Reminder: TX's decision does NOT mean that refugees won't come here. Read @lomikriel and @DiazChron for the details:http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-threatens-to-leave-federal-refugee-program-9238280.php?cmpid=twitter-premium …
Just in: Texas has formally begun withdrawing from the federal Refugee Resettlement Program. "We are moving forward," a spokesman tells me.
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A good read today: Ignoring Anti-Refugee Rhetoric, Texans Rush to Help in Resettlement: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/09/30/despite-message-capitol-texans-rush-help-refugees/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social … (by
@JMalewitz)#txlege
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Texas Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX issues a statement on his decision to pull out of the "severely broken system" of refugee resettlement.#txlegepic.twitter.com/kbwSsDABoj
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@brianmrosenthal AWESOME! Go Texas! -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier First step in the long road to#Texit -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier that's why I love being a Texan. -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier Good! Send the refugees to Washington DC. They can camp out on the WH lawn. -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier Obama and Hillary can house them with the money they've clandestinely received as kickbacks from failed projects -
@brianmrosenthal Basakwards. We need to get rid of a bunch of Idiots from#Texas. -
@brianmrosenthal Don't Mess with TEXAS! -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier every State should do the same. -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier : This is huge!! -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier hallelujah -
@brianmrosenthal@BretBaier big
to TEXAS
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