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.
âGovernors 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,â said Lucy Carrigan, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee. âThere 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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I’m inclined to believe this.
“And confiscate their US visas”
They don’t have visas. They are not here as part of our immigration processes. They are not admitted by CIS.
They are here pursuant to the UN treaty and measures passed by the UN General Assembly. Who comes here, how many and where they come from, is not a decision of the US government.
And, since the treaty in question is a real one, ratified by the Senate, it is the law of the land and binding on all states and all judges.
Sucks, but them’s the facts.
Thank you. Hopefully the treaty will be revisited.
Stall, obstrut mirror tactics used by the delusional left libs! We can do it to ride out the won.
I’m just sayin it’s 2 brothers and a crock pot. Totus was not in attendance.
It will be closing soon....and there’s not enough room there..anyway.
In the words of Trump the states had terrible negotiators if the states do not know where the migrants are being placed in their states. The cry to stop further import of migrants rest with the people and Congress.
If the feds drop off unwanted persons in the states the states should load those unwanted persons on a one-way bus headed to Washington DC.
Either terrible negotiators, or very good ones. I’d love to see when these contracts were signed and put into place, given the tidal shift in political control of the states over the last eight years.
LOL! I love a good chuckle in the morning.
once they are made legal residents by the fed, how will they be stopped from going across state lines?
Very simple...they won’t...
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