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Residents
gear up
to
prevent
immigrant
children
from
entering
their
community
VASSAR,
MI (Tell
Us Det)
- About
50
people
turned
out to
protest
a social
services
organization's
proposal
to house
child
immigrants
from
Central
America
in a
small
Michigan
community.
Protesters
were
quite
vocal in
their
views
during
the
march.
“We want
to live
the
American
dream
for our
kids,
not some
kids who
are
dropped
off in
our
lap,”
said
Vassar
Township
resident
Chad
Fabbro.
Tamyra
Murray,
an
organizer
for
Michiganders
for
Immigration
Control
and
Enforcement,
led
Monday's
march
from
Vassar
City
Hall to
Wolverine
Human
Services'
145-bed
Pioneer
Work and
Learn
Center,
about 70
miles
northwest
of
Detroit.
Some
carried
U.S.
flags,
rifles
or
handguns.
“If them
kids do
come
here, we
can try
to pass
legislation
so they
have no
rights
to
social
services
or they
can not
get tax
dollars
for
education,”
says
Murray.
Murray
says
they are
eyeing a
possible
lawsuit
challenging
Wolverine’s
zoning.
Derrick
McCree,
a Senior
Vice
President
with
Wolverine
said,
"We
projected
and
predicted
that we
would
get
resistance,"
McCree
said
last
week.
"But our
goal is
to help
these
children
in need
to move
forward
to
whatever
it may
be: to
return
them to
their
country
of
origin,
to
become a
U.S.
citizen,
whatever's
decided."
Grosse
Pointe
Park-based
Wolverine
Human
Services
says it
wants to
enter
into a
contract
allowing
the
facility
to house
children
who fled
violence
in their
home
country.
The
plans
come as
pressure
continues
to mount
on the
federal
government
to treat
as
refugees
the
thousands
of
children
traveling
alone
from
Central
America
and
crossing
the
border
into the
U.S.
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