Minneapolis City Council: Please send
Syrian Muslims to our city! by Ann Corcoran, 1/14/17
As if they don’t have enough problems with the
tens of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota, the Minneapolis city council
passed a resolution yesterday, welcoming Syrians to join the gang in
Minneapolis.
Frankly, I’ve wondered
why so few Syrians have been sent (by the US State Department) to Minnesota so
far and wondered if the DOS was worried that there could possibly be some
tensions created with the added diversity in the city where Somalis are king.
Arab Muslims (98% of Syrians entering US right now are Muslim) and
black Africans aren’t always the best of friends, and the Syrians will add
competition for the same welfare dollars as the Somalis enjoy now.
See screenshot
from Wrapsnet.org below
showing how many Syrians have been placed in Minnesota. I went back to
FY2012 and only these few are recorded so far (with none in FY 2017 to date).
From Minneapolismn.gov: The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Betsy Hodges approved a
resolution today supporting the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Minneapolis
and calling on other Minnesota communities to support a national effort to
resettle the country’s most vulnerable refugees.
The resolution notes
that “hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are making life and death
decisions to flee Syria and neighboring countries because they are unable to
access shelter, health care, education or protection, and neighboring countries
have closed their borders to new arrivals.”
More than 14,000
Syrian refugees have resettled in the United States since the beginning of the
conflict in 2011. The Twin Cities is a leader in welcoming refugees and has
resettled more than 12,500 refugees from 40 countries, including Syria, since
2011. [Only 5 from Syria have been
placed in Minnesota so far—-ed]
“Minneapolis has long
stood as a place of welcome for refugees from throughout the world, including
those seeking resettlement from Syria,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges. “Today we restate
our City’s commitment to welcome Syrian families to make homes and new lives
here.”
Comments
Refugee-promoting
local elected officials are going to have federal law to contend with as we
reduce immigration to cut welfare costs and provide jobs for US citizens.
Refugee fanatics will raise hell, but the feds hand out the visas. Illegal migrant fanatics will raise hell, but
if they don’t comply with federal law, they will lose federal funding.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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