“I don’t think there could be a legal battle because the governor can’t stop what the federal government does in terms of placement of immigrants,” Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said.
“I think it’s just to send a message about who we are as a Madison,” Alderwoman Shiva Bidar-Sielaff said. “Regardless of the redirect from anybody else, I think it’s just a statement about us and Madison and what we stand for.”
December 2, 2015
"The Madison Common Council sent a unanimous message Tuesday that the city will accept Syrian refugees."
"The resolution comes a couple weeks after Gov. Scott Walker said any new Syrian refugees would not be welcome in Wisconsin."
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We stand for posturing!
Don't worry. The university area won't house them. Nor will any region that the council actually lives in.
The poor areas, though --- they gonna get screwed.
Uh oh. There go the Draw Muhammed street art fairs. And public eating of pork Brats is now offensive. But you can have all the dancing in the streets you want in its place whenever ISIL slaughters some more arrogant infidels.
The more awful the people are, the more redeeming it is to take them in.
We'll also take in rich yuppies from New York to prove who we are.
Are they still passing George Bush resolutions, too?
Walker was the one posturing.
The Madison city council was right to respond to Walker's mean pandering to the ugly Republican base.
Good job Madison!
Uh, perhaps they want to pick up the cost? From the Center for Immigration Studies:
"On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household"
It would be less expensive to resettle them elsewhere.
http://cis.org/High-Cost-of-Resettling-Middle-Eastern-Refugees
Muslim integration is a mistake...national suicide. SHow me a Western nation that doesn't have huge problems.
In a just world only Mdison would go down the shitter. In the real world, the left will take us with them.
"What Madison stands for" is being almost the worst city in the U.S. for A. Americans. - See more at: http://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/coming-to-grips-with-racial-disparities-in-madison/#sthash.EMPofLUj.dpuf
If this and other Madisonians really gave a shit about these refugees (they don't - see article above re how blacks fare in Madison) they would want them to go anywhere else but Maidson (unless, that is, the refugees can pass as white persons of Northern European ancestry in which case they may do OK).
damikesc said...
Don't worry. The university area won't house them. Nor will any region that the council actually lives in.
The poor areas, though --- they gonna get screwed.
True. If Obama believes these immigrants pose not threat, why not locate them in the Washington DC area? This Madison resolution is just more virtue posturing.
So Democrats are in favor of local government that can act against the state declarations of its parent government, so long as we are on the city--> state level and not the state --> national one.
Course, even in that case, I suspect not every city should be allowed to defy its state. It's a very nuanced position.
When one of the councilmembers takes some refugees into their home, they'll have shown their bona fides.
Until then, it's palaver.
Madison Muslims Fear Backlash from Next Week's Terrorist Attack
Madison--racing Berkeley for the title of "Biggest Doof In the World". Is Madison a "nuclear free zone" with its own foreign policy? If not the Madison City Council should hustle up since Berkeley did that 30 years ago.
Why push people into a total alien environment thousands of miles away from their homeland? Wouldn't it be more logical and empathetic to provide safe zones in familiar territory?
PB said...
Uh, perhaps they want to pick up the cost? From the Center for Immigration Studies:
"On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household"
It would be less expensive to resettle them elsewhere.
http://cis.org/High-Cost-of-Resettling-Middle-Eastern-Refugees
And yet we have veterans living on the streets.
“I think it’s just to send a message about who we are as a Madison,”
Yep.
And be sure to give the Syrian women those free tampons (as soon as they get a government job.)
I am just sure the crocodile will eat Leftists last.
A hyphenated name.
Why am I surprised?
Do you guys have an open Socialist on the City Council?
I think it’s just a statement about us and Madison and what we stand for.”
Right, the Madison Creed.
"We believe conservatives are the enemy and anyone useful in attacking them is welcome here."
Remember the Mariel boat lift and Berniece Taylor?
"The Madison city council was right to respond to Walker's mean pandering to the ugly Republican base."
I assume once written, or Ritmo, or whoever you are will be first in line to adopt a Syrian "family." You know, the families that consist of 20 year old men with angry eyes.
Wilbur said...
When one of the councilmembers takes some refugees into their home, they'll have shown their bona fides.
Until then, it's palaver.
12/2/15, 7:58 AM
And we mean 18 to 24 year old male refugees, not 14 to 21 year old girl refugees who would wind up becomimg the underpaid "hired help" of those wealthy Madison-ites. Too many rich liberals are still keeping slaves.
Who they are in Madison as opposed to who they aspire to be. If the jihadis succeed in overrunning Israel, could a city with a sizeable Muslim contingent accept Israeli refugees? Or would we have a reprise of the MS St. Louis fiasco?
