If there is one question people new to the whole refugee process in America ask, it is that sensible, logical question. Below is a letter to the editor from the New Hampshire Concord Monitor from someone who is apparently helping the homeless with a true charitable spirit and not as a paid refugee resettlement contractor.

To the editor:

We have been avidly following the series of articles on the homeless population in Concord.

Living in close proximity and volunteering within the community serving both the homeless and the refugees, it has become sadly apparent that our homeless population consists predominantly of American citizens. Many of them veterans and many without benefits.

Without a valid address or residence, one does not qualify within our system for food stamps or assistance. Why is it that we seem to continue to encourage and subsidize the constant influx of immigrants and refugees for whom we seem to always find living and housing accommodations for? Our food pantries are overwhelmed, supplies are diminished and dwindling.

Thank heavens for our local churches for stepping up to the plate, and providing both food and warm, safe shelter to our most needy, particularly during our cold and harsh winters.

As we continue to not only exist, work and volunteer within the capital city of Concord, we wonder why it is disturbingly apparent and profoundly troubling that the homeless population consists of American citizens.

We have yet to see a refugee sleeping in a tent or under the railroad tracks. Why is that?

EDDIE TORRES

Concord

Concord is a federal “preferred community” for refugee resettlement. I bet most Concord residents did not know they merited that distinction!

Yep. When a cop says "stop", ignore them, we have rights. When a cop asks for ID, fight them, we have rights. When a cop says "show your hands", stick them in your pockets or reach onto your waist band, we have rights.

As for me, I know what my rights are, but when a cop tells me to do something - I do it. Those are THEIR rights - to have a citizen follow the lawful orders of the police - and if it turns out the order was not lawful - file a complaint and hire an attorney. That's how it works and it is NOT lawful or even sensible for a citizen to take the law into their OWN hands - and defy the police.

The problem is NOT with the police - it is with an increasingly hostile, angry, frustrated and delusional populace - who have been lead to believe that they can do as they please without consequence. The fact is - there ARE consequences - every time and for everything.