Gov. Kate Brown says OR will welcome Syrian refugees.
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In a tweet, Governor Brown said OR will continue to open the doors of opportunity to refugees, saying “the words on the Statue of Liberty apply in OR just as they do in every other state”.
Josh Rogin from Bloomberg has an interesting piece up on the White House refusing to provide background information on Syrian refugees set to be released in the USA, but you have to click through and read the article to find out the best part.
We will hold her accountable when our friends and neighbors die at the hands of these terrorists. “They seek safe haven and we will continue to open the doors of opportunity to them”. It was clear that the administration has less desire to work with governors than to tell them they have no choice but to comply.
As conservative governors (and presidential hopefuls) around the country sound off about what kind of global refugees they believe the USA should accept, the nation’s first openly LGBT governor has a much different tactic. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee advocated the closing all USA borders and placing an “immediate moratorium on admission to those persons from counties where there is a sting presence of ISIS or Al-Queda”.
A Syrian refugee child sleeps in his father’s arms while waiting at a resting point to board a bus, after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast.
Brown acknowledges other governors are debating the issue of allowing refugees into their states. Top White House officials refused… So far this year, OR has received one refugee.
The job security of Matt Garrett, the head of the Oregon Department of Transportation: She says she’ll “look at the concerns” that have been raised by Senate Republicans that Garrett knew there were problems with carbon reduction estimates contained in a transportation package long before he testified to that effect before a joint legislative committee.
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“The refugees coming from Syria are very, very small”, Governor Brown said.
