State Asks Residents To Take Migrants In

The state of Michigan asked residents to consider allowing migrants into their homes as the state struggles with the pressure of thousands of illegal aliens who have arrived in the last several years. The move comes amid growing protests against the resettlement of more than six million estimated migrants who have entered the country since President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Development asked residents to allow migrants into their homes for at least 90 days. According to the state’s Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Poppy Hernandez, the program’s mission was to “make Michigan the home for opportunity for our immigrant, refugee and ethnic communities.”

“Expanded refugee resettlement pathways empower more Michiganders to support our state’s growing refugee population and build a more welcoming and inclusive Michigan for all,” she said.

Participants would be expected to meet the migrants at the airport, find them housing, help the migrant children enter school and aid the adults in finding jobs.

The program would bring migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to Michigan.

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Detroit is emerging as a top destination for illegal immigrants following protests in Chicago and New York against the influx. New York is currently struggling after more than 170,000 illegal aliens entered the city in the last two years.

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon criticized the move, asking if the migrants had been “vetted.”

“I mean because people will sign up for this,” Dixon said. “That’s what that’s the thing that is upsetting is that people will sign up for this to make sure they’re good citizens because there are people out there that want to be good citizens who is vetting this? They’re not even vetting who’s coming across the border.”

The former candidate asked “at what point” residents would protest and state that “we’ve put our own citizens in a massively dangerous situation?”

The move follows a similar call from Massachusetts after the state’s resources were stretched following the arrival of thousands of migrants.