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Texas Governor says ‘Hell no!’ to Obama’s refugee resettlement

Will other states follow?

Everything is bigger in the state of Texas, including their backbone.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that the state of Texas is withdrawing from the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee resettlement program “due to the administration’s inability to ensure that the refugees resettled in the state do not pose terror threats.”

Texas officials drafted a plan that would require federal national security officials to provide assurances that none of the individuals being resettled pose a terror threat. The administration has declined to approve this plan.

The Texas Governor is just asking for the same exemption some Democratic members of the House seem to have.

Abbott said Texas would not accept a single refuge until proper security measures are put in place.

“The federal government’s refugee settlement program is riddled with serious problems that pose a threat to our nation,” the governor said in a statement. “The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the director of national intelligence have repeatedly declared their inability to fully screen refugees from terrorist-based nations. Even with the inability to properly vet refugees from Syria and countries known to be supporters or propagators of terrorism, President Obama is now ineptly proposing a dramatic increase in the number of refugees to be resettled in the U.S.”

Texas has faced threats from ISIS and arrested earlier this year one Iraqi refugee who had planned to detonate explosives in a Houston mall.

“While many refugees pose no danger, some pose grave danger, like the Iraqi refugee with ties to ISIS who was arrested earlier this year after he plotted to set off bombs at two malls in Houston,” Abbott said.

“Despite multiple requests by the state of Texas, the federal government lacks the capability or the will to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless, and Texas will not be an accomplice to such dereliction of duty to the American people,” he added. “Therefore, Texas will withdraw from the refugee resettlement program. I strongly urge the federal government to completely overhaul a broken and flawed refugee program that increasingly risks American lives.”

How many states will follow its lead?

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