Nikki Haley discusses Syrian refugees

Republican legislators called on Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday to oppose all worldwide refugees coming to the state.

Governor Haley says this fund will allow work to be done that the government can’t do to help families in need. “I think they ought to halt the program in light of what is going on”, she said. “We don’t need any refugees until we can figure out a way to determine they are not terrorists”. Mike Burns and Bill Chumley of Greenville and Spartanburg counties wrote in a letter to the governor Monday.

The rain has stopped and the debris has been removed, but devastation remains for thousands of SC residents.

Interpreters “saved our American lives, so in turn we save theirs by bringing them”, she said, noting it’s personal.

“What happened in Paris is tragic, but those weren’t refugees that came through the USA vetting process”, Lee said. Almost 85 percent of them are Christians.

Haley said Monday morning she would talk to federal officials following President Barack Obama’s pledge to accept 10,000 additional refugees to ask if anything has changed.

Attacks that killed more than 120 people in Paris this weekend have renewed fears in SC about terrorists coming to the United States as refugees. She said reports surfaced since Friday’s terror attacks in France that “at least one of the attackers entered France by claiming to be a refugee hoping to escape the conflict in Syria”.

State Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler is among Republican legislators calling on Haley to end her support.

“I don’t trust a bureaucrat at this point”, he told The Associated Press.

“To whom much is given, much is required and this is an easy requirement for all of us”, says USC Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley. Four of South Carolina’s congressmen and both US senators voted against that package, so it’s unclear whether something like that could pass.