Residents of rural Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, are in uproar over a secret Biden administration plan to relocate hundreds of Somali refugees into their communities with no approval from local elected officials.
Federal law requires government officials overseeing refugee relocation to “consult regularly . . . with state and local governments” before placing refugees in localities. Yet the liberal resettlement NGO World Relief plans to move 75 Somalis to a new office in Eau Claire County in 2024 without consulting any local elected official.
Sources in the county told Restoration News that the group met with the Eau Claire city manager—a bureaucrat appointed by the city council—and a handful of employers and church officials who are most likely to support the move.
No representative of the city council, county council, fire and police departments, or local schools was contacted before the plan was confirmed—all of whom will be affected by the massive influx of migrants to follow after the first 75 arrive.