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Massachusetts mayor: Stop sending my city refugees (Springfield MA)
Associated Press ^ | Jun 23, 2014 1:53 AM EDT | Paige Sutherland

Posted on 06/22/2014 11:31:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line.

Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry refugee resettlement, joining counterparts in New Hampshire in Maine in largely rare tensions with the State Department, which helps resettle refugees in communities across America.

The mayor is drawing criticism from those who say this country has a moral obligation to help the outcast and refugees who say they’re being scapegoated for problems the city faced long before their arrival. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: aliens; obama; refugees; somalia; springfield
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1 posted on 06/22/2014 11:31:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Just wait until the 13 million illegals from Latin America are declared “refugees”... That’s the plan to get them amnesty without Congress.


2 posted on 06/22/2014 11:37:23 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Thunder90

Exactly. Executive Order. Need to ‘go around Congress’ Obama said. We don’t need no stinkin’ checks and balances!


3 posted on 06/22/2014 11:39:19 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Olog-hai

Can’t put them out in the country, they’d have walk too far to pick up their handouts.


4 posted on 06/22/2014 11:52:09 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

The libtards don’t want them in their backyards.


5 posted on 06/23/2014 12:02:21 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Olog-hai
Whatsamatter, Massholes? Here's double barreled progressivism right down your throat.

Choke on it and go to hell.
6 posted on 06/23/2014 12:10:30 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Olog-hai
How about this idea: Send them to Hawaii and Illinois, Obama's home state and adopted state. I'm sure the good people of Hawaii and Illinois would be most happy to greet as many of the illegal immigrant children and other so-called refugees as Obama can send them.

But i think that the people in Hawaii---a state with a majority of people of Asian descent--- only accept illegals and refugees from Asia.

7 posted on 06/23/2014 12:23:53 AM PDT by john mirse
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To: Thunder90
Just wait until the 13 million illegals from Latin America are declared “refugees”... That’s the plan to get them amnesty without Congress.

*******

If they are "refugees" from terror and violence, then why don't a lot of them also go south to Costa Rica and Panama?

They don't go south because they are really seeking the good life north in the United States.

Trains: Something must be done about all those crowded freight trains carrying illegals to the Mexico-US border with a free ride.

8 posted on 06/23/2014 12:34:24 AM PDT by john mirse
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To: Olog-hai

They AREN’T refugees....they are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!


9 posted on 06/23/2014 2:00:01 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

Some of the opinions on the Internet about refugee resettlement in Wyoming are inaccurate and racist, Gov. Matt Mead said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3148347/posts


10 posted on 06/23/2014 2:52:44 AM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Olog-hai

Cambridge, MA along with some other towns inside of I-128 in eastern MA would be much better places.


11 posted on 06/23/2014 3:39:43 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: Olog-hai
No one is asking...

Where is the Former Mayor and now Congressional Representative Richard Neal ( D ) on this matter?

Too busy running the block for Louis Lerner and inventing schemes of automatic 401(k)'s with some new fangled government bond hidden in that legislation.

The citizens ought to Primary him out,write in the dog catcher, anything as a protest vote, but then again we are talking an uber-liberal stranglehold that will not change.

12 posted on 06/23/2014 3:45:10 AM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: 98ZJ USMC

Post of the Day.


13 posted on 06/23/2014 3:54:22 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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14 posted on 06/23/2014 4:16:47 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: john mirse
“I'm sure the good people of Hawaii and Illinois would be most happy to greet as many of the illegal immigrant children and other so-called refugees as Obama can send them”

Hey! There are still freedom-loving, conservative, Bible-carrying Illinoisans who are trying to turn this state around!

15 posted on 06/23/2014 4:48:41 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Olog-hai

The Kennedys want them, let the Kennedys take care of them.


16 posted on 06/23/2014 4:50:48 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: angry elephant

Absolutely. Libs are famous for saying “NIMBY”, whether it’s windmills, illegals, or similar.


17 posted on 06/23/2014 4:54:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Olog-hai

Hey - Mayor. Eat your peas.


18 posted on 06/23/2014 4:55:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Olog-hai

these were from Somalia.There has been a large influx from Liberia.

The magic words are “I feared for my life from the bad guys”

My observations of them was they were hard workers with jobs.


19 posted on 06/23/2014 4:55:57 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Ann Archy
They AREN’T refugees....they are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!

They AREN'T illegal immigrants..... they are ENEMY INVADERS!!!

They are attacking our borders and way of life. they need to be executed or removed.

20 posted on 06/23/2014 4:57:30 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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