Hillary pal, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe,
vetoes refugee reporting bill, by
Ann Corcoran on February 25, 2017
Bills like these are really
innocuous. They don’t stop any refugee placement in the state, they
simply tell state officials and the public who is in the state. The information
would aide local officials in determining school capacity, housing availability
and other welfare services that would need to be provided to these legal immigrants.
From CBS: RICHMOND, Va. (NEWSPLEX) A bill
requiring an annual report on refugees resettled in Virginia has been vetoed.
Governor Terry McAuliffe has a long association with the Clintons. Transparency
has never been a top priority for these pols.
Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed House Bill 2002 on Friday, saying the
report would “send a message of exclusion to people looking for the chance to
rebuild their lives” and poses a danger to them.
The legislation would have required
nonprofit resettlement agencies and local affiliates that provide refugee or
other immigrant resettlement services, like the International Rescue
Committee, to report information
regarding those settled in the Commonwealth.
The state Department of Social
Services would then collate and submit a report to the governor’s office and
the General Assembly each year.
The report would include information such as the total number of
individuals resettled in Virginia by the agency; the locality where the
individual was resettled; the individual’s age, gender and nation of origin;
and whether the individual was placed through the U.S. Refugee Resettlement
Program. More here.
It would be interesting to see if
Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan would veto a similar bill! Hogan has
spoken in favor of more refugees for Maryland.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/hillary-pal-virginia-governor-terry-mcauliffe-vetoes-refugee-reporting-bill/
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