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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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To: taildragger
The soon to be Islamic Republic of Michiganistan with it's already large and fast growing Islamic population seems like the perfect place to send them to me.
/dripping sarcasm.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:24:02 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
To: kjo
Sounds suspiciously like a “SuperFund” site to me. But rather than nuclear waste, ...
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:30:04 PM PDT
by
TxCopper
To: NonZeroSum
Good point. Many or most are probably Christians.
But 16,000 in one place is way too many for local residents and local governments and local economies to handle.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:33:35 PM PDT
by
California Patriot
("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
To: magslinger
The sarcasm tag isn’t needed for us Michigan residents. We’re armed, dangerous, and sick of these cities that give us a bad name.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:33:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: cripplecreek
The sarcasm tag isnt needed for us Michigan residents. Were armed, dangerous, and sick of these cities that give us a bad name.Roger that. I thought the /sarc tag to be unnecessary for most, but I put it there for any dense politician who might be lurking.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:50:40 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
To: org.whodat; All
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:51:51 PM PDT
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: indylindy
They’re already in the Washington suburbs.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:52:42 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)
To: magslinger
I get pretty irritated about being called a liberal state all the time. Outside of a few wildly corrupt cities, we’re about as conservative as they come.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:57:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: taildragger
They will send to Nashville whatever is left.
To: operation clinton cleanup
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:02:14 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
To: cripplecreek
In your defense, our number one machinist/electronics dude (Square D) was born in Sault Ste. Marie and was raised in Michigan.
Also my mentor on RADARs was a Detoit man whom loved the Tigers. RIP
Those of us who know the good Michigan people would like to see a resurgence of that great state.
To: eyedigress
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:13:57 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)
To: NonZeroSum
The official policy of the US Government is to provide absolutely no preference to religion regarding which Iraqi gets refugee visas into the US.
To: taildragger
To: NonZeroSum
“Many of the Iraqi refugees are Chaldean Catholics fleeing religious persecution..”
OK, sort them out and send back the Muslims.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:53:57 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(America, first, last and always.)
To: taildragger
Warren Michigan undoubtedly has illegal aliens just like everywhere else. The federales could make a big push to remove them back to their countries so they can make room for Iraqi refugees.
The mayor is simply protecting his own private stash of illegals to do his lawn and cut his hedge. Come winter, though, they'll move on.
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posted on
07/22/2007 4:33:36 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: taildragger
Need to make an adjustment. There appear to be only 1.35% Hispanics in Warren. It's about 20% Polish as well, and they've historically been a large source of "undocumented tourists" Fur Shur. But they don't do lawns!
As it is the demographers in several sources say Warren MI was America's "whitest city" for several decades but that title has passed to next door Livonia MI.
The number of Chaldean Christians (from Iraq etc.) is sufficiently large to be worth noting. However, I'd just betcha Indianapolis, Indiana (Marion County) has a larger number of Chaldeans and Chaldean descendants than just about anyplace in the United States. Problem is they are so thoroughly integrated and assimilated most of them really don't know what that's about unless they attend a church with "St. George" in the name.
Toledo has its share, as does Nashville. Detroit metro isn't the only place with large Arab-Amerian settlements.
For the most part Arab-Americans, whether Christian or Moslem, pretty much disappear as an identifiable group in the first generation.
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posted on
07/22/2007 4:44:58 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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To: AuntB
US Ambassador Calls For Immigrant Visas For Iraq AidesNot much different than saying we surrender! Are Us ambassador runs up white flag!
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posted on
07/22/2007 6:32:31 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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