"....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....."
This could be his best ever. The words simply flow.