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This video of CNN news shows us that even if the American government said that US will accept 10 000 refugees, some governors still don’t want to accept Syrian refugees in their states, and they even close the borders. President Obama gave a speech in which he talks about the fact that some political leaders asked for a religion test before accepting these refugees, and he said that it was a shame. So after studying what the public thinks about this issue, I think it’s important to know what political leaders think about it, and especially governors, senators, and the president.

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States protesting the admission of refugees range from Alabama and Georgia, to Texas and Arizona, to Michigan and Illinois, to Maine and New Hampshire. Among these31 states, all but one have Republican governors.

The announcements came after authorities revealed that at least one of the suspects believed to be involved in the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe among the current wave of Syrian refugees. He had falsely identified himself as a Syrian named Ahmad al Muhammad and was allowed to enter Greece in early October.

Only 1,500 Syrian refugees have been accepted into the United States since 2011, but the Obama administration announced in September that 10,000 Syrians will be allowed entry next year.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday, "Defeating ISIS involves projecting American ideals to the world. Governors who reject those fleeing war and persecution abandon our ideals and instead project our fears to the world."

Authority over admitting refugees to the country, though, rests with the federal government -- not with the states -- though individual states can make the acceptance process much more difficult, experts said.

American University law professor Stephen I. Vladeck put it this way: "Legally, states have no authority to do anything because the question of who should be allowed in this country is one that the Constitution commits to the federal government." But Vladeck noted that without the state's participation, the federal government would have a much more arduous task.

"So a state can't say it is legally objecting, but it can refuse to cooperate, which makes thing much more difficult."

Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said one tactic states could use would be to cut their own funding in areas such as resettling refugees. The conference is the largest refugee resettlement organization in the country.

But "when push comes to shove, the federal government has both the plenary power and the power of the 1980 Refugee Act to place refugees anywhere in the country," Appleby said.

More than 250,000 people have died since the violence broke out in Syria in 2011, and at least 11 million people in the country of 22 million have fled their homes. Syrians are now the world's largest refugee population, according to the United Nations. Most are struggling to find safe haven in Europe.

In announcing that his state would not accept any Syrian refugees, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Monday on his personal account, "I demand the U.S. act similarly," he said. "Security comes first."

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Abbott said "American humanitarian compassion could be exploited to expose Americans to similar deadly danger," referring to Friday's deadly attacks in Paris.

In a statement from Georgia's governor, Republican Nathan Deal, he said Georgia will not accept Syrian refugees "until the federal government and Congress conducts a thorough review of current screening procedures and background checks."

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley also rejected the possibility of allowing Syrian refugees into his state and connected refugees with potential terror threats.

"After full consideration of this weekend's attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program," Bentley said Sunday in a statement.

"As your governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way."

There is currently no credible threat against the state, the governor's office said, and no Syrian refugees have been relocated to Alabama so far.

As the list of states blocking refugees grows, at least one state, Delaware, announced that it plans to accept refugees.

"It is unfortunate that anyone would use the tragic events in Paris to send a message that we do not understand the plight of these refugees, ignoring the fact that the people we are talking about are fleeing the perpetrators of terror," Gov. Jack Markell said in a statement.
States whose governors oppose Syrian refugees coming in: States whose governors say they will accept refugees:
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said the state would "put on hold our efforts to accept new refugees."

"Michigan is a welcoming state and we are proud of our rich history of immigration. But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents," he said in a statement.

Snyder demanded that the Department of Homeland Security review its security procedures for vetting refugees but avoided blanket suspicion of people from any region.

"It's also important to remember that these attacks are the efforts of extremists and do not reflect the peaceful ways of people of Middle Eastern descent here and around the world," Snyder said.

And Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson posted on his official Twitter account that he would "oppose Syrian refugees being relocated to Arkansas."

Mississippi, Ohio bristle at taking refugees

The governors of Ohio and Mississippi announced their states would not allow Syrian refugees.

Jim Lynch, a spokesman for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, issued this statement:

"The governor doesn't believe the U.S. should accept additional Syrian refugees because security and safety issues cannot be adequately addressed. The governor is writing to the President to ask him to stop, and to ask him to stop resettling them in Ohio. We are also looking at what additional steps Ohio can take to stop resettlement of these refugees."

Kasich is a Republican presidential candidate.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant wrote on Facebook that he was working with the state's homeland security department to "determine the current status of any Syrian refugees that may be brought to our state in the near future.

"I will do everything humanly possible to stop any plans from the Obama administration to put Syrian refugees in Mississippi. The policy of bringing these individuals into the country is not only misguided, it is extremely dangerous. I'll be notifying President Obama of my decision today to resist this potential action."

