Detroit has had problems with illegal aliens, especially in the S.W. Detroit side for decades.

They even have the audacity to stage very public protests against ICE arrests of illegals.

But I can tell you for a fact that legal immigrants aren't stupid. There is a reason why they avoid Detroit like the plague.

If people like Gov Snyder and Mayor Bloomberg need a lesson in why that is, I will be more than happy to take them on a tour of what's left of Detroit...under one condition.

They will both need to go alone, absolutely NO state police escort nor security detail of any kind is allowable. No shadowing from a distance either. If you want to see the REAL City of Detroit, raw and unfiltered they'll need to do it alone. Not on some carefully planned and staged photo-op.

If either (or both) of them have the integrity to go, we will see burned out and vandalized businesses and storefronts. We will go into neighborhoods with one or two homes still occupied and large swaths of weed-chocked fields with abandoned and dilapidated structures dotting the adjacent lots which used to be homes with families living there. We will visit rundown and decaying factories, well, what's left of them. We will go past closed and decaying schools that have been reclaimed by the environment and vandals. We will visit large abandoned buildings in the downtown area with broken windows destroyed interiors. We will also visit areas that have mountains of trash dumped in streets and fields which have been lying there for years.

Two additional points: I don't recommend carrying valuables of any kind and I should point out that I will not be held liable in any way for their safety. They will have to be responsible for themselves in the same city that they are asking legal immigrants to move into.

After my day-long, (mostly) foot tour of the city, it will be interesting to see if their opinion has changed.

"UNFORTUNATELY, I have first-hand experience on how illegal aliens negatively affect the citizens that live in this country. When I was laid off from my last job, I looked everywhere for work. Each time I passed a construction site or saw a truck with a company logo on the side, I stopped and asked if they had any positions open. Every reply was the same: `We have all the help we need.' The `help' was always illegal aliens, working for lower wages and not burdened by things such as workers' compensation, taxes, or wages above the minimum wage. I tried for two months, every day, and it sickened me that I eventually had to collect unemployment.

No other country ignores their border and stands beside as non-citizens flood into their country to suck money from any source they can find, at the detriment of citizens. What are we doing to this once great country? Why do we allow this to happen and stand idly by, doing nothing?"

-Jonathan Gerhard, North Carolina

Amazing to think that Governor Snyder and the Republican Majority Legislature knowingly allows damn near $1 Billion U.S. Dollars of state taxpayers money a year go into the hands of illegal aliens.

Is the current crop of MI-GOP elected class completely indistinguishable from the Neocommunist MDP?  Well, for now, at least the MI-GOP only subsidizes those elected MDP legislators Districts with higher taxes that are pushing workers comp for illegals.