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Texas sues feds to keep 6 Syrian refugees out
The Hill ^ | December 2, 2015 | Julian Hattem

Posted on 12/03/2015 12:31:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Texas on Wednesday sued the Obama administration and an organization that resettles refugees over plans to bring six Syrian refugees to the state later this week.

In a filing, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission accused the two of violating federal law with its plans to bring the family to Dallas on Friday.

The state asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to block the resettlement and to order the defendants to "comply with their statutory and contractual duties to the state."

Instead of working with the state to resettle refugees, as the law declares, the federal government and the International Rescue Committee "have left Texas uninformed about refugees that could well pose a security risk to Texans and without any say in the process of resettling these refugees," the state said in its lawsuit.

"In addition to Texas undertaking more than its share in the task of resettling refugees than any other State, Texas has the sovereign authority and duty to protect the safety of its residents," it added, noting that Texas accepts roughly 10 percent of all refugees headed to the United States.

The lawsuit is an escalation of state officials' revolt against President Obama's plans to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country over the next year, following on fears that Islamic extremists could hide in their midst.

Shortly after deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and 15 other governors pledged to block refugees from resettling within their borders, even as the Obama administration warned that they didn't have the legal right. According to the Obama administration's legal reasoning, refugee resettlement is a federal matter, and states would violate the Civil Rights Act by denying the migrants service.

Fears about refugees were sparked by indications that at least one person who carried out the Paris attacks had slipped into Europe by posing as a Syrian refugee.

In its lawsuit, Texas points to the 1980 Refugee Act, which claims that the federal government must "consult regularly" with state and local governments about refugee resettlement plans before the refugees are placed within a state.

However, the government refused to abide by the state's request to halt the refugees' resettlement until it received information about the refugees and "appropriately addressed" its "concerns with screening procedures," Texas said.

Refugees coming to the U.S. undergo a lengthy screening process that can last up to two years. However, national security officials have said that "gaps" in the available background knowledge make it impossible to get a full picture of an individual coming from a chaos-filled country such as Syria.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrants; middleeast; nationalsecurity; terrorists; texas
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1 posted on 12/03/2015 12:31:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A lawsuit in the court system looks good going into the 2016 election cycle for Republicans.

While the lawsuit works its way through the system, the Republicans can say, “Look we sued em”.

But does it stop the flow of ‘refugees’ into the country and the threat to security they may pose.

NO, NO, NO.

The Republicans play the grassroots for suckers again.......


2 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:25 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush
Texas has been on the frontline (court) against this administration (and has wins) - Texans have been footing the bill (along with other states) holding back the tide.

Where has NY been on this issue?

3 posted on 12/03/2015 12:43:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Accept them and locate them separately next door to people like like Sheila Jackson Lee and Julian Castro neighborhoods. Then do likewise in every state. Watch how fast they stop importing terrorists.


4 posted on 12/03/2015 12:57:13 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Nextrush
Are you suggesting that the State of Texas is somehow in cahoots with the national establishment for the benefit of the national establishment?

Really?

5 posted on 12/03/2015 1:02:13 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Lawsuits upon lawsuits, pages upon pages of regulations, all of it just a farce and a charade in a country where the rule of law has ended. Legal action alone will not save us. We have got to find the leader to rally around somewhere in this benighted land who will free us from the tyranny of the attorneys. A leader who is himself not an attorney and who will reassert our right to live as a free people, unencumbered by the straightjacket of a false and misguided deference to a degenerate legal system gone mad. Trump 2016.


6 posted on 12/03/2015 1:15:44 AM PST by DrPretorius
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To: DrPretorius

You’re putting your trust in someone who is more liberal than conservative, more self-serving than serving - someone who has the temperament to just walk away when it suits him while blaming his supporters, accusing them of not doing enough to help wonderful, rich, beautiful, generous, brilliant, deserving him. And he’d laugh.


7 posted on 12/03/2015 1:24:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DrPretorius

It’s very late here so forgive me, please, if I have misinterpreted your post. Are you saying we should elect a man who will not use the law to save the Republic? That we should abandon our Constitutional principles?


8 posted on 12/03/2015 1:33:01 AM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Love to Texas.


9 posted on 12/03/2015 1:50:01 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Courts are where we put on shows like the one Arizona stated with the great looking law SB 1070 which ended up getting gutted in court but it helped in the 2010 election cycle for then Governor Jan Brewer’s re-election.


10 posted on 12/03/2015 2:15:16 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

What is your solution?

Spell it out.


11 posted on 12/03/2015 2:18:55 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DrPretorius

And what do you suggest we here in Texas do?

Sit on our thumbs like the yanks in say, NY or Vermont, until Obucketoshiite fills their State up with this filth?

I have a suggestion for Texas. Secede and let you people have it. We do not need the BS we can make it on our own and still have the fighting spirit, our own electric grid, plenty oil and our own ports.


