Many State governors have pledged to stop and prevent immigration and acceptance of Syrian refuges, however, refugee resettlement and immigration in general is not a state issue as set by a Supreme Court precedent and thus this will lead to confrontations between sate and federal powers.
The Syrian Civil War is a currently ongoing situation that is essentially a humanitarian crisis. The ongoing civil war consists of the Free Syrian Army who s trying to overthrow the current president Bashar al-Assad, and while many would like to see the president overthrown, the war has lead to civilian atrocities and war crimes on both sides. It is for the poor conditions in Syria that so many families are fleeing towards Europe and the resistance to accept …show more content…
accepting Syrian refugees due to irrational public opinion that a substantial number of those refugees are part of ISIS a large number of politicians claim that our vetting system of refugees is not up to the task of preventing terrorists from entering the country. It is not necessarily outlandish or illogical for some to be weary of the immigration standards of the U.S. However, the U.S. state department is in control of the verification process of refugees and has the authority of the security of the vetting process. According to a Mark Dayton, a democratic governor of Minnesota, a state that has accepted nine Syrian refuges, claims that ““all refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any category of traveler to the United States”” (Healy & Bosman 2015). The federal governments authority over refugees in general was further affirmed by the Refugee Act of 1980. Through the Refugee Act Congress gave the President and the State department full authority over how many refugees to accept, the vetting process for those refugees, and where to place those refugees. The act also gives the president the power to determine the severity of a refugee situation and thus the number of refugees that will be let in, as the law states: “If the President determines, after appropriate consultation, that (1) an unforeseen emergency refugee situation exists, (2) the admission of certain refugees in response to the emergency refugee situation is justified by grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest” (Refugee Act 1980). The Refugee Act states that local and state officials must act in way that reflects the federal governments attitudes towards a given refugee situation. Therefore, the states have no legally authority to reject or nullify the federal governments decisions on any facet of the ongoing Syrian refugee
The Syrian Civil War is a currently ongoing situation that is essentially a humanitarian crisis. The ongoing civil war consists of the Free Syrian Army who s trying to overthrow the current president Bashar al-Assad, and while many would like to see the president overthrown, the war has lead to civilian atrocities and war crimes on both sides. It is for the poor conditions in Syria that so many families are fleeing towards Europe and the resistance to accept …show more content…
accepting Syrian refugees due to irrational public opinion that a substantial number of those refugees are part of ISIS a large number of politicians claim that our vetting system of refugees is not up to the task of preventing terrorists from entering the country. It is not necessarily outlandish or illogical for some to be weary of the immigration standards of the U.S. However, the U.S. state department is in control of the verification process of refugees and has the authority of the security of the vetting process. According to a Mark Dayton, a democratic governor of Minnesota, a state that has accepted nine Syrian refuges, claims that ““all refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any category of traveler to the United States”” (Healy & Bosman 2015). The federal governments authority over refugees in general was further affirmed by the Refugee Act of 1980. Through the Refugee Act Congress gave the President and the State department full authority over how many refugees to accept, the vetting process for those refugees, and where to place those refugees. The act also gives the president the power to determine the severity of a refugee situation and thus the number of refugees that will be let in, as the law states: “If the President determines, after appropriate consultation, that (1) an unforeseen emergency refugee situation exists, (2) the admission of certain refugees in response to the emergency refugee situation is justified by grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest” (Refugee Act 1980). The Refugee Act states that local and state officials must act in way that reflects the federal governments attitudes towards a given refugee situation. Therefore, the states have no legally authority to reject or nullify the federal governments decisions on any facet of the ongoing Syrian refugee