White House to give State Governors more information about Syrian Refugees

“The programs themselves, if they receive money either directly from the Federal Government or through another larger organization that receives these federal dollars, they could certainly continue in their work”, she says. However, some resettlement agencies have diverted refugees from the states.

Larry Treleaven, Rugby, N.D., said he read the article on a conservative news site and became concerned when the article mentioned the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation in North Dakota as one of the refugee locations.

Josh McDonald, a first-year student studying worldwide relations at UCSD, supports the statements made by Brown, stating, “With the amount of states outrightly refusing to accept any refugees, I think it’s great that Brown is willing to admit them into the state”.

“Any state with such a policy would not be in compliance with the State Plan requirements, applicable statutes, and their own assurances, and could be subject to enforcement action”, the letter said. Howard Brown, of North Kingstown, R.I. The United States has always offered that chance to immigrants and refugees, and will continue to do so.

Ted Cruz expressed concern that terrorists could pose as refugees and gain entry into the United States.

In his home country of Lebanon, just about 1.2 million Syrian refugees have entered the country since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency website.

Meanwhile, also on November 25, federal officials from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, sent a letter from its Washington headquarters to resettlement groups in Texas.

The White House on Monday said that it would communicate more frequently with governors about Syrian refugees resettled in their states. The bill would require new Federal Bureau of Investigation background checks and individual sign-offs from three high-ranking US officials before any refugee could come to the USA from Iraq or Syria, where the Islamic State group that has claimed credit for the attacks has flourished. One such NGO is the bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, which works in turn with local diocesan resettlement agencies, commonly run by Catholic Charities.

“Failure by your organization to cooperate with the State of Texas as required by federal law may result in the termination of your contract with the state and other legal action”, Traylor explained in his letter.

Texas also provides health assistance to refugees through two federally-funded programs. The funding comes from the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“We have a cooperative agreement [with the federal government] that mandates our services”, Duvin said.

Carson, a Muslim Democrat from IN, said over the last several years the refugee screening process “has been significantly enhanced”, insisting IN order to be considered for admission to the United States, refugees of all nationalities “have to undergo very rigorous screening and security vetting”.

“We’re willing to sit down and go over it line by line until the commissioner and the governor have the same sense of security and confidence in the system that we do”, Duvin said.