12 posted on 12/03/2015 2:24:36 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Refugees coming to the U.S. undergo a lengthy screening process that can last up to two years. However, national security officials have said that "gaps" in the available background knowledge make it impossible to get a full picture of an individual coming from a chaos-filled country such as Syria.

A less expensive and common sense approach would be to help Jordan or another Arab country located near Syria keep and take care of the refugees. It is highly likely that they would prefer to return to their own home country.

Not only that, but if they really want to settle in the USA, the vetting process could start with them in Jordan.

Unfortunately our country is being governed by people with seriously disordered minds.

13 posted on 12/03/2015 2:30:36 AM PST by olezip
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To: brothers4thID

How about somebody who will read the Constitution, interpret it as written, and has the courage to implement it. This means refusing to accept the judicial usurpations that have occurred unendingly during the reign of terror foisted on us by liberal attorneys and doing the right thing, the Constitutional thing, as a matter of principle. At this point, Trump is the only guy out there who has the gumption to give the middle finger to the governmental bureaucracy filled with attorneys who have destroyed our country. He’s not perfect, but he’s all we’ve got and are likely to get. One hundred years of liberal lunacy have ruined our ability to produce another Washington or Jefferson. I’ll take a proud, successful, self-assured, productive, patriotic business leader over the mendacious, treacherous, sleazy, criminal attorneys that populate our government any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.


14 posted on 12/03/2015 2:38:05 AM PST by DrPretorius
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To: DrPretorius

I’ll take Ted Cruz. He has a demonstrable love of the US Constitution and a record of fighting for the Republic and We the People.


15 posted on 12/03/2015 2:44:13 AM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

BTT


16 posted on 12/03/2015 2:50:44 AM PST by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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Sen Jeff Sessions Rings Alarm: Funding bill allows Obama To Bring In 10,000 Syrians
Breitbart ^ | 12-01-2015 | Matthew Boyle / FR Posted by Michael van der Galien

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is warning Americans that under House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the planned government funding bill, allows Obama to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees and place them in American communities. Session said in a statement:

"As currently written, this years appropriations bills will be combined into a catch-allomnibus by December 11th which amounts to a blank check to carry out Obama's refugee resettlement plans. Not only will the President be allowed to bring in the 85,000 refugees he has announced on top of current record immigration levels, but this will include at least 10,000 refugees from Syria......who will subsequently be able to bring in their foreign relatives.

All refugees are eligible for lifetime government benefits and Social Security and Medicare access, and are on a fast-track to becoming voting U.S. citizens. More than 90 percent of recent Middle Eastern refugees are on welfare.

Technically, the bill hasnt yet been releases.....but will likely be released until mere hours before the vote (to bamboozle Americans) but its pretty clear from the public statements of the GOP leadership, that the plan in Congress is to pave the way for Obama.

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REFERENCE Obama is funneling our tax dollars directly into non-profits (and religious organizations like Catholic Charities) for the purpose of resettling these refugees..... reportedly over $20M (that we know of).

News outlets report that the vengeful Obama is on the warpath and nd is threatening legal action on the 31 states...using federal laws to undermine the states' sovereignty.

NOW PONDER THIS There is the distinct possibility that Mideast countries are bribing Obama....paying Obama to take these actions.

Gov Abbott, and the 31 states refusing Syrian refugees, should subpoena the wire-transfers in and out of Valerie Jarrrett's and Susan Rice's WH offices......to determine the scope and dimension of foreign monies being directed to Obama and to his two Clintonesque buck-raking foundations.

Refugee relocation monies may also be phonied-up....characterized as "donations" to Obama's billion dollar "library fund"---scheduled to be built in Chicago.

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ACTION NOW: Americans demand subpoenas of the wire-transfer records of Valerie Jarrett, Suzan Rice, the two Obama foundations and the Obama library fund.....and other networks Obama might be using to bamboozle Americans.

17 posted on 12/03/2015 3:06:08 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Its more than the courts, George Wallace launched a national political career standing in a schoolhouse door flanked by his National Guard, that marched out to be replaced by the US Army and its enforcement of a federal court order to integrate the U of Alabama. JFK and Wallace prearranged the performance-tough speech resistance act.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could present a meeker profile in his wheelchair and raise his profile maybe higher than Trump, who folks like you would like to see fade from the scene. I support Cruz over Trump for the record.

Above that would be some sort of confrontation of a more serious nature which would require more thoughtful consideration.


18 posted on 12/03/2015 4:10:42 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: DrPretorius
. We have got to find the leader to rally around somewhere in this benighted land who will free us from the tyranny of the attorneys.

You want a king rather than a president we hold accountable to the rule of law?

19 posted on 12/03/2015 5:02:56 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Once again it’s up to Texas to lead the nation.


20 posted on 12/03/2015 5:49:10 AM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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