And when hardcore Wahhabis among the refugees begin assaulting UW coeds for immodest attire? What then?
Isn't pre-judging Muslim migrants in a benign way just as much a prejudice as pre-judging them in a hostile way? As the previous article points out, the people from that neck of the woods have quite an assortment of strange opinions about us. I'm not at all sure the gears would mesh, and, anyway, I just don't feel we owe any kind of debt to Syrian refugees.....,,,For the record, I believe that most of them, if allowed to come here, would lead useful, productive lives. The only exception is that tiny handful who would go on to indiscriminately murder everyone they could in the Mall of America.
This is not surprising. Madison is the (insane) asylum city of Wisconsin.
Nobody else would want to turn their city into an islamic hellhole, but for Madison, ... sure, why not? Look how well that has turned out for the Detroit suburbs!
This is another CIA plot. First, Syrian refugees are sent to Madison. Then by social media they send back pictures of life in Madison - transgender bathrooms, college drinking and the hook up culture. Then winter comes to Wisconsin. Snow, and snow and snow. People totally bundled up better than with a hijab for seven months. Cold - ah God, the cold. Inexplicably they are not in America but some other place called pakernation where people celebrate victory by posting pictures of themselves eating the phalluses of the enemy while it snows and snows. Enemy soldiers are lowered into holes in the ice to freeze till its time to eat them - well something is lowered into the ice and left and what more likely than the enemy to pakernation. Or perhaps these enemies are left to become winter food for enormous fish six feet long that inhabit all the lakes. Others, civilians, are forced naked into icy water during obscure celebrations. Word gets out; (triumph of Twitter); end of the migrant problem in Wisconsin.
So the its ok to posture because Scott Walker's posturing sounds very mature. Nanny boo boo ish. Vote with money that you have authority to obligate would be a good start. Talk is, quite literally, cheap.
Like the City of Berkeley's resolutions condemning racism, Israel, and establishing a nuclear free zone. Virtue signaling.
They need them to vote Democrat in November.
For a party that claims to have changed after the 1960s, they still are enamored by the nullification strategies of the Confederacy.
It's as if their "It's the LAW!" nonsense was bullshit
"“I don’t think there could be a legal battle because the governor can’t stop what the federal government does in terms of placement of immigrants,” Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said."
Yeah, right That's just what the States signed up for when they ratified the Constitution---an all-powerful central government that can order them around on whim.
Why, you can read about it yourself in "The Federalist Papers" --- oh wait....
Fortunately they all speak English and have jobs lined up.
Recently looked at 1920 census. My maternal Great Grandparents, with seven children, shared a home with another family, two parents and three children. 688 square feet. White priviledge, I guess. House still standing in Pueblo Colorado..
"Minnesota responsible for 15 of 58 American ISIS recruits"
http://www.fox9.com/news/26238851-story
It's working out great for Minnesota!
Only another proof of the operational definition: Madison---94 square miles surrounded by reality.
"We are Madison!" is exactly right, and we are chuckling at the lengths you will go to feel superior. Or really, not inferior.
There was a black guy at a bus stop on State Street last night loudly yelling at people he called "honkies". That's Madison.
When I was an undergrad back in the day, Madison was proud of all of the Cubans it had imported from the Mariel boatlift. (Madisonians think you can import racial diversity like you can import bananas). Anyway, the local nightly news crime stories were mostly about Cubans stabbing each other downtown.
Hopefully, the Russian coalition will stop the Islamic State, terrorists, and American-backed "rebels," and mitigate the progressive consequences of anti-native policies including the refugee crisis.
Can't wait to see Althouse post the happy family photos of the Syrian refugees she's hosting in her home...
They know full well that their "acceptance" will not affect the routing of any current or future volumes of refugees to Madison. It's just more empty bullshit that spews from that town.
I guess Saudi Arabia must be full up.
Resolution not legally binding, meant to send message, officials say
So therefore they have put nothing on the line, risked nothing, and helped no one. If only Ms. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff could really see what this says about who they are...
They're going to love Madison in February.
Big Mike said...
"And when hardcore Wahhabis among the refugees begin assaulting UW coeds for immodest attire? What then?"
"Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after South Africa, which at 53.2 per 100,000 is six times higher than the United States. Statistics now suggest that 1 out of every 4 Swedish women will be raped."
So, I guess the Madison Ciry Council read that one in five women get raped on campus, and said "Hell, we can do better than that!"
“I think it’s just to send a message about who we are as Madison,” Alderwoman Shiva Bidar-Sielaff said.
Having lived in Berkeley for several years, I tend not to trust the judgment of people with hyphenated surnames.
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