Minnesota County Bans "Refugee Resettlement"

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Texas has started doing the same

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omar-minnesota-county-refugee-ban-trump-executive-order

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Beltrami -
Suside rate 4 times higherthan state..
about 14, 000 household,
avrage income.
male 33-42, 000
female 22,000
and 22% below poverty level..
Also-
It's lakes, and a huge Indian reservation,
close to Canada/border.
temp are frikun cold there- below zero/winter is it.

in other words no big deal the refugees wouldn't want to live there AHAA!
None- no refugees in the last 5 years.

I know; last month I tried to rid of lake property there.
It's not a desirable place,,
But- eventually, ''summer'' I will unload it..

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Temple wrote:

in other words no big deal the refugees wouldn't want to live there AHAA!

Pay attention, Stupid .. It's a "big deal" because counties are starting to reject these "resettlements" because Trump's executive order allows them to make that decision now ...opposed to them being forced to accept and support these (ehem) "refugees"

Quote :

It's not a desirable place,,

No? ..Well supposedly these migrants are "refugees" ..Is there some kinda rule that they need to settle in a "desirable place"? ... All the northern states are cold in the winter .. They've been sending the Africans migrants to Maine ..it's as cold there as anywhere in the US ..snows a lot there too ..HTH .. prolly "undesirable" there for Africans, I'd imagine

What about Texas, where a county there has banned these resettlements? ...Not cold in Texas ..maybe too hot for them there, eh ... I suggest it's just the beginning and people are tired of their communities being mobbed with unproductive foreigners that live off their taxes ..This executive order allows them to vote against it .. Sounds kinda "democratic" doesn't it?

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Republican governors reject Trump’s offer to ban refugees

Republican governors of Tennessee, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Nebraska along with others have written letters to the U.S. State Department or publicly announced they will continue accepting refugee resettlements, representing some of the reddest states in the country.

They join more than two dozen other states that plan to continue taking refugees, according to Axios' compilation of news reports, press releases and public statements.
Not all states have released their decisions.
Abbott has previously withdrawn Texas from the national refugee resettlement program and sued for the right to block Syrian refugees from settling in the state, the Texas Tribune reports.

, Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price both called on Abbott to continue allowing refugees to settle in Texas.
Both Tennessee and North Dakota have also sued for the right to refuse refugee settlements, but have now both said they plan to continue accepting refugees.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is the only Republican governor so far to stop accepting refugees following President Trump’s executive order that allows state and local governments to block refugee resettlements.

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195 countries in the world, 54 in Africa alone.. and we're getting deluged with idiots from Africa and the Middle east?

send them all packing

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Beltrami County, which recently became the first county in Minnesota (and either the first or second in the nation) to say “Nope” to refugee resettlement finds itself in the cross-hairs of those who just might decide to spend their tourism dollars elsewhere. [Shameless plug — You can read my previous blog on the topic here.]

The county has lakes, rivers, fishing, hiking, biking, snowmobiling, skiing, and all sorts of recreational opportunities that has made it a tourism destination for generations. And now thanks to the short-sighted vote on refugee resettlement — driven in part by an utter b.s. campaign of disinformation, see below — folks who might have spent their tourism $$ there are rethinking their plans.

Comments from thousands of people across the country poured in on Twitter and Facebook with many expressing that they would no longer vacation or spend money in Beltrami County because of their disapproval of the vote.

One Twitter user posted: “My family has vacationed in the Bemidji area for years. Time to make reservations somewhere else.”

Another tweeted: “You have the right to vote this way. I have the right to not spend a dime in your county until this decision is overturned.”

It bears noting that many of the tourism related jobs in the area do not pay the best, and are seasonal in many cases. It bothers me that those folks who had nothing to do with the actual vote might be penalized; but for an economy so dependent on tourism, I hope Beltrami county residents and business owners take note, and speak accordingly.

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The other part of this story comes from the vile disinformation campaign that preceded the vote on the issue. Did I say it was vile? One county resident, speaking with Minnesota Public Radio, described what happened:

“Prayer @ Action needed,” the message read, adding, “Possibly 100s of Muslims!!”

The message also called on people to come out to the Beltrami County board vote on Jan. 7 to voice opposition to refugee resettlement.

Bemidji resident Esther Covert got the message from her neighbor.

"The minute I got the text, I thought, 'Oh, this is not good, because there was a lot of race baiting and fear mongering,” Covert said in an interview.

The campaign had a long reach, and it was not exactly easy to counter-act. Rita Albrecht, mayor of Bemidji, largest city in the county, noted how:

...she heard from a couple of confused residents who asked if refugees were coming to Bemidji. One woman told her she heard that city officials were meeting about the matter.

Albrecht said she had asked people for evidence on the information they’d heard. None was provided. She reiterated at this month’s city council meeting that the rumors were false, but she said some people weren’t willing to hear her explanation.

“It's so out there, I can’t believe people would actually believe that stuff,” she said. “I'm just dumbfounded by the inaccuracy of information people will take as the truth.”

Of course, not all those in the community were upset by the action:

Pastor Gus Booth of Warroad Community Church, who has been outspoken on political issues in the past, was on a local Christian radio station the day after the vote praising the board for opting out of refugee resettlement.

“Praise the Lord you’re not going to import some naughtiness into your community at least for now,” he said.

I honestly do not know what the next stage of this story for the county will be. I hope the commissioners re-think their action, but I won’t hold my breath either.

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