BattleCreek Enquirer - Letter: Resettling Syrian refugees brings our ruin [Good point. Is it consistent with states rights under our Constitution for the national government to be dropping, seemingly out of the sky, countless thousands of refugees, chosen at the whim of the UN, into our various hapless states, cities and towns? --tma]

[Hat tip Ann Corcoran.]

Letter: Resettling Syrian refugees brings our ruin



On Dec. 9, the State Department website reported the United State plans to lead in resettling Syrian refugees. "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner Refugees) referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond."

They are to be put on a fast track to citizenship and able to get their families here under The Refugee Act of 1980, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. The cost is $2 billion per year and could cost $10 billion per year. Why hasn't the news media disclosed these facts?

President Theodore Roosevelt said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

Oklahoma, Texas, Montana and Utah each passed laws declaring their states sovereign and not under the federal government directives. We the people should remind our state legislators of our rights given to us by the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Patricia Cavanagh

Coldwater

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/12/30/resettling-syrian-refugees-brings-ruin/21063163/