Here Are The Republican Governors Asking For Refugee Resettlement In Their States

[donnay]

Here Are The Republican Governors Asking For Refugee Resettlement In Their States



SCOTT MOREFIELD

January 04, 2020


Fox News host Tucker Carlson and a guest discussed Republican governors in 18 states asking for refugee resettlement despite being given an option not to do so.

Introducing the Friday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment, the Fox News host recalled when Republican leaders once “made a big show of opposing Obama administration refugee policy” and supposedly “got their wish” when President Donald Trump won the 2016 election and signed “an executive order allowing cities and states to opt-out of refugee resettlement.”

However, “for some reason, no Republican governors are taking advantage of that,” Carlson said, noting that 18 GOP governors so far “have explicitly requested that more refugees be sent to their states.”

The list so far includes:

Doug Ducey, Arizona
Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas
Brad Little, Idaho
Eric Holcomb, Indiana
Kim Reynolds, Iowa
Larry Hogan, Maryland
Charlie Baker, Massachusetts
Mike Parsons, Missouri
Pete Ricketts, Nebraska
Chris Sununu, New Hampshire
Doug Burgum, North Dakota
Mike DeWine, Ohio
Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma
Kristi Noem, South Dakota
Bill Lee, Tennessee
Gary Herbert, Utah
Phil Scott, Vermont
Jim Justice, West Virginia

“We already have more than 20 million illegal immigrants living here,” Carlson said. “The last thing many struggling communities need is more low skilled migrants who may be great people but need a lot. They stress the schools and social programs while not fully integrating. That’s just true and anybody who lives in a community where it has happened will tell you that it is true. As with illegal immigration, the long term agenda of refugee settlement is to bring in future Democratic voters, obviously.”

American Majority founder Ned Ryun insisted that “refugee resettlement has nothing to do with Christianity and has everything to do with the immoral behavior of these governments and quite frankly, a perverse incentive for these government-funded charities that are acting as refugee contractors grifting off the American taxpayer.”

“U.S. State Department is paying these refugee contractors over $2100 per refugee, of which they get to keep 45%,” Ryun said. “Then they are doing this campaign on these governors saying you have to put your Christian charity into action and in an act of cowardice, most of these governors from red states are giving into this.” (RELATED: Tucker Carlson: America’s Elites Want ‘Immigration Without Limit’)

“People who hate Christianity are demanding that in the name of Christianity, Christian governors admit refugees,” Carlson responded. “But the governors aren’t actually housing any of the refugees in their own homes or paying any of their own money, so how is it Christian virtue to take other people’s money by force and give it away? I don’t member the part of the gospel.”

Ryun called the governors’ behavior “immoral,” saying their “moral imperative is to advance the interests of the citizens of their state” and “not the interests of noncitizens.”

“This is how red states become blue and how America ceases to be America,” he added. “Trump is doing all the right things and they are abandoning him on this.”

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[juleswin]

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Is there anything preventing Trump's state dept from saying no to the refugees coming into the US?

 

[Sammy]

Vote them all out!

 

[Pauls' Revere]

What do the people of these states think of all this?

 

[oyarde]

Here we have plenty of refugees courtesy of cummins engine co importing engineers from India . That is enough . They can at least support themselves and probably have just enough income not to qualify to be on the dole. This of course though comes at a cost because we also have some of the best engineering students graduating from the best schools who leave for work.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Refugees created by chickenhawk neocons wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine etc should be settled on both sides of homes of all Congress/executive leaders/media pundits/faith leaders/wars profiteers etc who called for and supported those wars using lies. Then once settled, 'diversity is our strength' Abe Lincolnesque model being inspired by Trump should be strictly enforced in such neighborhoods.
This would be a win-win solution to a complex humanitarian problem and may even provide a cathartic healing for any moral PTSD problems of such politicians who started feeling guilty for their wars support after seeing results of bloodbath since launch of Iraqi freedom blunder.

 

[Anti Globalist]

These governors have essentially taken off their conservative mask and revealed themselves to be liberals.

