Gov. Robert Bentley says he’ll refuse relocation of Syrian refugees to Alabama

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Sunday announced he will refuse Syrian refugees who are trying to relocate to Alabama.

McCaul said Sunday that one or perhaps two of the terrorists in the coordinated terror attack in and around Paris on Friday night appear to have come from Syria – as part of the flood of Syrian refugees into Europe as a result of Syria’s years-long civil war.

The U.S. state of Alabama has stated its intention to refuse Syrian refugees following the recent attacks in Paris the Office of Alabama Governor said in a press release.

“As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way”, he wrote.

Alabama has also increased law enforcement presence at major events, although the governor’s statement also said, ” To date, there has been no credible intelligence of any terrorist threats in Alabama”.

Alabama now has one United States refugee processing centre in Mobile.

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis). Among other leaders, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron hold a minute of silence for the victims of Friday’s Paris attacks prior to a session of the G-20 summit, in Antalya, Turk… However, states neighbouring Alabama have successfully processed a number of refugee applications from Syria. Marco Rubio suggested that even the concept of finding a foreign fighter amid Syrian refugees is impossible.

But Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security adviser, is pushing back against the GOP insistence that the U.S. Syrian refugee policy must change.

“The problem is not the background checks”, the Florida lawmaker said on ABC’s “This Week”.

Revelations that refugees could have access to welfare prompted widespread backlash around the state and country, but the security concerns are undoubtedly the most pressing. “It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all information”.

An worldwide manhunt is continuing for a suspect linked to the Paris attacks as the United Kingdom prepared to recruit nearly 2,000 more spies to counter the Islamic State (ISIS) threat.