Syrian refugees are still welcome in Pennsylvania.
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In Poland, a newly installed conservative government, which has been opposed to an EU-imposed quota of migrants, hinted Saturday that it will not accept quotas imposed by the European Union, although the country’s new prime minister, Beata Szydlo, said Monday after being sworn in that she would honor the prior government’s commitments.
“We should trust the system that we built”, she said.
Merkel has claimed the moral high ground, committing her country to taking in hundreds of thousands of Syrians and other refugees this year and pressing other European countries to do much more.
“Especially vulnerable, of course, are ethnic and religious minorities, such as Christians and Yazidis, who are targeted for human trafficking and other acts of brutality by ISIS and by other Islamist groups”, Pitts said. “Ever since William Penn, Pennsylvanians have been generous and welcoming to oppressed minority groups”.
Only slightly more defensibly, Jeb Bush suggested that Christians be prioritized because they are being targeted by ISIS for extermination. European countries are struggling with the surge, particularly the point of entry areas, like Greece.
In all, Republican governors of 10 states – Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, and MA – have moved to block Syrian refugees from relocating to their states for now, as of midday Monday.
One of the attackers, CNN reports, carried a fake Syrian passport. “The safety of our people must come first”.
GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson said Syrian refugees should not be brought to the United States because it is too easy for jihadis, intent on “wreaking havoc in this country”, to embed with them.
“Lancaster has been a destination for refugees for quite a long time”.
The deadly terrorist attacks in Paris have led a few to call for blocking Syrian refugees from resettling in the US, while others have called for America to welcome migrants from the war-torn Middle Eastern country with open arms. “This attack will increase public and political polarization over the issue of refugees, convincing those who are already prejudiced that their fears are well-grounded”, Fomina said.
“That’s what they’re fleeing”, he said.
Obama stood by his plan despite the increasing pushback from Republicans in the wake of the Paris attacks – which the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took credit for – charging that “slamming the door in [refugees’] faces would be a betrayal of our values”. “We can and must do both”.
But Obama faced a barrage of pressure from states, Republican presidential candidates, key members of Congress, and in one case a Democratic governor to suspend a program to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees on U.S. soil in 2016. “Therefore if we have these people staying in Slovakia, legally it’s our duty to verify whether they have contacts with problematic persons”, Fico told reporters.
“That’s shameful”, the president said.
We simply must think clearly about who is at fault here. “We have been and will continue to be a state that embraces compassion and eschews fear mongering”.
Please be aware that several organizations have requested that our state Department of Children and Families support the relocation of 425 possible Syrian refugees to Florida, as they receive federal funding to house these refugees in our state. French police found a passport in the name of Ahmad Almohammad, 25, near the body of one of the men who attacked France’s national football stadium on Friday.
With an estimated four million Syrians having sought refuge in Europe, officials and experts expressed fear that an inability to track these individuals may have played a role in Friday’s massive terror attack.
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Turns out, states actually don’t have the authority to make decisions whether they will take in refugees or not and will be overruled by the federal government on such matters.
