“As governor of Texas, I write to inform you that the State of Texas will not accept any refugees from Syria in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Paris,” Governor Greg Abbott wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama.
“Further, I - and millions of Americans - implore you to halt your plans to accept more Syrian refugees in the United States. A Syrian ’refugee' appears to have been part of the Paris terror attack. American humanitarian compassion could be exploited to expose Americans to similar deadly danger. The reasons for such concerns are plentiful.”
On the other hand, six governors said their states will accept refugees without any changes to the security measures currently in place. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Colorado, Vermont, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
Obama said in a news conference on November 16 that he’s determined to keep accepting Syrian refugees, with no changes after the Paris attack.
He also called the idea that the U.S. should accept only Christian refugees as “shameful.”
