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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on January 23, 2014, 08:05:30 AM

Title: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: MikeBjerum on January 23, 2014, 08:05:30 AM: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/23/mich-to-seek-visas-to-lure-immigrants-to-detroit/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/23/mich-to-seek-visas-to-lure-immigrants-to-detroit/)

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... The Republican governor told The Associated Press in an interview he is seeking 50,000 work visas solely for the city over five years. The type of visas involved currently are not allocated by region or state, and go to legal immigrants with advanced degrees or who show exceptional ability in certain fields.

Under his unique proposal, one-quarter of the country’s 40,000 annual EB-2 visas would be designated for such immigrants willing to live and work for five years in Detroit, home to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and whose neighborhoods have been hollowed out by the city’s long population decline. ...

Legal immigration
Concentrating immigrants
Giving opportunity
Changing the make up of an entire region
and the list goes on

I read this, and I read it again, and all I have learned is that this is a plan that I can debate with myself about for a long time from both sides.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: lhprop1 on January 23, 2014, 09:59:02 AM: If they can contribute, come on in!

I'll take it a step further. I've always thought that the Cubans who are able to make a boat out of an old car that is able to carry 50 people and traverse the distance between there and Florida ought to get special consideration.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 23, 2014, 02:34:49 PM: Quote from: lhprop1 on January 23, 2014, 09:59:02 AM
If they can contribute, come on in!

I'll take it a step further. I've always thought that the Cubans who are able to make a boat out of an old car that is able to carry 50 people and traverse the distance between there and Florida ought to get special consideration.

At first glance your post sounds sarcastic as hell.
But the rock bottom truth is that the innovation and imagination that turns a 57 Chevy into an ocean liner is the same spirit that built a Super Power out of a wilderness.
If they follow the rules, and support themselves, I say bring them on .
My beef has always been with ILLEGAL immigration.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: brushmore on January 23, 2014, 02:48:06 PM: I think it is an excellent idea. But will it work? One thing I see is conflicts with the hard working immigrants and existing free loader population.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: Big Frank on January 23, 2014, 02:54:19 PM: Maybe they should send homeless people to Detroit instead. There are plenty of abandoned houses for them to live in. The gov should try to find jobs for Americans first, then immigrants.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: Solus on January 23, 2014, 04:11:31 PM: Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 23, 2014, 02:34:49 PM
At first glance your post sounds sarcastic as hell.
But the rock bottom truth is that the innovation and imagination that turns a 57 Chevy into an ocean liner is the same spirit that built a Super Power out of a wilderness.
If they follow the rules, and support themselves, I say bring them on .
My beef has always been with ILLEGAL immigration.

Agree.

Get rid of the welfare programs and immigrants will be productive or life off the voluntary charity of those who wish to help.

Put in checks to week out criminals and terrorists and things start working well.

I guess there must be other concerns outside my knowledge though.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: Timothy on January 23, 2014, 04:33:05 PM: Quote from: jumbofrank on January 23, 2014, 02:54:19 PM
Maybe they should send homeless people to Detroit instead. There are plenty of abandoned houses for them to live in. The gov should try to find jobs for Americans first, then immigrants.

I second that Frank!

How much of Detroit has leaked over to the Flint area? What's Saginaw look like these days? East Lansing? I know GR is doing well enough but Detroit is a statewide problem of mismanagement. Bringing in another group of people to take what decent jobs there are statewide is a Flintstones bandage trying to stop a leaking femoral artery...
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: blackwolfe on January 23, 2014, 10:35:40 PM: Maybe a new program for Americans. "The Detroit Homestead Act."
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 24, 2014, 04:49:32 PM: Quote from: jumbofrank on January 23, 2014, 02:54:19 PM
Maybe they should send homeless people to Detroit instead. There are plenty of abandoned houses for them to live in. The gov should try to find jobs for Americans first, then immigrants.

Dude, It's Detroit .
They already tried giving a free house to an American , it's been on the market for over a year and a half with no takers.
Even immigrants would only accept if they haven't seen a newspaper since 1961.
Title: Re: Now here is something that will keep thinking people busy for a while
Post by: Big Frank on January 24, 2014, 05:41:26 PM: Detroit wouldn't be such a bad place if Robocop was real. :) And that's what it would take to make the place safe.