Once approved by the resettlement program a refugee will go on to process into American communities through one of nine national voluntary agencies that oversee a network of some 250 affiliates in 49 states.
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Scott, after acknowledging that he and other governors can do little to prevent refugees from being resettled in their states, wrote congressional leaders two weeks ago seeking legislation that would stop the administration from spending money on the resettlement effort – “without an extensive evaluation of the risk these individuals may pose to our national security”.
“They are sending a signal that innocent victims fleeing the brutality of the Syrian civil war are not welcome in the United States, which plays right into our enemy’s hands”, she wrote about the governors who have opposed Syrian refugee resettlement.
They contend USA security screening is ineffective and could let violent extremists to sneak in among them. In fact, they would be fools to subject themselves to the multiphase scrutiny of the US refugee process when they can so easily enter the United States in other ways, from obtaining tourist or student visas to sneaking across our porous southern and northern borders.
The Refugee Processing Center admission figures since the attacks in Paris continue a trend evident since the start of the current fiscal year, on October 1. After telling President Barack Obama that they won’t accept them migrating to their state, officials are now warning private charitable organizations that if they take refugees in, they may be sued. Numerous refugees are women and children. The measure was approved on a vote of 289 to 137, with 47 of Obama’s 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. The Catholic Charities North Dakota office said that it does not conduct refugee resettlement among its programs. “There is no doubt that what happened on the streets of Paris on November 13 was horrific and the actions of a terrorist organization”.
For the threats of a lawsuit against refugee resettlement agencies, Rosenthal says it is possible they could end up in court.
The federal funding flows through the state’s refugee resettlement program within its Health and Human Services Commission. “If you remain unwilling to cooperate with the state on this matter, we strongly believe that a failure to cooperate with the State on this matter violates federal law and your contract with the state”.
“These families are already under an incredible amount of stress”, Otolski said of the family’s anticipated arrival later this month.
While governors have no say in where refugees relocate, Sekhavat said that they do have the power to “make life quite hard for the new folks” by denying funding to other agencies that provide services, such as English classes.
The State Department reports that 2,234 Syrian refugees have been screened and admitted to the USA since 2010, and that none have been arrested or removed from the country on terrorism charges.
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Governor Pence took action to pause the Syrian refugee resettlement program in order to ensure the safety and security of the people of Indiana.
