In the greater Dubuque area (where this was published), the problem is not Syrians (yet), but - as a broad generality - rather University of Diversity grads from Illinois crapholes. Catholic Charities and other "social justice" trojan horse operators have been importing them via the Highway 20 corridor for some years. In bygone days they usually went to Waterloo or sometimes Fort Dodge, but the kommissars in DBQ teamed with the progs in the Catholic church Kumbiyah Klub to peel off a big portion.
They commit various "acts of love" (hat tip to Jeb Bush) in a quite disproportionate manner, and thanks to very healthy SNAP, EBT, absentee landlord and Section 8 industries, only the seriously wealthy neighborhoods are deprived of the imported "vibrance" and "strength" that multiculturalism engenders.
Not that you will find any of that addressed in the TH article. The DBQ media isn't allowed to report on that sort of thing even if they were so inclined, which they are not.
Mr. niteowl77
—as I used to spend some time in SW Wisconsin in the spring and fall, I remember that some years ago, the Dubuque city council felt that there weren’t enough “minorities locally and attempted to recruit more from Chicago—how did that work out?