Tennessee Lawmaker Wants Roundup Of Syrian Refugees
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Tennessee State Rep. Glen Casada wants the National Guard to round up refugees and send them to U.S. immigration authorities.
“We need to activate the Tennessee National Guard and stop them from coming in to the state by whatever means we can,” he told the paper.
“I’m not worried about what a bureaucrat in D.C. or an unelected judge thinks,” Casada said. “We need to gather [Syrian refugees] up and politely take them back to the ICE center and say, ‘They’re not coming to Tennessee, they’re yours.’”
Casada’s call is more extreme than other conservative state legislators, who have vowed to bar refugees from settling in their states.
“Tennessee is a sovereign state. If the federal government is forsaking the obligation to protect our citizens, we need to act,” Casada told the paper.
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