Louisiana: 'Kept in the dark'

Louisiana governor and GOP presidential candidate Bobby Jindal complained bitterly in an open letter to Obama that the federal government had not informed his government about refugees being relocated to his state last week.

"It is irresponsible and severely disconcerting to place individuals, who may have ties to ISIS, in a state without the state's knowledge or involvement," Jindal said in his letter Saturday.

He demanded to know more about the people being placed in Louisiana to avoid a repeat of the Paris attacks and wanted to know whether screening would be intensified for refugees holding Syrian passports.

And he suggested Obama hold off on taking in more refugees.

"It would be prudent to pause the process of refugees coming to the United States. Authorities need to investigate what happened in Europe before this problem comes to the United States," Jindal said.

Republican candidate Donald Trump called accepting Syrian refugees "insane."

"We all have heart and we all want people taken care of, but with the problems our country has, to take in 250,000 -- some of whom are going to have problems, big problems -- is just insane. We have to be insane. Terrible," Donald Trump said at a rally in Beaumont, Texas.

It's not clear why Trump used the 250,000 figure.

The Obama administration has previously announced plans to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees next year.

While addressing reporters on Monday, Obama called out Republican candidates who have objected to admitting refugees to the United States.

"When I hear a political leader suggesting that there should be a religious test for which a person who is fleeing from a war torn country is admitted... when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that is shameful," the President said. "We don't have religious tests to our compassion."

New York: 'Virtually no vetting'

A senior White House security official attempted to allay concerns about the vetting of Syrian refugees.

On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said, "We have very extensive screening procedures for all Syrian refugees who have come to the United States. There is a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our National Counter Terrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, so we can make sure that we are carefully screening anybody that comes to the United States."

New York Rep. Peter King, speaking on Fox News, cast doubt on Rhodes' comments.

"What he said about the vetting of the refugees is untrue. There is virtually no vetting cause there are no databases in Syria, there are no government records. We don't know who these people are."

On Sunday, investigators said that one of the Paris bombers carried Syrian identification papers -- possibly forged -- and the fear of Syrian refugees grew worse.

"It's not that we don't want to -- it's that we can't," Florida Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "Because there's no way to background check someone that's coming from Syria."

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States protesting the admission of refugees range from Alabama and Georgia, to Texas and Arizona, to Michigan and Illinois, to Maine and New Hampshire. Among these31 states, all but one have Republican governors. The announcements came after authorities revealed that at least one of the suspects believed to be involved in the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe among the current wave of Syrian refugees.

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Niel Shah explains the statistics of why now China and India top Mexico in the number of immigrants in the United States. In 2013 Mexico had 125k immigrants while China topped with 147k and India also above at 129k. he later explains why these numbers went up and it was because of these nations going to study, work, and unite with family over there. But a shift in the American immigrant community is still far off down the future line if it continues. Now two thirds of the Hispanic population in America is no longer immigrants, but native-born.

Shah, N. (2015, May 3). Immigrants to U.S. From China Top Those From   Mexico. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from   http://www.wsj.com/articles/immigrants-to-u-s-from-china-top-  those-from-mexico-1430699284

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Bernard Gordon discuses in his article how immigrants are affecting the jobs in America. The author mentions how another author states that having immigrants is good, but Bernard argues that he is wrong and the job opportunities should be given to other American citizens. It is affecting African Americans who drop out of school to work. He states that the problem aren’t the labor workers, they are still needed in farms and ranches. He also concludes with a good question to whom should the priority be for, the seekers of citizenship or the people born in America?

Gordon, B. (2007, May 1). Immigration and jobs. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved from   https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2007-05-  01/immigration-and-jobs

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Welsh, T. (November 20,2015). “8 Facts About the U.S. Program to Resettle Syrian Refugees”. U.S. News. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/20/8-facts-about-the-us-program-to-resettle-syrian-refugees

This article published in the U.S. News, which is a popular online website that treat problem all around the world, show us the program that U.S have for Syrian refugees. Refugees are spread everywhere in the U.S, and those one will have a lot of restriction like paying the flight that bring them to the U.S. Also, they will have to find a job, and the government can’t assist them forever, so they will have to live like U.S citizens. This article is useful to show the restrictions that United States apply to refugees.

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This article is taken from the NY times which is a very famous and relevant news paper. This article talks about the number of Syrian refugees already in the United States. It start by saying the US have admitted 1 854 refugees since 2012, and it shows us a US map where we can see where refugees are located. After this, we have numbers about the differences between US and Germany in terms or Syrian refugees, and also Syrian refugees compared to other refugees admitted in US. After this, we have information about the previsions of the state department of admitting 10 000 Syrian refugees during 2016. We learn that these refugees will be help, and placed next to their families (if they already got family in US), and will be helped to get a job and a house. Refugees will have to be self-suffcient in a year.

