NC Gov. Asks That No More Syrian Refugees Come to State

The request is being sent in a letter from the governor to the president.

“We’ve never had any kind of terrorism problems from the refugees that have come through our office”, said David Haines, the spokesperson for the Diocese.

McCrory on Monday joined governors of at least 27 states asking the federal government to block Syrian refugees from entering their states.

President Obama said he plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees.

The governor cited the September findings of a congressional task force which stated that US law enforcement and intelligence agencies are concerned about terrorists posing as refugees.

Unable to attend the ceremony, North Carolina Army National Guard aviation units associated with the North Carolina Helicopter and Aquatic Rescue Team (NC-HART) also assisted SC-HART with search and rescue missions as part of the Guard’s flood response efforts, and were recognized by Livingston in his remarks for the six life-saving rescues they performed while on duty in South Carolina.

Times of great human tragedy are a moral test for all of us. That raised criticism that ISIS may have implanted attackers in the thousands of Syrians fleeing their war-torn country.

“It’s people who have fled unimaginable circumstances and they’re just like you or I, young mothers with kids, grandparents, whole families displaced because of nothing they did, just due to their ethnicity or race or language”, Pascal said. A home where their children don’t have to fear the constant threat of violence. If a refugee comes to Virginia, he or she could move to North Carolina.

The Republican said there needs to be a uniform and effective way to vet the refugees.

He said his team is now requesting that information from the federal government concerning the refugees who are already here.

Experts maintain there is little to no legal footing for states to reject refugees. We can fight terror without turning our back on our values and constitutional principles.

When we think of how to handle tragedies like this one, we should imagine our own relatives in the position of the refugees. This comes after officials announced one of the suicide bombers in Paris was a Syrian refugee.