SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Former and likely future House of Representatives candidate Neal Tapio is raising a red flag over the idea that Minnehaha County may vote to allow more refugees to move to the county at their meeting on Tuesday.
Tapio says the country is not vetting for refugees like it used to, and he says we are taking in people from countries that don’t share the same values of religious freedom that we do.
Tapio says he learned from a corrections official that much of last year’s gun violence spree was at the hands of juveniles who were children of Somalian and other East African refugees.
Tapio says he has single mothers on the east side of Sioux Falls say they are afraid to walk on their sidewalk at night due to the influx of refugees and they tell him their kids are bullied on the way home from school by refugees living in the neighborhood.
(Colin Strombeck of KELO Radio News contributed to this report.)
