The State Department said Tuesday that it believes state governors have little say over whether they will house refugees from Syria or anywhere else in the world, and that once they arrive, refugees can choose to live in any state they want.
"They can ultimately choose wherever they want to go," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.
The question of refugee rights has come up as many governors have said they would refuse people from Syria, over fears that members of the Islamic State may try to slip in posing as refugees. One of the Paris attackers entered France that way.
The Obama administration has said it would make no changes to its plan to take up to 10,000 Syrian refugees this year. Toner said under current law, any refugee who land in the U.S. is "protected by the Constitution and federal law."
Refugees must apply to be permanent residents, but the are able to live where they want.
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ZERO state benifits GOV .
ReplyDeleteThe people have to rise up and run these people out.
ReplyDeleteBut how do you tell the "refugees" from the Middle Easterners that migrated here 50 years ago and their American born children?
ReplyDeleteeverywhere except the common areas on the University of Missouri
ReplyDeleteOh yeah? I bet the people have a say. Sign the petition. And if they send em...... We the people will most certainly not allow it. We saw them turn buses around already. They won't lkw them in their neighborhood. They'll drive them out. And think black lives matter crowds account whites? What you think will happen when a thug beats up a killer from Syria and the refugee kills them in retaliation or blows up a street corner full of prostitots? No refugee will ever be safe. No matter where they go. My question is this....... Did we ask the Japanese to feel free to move here for saftey? The Koreans? Who in the world has a group claim war on them and get welcomed all expenses paid to move in? A country that is taking over! That's who!
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