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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

I openly wish he would do this, no need to do it in secret.

Fort McCoy by Madison is one of three staging points for refugees coming into the country. If there's one thing America has done well in our various overseas boondoggles it's bringing the brain drain home with us. We should take every Afghan who wants a better life in America with us. .........


Anyhow, I digress, as an American and a landlord I say bring all the Afghans back. Pack them into Chicago, Wisconsin, wherever. We have the space, why not share it? I will gladly rehab 30 more apartments and rent them to newly minted Afghan-Americans. I have a feeling my son will have some new playmates at the park in Mayfair soon as our community already has a large number of Yeminis who have fled the violence perpetrated upon them by the military industrial complex goons known as the House of Saud. Will not be surprised to see Afghans choosing this area to settle en masse given the large number of Arabic speakers already established here.

Though some of the Afghan newcomers will ultimately end up in IL, it reportedly isn't expected to be one of the top destinations.

While some will end up in Chicago, most fleeing Afghanistan will resettle in other parts of the country with larger Afghan communities, said Marc Adelman, the associate vice president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. The organization administers the state’s refugee resettlement program.

Each year, about 100 people from Afghanistan are resettled in Illinois, Adelman said. That number trails the hundreds of others who have resettled in places like Pennsylvania, Texas, California and the Washington, D.C., area, Adelman said.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/...a-resettlement