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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Isn’t it amazing how the liberals can refuse to enforce federal laws on immigration (sanctuary cities) but then demands States follow federal law when it comes to resettling Syrian refugees (terrorist) in the States!!!!
That’s a great point!
They’re burning temporary refugee housing in Europe before they can be occupied .
Civil disobedience at work. Thank-you states that say NO!
If the disbursement, by state, of illegal aliens through “executive amnesty” is any indication, the bulk of “Syrian refugees” will be resettled in Red and Purple states. This is an ongoing political operation to change the voting demographics in Republican and bipartisan states.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDIES. refugees cause global warming....
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aka bleeding heart coexist liberals that need to be protested where they live until their neighbors insist they move
To paraphrase Joe Stalin: “How many divisions does Lucy Carrigan have?”
How? That's the problem. If some agency in New York has rented accommodations in Milwaukee and moves a dozen Syrians into them then how can Wisconsin enforce their ban on the Syrians? The can't arrest them - no crime has been committed. They can't sic the INS on them - they're here legally. They can't deny them any state assistance - not unless they also deny the assistance to other foreigners here legally. Unless Congress puts an end to it - fat chance on that - then it looks liker there isn't anything the states can do about it.
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>> “I donât think the FBI has enough personnel to force us to take them.” <<
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It is not the FBI’s job.
Time to close, by force if necessary, all these refugee enablers, who by the way get lots of taxpayer money to ply their human trafficking trade. Under the guise of “Christian” organizations they a flooding the country with non-believers who have no intention of assimilating.
Start with the Lutherans, and I am a Lutheran.
Arrest the Feds and make the Supremes rule.
Nice, but the pyramid is upside down.
Oh...the crime is Endangering the public/Reckless endangerment. Non vetted immigrants. Add ‘Under color of Authority and make it a RICO case.
Why limit to Syrians?
This is how Civil Wars start.
I know that, but since when did that stop Barry from his agenda?
I pray you're right.
My governor needs to show me where I need to go and help stop this suicide attempt by Obama
Get the people behind it and see how hard it is for the feds to endorse. Remember that city in California where they wanted to dump a bunch of those "kids" coming from our Southern Border? That's how.
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