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    Judge Rejects Texas' Latest Attempt to Block Syrian Refugees

    DEC 9 2015, 9:42 PM ET

    Judge Rejects Texas' Latest Attempt to Block Syrian Refugees

    by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    A federal judge Wednesday knocked Texas for offering "largely speculative hearsay" about extremists possibly infiltrating Syrian refugees seeking to resettle in the state, rejecting another attempt by Republican leaders to keep out families fleeing the war-torn country.

    U.S. District Judge David Godbey's ruling cleared the way for the last of 21 Syrian refugees, many of whom are children under the age of 15, to resettle in Houston on Thursday.


    The first dozen arrived earlier this week despite Texas mounting the most aggressive campaign of nearly 30 states that have vowed to ban Syrian refugees following the Paris attacks.

    Texas is the only state that has taken the U.S. government to court in an effort to block resettlements, but Godbey signaled skepticism about the lawsuit filed last week.


    "The fact that this Court is required to assess the risk posed by a group of Syrian refugees illustrates one of the problems with this case," Godbey wrote in a three-page order. "The Court has no institutional competency in assessing the risk posed by refugees."


    Godbey, who was appointed to the Dallas court by former President George W. Bush, added that such questions are generally left to the discretion of the federal government.
    The Obama administration says refugee vetting is rigorous and can take up to two years. The Justice Department first responded to the lawsuit by telling the court that states can't block resettlements, after which Texas abruptly dropped a request to halt the first wave of refugees from coming to Dallas.

    But the second try from Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed Wednesday, said there was new "evidence" that refugees pose potential danger. He cited public comments this week from Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who said federal counterterrorism officials have indicated that individuals with terrorist ties have attempted infiltrating the U.S. refugee program. McCaul did not go into detail.


    Related: Can Governor's Block Syrian Refugees From Resettling?


    Paxton also argued that Texas law enforcement officials have concerns about refugee vetting. Godbey said that although the court recognizes the risks of terrorism, the state had failed to show "competent evidence" that the latest arrivals have intent to cause harm.


    Texas "argues that terrorists could have infiltrated the Syrian refugees and could commit acts of terrorism in Texas. The court finds that the evidence before it is largely speculative hearsay," Godbey wrote.


    Paxton spokeswoman Cynthia Meyer said the "safety and security of Texans is our utmost priority" and that the office will continue seeking information about arriving refugees.


    Related: House Votes to halt Syrian Refugee Resettlement

    Despite the ruling, Texas' lawsuit over refugee resettlements is not over. A hearing is likely to come in January, said ACLU attorney Rebecca Robertson, who is representing a resettlement nonprofit that Texas also sued.


    Even as governors in some states say Syrian refugees aren't welcome, resettlement agencies and volunteer groups with refugees continue welcoming them. In Indiana, a couple and their two young children arrived at the invitation of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in Indianapolis, which went on with plans to resettle them despite calls from Gov. Mike Pence not to do so.


    Pence and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott were among more than two dozen Republican governors who said they would refuse any new Syrian refugees following the deadly Nov. 13 Paris attacks, which have been linked to the Islamic State group operating in Syria.

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    So why is this piece of garbage "judge" still on the bench? Kick his ass out and find somebody who actually, honestly wants to dispense justice rather than some Marxists agenda.

    So why does the State of Texas not go ahead and kick out the Syrian "refugees" anyway?

    Obama ignores the courts all of the time. He is in contempt of two federal courts and still it is not even scandal.

    Why is it that we have to strictly adhere to the law while Obama and the Marxists can ignore the law? What would happen in a Food Ball game if one team strictly adhered to the rules while the other team ignored every rule?
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    "The fact that this Court is required to assess the risk posed by a group of Syrian refugees illustrates one of the problems with this case," Godbey wrote in a three-page order. "The Court has no institutional competency in assessing the risk posed by refugees."
    Exactly, which is why the Founders didn't give you any authority to make such assessments. As a federal court you have no say whatsoever on the issue of immigration, other than to prevent it, and you've done the complete opposite using your bench to force a State that has the constitutional authority to determine what migration or importation of persons it deems fit to admit, to take refugees it doesn't see fit to admit.

    The Founders were very intelligent. They knew all the way back then that the federal government could not be trusted on the matters of immigration. They knew you had no competency to assess the cost, burden or risk of admitting people into the United States, which is why it's a States Right to decide what foreigners it wishes to admit into the State, balanced by the check of the federal government to prevent it or tax it after the year 1808.

    This was a time that you should have pulled out a copy of the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9 and READ IT before you wrote your silly 3 page Ruling. This was also a time that Texas should have done likewise and made its claim on its pure Constitutional Right to reject these refugees for any reason or no reason, before it asked for a federal ruling on "risk".
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    DOJ Says Texas Has 'No Evidence' That Syrian Refugees Are A Threat

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    The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a written opposition to Texas' lawsuit attempting to block the federal government from resettling Syrian refugees in the state, arguing that the state did not provide evidence that the refugees would pose a threat to Texas.

    The state of Texas in December sued the federal government and the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit that helps resettle refugees, in an attempt to keep Syrian refugees from moving to the state. Texas argued that the federal government had not provided enough information about the refugees and said that the refugees pose security concerns.


    A federal judge in December denied a temporary restraining order requested by the state to block a Syrian refugee family set to arrive in Texas. The judge wrote that the evidence provided by the state claiming that the refugees were potentially dangerous was based on "largely speculative hearsay."

    In its Tuesday opposition to Texas' request for an injunction, the Justice Department mentioned the judge's decision while arguing that Syrian refugees do not pose a substantial threat to the state of Texas.


    "Plaintiff has not demonstrated that Syrian refugees whom the Federal Government may resettle in Texas while this case is pending pose any danger, much less an imminent one, to Texas residents or any Americans. Plaintiff’s assertions of harm are based on inadmissible hearsay and are at best speculative, this court has already found," the opposition reads. "That conclusion alone is fatal to Plaintiff’s request for preliminary relief."


    "Plaintiff certainly has presented no evidence that the Syrian refugees who will be resettled in Texas during the pendency of this lawsuit pose a danger to anyone anywhere," the Justice Department adds later in the opposition.


    The Justice Department also argues that while the Texas government has asked the federal government for specific information about refugees, the Refugee Act only requires the federal government to regularly consult with states about refugee resettlement.


    “It does not create an enforceable legal obligation to provide a State with information about individual refugees so the State may play an independent role in determining who can be resettled there," the opposition reads.


    Experts agree
    that the law does not make clear that the federal government must share specific information with the states.

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