Marklein Talks About Fort McCoy Refugees

A state lawmaker serving the Fort McCoy area says Afghan refugees located at the base won’t be staying in Wisconsin. Republican Senator Howard Marklein of Spring Green says more than 8-thousand refugees are receiving health care and being kept in quarantine at the military installation for two weeks. After that, Marklein says the Department of Homeland Security will relocate the refugees to one of 19 cities on a list. None of those cities are in west-central Wisconsin. The number of refugees staying at Fort McCoy could go higher. Officials there say they have room for 13-thousand.