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Tension Over Likely Arrival of Iraqi Refugees In Michigan

By immigrationprof

Dan Corez and Niraj Warikoo report in the Detroit Free Press:

Chaldean leaders expressed outrage Wednesday after Warren Mayor Mark Steenbergh blasted a federal plan that could place thousands of Iraqi refugees in Warren and Sterling Heights in the coming months.

Steenbergh said he was concerned that as many as 15,000 refugees could arrive in the two cities, based on federal officials’ estimate of how many refugees could come to the United States this year and the city’s interpretation of conversations with county officials. Click here for the rest of the story.

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