[LINK] Two notes on migration into Detroit

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An interesting discussion on Facebook was started when someone shared a New York Times op-ed, "Let Syrians Settle Detroit" by David D. Laitin and Marc Jahrmay. The idea is provocative, but--I think--sound.

Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum. Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950. The city

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Even the relatively puny attempts to take in Syrian refugees have gotten some US right wingers frothing at the mouth, claiming it's all part of Obama's plot to Islamicise the US. Of course some of them think the drive for same sex marriage and "socialism" is doing the same thing.