Posted on 11/26/2019 12:01:00 PM PST by Perseverando
Gov. Ralph Northam wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday to say that Virginia would welcome more refugees, pointedly declining President Donald Trump’s offer to let states and localities veto resettlements.
Northam was responding to an executive order Trump issued in late September that gives states and localities unprecedented veto power over refugee resettlements. The order requires state and local governments to consent in writing before refugees can arrive. That would allow a state to ban refugees even if a city is willing to take them, and vice versa.
Details about how the ban would work are being sorted out over a 90-day period. Three resettlement agencies have challenged the new policy in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, The Associated Press reported last week. At least five other states have indicated that they will accept refugees, the AP reported.
Trump has pitched his order as a way to allow state and local officials to decide what is best for their communities. He has described refugees as a “Trojan horse” entering the U.S. with the intent to attack.
Critics say Trump’s order is meant to whip up xenophobia and dismantle resettlement programs. In September, the administration slashed resettlement totals for the coming year to 18,000 people — the lowest in four decades. That’s down 84% from the record-high 110,000 cap that was set during the final year of the Obama administration.
“In recent years, as the federal government has lowered the number of refugees accepted into the United States, Virginia’s refugee number has dropped,” Northam wrote in his letter. “We have the capacity to accept and help more refugees than we currently have.”
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Gov. Blackface is gone in 2021, thank God.
Virginia should allow county governments to have a say in this, county by county.
If Fairfax or Prince William county want more refugees, let them have them. But if Botetourt or Dinwiddie county do not want them, they should be able to say no.
That, or they allow them in and move them to other states.
Will the GOP step up and run Conservative in 2021? I won’t hold my breath.
The change already all over VA has been palpable. People begging, crime rates up, schools ruined, especially in Northern VA. Virginia is a “blue state.” Thank you, Democrats! You destroyed another part of America.
Keeping VA blue...remember the state slogan ‘VA is for commies’...or was that LOVERS!
Anyway not anymore unless...
Same plantations. New time.
I bet he wouldn’t take any Cubans that float over here, they won’t like him...VA Democrats are too much like Castro and Che.
“Refugees”
Baloney.
Let them have it.
Tell him that until the sanctuary crap ends in his state the ‘refugees’ will be sent elsewhere. Let him sue in federal court to demand his share of the ‘refugees’.
“Gov. Blackface is gone in 2021, thank God.”
Unfortunately, now that Virginia is East California thanks to illegal alien and green card voting, the next governor in 2021 will be another blackface abortionist, current Attorney General Herring.
California
Washington
Oregon
now Virginia -
Wake up you other states - it’s coming your way, and Donald Trump is the only obstacle right now.
Slave state needs more for the plantations. (the government plantation)
Northam household refugee count- 0
Virginia- taking people’s right to own guns away so they are helpless when it comes to self defense, AND importing ‘refugees’ by the plane loads- (aka muslims who hate America- and want to ‘fundamentally change America’ please see ilhan omar for reference)
The left aint gonna be happy till we’re Europe- where citizens can’t walk the streets in broad daylight for fear of muslim mobs, gang rapes etc-
Northam needs new voters in Virginia for the 2020 election who will do the job “normal” Virginians refuse to do: vote for demoKKKrats.
Does this mean can empty out the jails in Broward and Palm Beach countys and bus the illegals up to him ??
I’ll donate 500 bucks toward a bus or two..
When democrats take over in January, they already have an agenda that they will quickly pass:
fourth trimester abortion
same day registration and voting
ranked voting
ballot harvesting
state-wide sanctuary
prohibition of fracking
prohibition of off-shore drilling
mandatory wind and solar
restrictions on religions
huge tax increases
school indoctrination curricula
free medical care for illegals
free tuition for illegals
Establishment Republicans, who opposed Trump and any conservative candidates, thus allowing this to happen, will not say a peep.
In a year or two, the streets of Virginia will be loaded with urine, feces, needles, and tents.
Et tu, Georgia? North Carolina? Texas?
Virginia needs more traffic. More cars on the road, more pollution. Much much larger classrooms with ever more resources wasted on those who do not speak, and will not learn the language. We need ever more mouths to feed
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