Federal Court in Detroit holds two naturalization ceremonies a week, around 75 people each. At each ceremony, about 30 are always Iraqi, then around 10 Indians, then a blend of folks from Yemen, Palestine and non middle-east countries.
Some surprises in Detroit's numbers are that India is the number two source of citizens. They really fly below the radar. Also, while Detroit has a huge Mexican population, Mexicans rarely naturalize. If they ever got their act together, they could really have some political influence here.
That happened to us at the Palmer House in Chicago. Mrs. IJ even posed for some pics with the guys. That was ten years ago and we still laugh ourselves silly.
Not only have there been no rioting in Detroit since 1984, Detroit was the only major city to not have a "Rodney King riot" or any disturbances related to the east coast power blackout two years ago.
10/09/2006 10:30:01 PM PDT
· 22 of 30 ItsJeff
to paratrooper82
There are lots of reasons to not vote for Granholm, but everything you said was wrong. I mean... damn. Your statistics are way off, your facts about the Japanese are wrong, you CAN home school in Michigan, Stabenaw ended up supporting Bush's federal judge nominees, the auto plants aren't moving to other states, they're closing down permanently...
Go after her for the real reasons: she increased funding to a public education system that needs serious reform, she was part of the cabal that rejected a multi-million dollar donation for charter schools, she's wildly pro-abort...
We know for a fact by the St. Petersburg Times' own admission that they knew about this very episode in Nov 2005 and didn't bring it public until yesterday.
We know for a fact by the St. Petersburg Times'Speaker Foley's own admission that they knew about this very episode in Nov 2005 and didn't bring it public until yesterday.