Gov. Sam Brownback’s recent decision to withdraw the state of Kansas from the federal refugee resettlement program may be just the first step in a full-fledged battle with the Obama administration over state sovereignty issues.
Texas leads the nation in refugee resettlement despite objections from the governor and a lawsuit from the state. The Lone Star State is now home to 2,677 refugees who have been settled in the state since October 2015. While Texas is followed closely by California, who has resettled 2,654 refugees, the next closest state is Washington with about half that resettled in Texas, according to information obtained from the U.S. Department of State by Breitbart Texas.
Gov. Sam Brownback has withdrawn Kansas from the federal refugee resettlement program, but his action “in no way will stop the work of Episcopal Migration Ministries-Wichita . . . in its ministry of helping refugees,” insists Dean Wolfe of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.
Governor Sam Brownback says Kansas is withdrawing from the U.S. Refugee Resettlement program.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is considering “alternative” ways to admit more Syrian refugees to the United States, beyond the current refugee resettlement program, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
President Obama defended German Chancellor Angela Merkel for willingly embracing Syrian refugees in her country, praising her for being on the “right side of history” on the issue.
In a “gesture of welcome,” Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees with him in the papal plane on his return to Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos Saturday. The Vatican said it will assume responsibility for the
The Tennessee General Assembly is on track to sue the federal government over the refugee resettlement program on Tenth Amendment grounds after Senate Joint Resolution 467 cleared its last substantive hurdle in the Tennessee House Finance Committee.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) spoke Sunday on New York AM 970’s “The Cats Roundtable” on the topic of the Syrian refugee crisis. King told host John Catsimatidis that President Barack Obama’s plan to allow 100,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. could be dangerous for the country. “There
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) says the Obama administration employed “bait and switch tactics” to deceive the American people in order to admit unvetted refugees from terrorist hot-spots to the U.S.
The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, Missouri, to start a new life.
As many as a million people are expected to flee the Iraqi region of Mosul in the next few months as Iraqi troops prepare to wrestle the territory away from Islamic State. Thousands have already fled and are seeking refuge
President Obama is intent on admitting thousands of refugees from terrorist hotspots to the U.S. but House Republicans failed to negotiate screening protections for the influx in last year’s omnibus spending bill, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
More than 200 Muslim students from 19 Texas universities attended an annual Muslim Student Association (MSA) Showdown during which they raised $16,442 for relief efforts for Syrian refugees.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan will get a cheap $100 million loan to help create 100,000 jobs for Syrian refugees and its own citizens, the World Bank president said Sunday. The long-term loan, almost interest free, is part of an
A day after the radical Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels, more than 50 Republican House members are calling on appropriators to include language in an upcoming spending bill to enhance refugee-screening measures.
More than 99 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. since the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris — which killed 130 people — have been Muslim, just .04 percent have been Christian.
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is warning that radical Islam is a threat that “cannot be ignored,” following the shocking Islamic attacks that killed dozens of people in Brussels, Belgium. Jeff Sessions, who chairs the Senate’s subcommittee on strategic forces and the
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—A resolution to sue the federal government’s refugee-resettlement program cleared a subcommittee hurdle in Tennessee’s General Assembly on Wednesday, amid strong opposition from left-wing groups, business interests, and the state’s Republican governor.
Justin Trudeau, the recently elected 44-year-old Prime Minister of Canada with the movie star looks and glamorous pedigree, said at the White House on Thursday that his country’s acceptance of 25,000 Syrian refugees in just four months shows the “fundamental truth that diversity can be a source of strength.
An Islamist radical admitted to killing a Jewish businessman in Uruguay as a mode of “following Allah’s orders,” stabbing the man ten times in the back after following him down the streets of western Paysandú city.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is apparently taking a style cue from her activist mother Angelina Jolie.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has suggesting building a large new city in northern Syria as a housing solution for the millions of refugees that have been displaced by the Syrian war, AFP has reported. In a
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he misspoke when he said the war in Afghanistan was a mistake and that he took differing positions on accepting Syrian refugees within a day of each other because “the number had increased
President Barack Obama has been quietly pushing new plans to bring thousands of additional Syrian refugees into the country, despite the concerns of state and county officials and the outrages committed by welfare-dependent migrants in Europe.
The United States has admitted 478 Syrian refugees since the Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino on December 2. Just three of the newly admitted Syrian refugees are Christians.
On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” AM 970 in New York, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told host John Catsimatidis that he is a “concerned” over the fact that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tripled Syrian refugee flow. “Of course, with Prime Minister Trudeau’s announced
GOP front runner Donald Trump tells Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that Germany’s Angela Merkel is “a catastrophic leader” and that “she’ll be out if they don’t have a revolution.”
Saudi Arabia’s military spokesman said on Thursday that his country’s decision to deploy ground forces in Syria was “final” and “irreversible,” despite warnings from Russia, Iran, and the Shiite government of Iraq that such a deployment could escalate the Syrian civil war into a regional conflict.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan unleashed a furious rant against the United States on Wednesday, holding America responsible for the “sea of blood” spilled in Syria, and supporting other terrorist organizations while it focused too intently on defeating the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have access to fake passports they can use to travel legitimately, testified Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Brazil will feature forty refugee children in its largest parade celebrating the national holiday Carnival, including children from Syria, Sudan, Angola, and Libya. The children will march in a procession expected to draw thousands, even amid Latin America’s Zika virus pandemic.
A federal judge in Dallas, Texas, has again rejected a call by the state of Texas to halt Syrian refugees from settling in the Lone Star State. Essentially, because the state has not been able to point their finger to a terrorist posing as a Syrian refugee in the state, Texas has not been able to obtain protection.
Guernsey’s chief minister has announced that the island will not be taking in any Syrian refugees as “Islamophobia” among the island’s residents would make it difficult for the government to guarantee the safety of any new arrivals. The UK government
Wednesday’s cover of La Opinión, the nation’s largest daily Spanish-language newspaper, prominently portrays donor-class favorite Sen. Marco Rubio with the infamous “hope and change” imagery that defined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
The Obama administration is conducting social media reviews, but only on those Syrian refugee applicants for whom there are already red flags, according to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services.
HBO host Bill Maher argued that it isn’t true that people wouldn’t be as afraid of Islam if they knew more about it, “Actually, it’s the reverse” and that he wished liberals would “have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way” on Friday’s “Real Time.”
The Islamic State (IS) terror group has an entire “industry” that revolves around the creation of fake passports, a French officials told reporters on Monday.
Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush argued that “banning all Syrian refugees” is “a good position” and that fellow candidate Donald Trump has “gone from saying we need to accept Syrian refugees, to banning all Syrian refugees,…to banning
HBO’s host Bill Maher stated, “Nothing can compare to Islamic terrorism as a threat, except global warming” and that it’s “bullsh*t” to believe people coming to the US can be screened to keep terrorists out on Friday’s “Real Time.” Maher said,
