[laplata]

Who decides where they go, the Feds or the Governors?

[buckalfa]

"Who decides where they go, the Feds or the Governors?"

The Feds of course per the 1980 Refugee Act and subsequent court decisions supporting Federal superiority over states rights. All a state or local government entity can do is be uncooperative. Let us hope there is a big lack of cooperation across the nation.

[SJackson]

My understanding is it's all Feds. Refugees have legal status once they're here and can go anywhere. The feds choose the agencies resettling them. Don't think there's much the states can do. Refugee compensation and welfare are federal. Everyone, even illegals get schooling. Maybe some states could fiddle with Medicaid eligibility.

The one check is Congress, the President's ability to admit refugees is legislative. I believe currently it's about 80,000 or 90,000. Think the feds determine from where. Congress could restrict the countries we admit them from, or reduce the number. But they'd have to be able to override a veto. And if the President brings in 200,000 instead of 80,000, all Congress can do is impeach him, which won't happen. Hopefully we'll avoid an attack in the near term, which means it won't even be an election issue. The next President or two can deal with it.

[dp0622]

i hope that’s rhetorical because i dont have a clue lol.

is it the feds or govs that have arrangement with these places?