St. Cloud's BIG problem

"Flash forward to today. The St. Cloud area has absorbed a huge number of refugees. And the number keeps increasing." 

First a point of disclosure. I am somewhat familiar with St. Cloud. I went to college up there for a short while before joining the Navy. My oldest daughter graduated from St. Cloud State. I know what the culture is like up there. What the people are like. They are good people. Hard working people. Many come from a strong German background. Many are Catholic by faith.

I can remember in the fall of 1968. Anti-war protests had come to town. Some idiot said he had obtained a napalm type substance and he was going to burn a dog on the court house steps. It turned out to be a hoax. However, before the hoax was revealed, there were hundreds of local folks who took an hour or so off of work to come downtown and stop this madness. But that was St. Cloud back then. The patriotic culture was very strong.

Flash forward to today. The St. Cloud area has absorbed a huge number of refugees. And the number keeps increasing. These refugees come from lands which are much different than St. Cloud. Different climate, different politics, much different religion. Plus (and this is a huge one), these new refugees seem to have no interest in assimilation. None. 

I have some political friends up there who have fill me in from time to time on the issues in St. Cloud. It is a huge culture war. Take a city steeped in Minnesota history with a strong Germanic background, and then mix in thousands of Muslim immigrants from Northern Africa or Syria who are very clannish. Not good. It was really only a matter of time before one of the refugees became seduced by the calls for jihad in America.

Today our Governor is traveling to St. Cloud to meet with the Mayor. Our Goofy Governor has already blamed the citizens of Minnesota for their anticipated lack of tolerance after the attack. Rather than blaming the perp, Goofy is blaming us - typical Democrat.

The people in St. Cloud remain being very frustrated by this issue - runaway immigration. We all know the recipe. VOLAGs like Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities bring these people into the country and dump them on the community. It is then up to the community to not only provide services to the newly arrived refugees, but also to incorporate them into the community. And to date, that has not worked very well.

I will go on this rant one more time. We have a refugee crisis in the world today primarily because the UN has not done their job. These people should never have been rooted up from their homeland in the first place. The UN blue helmets should have come in and restored the peace. Instead, they decided the easiest way out was just to displace millions of people. What a waste.

To the people of St. Cloud, you are owed an apology by our government. I think the new arrivals will eventually assimilate, but it will take a long, long time. In the meanwhile, buckle up. The next few decades could be a bit rocky.