States and cities could be at odds over accepting refugees after President Trump gave local governments power to refuse them for the first time in U.S. history.
Betty Kabbashi, a medical interpreter, takes her children, Roda, 5, center, and Richie, 7, to school in the rain on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, in South Portland, Maine. Kabbashi, who was a dentist in South Sudan, disagrees with President Trump's plan to further cut refugee quotas.
While conservative states like Texas and Tennessee have sued to halt refugee resettlement or demand compensation for the costs, the mayors of more liberal cities like Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Nashville have publicly welcomed more people fleeing danger in their home countries. “This order is in effect a state-by-state, city-by-city refugee ban, and it’s un-American and wrong,” said Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, a Maryland-based Jewish nonprofit groupthat helps refugees worldwide find safety and freedom. “Is this the kind of America we want to live in? Where local towns can put up signs that say, ‘No Refugees Allowed’ and the federal government will back that?”
He said employers call “all the time” hoping for more refugee workers, and the town has had good experiences with them. Many work in health care as caretakers, in the service industry cleaning hotel rooms or in manufacturing at plants that make windows or computer parts. It’s unclear whether counties and other government entities also can weigh in, but that could result in the United States admitting far fewer than Trump’s already historically low cap.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
UPDATE 3-San Francisco tour guide charged with carrying U.S. secrets to ChinaA San Francisco tour guide has been charged with being an agent of the Chinese government, accused of picking up U.S. national security secrets from furtive locations and delivering them cloak and dagger style to Beijing, federal prosecutors said on Monday. Xuehua Peng, also known as Edward Peng, was
Read more »
San Francisco tour guide charged with carrying U.S. secrets to ChinaA San Francisco tour guide has been charged with being an agent of the Chinese g...
Read more »
Startups hear about drawbacks of IPOs at San Francisco meetingVenture capitalists and executives from more than 100 startups including Airbnb ...
Read more »
San Francisco clock tower penthouse on the market for $6 millionA penthouse in a historic San Francisco clock tower just went on the market for $6 million, and the photos are stunning
Read more »
Juul stops funding San Francisco vaping measureJuul Labs says it will stop supporting a ballot measure to overturn an anti-vaping law in San Francisco, effectively killing the campaign.
Read more »