Posted on 06/16/2016 11:24:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Texas' efforts to halt the arrival of Syrian refugees have been blocked by a federal judge, who rejected Republican leaders' claims that refugees pose an imminent risk or that states deserve a say in resettlements.
The ruling comes days after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called to block non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S. following the Orlando nightclub massacre.
U.S. District Judge David Godbey, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, had previously knocked Texas for offering "largely speculative hearsay" about extremists possibly infiltrating Syrian refugees. His ruling, which was signed Wednesday, rejected arguments that the Obama administration is wrongly leaving states on the sidelines when resettling refugees, which is handled by the federal government.
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This is what we get when we rely on politicians...whacky judges who don’t know their a** from a hole in the ground.
That was the problem with bush. He kept and hired leftist aholes.
Join the Convention of States.
Exactly. This Issue has been settled by the Third Amendment.
Is there no part of the Bill Of Rights that the Feds have not violated?
More poison from the Bush Crime Family. Settle them next to Laura’s home!!!
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