Change The Law….
….it’s not 1980 anymore.
As it stands, a handful of states have absorbed the bulk of the Syrian refugee population: California, Texas, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois.
Of those states, governors in all but California have declared they will try to stop Syrian refugees from settling in their states going forward — though the federal government, under a 1980 law, has the ability to admit and resettle refugees using federal funds, while taking state input under consideration.
The creation of the Refugee Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965–1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support. Edward Kennedy began writing to propose a bill to reform refugee policy in 1978 and first introduced the idea to the United States Senate in 1979.
The act was completed on March 3, 1980, was signed by President Jimmy Carter on March 17, 1980 and became effective on April 1, 1980. This was the first comprehensive amendment of U.S. general immigration laws designed to face up to the realities of modern refugee situations by stating a clear-cut national policy and providing a flexible mechanism to meet the rapidly shifting developments of today’s world policy. here…
It’s almost 2016, time to fix the law by giving the States back their rights, the world has changed in 36 years. These laws seem easy to put on the books but impossible to get rid of or change.
2 thoughts on “Change The Law….”
“those five states already have accepted hundreds”
We haven’t ‘accepted’ them. They’ve been crammed down our throats.
I can guess that the current Syrian refugees probably, probably don’t have terrorists among them. If terrorists wanted to enter the US, all they’d have to do is come up from Mexico. Nevertheless, accepting immigration from Syria at the moment is terribly bad form.