A new report claims that the federal government colluded with Austin Mayor Steve Adler in order to resettle Syrian refugees in Texas against the governor’s wishes.
After the governor of Texas announced that the state would stop accepting Syrian refugees, the Obama administration went behind his back secretly conferencing with a mayor that offers illegal immigrants sanctuary and Syrians a welcome mat. The plan, evidently, was to continue sending Syrian refugees to the Lone Star State, even as the governor initiated litigation to halt the flow. This week Judicial Watch obtained records of the administration’s behind-the-scenes efforts to keep sending Syrians to Texas despite fierce opposition from state officials over the security threats created by refugees from an Arab nation that’s a hotbed of terrorism.
The White House looked to Austin Mayor Steve Adler, going around the governor to confer with a city leader who espoused the controversial Syrian resettlements, the records show. Shortly after Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that the state wouldn’t accept any more Syrian refugees, the administration responded by colluding with Adler, according to records of a conference call between the mayor’s office and the White House. The administration also furnished Adler with “talking points” involving the refugee resettlement and the parties discussed Abbott’s lawsuit. It seems bizarre that the feds would discuss legal action with a town mayor operating in the state suing them.
Texas and California resettled the overwhelming majority of refugees in 2016, according to federal data, and Texas has absorbed the most Syrians. More than half of the nation’s governors oppose letting Syrian refugees resettle in their state for security reasons. Among them are Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia and New Hampshire. A recent national poll found that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose accepting Syrian refugees. Just 36% said they were in favor of “accepting Syrian refugees into the United States,” the poll found. The figures show a big decline in support for accepting Syrian refugees in the last year and a half.
That Texas resettled so many Syrian refugees against the will of its people and government speaks volumes. The federal government didn’t need to send these people to Texas, but they did despite fierce opposition. It’s almost as if they did it just to spite Texans who dared to oppose them.
Source: Judicial Watch
Stand Strong we are behind you Texas Governor Abbott!
kill this traitor commie mayor
Send them to BLUE STATES
Put him in jail, for breaking the law. What’s the problem, enforce America’s law.
Pretty bad when the mayor has more pull than the governor
Lol Jerry Deaton get a clur
Well Jerry Deaton how about they live with obama he is supplying Isis with arms and his tour is over
And while you are blaming jews right now there is an American officer on the run with Isis trying to get out of syria does that not concern you? That’s Obama’s contribution to the Syrian people arms and terrorists
So tired of this POTUS forcing us to do things we do not want to do just so he gets his muslims into this country. We have had enough. He needs to stop being a dictator and become an Ex-POTUS.
Not in my state