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Some countries, like Turkey and Germany, have accepted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. But the United States has so far admitted only a tiny fraction of the estimated four million refugees who have fled Syria.

Where the 1,854 Syrian Refugees Admitted to the U.S. Since 2012 Were Placed

The refugees who have arrived from Syria since 2012 have been placed in 130 towns and cities. They are among the most vulnerable people in the war: single mothers and their children; religious minorities; victims of violence or torture. Some of them have reached large cities like Houston, but most have been sent to more affordable, medium-size cities by the nine voluntary agencies that handle refugee resettlement. Boise, Idaho, has accepted more refugees than New York and Los Angeles combined; Worcester, Mass., has taken in more than Boston.

President Obama has said the United States will accept five times as many Syrian refugees this year as the total admitted over the last four years.

Under pressure from Europe and other countries confronting the global migration crisis, Mr. Obama has raised the number of Syrian refugees who will be offered legal status to at least 10,000 this fiscal year. Some cities and towns have resisted. In Duncan, S.C., residents and elected officials argue that the federal government cannot possibly screen out terrorists, and some say that more Muslim immigrants would threaten American culture. But the United States has admitted only small numbers of Syrian refugees compared with other countries.

1,854

Syrian refugees admitted by the United States, 2012 to Sept. 2015

92,991

Syrian refugees admitted by Germany, 2012 to Sept. 2015

Syrians still account for a small share of all refugees admitted in the United States.

Syrians made up about 2 percent of the 70,000 refugees admitted during the last fiscal year. The three largest refugee groups were from Myanmar, Iraq and Somalia. The United States has also admitted far larger numbers in the past. In 1979, it provided sanctuary to 111,000 Vietnamese refugees, and in 1980, it added another 207,000. Around the same time, the country took in more than 120,000 Cuban refugees during the Mariel boatlift, including around 80,000 in one month alone.

Syrians are arriving by the hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands.

The State Department said that the United States started to admit more Syrian refugees in the last year after the United Nations began submitting more referrals from refugee camps: 500 to 1,000 a month. Refugees trying to reach the United States must apply through the United Nations, and before being accepted, they are screened by the F.B.I. and through databases run by the Defense Department and other federal agencies. The additional 10,000 Syrian refugees this year would come from 18,000 referrals already submitted by the United Nations. State Department officials said that more than half of them were children.

To ease integration, Syrian refugees have been placed in communities where there are other Syrian immigrants.

More than 150,000 Syrians already live in the United States, according to census figures, and refugees who have relatives in the country are likely to be resettled with or near them. Those who do not have family in the United States are placed where jobs are more plentiful and the cost of housing is low. Refugees receive help finding work and housing, but they are expected to become self-sufficient within a year. The agencies in charge of resettlement take into account how earlier waves of refugees often assist new arrivals with the moving process, with food and with explanations about the United States. "It's like taking someone from a very small, dark room to a very, very big world," said Hussam Al Roustom, who arrived in Jersey City in June after fleeing Syria for Jordan. "This is why I want to help others go through what I have gone through."

Town or city with at least one

Syrian refugee placed since 2012

Town or city with at least one

Syrian refugee placed since 2012

Town or city with at least one

Syrian refugee placed since 2012

Town or city with at least one

Syrian refugee placed since 2012

Notes: All data are for fiscal years, which run from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Data for the maps are through the end of the 2015 fiscal year and do not include refugees admitted since Oct. 1, 2015.

Sources: Refugee Processing Center, U.S. State Department; Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Migration Policy Institute; socialexplorer.com

Additional work by K.K. Rebecca Lai

Correction: Oct. 26, 2015

In an earlier version of this graphic, the key for a map showing people with Syrian ancestry was incorrectly labeled. The map shows people of Syrian ancestry, per 100,000 residents, not 1,000 residents.

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Paris Attacks Intensify Debate Over How Many Syrian Refugees to Allow Into the U.S.

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Some countries, like Turkey and Germany, have accepted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. But the United States has so far admitted only a tiny fraction of the estimated four million refugees who have fled Syria. Where the 1,854 Syrian Refugees Admitted to the U.S.

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Within this article, the author talks about how illegal immigrants have been having their children born here in America abroad. The author brings evidence and statistic to show how the number of immigrant childbirth has decreased from 9% of the American population to 8% only within 1 year. He later on cites Donald Trump who is a candidate running for the 2016 presidency. The author then states the main reason of why immigrants intend to have their children born in America, which is to get the American citizenship. Donald then states that this is the main reason of why these illegal immigrants come across to America.

