Muslim Refugees

More than half of U.S. state governors refuse Syrian refugees, who get staggeringly generous services from taxpayers

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Dr. Eowyn | 

Yesterday morning, Donald Trump tweeted that Obama is insane for flooding the U.S. with Syrian refugees since his administration doesn’t know who they are and if among them are members of ISIS.

Later that morning, as reported by Politico, Trump spoke to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham and said this about the refugees:

“They send them to the Republicans, not to the Democrats, you know because they know the problem … why would we want to bother the Democrats? In California, you have a Democrat as a governor; in Florida you have [Republican] Rick Scott so

they send them to the Republicans. Taking these people is absolutely insanity.”

According to the Associated Press, governors from both parties have accepted refugees, although the number is nearly double for GOP states. More than 1,000 Syrian refugees have been accepted into states with Republican governors since January 1, while just over 500 have moved to Democratic-led states. (The number of Republican governors outweighs Democrats, 31 to 18, however.)

Here’s a map showing where Syrian refugees were resettled:

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The map, however, is dated, as 10,000 more Syrian refugees recently arrived in Louisiana, according to the Agence France Presse.

According to The New York Times, the Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the U.S. accepts each year to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, and will explore ways to increase the overall limit of refugees beyond 100,000.

The number of state governors who are refusing to accept Syrian refugees is growing, to more than half by late Monday, Nov. 16, the majority of whom are GOP governors. The refusenik states are:

1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. Arizona
4. Florida
5. Georgia
6. Idaho
7. Illinois
8. Indiana
9. Iowa
10. Kansas
11. Kentucky: Republican governor-elect, who will take office next month, also refused.
12. Louisiana
13. Maine
14. Massachusetts
15. Michigan
16. Mississippi
17. Nebraska
18. New Hampshire
19. New Jersey
20. New Mexico
21. North Carolina
22. Ohio
23. Oklahoma
24. South Carolina
25. Tennessee
26. Texas
27. Wisconsin

State leaders are upset because the federal government relocates Syrian refugees in their state without notifying them.

Already, a Syrian refugee resettled in Louisiana is reported missing.

Liberty News recently published an audio recording of a phone call between a representative of Refugee Services of Texas and a man posing as a potential volunteer.

As summarized by The American Mirror, the services given to refugees, all paid for by taxpayers, are “staggering”. They include:

• $925 of “welcome money” per person.
• Being picked up at the airport
• Finding and securing an apartment
• Setting up the apartment “so it’s livable” with a Walmart gift card to buy “all the items needed for the refugee’s apartment.”
• Providing bus orientation
• Transporting them to Social Security office to apply for card
• Helping find employment
• 8 weeks of English as Second Language (ESL) classes
• A job readiness class after they “graduate” from the ESL class. There, they’re taught how to compete against Americans for jobs by learning “how to be professional in the United States, how to fill out a job application.”
• Sign up for a few “cash assistance programs” but refugees supposedly are only eligible to enroll in one.

According to Liberty News, Refugee Services of Texas is “one of the largest networks set to receive Syrian refugees,” received $1,243,000 in tax dollars last year. That amount is expected to “increase significantly” this fiscal year.