AP: Syrian processing to America on steroids,
governors like MD Gov. Hogan can’t do a thing about it Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 11, 2016
No Syrian Muslims have
been placed in Washington DC!
There isn’t
much new and useful in this AP story from Saturday, but wanted to mention it
only because once again the feds are telling concerned governors to go fly a
kite—the UN/US State Dept. is speeding up the Syrian refugee processing in
Jordan and Turkey. Governors are impotent to stop it is the message.
Remember Simon
Henshaw as the State Department official charged with assuring you that Syrians
they admit are all good and decent people (like the sexual deviant arrested in
Massachusetts last week?) Henshaw’s bio is here: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/213334.htm
There is a
little nugget here that I didn’t know about: Apparently the DEMOCRAT mayor of
Roanoke, VA did not want Syrians resettled in an already refugee-overloaded
city.
We’ve written a few times about Roanoke
perhaps most famous for the refugee gang found guilty there for planning to
kidnap and ransom some prominent women in the town, here
in 2009. (Gee, I wonder if they were deported when
they were released after their short prison sentence?)
Associated
Press (at the Washington Post): Dozens of
Syrian refugees were settled in Maryland and Virginia in June, part of a sharp
nationwide increase as the U.S. government scrambles to meet its goal of
admitting 10,000 refugees in fiscal 2016.
The surge has come despite opposition from
more than half of the nation’s governors, including Maryland’s Larry Hogan (R),
all of whom say they are not satisfied with the federal government’s assurances
that refugees are carefully vetted and screened.
The pace of
refugee resettlement has quickened in part because processing facilities in
Istanbul and in Amman, Jordan, have been upgraded and more Department of
Homeland Security teams have been deployed to interview refugees, a State
Department official said.
“We pushed all
those things together so they would happen sequentially and more quickly,” said Simon Henshaw,
principal deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
Migration.
In Maryland, 78
Syrians were settled in June – bringing the total to 115 since October.
Sixty-seven arrived in Virginia last month, out of 87 resettled in the state
this year.
Fifteen of them have been placed in Roanoke, where the Democratic mayor
attracted national controversy last fall for citing the internment of Japanese
citizens as a reason to bar Syrian refugees.
No refugees have been
brought to the District of Columbia, according to the State Department data.
[No, of course not!—ed] Continue reading here.
My reference to
the Syrian charged with sexual assault refers to this
story. And, here, Breitbart has Pamela Geller’s reaction
to the latest refugee sex crime.
Regarding my title! In truth, Gov. Hogan and other of the
governors concerned about the program could do something about it if they had
the political will, but most don’t. It is easy to say they don’t like
what is happening to satisfy voters, but quite another to put on the state’s
rights fight that would be necessary.
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