Gov. Scott Walker says he won’t let any new Syrian refugees relocate in Wisconsin because doing so poses a security threat in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks.
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MI Governor Rick Snyder said on Sunday his state would not accept refugees “until the US Department of Homeland Security completes a full review of security clearances and procedures”.
Jindal, who was campaigning for president in Wyoming Monday, directed all state agencies to use “all lawful means to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state of Louisiana while this order is in effect”. Authorities said a Syrian passport was found near one of the attackers in Friday’s deadly attacks, and the Paris prosecutors’ office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.
Republican Gov. Mike Pence announced Monday that he was ordering state agencies to suspend the relocation of any more Syrian refugees to the state until he received assurances from the federal government that proper security measures had been taken.
“Our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents”, he said.
Obama also condemned the Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz’s and Jeb Bush’s woefully hypocritical arguments that the USA only accept Christian refugees as “not American”.
“The refugees are fleeing Syria to escape the type of scum orchestrating these types of attacks,”Traver Johnson wrote”. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, the House budget chairman, said the USA “must suspend our refugee program until certainty is brought to the vetting process”.
U.S. Reps. Ralph Abraham, R-Alto, and Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, are co-sponsors of a bill introduced earlier this year that would prohibit the admission of refugees into the country until Congress passes a joint resolution giving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security authority to resume admitting them.
So far governors of at least 23 states have said they will not help harbor an estimated 10,000 Syrian refugees the Obama administration hopes to accept in the next few years. But across the political landscape, caution intensified about vetting Syrian refugees and whether to allow them into the country at all.
Last week, New Orleans started receiving the first of its expected Syrian refugees, according to a letter Jindal sent to the White House on Saturday, November 14, after the terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. After the attacks on Paris, people are right to be concerned that terrorists could infiltrate this country as they did in France.
In other cases, potential refugees who are close relatives of people granted asylum in the USA or other refugees already in the country can apply directly with the US government.
On Monday, the governors of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, MA and IL all hopped on the discriminatory bandwagon to reject Syrian refugees into their states as well.
Robert Bentley of Alabama said yesterday he would refuse Syrian refugees relocating to the state, since it would put citizens “in harm’s way”. Marco Rubio, have come out against taking in more refugees.
Alabama and MI said they would no longer accept Syrian refugees on Sunday.
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Gov. Tom Wolf said his administration will keep working with the federal government to properly screen and resettle Syrian refugees in the state. “I attended several top-level briefings”, he said.
