Is Detroit Really Making a Comeback?

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That's literally not true. It's well reported that many of these refugees were students, teachers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, businessmen etc. One reason why they ran is because they a) members of Syrian's middle and working classes and therefore b) not soldiers and did not want to fight because they though never in a million years there would have been such a war. Yes, they don't have the same level of credentials as American counterparts but many of these people aren't Syrian hicks from the back country. They are/were cosmopolitan men, women, and families from Aleppo, Raqqah, etc.

Dare I say that these refugees are much more educated than any Irish refugee from the 19th century.

Well,.. we have no idea really when they come from Syria because ISIS seized control of a couple of the main passport offices and are printing their own passports.

But the data indicated that 9.4% have some type of higher education [[technical, college, graduate school, etc). Much of that however has to do with a large percentage of them being quite young. So perhaps 2% were doctors, dentists, or lawyers?

And I totally agree on the Irish. But at that time there wasn't free housing, free health-care, free food etc,.. so they came here knowing they were going to have to work extremely hard or starve to death. And then there weren't worker's rights, overtime, or minimum wage laws.

Our current refugee / illegal immigrant situation is costing us upwards of $90 BILLION a year in social services. Money that we could be using for Veterans, our poor, vocational training, etc.