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Warren (Michigan) Mayor: Don't Send Us Iraqi Refugees
WXYZ TV ^ | 07/19/2007 | WXYZ TV

Posted on 07/22/2007 1:42:45 PM PDT by taildragger

Warren Mayor Mark Steenbergh claims the federal government is looking to relocate more than 16,000 Iraqi refugees to Warren and Sterling Heights -- and there's no way his city can handle it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; iraq; iraqis; michigan; refugees; warren
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1 posted on 07/22/2007 1:42:50 PM PDT by taildragger
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To: taildragger
Shouldn't Iraqi refugees from the first Gulf War be heading BACK to Iraq? I’m sure there are some who deserve refugee status in the US for risking their lives to help us, but 10s of thousands?
2 posted on 07/22/2007 1:47:14 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: taildragger

Geez, we do not need any more Muslims. My advice, they needed to be located down to Crawford and Posh Washington DC suburbs.

This stuff needs to stop.


3 posted on 07/22/2007 1:48:34 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: taildragger

I*’d recommend San Fransicko and Hiyouannusport.


4 posted on 07/22/2007 1:50:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: indylindy
I hope they don't come to TEXAS.

We don't needd any more Muslims here.

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5 posted on 07/22/2007 1:51:37 PM PDT by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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To: taildragger

“Warren (Michigan) Mayor: Don’t Send Us Iraqi Refugees “

He must have heard about the 40,000 to 50,000 Bosnian Muslims that have
been dumped on the St. Louis, MO area.

Why can’t Europe, The Middle East, etc., etc., fix their own problems?
(yep, that’s a rhetorical question with the obvious answer: they are
incompetent idiots we American are always saving)


6 posted on 07/22/2007 1:52:34 PM PDT by VOA
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To: taildragger

Given that Michigan is running a one state recession it makes no sense that the feds would relocate these people here. But then, this IS the federal government.


7 posted on 07/22/2007 1:54:59 PM PDT by kjo
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To: Dubya

Sorry, I do understand, especially because you are overflowing with Mexicans.

I just want the people responsible for all this to have to know what it is like for the rest of the US.

They make these deals from somewhere afar and forget about it, after dumping the problem on others.

It is also a security danger.


8 posted on 07/22/2007 1:54:59 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: indylindy

Some pleez explain why Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq? Why don’t those folks just stay in Iraq and help rebuild the country. Geez. I’m sick of this.


9 posted on 07/22/2007 1:57:47 PM PDT by Lobbyist (I want my American dream!!!!)
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To: taildragger

If the UN is so great then why are there refugees from anywhere at all now? /rhetoric


10 posted on 07/22/2007 1:57:53 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: indylindy
Geez, we do not need any more Muslims.

They're not necessarily Muslims. Many of the Iraqi refugees are Chaldean Catholics fleeing religious persecution (as are many of the Iraqis in that part of Michigan, in Warren and Southfield).

11 posted on 07/22/2007 2:04:47 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: taildragger

Our unemployment rate is already too high.


12 posted on 07/22/2007 2:05:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: taildragger

Mr. Steenburgh should look as the transplants not as a burden from the government, but as Jenny’s personal gift to the cities of Warren and Sterling Heights. ;)


13 posted on 07/22/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by madison10
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To: kjo

Makes no sense that some farm and business groups are running a spanish language “Come to Michigan” campaign either but they’re doing it.


14 posted on 07/22/2007 2:07:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: kjo

SE Michigan is already over-run with them, it’s not just Dearborn.


15 posted on 07/22/2007 2:07:47 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: taildragger

Published reports have said that 7,000, maybe 25,000, and possibly up to 100,000 Iraqis will be resetted from the current Iraqi War in the coming months.

I caught one tv news report last evening. It was saying that the US State Department couldn’t hire enough Iraqis in Iraq because they had previously been promised visas to resettle in the US as a reward for working for/with the US. When the State Department quit offering visas to resettle in the US, Iraqis quit applying for US government related jobs in Iraq.


16 posted on 07/22/2007 2:13:10 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: kjo
running a one-state recession

lol

17 posted on 07/22/2007 2:13:17 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: cripplecreek
Our unemployment rate is already too high.

You say that now but just wait until the 3 automakers go bankrupt, eliminate the pension liabilities and become revitalized. Detroit is gonna be the apple of America's eye!

Yessiree... that's the way I look at it.

18 posted on 07/22/2007 2:18:28 PM PDT by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: TomGuy
I caught one tv news report last evening. It was saying that the US State Department couldn’t hire enough Iraqis in Iraq because they had previously been promised visas to resettle in the US as a reward for working for/with the US. When the State Department quit offering visas to resettle in the US, Iraqis quit applying for US government related jobs in Iraq.

It's just unbelievable what jorge bush has done to this country. We have people dying to make Iraq a safe place to live, the state department tell people that should invest in their own country that we'll take you out of this hell hole and send you to America.

Just damn, bring the troops home.

19 posted on 07/22/2007 2:20:04 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: indylindy

Our idiot Governor up here in Maine will take all the muslimes he can get.


20 posted on 07/22/2007 2:22:25 PM PDT by MrLee
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