Posted on 11/16/2015 1:17:52 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
More than a dozen governors have said in the wake of the Paris attacks that they do not want their states to accept Syrian refugees.
But officials at several American refugee resettlement agencies said Monday that state and local officials cannot physically prevent refugees from being resettled in their areas. They said that all refugees who arrive in the United States must first be approved for legal entry by the federal government after a lengthy screening process and that their housing arrangements are made through long-term contracts and relationships with city, county and state governments.
“Governors and state officials do not have the capability to prevent a refugee who is here and admitted lawfully to the U.S. from residing in their state. It is not something they can do,†said Lucy Carrigan, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee. “There is a close collaboration with governors and mayors and community leaders about the capacity of the area for refugees and where they can go, but once they have legal status, you cannot impede their transit between different states.â€
A total of about 1,900 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States in the past two years, all of them brought directly from camps and settlements in countries surrounding Syria. Carrigan and others said none of them had been part of the wave of migrants coming through Europe. The 1,900 are a tiny fraction of the 200,000 living near Syria who have been approved for resettlement in the United States. The International Rescue Committee, based in New York, has resettled about 250 of them. . .
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Want to bet?
Enforce it.
But officials at several American refugee resettlement agencies said Monday that state and local officials cannot physically prevent refugees from being resettled in their areas. They said that all refugees who arrive in the United States must first be approved for legal entry by the federal government after a lengthy screening process and that their housing arrangements are made through long-term contracts and relationships with city, county and state governments.
If the contracts are not in place,,then,,what are the Feds going to do?
When, oh when, is the much needed civil war to start?
Under penalty of what?
I’d like to see stout resistance from the states, regardless of what the IRC has to say about it.
What are the feds going to do. Throw them at us at gun point.
Congress needs to come up immediately with a bill to totally reject Syrian ‘refugees’. Let the DemonRats and OblahMao Hussein veto it. Bring it on...
The hell we can’t.
Although I wish it were different I don’t see how it can be stopped.
Oh Boy.
"...a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States..."
"HA HA, FOOLED YOU!" -- the Fed Gov
That’s what I figured. No one can stop Obama from doing what he wants.
The 10th Amendment be damned!
We are no longer a constitutional republic. We are a banana republic.
If states can’t refuse an influx of refugees to their area why do we bother having states at all?
(Rhetorical question)
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If Ryan and McConnell had a grain of creativity they would already have an emergency bill on the floor that they could DARE the Dems to filibuster. I can tell you that those on the coasts, including about half of the lefties, after Paris, are more antsy about these folks coming in some ways than those in the heartland.
Why not? If individual cities can refuse to enforce immigration laws and declare themselves “Sanctuary cities”, then why can’t the states ignore the federal government on this issue?
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