Chippewa Valley This Week
Earlier in December it was reported Rep. Tom Tiffany sent a letter to the Bureau of Refugee Programs for the Evers Administration asking about plans to send Afghan and Ukranian refugees to Marathon county. Tiffany said just like the refugees who'd arrived in Eau Claire this year there aren't a lot of answers about who these people are and where they're coming from. He also questioned the Bided Administration's vetting of the refugees, so in response we spoke with Janice Watson, Executive Director of Wausau's Multicultural Community Center, a branch of the Ethiopian Community Development Council. Watson says in the three years the MCC has been in Wausau they've helped some 500 refugees assimilate into the area and she discussed how thoroughly they are vetted.
