Syrian refugees could save Detroit: experts
Washington (AFP) - US authorities could save the shrinking city of Detroit from collapse by infusing it with tens of thousands of resourceful Syrian war refugees, two experts suggested Friday.
The idea, floated in a New York Times op-ed, may appear politically impractical, but its authors argue it would be a step towards ending two seemingly intractable crises.
"Suppose these two social and humanitarian disasters were conjoined to produce something positive," wrote Stanford professor David Laitin and Marc Jahr, former head of the New York City Housing Development Corporation.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, they noted, has already called for an infusion of 50,000 immigrants as part of a program to revitalize Detroit.
And Syrians, they argued, would be ideal for a city that already has a vibrant and entrepreneurial Arab-American community.
When our Open-Borders Overlords employ the term "vibrant," run screaming in the opposite direction with you hand firmly over your wallet.
Some 2.4 million Syrians have fled to neighboring Turkey and Jordan to escape their country's devastating civil war. ...
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