly $1,400 from Sacramento County in the form of cash aid and food stamps.
Between a full-time job and $1,400 in state welfare, Mehran might have more money, but he’s sending it to his family who live in Talibanstan. One way or another, the terrorists will get a cut of money brought into Afghanistan.
How much money is he sending to them? We’re not told.
The bottom line though is that Mehran is surly and complaining about the country that took him in and is lavishing cash on him because it’s not doing enough, meanwhile he’s sending money back to his home country.
We haven’t left Afghanistan.
somehistory says
This is one of many whiners….what mozlums are taught to do…whine and complain and grab and put a priority on themselves and to heck with others and their needs. Rule number One: never show any appreciation for anything; just whine that it’s never enough. this is learned psychopathy in those not born to that mental bending.
a lot of people in this country…. a whole lot….get their furnishings from what others throw away; from the street and thrift stores and rummaging through trash. and a lot of people…citizens…have no jobs or a job that doesn’t pay enough to live on; a lot make just a little too much to get food stamps or welfare, but not enough to take care of everything. and a lot of those people don’t whine about it and complain that the government hasn’t helped them find a place to live, an apartment, a car, or other things they need…much less “carpet.” The carpet is probably for his daily ‘preying” sessions.
This whiner now has an “anchor baby.” He should be glad he’s not still in afghanistan where the taliban have money galore, but the people are starving.
Years ago, I met a young man from one of those stans who had converted to Christianity and married a young Christian woman. He was hiding from his family and their friends…in order to stay alive. He had no furniture in his apartment…they sat on the floor to eat, lay on the floor to sleep…but the only thing he complained about was that his family was out to murder him…and he didn’t whine that; just said it matter-of-factly.
the whining from this mozlum….and his ilk….will not stop. and he shouldn’t be allowed to send money to relatives in afghanistan as long as he’s not earning all of what he gets. Government handouts are for the people residing with the guy getting the handouts…not for people in a foreign country. It’s the Law!
Walter Sieruk says
Eating ice cream, as in this picture, is the only thing that Joe Biden is able to do well. In everything else in both the national and international level Biden is nothing less than a complete and total catastrophe. As observed with Afghanistan .
To make matters even worse He then lies about it. Biden isa disaster and a pathological liar.