{"id":11775,"date":"2016-04-26T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2016-04-26T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:05:19","slug":"forged-letter-used-to-attack-refugee-resettlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/04\/forged-letter-used-to-attack-refugee-resettlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Forged letter used to attack refugee resettlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11776\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Missoula-current.png\" alt=\"Missoula current\" width=\"240\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s an ugly twist in the immigration debate in Missoula, where there have been big rallies for and against welcoming refugees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missoulacurrent.com\/government\/2016\/04\/forged-county-letter-prompts-investigation\/\">Missoula Current is reporting<\/a> that someone forged a letter, purporting to be from the three members of the Missoula County Commission, to the\u00a0U.S. Department of State and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.<\/p>\n<p>The three commissioners continue to strongly support the International Rescue Committee and to support plans to reopen a refugee resettlement office in Missoula, but in the forged letter they tell the bureau:\u00a0\u201cAfter further review, we don\u2019t feel (M)iddle (E)astern cultures are compatible with our community values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter had a Great Falls postmark, which was a pretty good indication something was amiss, but as one commissioner said, news of the letter spread &#8220;some serious concern &#8230; throughout the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a low move in an already unsettling situation, and what a revealing turn of phrase it was to\u00a0frame the commission&#8217;s supposed opposition in terms of cultural bigotry. All the more reason to support resettlement.<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an ugly twist in the immigration debate in Missoula, where there have been big rallies for and against welcoming refugees. Missoula Current is reporting that someone forged a letter, purporting to be from the three members of the Missoula County Commission, to the\u00a0U.S. Department of State and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4252,4251,4045],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-international-rescue-committee","tag-missoula-county-commission","tag-missoula-current","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}