Detroit Jewish News

T wo weeks ago, I had the amaz- ing opportunity to connect my work on immigration economic development at Global Detroit with my own family's immigrant experi- ence by addressing a crowd of 100 residents in Bowling Green, Ohio, including the mayor, city council, director of economic development and other dignitaries, about our efforts to build a more high-growth economy that mobilizes our region's immi- grant potential. Moishe Hershel "Harry" Baron, my mother Paula Creed's grandfather, was a Latvian Jew from the remote village of Anykstai, who immigrated to Bowling Green in 1905. He came to America to pursue its promise of free- dom and opportunity. He was fleeing the persecution (which culminated in the Holocaust) that most European Jews faced in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He arrived speaking no English, with no formal education, no resources and with the compassion- ate assistance of his cousin who had settled in Bowling Green earlier, he started peddling junk. During my visit, I learned about how the factory that my grandfather (Harry Baron's son-in-law) built in Bowling Green (Midwest Stamping and Manufacturing, a metal stamp- ing company) had been repurposed to make plastics for Tyco toys and stadium seats and still employs work- ers from the region. My grandfather's financial investments paid for most of my college education. It's a typical Jewish-American story. And it's a typi- cal American Dream story of success and wealth — coming to America, fleeing unfavorable conditions and making something here despite hav- ing no formal education, skills or even speaking English. Like my great-grandfather Harry Baron, Yasir Ibrahim came to Detroit in 2008 fleeing persecution and eth- nic violence. He quickly found work as a clerk in a dollar store stocking shelves, cleaning up and tackling any task that would help him build a good life for himself in America, his new home. He worked hard to learn English and to save money to invest in his future. Today, less than a decade later, Yasir employs 15 Michiganders at his Sterling Heights restaurant Casper Burger and Escalope. "My dream came true," Yasir told a crowd last month at the Chaldean Cultural Center gathered for the pub- lic release of a new research report that I co-authored with Liz Gerber from the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. The study, "Economic Impact of Refugees in Southeast Michigan," conser- vatively estimates total annual economic impact of refu- gee resettlement in Metro Detroit to be between $229.6 million and $295.3 million in new spending, along with between 1,798 and 2,311 new jobs, in 2016 alone, stemming from the more than 21,000 refugees who resettled in Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties between 2007-2016. This study was released at a criti- cal moment. In September, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would accept only 45,000 refugees in the coming fiscal year — the low- est ceiling since U.S. presidents began setting the annual ceiling on refugee admissions in 1980. Yet, across the globe, there are more refugees than at any time since the Second World War. Some 22 million people — more than half of whom are children — are unsafe in their home countries. The nation and many local com- munities in Michigan are mired in a debate about refugees. On one side are those who believe the United States must continue to play a leader- ship role in accepting refugees. This belief is often offered on a number of grounds: a moral and ethical impera- tive for humanitarianism; our nation- al character as a place of refuge and beacon of freedom; or our country's status as a world leader. Those opposing refugee resettle- ment often argue that accepting refugees, especially from the Middle East, threatens our national security — although zero refugees have been implicated in a fatal terrorist attack in the U.S. since the Refugee Act of 1980 created systematic vetting pro- cedures. Refugees are the most thor- oughly vetted of any foreign visitors to the United States. What largely has been missing from the debate is a consideration of the local economic impacts that refu- gees have on the communities that serve as their new homes. The Global Detroit study is an attempt to provide that analysis for Southeast Michigan (Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties), which has been home to over half of the refugees resettled in Michigan over the 10-year period of 2007-2016. Overall, Michigan has been the fourth-largest destina- tion state for refugees during this period. Global Detroit's research docu- ments that refugees have been a source of strength to the Michigan economy — launching new busi- nesses, providing much-needed labor and achieving self-sufficiency within a very short time after their arrival. While refugee policies and politics necessarily extend beyond economics and must start with the humanitarian imperatives, Global Detroit's research verifies that being welcoming to refu- gees is in our region's own economic self-interest. In fact, America's history as a place of refuge — inscribed in the poem by Emma Lazarus, a Jewish American poet, on the Statue of Liberty's base — is what brought my great-grandfather here. I think of the hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs that my family has helped create for fellow Americans and recognize that opening our doors to other victims of persecution will secure, not threaten, America's economic future. • Steve Tobocman is the director of Global Detroit. 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