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Over the past few years, we have seen small communities decimated by huge influxes of refugees, straining populations and sometimes even changing cultures overnight. Representative Tom Tiffany, however, has a plan to fix that.
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From Breitbart:
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) is leading legislation that would codify into federal law a plan allowing localities and states the ability to block refugee resettlement in their communities, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
This week, Tiffany, joined by Reps. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Tony Wied (R-WI), Andy Ogles (R-TN), and Lance Gooden (R-TX), filed the Community Assent for Refugee Entry (CARE) Act — a plan that mimics an executive order from President Donald Trump’s first term in office.
Under the CARE Act, localities and states would have the authority to decide whether they want refugees resettled in their communities or not.
Under the Biden administration, we saw refugee resettlement strain and harm several small towns. We covered the story of Springfield, Ohio, a town that gained national relevance when then-candidate President Trump claimed Haitian refugees in the community were eating cats and dogs. Though these claims were heavily disputed, it’s clear that the rapid resettlement negatively affected the town and its inhabitants.
Representative Tiffany pointing to Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley, a town where African refugees were resettled without any input from locals. The Representative stated that “no community should be blindsided or have its resources stretched thin because the federal government made the decision for them to resettle refugees,” claiming his “commonsense legislation” will give “the people most affected the final say.”
As this legislation moves through Congress, let’s pray for every community that’s been stretched thin by refugee resettlement!
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Thomas Tiffany, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145738025)
