Syrian Family of 7 Is Quickly Settled in New Jersey

[LiberalElite]

Source: NY Times

Despite the vow by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey not to accept any more Syrian refugees and withhold state financial support, another Syrian refugee family arrived in the state on Monday night.

The family of seven quickly moved into a house near Paterson, and there was seemingly nothing Mr. Christie could do about it.

On Nov. 17, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, the governor wrote a letter to President Obama saying he was directing the New Jersey Human Services Department not to “participate” in the resettlement of Syrian refugees. Mr. Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, later said that he would allow Syrians to be settled in New Jersey when the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation could guarantee that they were not terrorists.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/nyregion/syrian-family-of-7-is-quickly-settled-in-new-jersey.html?_r=0

[Kber]

1. Fuck Christie

Just saying.

[kestrel91316]

2. How's he going to stop them? It's a free country.

If the US lets them in, their travel/residence is not restricted.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Indiana couldn't technically stop them either, but did so through intimidation of non-profits

Refugee families typically receive assistance from non-state actors, NGOs essentially, in order to be resettled. It's one of the reasons the evangelical churches largely balked at the anti-refugee hysteria following the Paris attacks: the NGOs participating in refugee resettlement are often church groups. Sometimes, however, they are other sorts of non-profits that work a great deal with the state, or at least function in part through grants from federal, state, and local governments. In Indiana, the non-profit that was to settle the Syrian family (eventually settled in Connecticut) saw the writing on the wall: if you resettle Syrian refugees in Indiana, you can kiss any state grant funds (for other projects!) good-bye. So they had to "reject" their assistance under the bizarre and probably illegal soft coercion from the state.

If I was an ambitious US attorney looking to dig into some state issues, I might start digging around in the communications between state officials and resettlement-active non-profits to see if there is some actual illegal coercion going on, but that's just me. If I was a journalist, I might be looking into that, too...

[Hoppy]

3. At least one other Syrian family moved into N.J.

The father has been in Morris County and was just reunited with his family. It looks like they will move to an Essex County location.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Does he plan to burn a cross on their lawn?

[weissmam]

6. chrispie is just blowing hot air, he knows it, we know it, he knows we know it

[murielm99]

7. Maybe they should move a few families

into Illinois. I would like to see what our governor, the Ruiner, will do about it. He can't even pick up a pen to sign a budget, and he doesn't do anything else but threaten the middle class and harm poor people and children.

[GOLGO 13]

8. Big man is impotent to the powah of the Federal Govt.

Bloviate all that you wish. It matters not little man.