More than half of U.S. state governors refuse Syrian refugees, who get staggeringly generous services from taxpayers
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 sothey 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:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky: Republican governor-elect, who will take office next month, also refused.
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- 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.
Obama says the vetting process for refugees is extensive, taking 18 - 24 months. This from the same man who told Americans that they would be able to keep their existing insurance providers before he ramrodded the Obamacare fiasco, the same man that welcomed deserter Bergdahl home in exchange for 5 Taliban terrorists, the same man who sent representatives to the funerals of thug Michael Brown and drug dealer Freddie Gray yet ignored the funeral of Kate Steinle. This is the same man who identified with Trayvon Martin (that could have been me) and set his attorney general loose on Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland amid the looting and rioting to see what the police were doing. Sorry, I don't believe a fucking word that comes out of this man's mouth. Lets stand down and see how Hillary gets a pass from his justice department for her incompetence in Benghazi.
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