Governor Walker’s “no to Syrian refugees in Wisconsin” may be illegal

Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing the bill, which follows on the heels of the announcement by 30 Republican Governors, and one Democrat that they will not allow Syrian refugees in their states.

No fewer than 31 governors have taken steps to prevent refugees from being resettled in their states.

“It sends a disgusting message to the world”. “We are horrified and heartbroken by the terrorist atrocities in Paris, but must not forget that there are thousands more victims of these same terrorists who are fleeing Syria with their families and desperately need someplace to go”. “And if he does choose to veto, we’re not going to stop”.

While NY has said it would accept refugees, nearby New Jersey – under the leadership of 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie – has said it won’t.

DAVID LEOPOLD: I can’t imagine a more rigorous, detailed, extensive, careful process than the one that the United States government now applies to any refugee seeking to come to the United States for safe haven.

And similar conflicts are rippling across the country.

NAYLOR: The USA has admitted a few 1,800 Syrian refugees in the past two years.

“I believe strongly that we can not turn our backs on the refugee community in their time of greatest need”, he said.

A debate has erupted in the United States over the acceptance or refusal of Syrian Refugees and that debate could actually be moot – in the context of the recent attacks in Paris. “I share Gov. Scott’s concerns wholeheartedly”. It’s so hard that since the launch of the program in its current form in 1980, no terrorist has acquired refugee status and carried out a successful attack. An NBC/Survey Monkey poll released Wednesday night showed that 56 percent of people disapprove of allowing more Syrian immigrants into the country.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton said it would be wrong for the U.S.to shut the door to people fleeing terrorism as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has suggested. “And I don’t think that’d be an appropriate line to draw”, he said in an AP interview. “This is not about Republican governors saying no. It’s about Republican governors saying we’d like to make certain that the process is smart and strategic and we’d like to be part of the process”. “We will welcome the Syrian families to make homes and new lives in our cities”, the mayors said in a September statement released by Cities United for Immigration Action, a coalition of city governments who stand in support of stronger cities through immigration action.

“My sense is it has not changed”. But like his previous stop in Turkey for the G20, his visit to Asia has largely been overshadowed by the fallout over the terror attacks in Paris.

That is, of course, an easy position for Obama and other Democratic politicians to take.

“At the risk of stating the painfully obvious … governors can not control who enters their state”, says Rep. Pat Garofalo, a Republican in the Minnesota legislature.

The Obama administration announced plans earlier this year to resettle around 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US, The NY Times reported.

Huckabee called for immediately securing the United States’ southwestern border and building a fence along there with Mexico. The rampage of ISIS terrorists left at least 129 people dead, with hundreds more injured. “Basic American values call on us not to bar the way or abandon them to their fate”. The Obama administration said about half that group is children, while about 2.5 percent are people over the age of 60 and roughly 2 percent are single men of combat age.