List of Maryland Cities/Communities to get "refugees"

chernmax

NOT Politically Correct!!
Digging a little deeper, this is how our Government is getting around our Governors...

Loss of U.S. Control. Policy about who is admitted as a refugee to the United States has been surrendered to the U.N. and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that stand to benefit from the program. In recent years, up to 95 percent of the refugees coming to the United States were referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or were putative relatives of U.N.-selected refugees.

Given the impact that refugee resettlement has on all other forms of immigration — both legal and illegal — the U.N. can be thought of as setting U.S. immigration policy for future generations of Americans.

Security Matters. Meaningful background checks are difficult to obtain for refugees admitted from countries without reliable government records. Common criminals, war criminals, international fugitives, and terrorists have all used the USRAP and its related asylum provisions for entry into the United States. Bribery of U.N. officials is commonly reported among those attempting to secure refugee admission to the United States.

Exploitation for Profit. Refugee resettlement is very profitable for some non-profits. Religious organizations and NGOs involved in the program consistently refuse to commit any of their own resources for the resettlement effort. Instead, these organizations have turned to the refugee program to generate an income stream, abandoning traditional charitable works that do not pay. Most of the second- and third-tier refugee organizations receiving contracts and grants today are run by former refugees themselves, which has put the program on a perpetual growth trajectory.

http://cis.org/refugee-system-needs-review
 

Bushy23

Active Member
What I don't understand is why are they running and not fighting. If they are outgunned than the US should give the healthy male refugees guns. It would be much cheaper than giving them a house, food, and medical care. If the amount of men and even healthy women that fled banded together, with a little money and weapons from the countries they are now inhabiting, they would be a huge force. Look at the US during the revolutionary war and the Civil war. I am sure there are some that ran but the majority stayed and fought. If someone tried to overrun the USA on our soil I would take up arms and fight even though I am technically handicapped. You would not see me running for the Canadian or Mexican border.

I am guessing they are escorting their families. That would be my priority, making sure my family is safe.
 

littlelady

God bless the USA
You're welcome.

Sure, Congress can change our refugee laws if it wants to. Or it could pass specific provisions which might block these refugees from coming in. (I would note though that the President has considerable constitutional power when it comes to foreign affairs; whether that power could somehow be used here in the face of statutory limitations on what he wants to do is another matter - I'd have to give that more thought.) There'd of course be the veto problem though.

Just to be clear, my previous statements related to whether states could refuse to accept refugees, not whether there was anything that anyone could do to try to stop these refugees from being allowed to come here. I don't think Congress will be able to block them, but in theory it could.



Someone can (almost always) try to challenge something in court. I don't think they'd be able to get an injunction (other than perhaps a very temporary one) in this case though. It isn't clear to me what grounds they'd have which they'd be likely to ultimately prevail on, so I don't think they'd be able to get a federal appeals court to uphold an injunction while a case was being heard. (When it comes to lone federal district court judges, I suppose we shouldn't put anything past one of them - find the right one and you might even be able to get them to do something that's clearly wrong under existing law.)

What is it about our refugee laws that you think might be used to block this? If you have something in particular in mind I might be able to offer my thoughts. As it is I think what the President is doing is legal. Our immigration laws provide the executive branch with a lot of discretion; that's especially true when it comes to our refugee laws.

I assume you're referring to Section 412(b) of the INA, which is 8 USC 1522(b). (Small (b) not big (B) - an important distinction when it comes to reading statutes.) I'm providing a link to the laws in question in case you want to look them over yourself and, perhaps, find something that you think is relevant.

Thanks, Tilt. I asked my hub if it was a capital or lower case b. Oh, well! :lol: Thanks for the link. I will try to read it, but legalese makes my brain hurt. That is why we rely on you! :smile:
 

migtig

aka Mrs. Giant
I am guessing they are escorting their families. That would be my priority, making sure my family is safe.

That would be great logic, if these "refugees" actually had women and children with them. But the overwhelming majority (more than 80%) are young males with no family members.
 

HeavyChevy75

Podunk FL
You got a non-biased source for that figure??

Also today there was a story that the women and children are left to fend for self in the refugee camps in Syria relying on other countries helping them. That shows how much of tools those men are. They leave the women and kids.
 
A federal district court judge in Indiana has issued a preliminary injunction requiring that state to pay federal grant funds to agencies resettling Syrian refugees in the state. The governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, had directed state agencies not to pay those funds to such agencies. The judge in this case found that the plaintiff, one such agency, is likely to prevail in its suit that alleges, among other things, that the refusal to pay out such funds is a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause - specifically, that it is improper discrimination on the basis of national origin.

Here is the judge's decision.
 
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