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This article about the ethnic Nepalese from Bhutan, who (reading between the lines a bit) made themselves odious to their host country, weren't admitted back to Nepal, and therefore washed up in Ohio because Reasons, is pretty standard for the genre:
The rising anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiments during former President Donald Trump’s administration exacerbated the emotional strain that new Americans experienced, according to Rochelle Frounfelker, a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Department of Psychiatry in Montreal, Canada.
“Having someone at the grocery store come up to them and say they should go back to where they came from affects people on a daily basis,” said Frounfelker, adding that the discriminatory rhetoric coming from politicians could be a stressor for refugees, especially given their experience of being prosecuted in their home country.
And so on and so forth. But at the end, I noticed this bit about the authress:
Yilun Cheng is a Report for America corps member and covers immigration issues for The Dispatch. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation at https://bit.ly/3fNsGaZ
Does anyone have any insight into RFA's role in local media? Is it seeding ideologically vetted reporters at local papers?
3 comments:
Weren't admitted back to Nepal? Because the Nepalese government knew some sap Western country would take them in as "refugees"? Two birds, one stone.
Followup: If she writes for The Dispatch then she is pretty darn ideological. That is one of Goldberg's Never Trump outfits. So not a local paper.
Goldberg who? I wonder how many big-city dailies are still owned by actual residents.
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