“Welcoming the homeless and the stranger is a fundamental part of our faith”.
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Require state refugee coordinator to report at least quarterly to the state legisature on the measures taken to ensure that the state’s refugee plan is in line with the best interest of current residents. In effect, more than 24 state governors have expressed opposition to the resettlement plan, despite Obama’s defensive position on the issue. “It’s hypocritical for Obama administration officials to threaten enforcement action against these states when they refuse to enforce the vast majority of our immigration laws, such as cracking down on sanctuary cities that openly defy federal law and endanger the American people”, he said as quoted by Fox News.
Last week, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill that increases the restrictions on refugees from Iraq and Syria. The proponents should sponsor one or more refugees by providing them with shelter, food and clothing.
Henshaw called the effort a “modest but important contribution to the global effort to address the Syrian refugee crisis”.
“We have resettled 3 million refugees in the USA since 1975”, said Mitzi Schroder, director of policy for Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, to Al Jazeera. “We are all people of the world”.
The WFP has reported that numerous refugees are seeking new places to live precisely because they can’t survive where they are.
“We’re seeing a high number of cases that are burn victims, lost limbs, shrapnel injuries needing operations”, she said.
More than half of the nation’s governors have pledged not to allow Syrian refugees into their states following the wave of terror attacks that hit Paris earlier in the month, which left 130 dead and hundreds more injured.
“We equip churches to respond tangibly”, Yang said. “It is un-Islamic and it is un-American and it’s not something that we subscribe to”.
U.S. Republican party presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush have called for such a welcome to be provided to Syrian Christians, rather Muslims who make up most of Syria’s refugees. It doesn’t hurt that this happens to be what most refugees themselves seem to want.
Thirty-one governors vow to stop temporarily accepting Syrian refugees into their states.
The letter, from the Workplace of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), told state resettlement officers in that they may not deny advantages & services to refugees based mostly on their country of origin or faith.
Syrian refugees have been entering the USA for several years with about 2,200 immigrating since 2011. In a statement, Short did not say how he would have voted on legislation in the U.S. House to impose additional restrictions on the refugee screening process.
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Failure to sign the post-World War II convention means Gulf states don’t have to recognize the refugees and do not have to cooperate with the United Nations resettlement program. He feared that an influx of refugees would take away from already tight state funds. But with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying they can’t vet all Syrian refugees completely, and evidence that some refugees are, in fact, radicalized jihadists, the president’s assurances ring hollow.
