Gov. Kate Brown applauded actions announced by the White House on Monday to provide all governors with more information about refugees entering their states.
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The White House is reaching out to Gov. Rick Snyder and other state governors to reassure and educate them about the process of vetting and admitting refugees from Syria and elsewhere.
But the International Rescue Committee (IRC) chairty has given no indication it will scrap plans to settle refugees in the state.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday the House will take up bipartisan legislation before the end of the year to tighten the screening of passengers from visa waiver countries.
“This last budget, we made a major, unprecedented increase in our HHSC budget – which does help those organizations that help the neediest in our community”.
The governors at the time asked for more consistent and official communication from the administration about the refugee resettlement program.
State officials have upped the ante against groups that provide services for Syrian Refugees. The bill, now before the US Senate, creates almost insurmountable procedural obstacles for resettling refugees from Syria and Iraq in the US, Human Rights Watch said.
If the IRC does not change its talking points, Traylor says, the state of Texas might take legal action against them.
Republican lawmakers in Washington joined governors in saying no Syrians should be admitted until the USA government is positive terrorists are not among them.
The New Jersey governor, who is seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said that the refugees cannot be properly vetted, citing comments from FBI Director James Comey to lawmakers in October that “I can’t sit here and offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with this”.
“Overburdening an already thorough security screening process delays the ability of Syrian and Iraqi refugees to find a safe haven”, Ginatta said.
“States may not deny (Office of Refugee Resettlement)-funded benefits and services to refugees based on a refugee’s country of origin or religious affiliation”, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement wrote in a letter to Abbott last month, obtained by the Chronicle.
Q: What sort of screening do refugees go through before entering the United States?
Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman had drafted a resolution in the wake of the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks that would prevent city government from helping Syrian refugees settle here, and from spending taxpayer dollars on these efforts. European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said that it will constitute only one percent of the total population if they spread them out accordingly and everybody played their role in taking in a certain number under a quota system of these refugees?
South Carolina’s Democratic and Republican lawmakers are taking sides in the debate over Syrian refugees, a fight that, as yet, has no battleground in the state.
UCR student Kristina Fernandez, a fourth-year global studies major, is now working to promote awareness and understanding of the Syrian refugee crisis.
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“We’re ready to help, if we can get them here”, she said, stressing that Catholic Charities agencies represent the church’s ministry that Pope Francis described as a field hospital.
