Resettling Syrians in Detroit would require commitment and cooperation across different branches and levels of our government, but it is eminently feasible. President Obama and Congress would have to agree to lift this year’s refugee ceiling by 50,000.

Lol. Cooperation across different branches of government?

This is a non-starter.

If Obama so much as whispers of this in his sleep, Republicans will have a field day. Their line will be that Isis sprouted up in Syria and opening up the floodgates to Syrian immigrants will fast-track terrorists in the mix directly to our city. No question. Plus there's the whole Republicans hate immigrants that aren't rich thing. Their entire modus operandi regarding immigration for years now has been a constant and steady drumbeat calling for the tightening of our borders. The right has been using a fabricated immigrant status as a smear against our President for as long as he's been in office.

Health and Human Services would need an expansion in the $1.5 billion it budgets for refugee resettlement.

Getting more feasible by the minute.

Finally, some will call this plan politically dead on arrival, given skepticism toward immigration, particularly in the Republican Party. But it’s worth noting that the 2003 study of the community found that two-thirds of respondents said they had voted for George W. Bush in 2000;

This in no way addresses the political infeasibility. The author is truly grasping at straws here.

More important, both parties can agree that resettling destitute, innocent refugees is consistent with America’s moral and ethical commitments;

He typed that with a straight face I'm assuming.

Decent idea. Not happening.