Posted on 10/03/2016 6:00:33 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the state's withdrawal from the national refugee resettlement program.
Texas' top elected officials have not exactly welcomed refugees over the past year.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government — thus far unsuccessfully — to keep people fleeing war-ravaged Syria from settling here. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller compared refugees to venomous rattlesnakes.
And Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott followed through on his threat to end cooperation with the nation’s refugee resettlement program because federal officials refused to “unconditionally approve” a Texas plan requiring extra vetting of applicants. Such a move will not keep refugees from coming here, but it eliminates the state government's role.
But everyday Texans seem to be more willing to help refugees from Syria and elsewhere start new lives in the Lone Star State. Nonprofits that resettle refugees say volunteer turnout has increased — in some cases dramatically — since Texas Republicans first suggested they threatened security.
“It’s one of those rare issues where people’s hearts are really united in supporting refugees,” said Chris Kelley, a spokesman for Refugee Services of Texas, the state’s largest resettlement nonprofit with offices in five different cities. “And I think they see through the rhetoric.”
Kelley said his agency had about 100 names on its Austin volunteer list on Nov. 1 of last year, shortly before state leaders started trying to keep out Syrian refugees. That number has since ballooned to more than 1,400.
The group’s Austin chapter now has 30 “welcome teams,” volunteers who pick up newly arrived refugees from the airport, set up their apartments, help them navigate the town and assist in other ways. That is up from 14 teams in late 2015.
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The Texas Tribune is a far left “progressive” publication.
Sure, let’s welcome all these “nice” refugees:
Man from Bangladesh charged in plot to kill US military member for ISIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3476397/posts
They lie and spin .
TX TRIB IS SOROS
I wonder how Texans feel about admitting between 85,000-110,000 “refugees” per year nationally? Do they think that number is right, or should it be lowered or increased?
What about Hillary’s support for increasing Syrian admissions by 500%? Do Texans support or oppose that ?
Real Texans or foreigners recently settled in Texas by the damn DemocRAT government.
Always follow the money.
There are millions to be made by refugeeing America.
Read that Catholic Charities gets 96 million to “resettle” foreigners.
The volunteers need to let them move in with them.
There are always useful idiots willing to commit suicide.
Don’t forget, millions are changing hands to resettle the savages here.
Follow the money and the drug/sex-trades.
Bad stuff is going on.
“volunteers who pick up newly arrived refugees from the airport, set up their apartments, help them navigate the town and assist in other ways”
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Assist in other ways——welfare,food stamps,section-8,public housing.Medicaid and all the good stuff.
Refugees go to the head of the line for Senior Housing———even kicking aside veterans,
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The Leftists and their wet dreams to turn Texas blue…at Texas taxpayers’ expense, of course. We have these diseased, illiterate children in public schools in every medium to large city in the state. Only the rural areas have managed to escape this plague because they are not able to provide the amenities required by the government for these new squatters, which the American rural children do not have.
From wiki: “The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit[1] media organization in Texas in the United States. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it aims to promote civic engagement through original, explanatory journalism and public events.”
Cowards!!!
Why are they even arguing this?
Flatly tell the Feds that the State of Texas will not accept any refugees.
If the Feds send them have the state police take them in to custody and put them in a bus and take them to Washington DC. Drop them off in front of the White House.
There is no constitutional power that is granted the US Government to do this.
Austin and Texas Tribune is all you need to know.
If Austin wants them all, grant Austin its wish!
“ALLEGED” children in many cases, on top of it.
There is zero (or maybe Zero) effective control of the situation.
Austin does not represent Texas.
A Texan is patient and kind to all God's creatures - but we know when we're being invaded as well.
Just an indication that every barrel has some bad apples tainting it....
You can bet a lot of priests, pastors and ministers are NOT telling their sheeple about what their denomination’s ‘social ministry’ branched are doing in this area, for fed $$$. Some related reading:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/11/politics/national-refugee-sunday/
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