{"id":182159,"date":"2015-12-03T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/03\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:44:00","slug":"can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/03\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Give Texas Back to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/03\/texas-sues-humanitarian-group-syrian-refugees\">has just sued the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in an attempt to prevent them from reuniting a Syrian refugee family in Dallas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Texas has filed a lawsuit aiming to block Syrian refugees from settling in the Dallas area, in the latest salvo of an escalating row between the state, an aid group and the federal government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Relatives of Faez and Shaza, who fled Syria for Jordan in 2013 and were settled this year in a Dallas suburb, are expected to arrive as early as Friday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They are being helped by the Dallas branch of the New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC), but Texas officials sent letters to IRC asking them to halt their assistance to the refugees. The humanitarian group issued a statement on Wednesday refusing to comply with instructions from Greg Abbott, Texas\u2019s Republican governor, and Chris Traylor, the head of the state\u2019s health agency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In response, Texas\u2019s health and human services commission filed a federal lawsuit against the IRC and the Obama administration this week that asks the court to stop the family from arriving in Texas in the next few days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It accuses the defendants of potentially endangering public safety by failing to cooperate closely and share sufficient information about the background of the refugees.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just repulsive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Texas has just sued the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in an attempt to prevent them from reuniting a Syrian refugee family in Dallas: Texas has filed a lawsuit aiming to block Syrian refugees from settling in the Dallas area, in the latest salvo of an escalating row between the state, an aid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1053,978,1184,980,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-immigration","category-politics","category-refugees","category-syria","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}