 

[Zippyjuan]

What the governors have actually done is to allow local communities decide for themselves if they want to accept any immigrants or not. Both the state and local government must agree to accept them.

refugee resettlement has nothing to do with Christianity

From Matthew- Chapter 25:

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25:35-40&version=NIV

The executive order requires both the state and local governments to agree to accept immigrants. No immigrants can be forced onto any community or state according to the Executive Order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...state-local-involvement-refugee-resettlement/

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. In resettling refugees into American communities, it is the policy of the United States to cooperate and consult with State and local governments, to take into account the preferences of State governments, and to provide a pathway for refugees to become self-sufficient. These policies support each other. Close cooperation with State and local governments ensures that refugees are resettled in communities that are eager and equipped to support their successful integration into American society and the labor force.

States must "opt in".

. In particular, that process shall provide that, if either a State or locality has not provided consent to receive refugees under the Program, then refugees should not be resettled within that State or locality unless the Secretary of State concludes, following consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security, that failing to resettle refugees within that State or locality would be inconsistent with the policies and strategies established under 8 U.S.C. 1522(a)(2)(B) and (C) or other applicable law.

 

[Anti Federalist]

What do the people of these states think of all this?

Very disappointed in Sununu over this.

 

[Anti Federalist]

These governors have essentially taken off their conservative mask and revealed themselves to be liberals.

Sununu is not a liberal.

He, just like every other average white guy out there, is utterly terrified of being accused of "racism" in any way shape or form.

So, he punts it to the mayors and town councils instead of standing in the vanguard to stop it.

 

[sparebulb]

Pig fukker Mike Parsons stabbed us in the back.

He won't be voted out until the next "moderate" democrat gains some traction.

No republicans have the balls to challenge this smarmy turd.

 

[Anti Federalist]

What the governors have actually done is to allow local communities decide for themselves if they want to accept any immigrants or not. Both the state and local government must agree to accept them.

Zip is correct here.

From Matthew- Chapter 25:

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

These people are not individual strangers that Christ commands you be beneficent toward.

These people are an invading army, using Fifth Generation warfare to take over the world's largest economy and most powerful military and displace and replace an existing population of hundreds of millions of people armed with nothing more than damnable pity and pathos without firing a shot.

This is Camp of the Saints in real life.

Anybody who cannot realize that is either suffering under one of what may be many delusions or a collaborator and fellow traveler.

The executive order requires both the state and local governments to agree to accept immigrants. No immigrants can be forced onto any community or state according to the Executive Order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...state-local-involvement-refugee-resettlement/

States must "opt in".

Zip is also correct here.

Sadly, these GOP governors all punted, rather than stand up and do what is right.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

It's all politics for Ducey. He doesn't do things on principle, in my experience.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

“U.S. State Department is paying these refugee contractors over $2100 per refugee, of which they get to keep 45%,”

Cui Bono? That’s some good cash.

 

[juleswin]

Cui Bono? That’s some good cash.

Do you really believe the pittance that is $2100 is what is doing it for them? I bet they get way more federal money for the typical poor American than from a refugees. Also if you believe that refugees will end up voting for dems, this move by a republican would eventually hurt their personal money and power. I think we can safely rule out the $2100 as the driving force for this policy.

 

[euphemia]

Tennesseans are not happy with the governor’s actions. He has been in office less than a year. Nobody is sure why he made this decision. I wonder what kind of deep state pressure was brought to bear.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Do you really believe the pittance that is $2100 is what is doing it for them? I bet they get way more federal money for the typical poor American than from a refugees. Also if you believe that refugees will end up voting for dems, this move by a republican would eventually hurt their personal money and power. I think we can safely rule out the $2100 as the driving force for this policy.

The charities get the money, and yes, they will take any penny they can get. They then pressure the governors.

 

[donnay]

Tucker is right, they all abandon President Trump on this.

 

[juleswin]

Tucker is right, they all abandon President Trump on this.

Stop in the name of the lord and think this through, who is letting these refugees inside the country? who are these people letting Trump down? You do know that if he denies entry of refugees, the states would not have anyone to pick from. The exit and entry of people into this country is handled by the federal dept of Homeland security. If didn't want these people inside the country, they will not be in the country.

Stop trying to blame everyone else but the guy with the real power to stop this.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Stop in the name of the lord and think this through, who is letting these refugees inside the country? who are these people letting Trump down? You do know that if he denies entry of refugees, the states would not have anyone to pick from. The exit and entry of people into this country is handled by the federal dept of Homeland security. If didn't want these people inside the country, they will not be in the country.

Stop trying to blame everyone else but the guy with the real power to stop this.

Trump is reducing the number allowed but he can't do it all at once.
Hopefully he will get the number down to 0.