So are these Syrians now legal residents or citizens? The whole purpose of taking in refugees is to repatriate them to their home state at some point. Most refugees live in camps. Why does the Obama administration feel the need to scatter these refugees across the USA?
Once they go through the refugee process, they will be considered "legal residents." I would think that he is wanting to split them among the states so that one state does not have a very large burden and not have enough funds, BTW that the federal government has given to the states for this exact purpose, to cover the expense for these refugees.
I agree with Medic on this one. Why scatter them about? I say we concentrate them in one geographic area so that they can live amongst themselves and they never have to assimilate. I have heard that European countries have had major successes creating ghettos for people. Furthermore, if you spread them out, it puts the burden on American people to interact with them and be their neighbors. At first, this doesn't sound so bad, but then when you think if one of these refugees was up to no good, the horrible onus of reporting that suspicion would be on our countrymen. I for one don't think that is a burden that should be born by Americans. It is better to concentrate these refugees in a ghetto or a camp and let them police themselves for any suspicious behavior.
I don't know. Those areas seem a little too cosmopolitan. It is better to keep them isolated and alienated from any American community. Some place either sparsely populated (but near critical infrastructure like dams and power plants) or community that is hostile and unwelcoming. We don't need these refugees thinking this is a vacation, participating in America and integrating. We want them to be alone isolated and bored to death. Sure it won't be fun for them but I am sure they can find something to fill their time, maybe read the Koran, or watch some youtube clips. I hear there are some very good clips targeted at isolated and alienated Muslims.
Yes, tell me more about how these tolerant Muslim refugees just love to integrate into western cultures. Or about how little money they require for support. Or about how they stay where they are supposed to while having their future status sorted out.
Nice try, but no where did I say that the COTUS addresses anything to do with immigration enforcement? The states cannot take away a constitutionally protected right of free movement is what I said. And states specifically take money from the federal government for refugee settlement. You cannot take the money and then say you are not going to take the refugees.
Another good point by Medic. All this nonsense about not scattering the refugees across America completely ignores the easy and in my opinion best solution. Just shut the door to any Muslim or Middle-easterner. Elegantly simple. We already have roughly 5 million Muslims and frankly I am tired of hearing all these stories about their walled off Muslim enclaves where they don't integrate into America. On top of that they clearly don't buy into the free enterprise system we love in this country. If you are going to come to this country find something to do. There are thousands of options to get a start, you could drive a cab or run a convenience store, or hell get a hotel. But for the life of me I have yet to see a single Muslim do anything to integrate into our economic system. We will probably just end up paying them money to sit around and have babies. Thanks Obama.
No I would not be OK with what the states are trying to do and neither would the supreme court.
As a graduate of Princeton Law School I gotta concur wholeheartedly with this opinion. The law for asylum clearly calls for a religious test, along with a race test, and a political opinion test. At this point I have to say that not only can we apply a religious test, we would be damned fools to allow any one but white, Christian Republicans to seek refuge in the US (unfortunately we have to allow both men and women).
There you have it folks. When you are an Alumnus of one of the most prestigious legal institutions in the history of the world it is hard to be humble. In fact if you look at law school rankings, you won't even find Princeton, because it is considered so above and beyond its competition that it isn't even worth ranking.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
