Democrat-run city building 6-foot fence around
migrant housing complex to keep ‘intruders’ out
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey addresses a room full of Somali
refugees who live at the crime-plagued Cedar High Apartments on Monday, May 7,
2018. Photo/Star-Tribune
By LEO HOHMANN
Walls and fences are not
very popular with progressives when such structures are proposed by President
Trump to keep drug dealers, terrorists, killers and human traffickers out of
the U.S.
But when a fence is
requested to protect an inner-city community of refugees and migrants, these
same anti-Trumpers are all in. How do we know that?
Perhaps the most perfect
example of this double standard is playing out right now in Minneapolis’ Cedar
Riverside area, otherwise known as “Little Mogadishu” for its high
concentration of Somali refugees.
The Cedar High Apartments,
a four-building complex comprised of 539 mostly one-bedroom units, will be
getting a $825,000 security upgrade, compliments of the Democrat-run city
Housing Authority, that involves building a 6-foot security fence around the
public-housing property.
According to the
Star-Tribune, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey hosted a standing-room-only crowd of
mostly Somalis at the complex Monday night. The mayor reportedly received a
rousing ovation when he addressed the Somalis in their own language.
The project came in
response to concerns from residents who say it’s been too easy for intruders to
enter their community and hurt or steal from them, the Star-Tribune reported.
The Cedar High Apartments,
built in the 1960s and 70s, is occupied mostly by Somali refugees and some Southeast
Asians. Monday’s meeting included Somali and Korean translators, who went to
work after the mayor ran out of things he knew how to say in Somali.
Several residents
expressed concerns that the complex has been open to unwanted visitors who prey
on its large population of elderly people. One man said his car has been broken
into repeatedly in the parking lot and asked the city to provide better
security while it’s constructing the fence. Another said the scariest part of
her day is walking to the nearby light rail.
“It’s not a perfect
solution, but we do think that it will help in safeguarding the residents of
this complex, many of whom have experienced fear and some actual assaults due
to the fact that this complex is so open,” said Mary Alice Smalls, a regional
property manager. “We would like to make it a lot harder for people to assault
our residents inside this building and inside this campus.”
Frey, who has identified
affordable housing as the number-one priority in his first term, said in an interview with the Star-Tribunethat the security upgrades, which also include a slew of
surveillance cameras, garnered city approval in response to “community
activists” raising concerns about safety.
“These changes are
happening because public-housing residents spoke out and called for change in
betterment of their situation,” Frey said. “So they really deserve the credit
in spearheading this initiative.”
I wonder how many
generational American citizens there are in Minnesota who live in poverty and
long for a “betterment in their situation”? I wonder how many have advocates
willing to relentlessly lobby city/state officials until they appropriate money
from the public treasury to solve their problems and meet their needs?
Frey, whether he is aware
of it or not, is following the playbook of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda,
which encourages, as part of its 17 sustainability goals, not only open-borders
for migrants and a free pass into wealthy Western democracies, but once they
arrive they are entitled to provisions for safe and affordable housing, along
with affordable transportation [mass transit], affordable healthcare and free
education.
China, Russia, and the
oil-rich Arab nations of course pay no heed to the U.N. calls for an
open-borders’ policy toward migrants, but U.S. mayors like Frey are eager to
please and will answer the globalist bell whenever it tolls.
Frey said a commitment to
making housing affordable also means making sure “every single person has a
safe and affordable place to go home to at the end of the day.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey - The mayor thanked members of the
crowd for raising concerns that drove the security project and invited tenants
to call his office with more ideas on how to make them safer. He also vowed to
continue working with the Somali community.
“You’ll be seeing a lot of
me over the next several years,” he assured the Somalis.
Frey no doubt learned a
lot about how to court the Somali vote by studying the groveling techniques of
his predecessor, Betsy Hodges, who held regular meetings with Somali elders,
sometimes wearing a hijab as a show of “respect,” and implemented preferential
hiring practices for Somalis in all areas of city government, including the
police department.
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Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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