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Originally Posted by sentinel
I secretly wish Gov Pritzker would just go 'fuck it, Illinois will take 170,000 Afghan refugees, and resettle them all throughout the state. Chicago, Rockford, Effingham, Champaign, Peoria, Cairo, you name it." That would be a great way to increase the state's population very quickly, and more importantly, increase the amount of federal money Illinois would receive.
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I can only imagine the political head spinning around that, haha. But it can work out well. I grew up in Minnesota at a time when they were taking a lot of refugees from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, etc as well as Somalia and Sudan. Did the state overall pretty well after a bit too, for the most part. At first there were a few racist gangs pulling their shit but some of the groups integrated pretty well and pretty fast there.
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