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According to “Obama asks US to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees: Is that the right number?” writing by LaFranchi, Howard and published in Sep 10, 2015 by The Christian Science Publishing Society, tell us about the number of refugees that the United States are going to accept. They are supposed to take 10000 refugees, but some people are saying that it will be better to take more like 70000 refugees. However, some people opposed to this decision saying that it can cause problem to the country, but the United sates is a big country that can accept even more like 130000 refugees. They want the refugees to come and enrich the US, it will help grow the economy and it is the right thing to do.

LaFranchi, Howard. (Sep10, 2015). “Obama asks US to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees: Is that the right number?”. The Christian Science Publishing Society. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1710752454?accountid=14541

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This article is taken from Los Angles Times, which is a famous news paper. First, this article compares the syrian refugees with jewish refugees during WW2. It also gives us some statistics about this taken those number from "Fortune" and "American Institute of Public Opinion". Then it gives us opinions of American people on social medias. Most of these people compare syrian refugees to the first Europeens who came to America as "refugees" to Indien Americans. Some of these opinions are serious, other are turned a funny way, but all these pubications are American citizens opinions i think it can be interessting to study those for our project.

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The Paris attacks have prompted new scrutiny of refugees fleeing Syria. Much of it hinges on whether or not the United States should allow Syrian refugees to relocate here. State governors quickly began to refuse to accept Syrian refugees -- though, because the programs are funded and administered by the federal government, states do not have the ability to legally block them.

President Obama said refusing refugees would be "a betrayal of our values." On social media, people showed where they stood on the issue with Facebook statuses, Twitter statements and Instagram posts.

Many people shared the charts from a Twitter account @HistOpinion that showed how Americans felt about accepting Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler's regime in the early days of WWII. As the Washington Post noted, the U.S. was still recovering then from the Depression, and many people treated non-Christian refugees with suspicion and hostility.

US Jan 20 '39: Should the US government permit 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children to come in from Germany? pic.twitter.com/5cFs5RabQn
- Historical Opinion (@HistOpinion) November 17, 2015

US Apr '39: If in Congress, would you support a bill to open US to larger number of European refugees? By Religion. pic.twitter.com/pWsqyRXZoW
- Historical Opinion (@HistOpinion) November 17, 2015

US Jul '38: What's your attitude towards allowing German, Austrian & other political refugees to come into the US? pic.twitter.com/7hMfLbXWFE
- Historical Opinion (@HistOpinion) November 16, 2015

Others looked a little further back in history.

if only we had a seasonally appropriate story about middle eastern people seeking refuge being turned away by the heartless
- Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 16, 2015

This comic was shared without attribution many times on Instagram and Twitter.

(If you know who the artist is, we'd like to credit him or her. Please let the reporter know.)

Some people examined refusing refugees in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"ALL LIVES MATTER" "Awesome, there's these Syrian refugees who need help--" "NOPE"
- ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) November 16, 2015

America: All lives matter!!!!! Syrian refugees: what about ours? America: Lol exactly Syrian refugees: huh? America: new phone, who dis?
- Zandy $avage (@ohiosveryown) November 17, 2015

"Pro life" "All lives matter" "There is only one race: the human race" "Lol, we won't take refugees tho"
- The Gay Burn Book (@SouthernHomo) November 17, 2015

As more than a few people pointed out, Steve Jobs' father was a Syrian migrant. (Some called him a refugee, which is not entirely correct: Abdul Fattah Jandali, Jobs' biological father, came to America in 1954 after unrest erupted in Beirut, where he was in college. He came to live with a relative in the United States and continued his education at the University of Wisconsin.)

a reminder that you wouldn't have your iphone, ipad, mac, or pixar without this son of a syrian refugee: pic.twitter.com/QuvsVNBxVO
- Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) November 17, 2015

Conversely, some people took the opportunity to point out that the U.S. has citizens who also live in dismal conditions.

Others cited concern for America's safety.

I've got a bowl of 10000 m&ms, 10 are poisoned. How many of you bleeding heart liberals are gonna grab a handful? #SyrianRefugees
- CowboysDerek (@d_juhl) November 17, 2015

Lots of people tagged images and art with #refugeeswelcome -- including many who cited the verses on the Statue of Liberty.

What do you think? Do American values support our country taking in refugees seeking asylum?

Follow Jessica Roy on Twitter @jessica_roy.

UPDATES

7:03 p.m. Nov. 18: This story was updated to remove a post that was deleted by its creator.

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The Paris attacks have prompted a new wave of scrutiny over refugees fleeing Syria. Much of it hinges on whether or not the United States should be allowing Syrian refugees to relocate to America. Here's what people are sharing online.