Syrian refugees in NY await Texas decision

The State of Texas will no longer fight the effort to place two Syrian refugee families in the Lone Star State.

Governors in about 30 states since the attacks have said they don’t want to accept any more refugees, though none have fought as hard as Texas.

Professor Geoffrey Hoffman, director of the immigration clinic at the University of Houston, said “the state’s attempt to prevent or block Syrian refugees could reasonably be interpreted as an attempt to interfere with the federal executive power to regulate and enforce immigration”.

– December 4: The federal government and the IRC respond in court to the Texas lawsuit, saying the state has no legal authority to block the resettlement of government-approved refugees.

Texas backed down after the Obama administration and the ACLU filed court papers challenging the lawsuit.

It’s one of the refugee resettlement agencies contracted by the federal government. Durvin said she then again provided information after receiving two letters from the state last month.

Texas leaders, including Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton have expressed concern over the federal government’s ability to properly screen these refugees.

The lawsuit was dropped on Friday.

The White House says states don’t have the legal authority to block refugee placement.

“Texas shouldn’t have to go to court to require Washington to comply with federal law regarding its duties to consult with Texas in advance”, he said.

Many are children younger than 13 and the group includes grandparents and a single woman trying to reunite with her mother who already lives here.

“Three families seeking refuge from their warn-torn home in Syria have arrived in NYC”, de Blasio said in a statement on Friday.

“(Texas) has made no showing that these refugees pose any threat, much less an imminent one, to the safety or security of Texas residents or any other Americans”, according to the federal government’s brief. In November, Breitbart Texas’ Lana Shadwick reported on testimony given by some of President Obama’s top advisors on national security who admitted that screening these refuges is not likely to be effective.