Posted on 10/04/2015 7:07:18 AM PDT by opentalk
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, is upset about the number of immigrants in his state—in his estimation there are far too few of them.
In contrast with Republican politicians who want to rein in president Obama’s executive actions on immigration, the governor asked the Obama Administration early last year to use its executive powers to designate 50,000 extra visas to the Detroit metro area for high-skilled immigrants.
Citing population loss and the need to jumpstart the Motor City economically ....Snyder—a former CEO for Gateway Computer and head of a venture capitalist firm—called on his state to “embrace immigration.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
About 4,000 refugees from Middle East and Africa resettled in Michigan last year
” High skilled immigrants “ ?
Or will all of this just swell the welfare rolls?
Inquiring minds want to know, governor.
Additional proof, as if it was needed, that the Politico staff has the reasoning power of a burned out light bulb.
Detroit can’t attract Americans, so they look to third world immigrants.
Hey, they can live in the burned out shells or what’s left of them just like they did back home! [sarc]. That way they could help keep out the dealers and addicts and pimps.
The Detroit-Dearborn-Warren area is home to the fourth-largest population of Syrian immigrants in the U.S. (approximately 3,000) behind Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, according to federal data.
Immigrants = Votes
Pick a party
From ...http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/29/snyder-set-to-speak-at-1st-middle-eastern-commissi/
...Michigan has one of nation’s largest Middle Eastern populations and Snyder said he “would love to see it grow even faster and flourish,”
Because Michigan is such a great N. American analog for the middle east!
Thankfully owning a firearm in Michigan is next to owning a car. We are not Oregon. They can take their potential Jihad to Ohio.
I don’t know what the answer is, but bringing muslims isn’t it.
Not sure how putting 50,000 immigrants on welfare helps.
Unemployment /jobs already major issue in the state especially after Obama intervened with auto industry
They want to put them in my area, heck it is already like living in the middle east around here..
Is it a situation where the current Detroit population is being replaced by Syrians?
the very LAST thing Michigan (of all places!) needs are more IslamoNazi invaders “immigrants” or “refugees”
have you visited Michigan lately?
parts of it look like Obama’s IslamoNazi invasion beachhead
Detroit running out of targets?
How about new immigrants from the persecuted white tribes in South Africa?
I have a better idea.
If immigrants Detroit needs, then let the Ukrainians move there. A couple million would be great.
Slavic white Orthodox people are all over that area in Ohio, PA, Chicago. They’ll feel right at home.
Throw in a million Greeks. They’re ethnically close. And Orthodox. And with the economic problems both countries have, they’re in need of the help.
Both groups have come to America before and assimilated. Let the Syrians move to Saudi Arabia, or Chechnya. They’ll be right at home.
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