IL Republicans want to close state’s borders to Syrian refugees

Hutchinson told reporters Tuesday there aren’t any plans to relocate any Syrian refugees in the state, but said he’ll ask the state Department of Human Services to resist efforts to move any to Arkansas. Almost every Republican presidential candidate called for a halt to all or most Syrian refugees entering the country.

According to Nezar, America’s refugee resettlement program is an extremely secure and thorough process. Freedom. This means that they are free to live anywhere just like any other person.

In the wake of the deadliest violence visited on France since World War II, the United States and its longtime ally are both struggling with how to handle a massive influx of Syrian refugees.

From New Hampshire to Arizona, all but one of the 31 states protesting the admission of refugees have Republican governors. Matt Swenson, spokesman for Minnesota Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, said he was reassured that no refugee resettlement initiative is underway “at this time” in the state.

Texas has had 238 Syrian refugees resettle there in the last three years, the second highest number in the nation. There has been a lot attention paid to this part of the process since it was revealed that one of the terrorists in the Paris attacks entered Europe through such a processing center. And this week, a few members of Congress have called on the Obama administration to stop or at least pause the resettlement program until refugees can be properly vetted. That’s not America. That’s not who we are.

There are nine different nonprofit groups, six of them faith-based, that help refugees settle in the U.S. Volunteers with the groups help refugees find homes, furniture, school supplies and jobs.

President Barack Obama sharply criticized Republicans Wednesday for suggesting that Syrian refugees coming to the United States posed a security threat, blasting a few GOP suggestions as “offensive” and mocking what he said was a fear of “widows and orphans”.

MI Republican Gov Rick Snyder found it helpful to “hear in much greater detail the work that has happened on the screening and security procedures and process”, spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said.

The 14 states that have admitted no refugees are Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming, as well as the District of Columbia.

– Administration officials have acknowledged that checking the accuracy or authenticity of documents provided by refugee applicants against foreign government records can be especially hard involving countries that don’t cooperate with the US government, such as Syria. Bush reiterated his preference for accepting Christian refugees. “They’ve have been an asset to this country, a nation of immigrants”. They are then each individually interviewed by USA officials trained to verify that they’re bona fide refugees. “We are working with a Christian group in northern Syria to establish a safe zone for all who want to stay in Syria”, Gardner said.

Meanwhile, the United States has accepted 12,676 Iraqi refugees in 2015 alone.