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Repopulating Detroit—With Syrians!
National Review ^ | May 15, 2015 | MARK KRIKORIAN

Posted on 05/15/2015 7:39:15 PM PDT by Steelfish

Repopulating Detroit—With Syrians!

MARK KRIKORIAN May 15, 2015

Jeb Bush called for admitting more immigrants to “repopulate” Detroit: It just seems to me that maybe if you open up our doors in a fair way and unleashed the spirit of peoples’ hard work, Detroit could become in really short order, one of the great American cities again. Now it would look different, it wouldn’t be Polish…But it would be just as powerful, just as exciting, just as dynamic. And that’s what immigration does and to be fearful of this, it just seems bizarre to me. This wasn’t a one-time thing. A couple months later he said again, responding to an immigrant questioner, “I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people, people like yourself.”

An op-ed in Friday’s New York Times puts flesh on the bones of this notion by calling for repopulating Detroit with refugees from the Syrian Civil War. The authors — a Stanford professor and a former housing bureaucrat from New York — suggest admitting 50,000 Syrians a year from refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey and conducting “accelerated security checks” on them. Also, “grants from the federal government and from philanthropic foundations would be needed to help the local Arab-American community supply social services for the newcomers.”

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1 posted on 05/15/2015 7:39:15 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Yikes!

If he really said that it means he doesn’t understand the concept of assimilation and the value of the American culture.

Or he’s saying whatever he thinks he needs to say to get elected.

Or both.


2 posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:52 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Steelfish

The only way it might be OK - might - would be if they would truly renounce Islam as a condition of entry. But why do we need more immigrants? It is time to back off on the numbers for a while.


3 posted on 05/15/2015 7:45:30 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Steelfish

Wasn’t this Greg Gutfeld’s idea? Cross anyone’s mind to credit him?


4 posted on 05/15/2015 7:46:13 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Steelfish

The “US” Congress gave America ObamaCARE but made
THEMSELVES EXEMPT, followed by incurable disease
by Quartering, and now bringing in al Qaeda.

Is there no one with a brain between the Pentagon
and the Capitol?


5 posted on 05/15/2015 7:46:41 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Steelfish

The Bushes are just getting dumber and dumber.


6 posted on 05/15/2015 7:48:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Steelfish

The idiot ought to look at Dearborn, Michigan before he suggests that for Detroit.


7 posted on 05/15/2015 7:49:04 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Steelfish

Jebster wants to repopulate Detroit with Mexicans.

It was two other bird-brains that want to import jihadis, uh, I mean muslims.


8 posted on 05/15/2015 7:53:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Steelfish

The invasion of America by Muslims is being financed by your tax dollars by the WH. The idiot Leftists have no clue who they have sided with. Maybe they’ll learn when they find out they can’t fly or land on their feet from great heights like the Avengers. F’em.


9 posted on 05/15/2015 7:58:22 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Steelfish

Isn’t it interesting that you never hear people like Jeb Bush call for Americans to have more children and repopulate their own country again?

One might conclude that Mr. Bush the Youngest simply doesn’t like Americans.


10 posted on 05/15/2015 7:59:53 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Steelfish

Well, let’s hope he keeps repeating this = that aught to sink him out of sight...


11 posted on 05/15/2015 8:02:27 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: Steelfish

What could possibly go wrong with this? Especially when they hold “summer job training camps for international ventures” funded by Islamic groups.


12 posted on 05/15/2015 8:06:29 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Alethephobia-fear of hearing the truth)
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To: Steelfish

Is that anything like repopulating California with Somali’s ..????????

In case you wondered; they’re being transported in busses with the windows covered so people won’t get upset.

WE ARE WITNESSING THE UNAMERICANIZATION OF AMERICA.

OBAMA’S (TRANSFORMATION) DREAM ON STEROIDS.


13 posted on 05/15/2015 8:08:45 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Steelfish

I don’t think this is such a good idea and some of my ancestors were Syrian immigrants.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 8:09:23 PM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Steelfish

Check out little deerbornastan and get back to me on how that worked out.


15 posted on 05/15/2015 8:11:48 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Steelfish

Man, this won’t end well. It will be like the Balkans.


16 posted on 05/15/2015 8:21:19 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Steelfish

Haven’t they suffered enough?


17 posted on 05/15/2015 8:46:18 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: teacherwoes

Just say no!
18 posted on 05/15/2015 8:47:31 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Steelfish

Well that`s one way to take`em out.


19 posted on 05/15/2015 8:55:30 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Steelfish

Are you on drugs, Jeb?


20 posted on 05/15/2015 8:58:02 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (http://www.tedcruz.org)
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