Funny how candidate Lee said a statewide policy on transgender bathrooms would be divisive and should be left to local decision-making, but permitting federal resettlement contractors to operate in any county they choose, was his decision alone to make.
Even though Governor Lee said he consented for the whole state for continued initial resettlement of refugees in Tennessee, President Trump and the Department of Justice have clearly said otherwise.
The DOJ has written explicitly in their legal brief objecting to the federal contractors’ lawsuit to enjoin the President’s Executive Order:
“Section 2(b) of the Executive Order further requires the Secretary of State to develop and implement a process by which the State’s and locality’s consent to resettlement is ‘taken into account to the maximum extent consistent with law.’” Specifically, if either a State or locality has not provided consent to receive refugees, then refugees should not be resettled within that State or locality unless the Secretary of State concludes, following consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security, that failing to resettle refugees within that State or locality would be inconsistent with the policies and strategies established under the Refugee Act… or other applicable law.”
But the DOJ and President Trump didn’t expect that Bill Lee would act like king for a day and claim that his consent to continue importing refugees, would take away any decision-making authority given to a local government by the President’s EO.
So why should local governments in Tennessee take the time to formally register either their CONSENT or NON-CONSENT for refugee resettlement?
- Unlike Bill Lee, the President respects the opinions and positions of everyday working American citizens.
- Ensuring that local governments have a say in what goes on in their community is the foundation of Trump’s America-first agenda and all of his efforts on the issues involved with both legal immigration like refugee resettlement, and illegal immigration.
- The President’s Executive Order, the Funding Notice which operationalizes the EO, and the DOJ’s legal brief explicitly and repeatedly emphasize the role of local governments to voice their preferences about receiving and supporting refugees.
- The President’s Executive Order says that “with limited exceptions, the Federal Government,”…”should resettle refugees only in those jurisdictions in which both the State and local governments have consented to receive refugees under the Department of State’s Reception and Placement Program.”
- The practical effect of Bill Lee’s statewide consent, is that counties are now in the position that if they don’t formally OPT-OUT, they will remain subject to Lee’s statewide consent.
- The State Department has not decided yet whether no action/silence on the part of a local government will be considered a consent or a non-consent to receive newly arrived refugees. So non-consenting counties would be wise to get a letter or resolution of non-consent to the State Department as they start to decide where resettlement activity will be allowed.
BTW, it’s being reported that the Governor is claiming “executive privilege” in order to hide information and other documentation related to his all-encompassing mandate for his fiefdom to receive arriving refugees.
Now it’s really getting interesting.
We The People, The Voters, from Tennessee, call on our Governor, Mr. Bill Lee, to reverse his decision on the Refugee Resettlement Program.
WHEREAS,
Governor Lee has his priorities messed up. He made a horrendous decision to continue resettling REFUGEES against the wishes of his supporters; and,
WHEREAS,
Unlike Bill Lee, the President respects the opinions and positions of everyday working American citizen; and,
WHEREAS,
Ensuring that local governments have a say in what goes on in their community is the foundation of Trump’s America-first agenda and all of his efforts on the issues involved with both legal immigration like refugee resettlement, and illegal immigration; and,
WHEREAS,
The President’s Executive Order, the Funding Notice which operationalizes the EO, and the DOJ’s legal brief explicitly and repeatedly emphasize the role of local governments to voice their preferences about receiving and supporting refugees; and,
WHEREAS,
The President’s Executive Order says that “with limited exceptions, the Federal Government,”…”should resettle refugees only in those jurisdictions in which both the State and local governments have consented to receive refugees under the Department of State’s Reception and Placement Program.”; and,
WHEREAS,
The practical effect of Bill Lee’s statewide consent, is that counties are now in the position that if they don’t formally OPT-OUT, they will remain subject to Lee’s statewide consent; and,
WHEREAS,
The State Department has not decided yet whether no action/silence on the part of a local government will be considered a consent or a non-consent to receive newly arrived refugees. So non-consenting counties would be wise to get a letter or resolution of non-consent to the State Department as they start to decide where resettlement activity will be allowed; and,
WHEREAS,
All during the Haslam Adm, Tennesseans got screwed and here is proof; “Who Got the Jobs in Tennessee? All of Tennessee’s Employment Growth Since 2000 Has Gone to Immigrants, Yet Native Tennesseans Accounted for Two-Thirds of Population Growth”; and,
WHEREAS,
Your company was a bronze donor to the Nashville Chamber (25,000 plus in five years). “The Nashville Chamber of Commerce and the Partnership for a New American Economy, now known as The New American Economy (NAE), are helping spread liberal immigration policies; and,
WHEREAS,
The NAE is funded by MICHAEL BLOOMBERG and RUPERT MURDOCK, two never Trumpers; and,
WHEREAS,
In fact Bloomberg said; “Employers Should Hire ‘the Best’ Foreigners Instead of American; and,
WHEREAS,
As far as the liberal lies about a labor shortage, read the following;
The U.S. Is Not ‘Too Empty’ or ‘In Dire Need of New Faces’, at the N.Y. Times; and,
WHEREAS,
The federal Refugee Resettlement Program is operated today by the Global Left, the UN, Islam, and religious frauds. The goal is to Change America by Changing its People; and,
WHEREAS,
We the people, the voters, consider the issue of resettlement of refugees from the Middle East and other illegal aliens to be a matter of the most urgent concern, as it involves vital issues of national security, terrorism, public health and public safety, and expenditures of public taxpayer funds; and,
WHEREAS,
As a result, we are drowning in refugees who are destroying our Constitutional freedoms, overburdening our welfare system and posing a genuine national security threat; and,
WHEREAS,
Former FBI Director Comey has declared the complete vetting of foreign (Kurdish, Syrian, etc) refugees to be impossible, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Stewart states ISIS will attempt direct attacks again in the U.S.; and,
WHEREAS,
That enemy, the Islamic terrorist, is being allowed to live among Americans at the invitation of the United States Government; and,
WHEREAS,
The funding for this program is taken from the Federal government and the economic burden undeniably rests with the citizen taxpayer for the refugees’ welfare to include: housing, healthcare, food, education, language courses, job training, legal and community support making this program unsustainable and unacceptable to the American worker; and,
WHEREAS,
The Refugee Resettlement Program is bringing people into our state that can carry TB and all sorts of other diseases; and,
WHEREAS,
We the people, the voters, strongly recommend that our Governor, Mr. Bill Lee take a leading role in refusing to establish havens here in Tennessee; and,
WHEREAS,
The refugee who is truly fleeing for his life should be cared for in close proximity to his home country as it costs the American taxpayer twelve times the cost to resettle one refugee here as it would to shelter that refugee near his homeland; and,
WHEREAS,
There has never been a time in the history of this country where the government of the United States has worked so diligently against the interests of the American citizen; and,
WHEREAS,
It is being reported that the Governor is claiming “executive privilege” in order to hide information and other documentation related to his all-encompassing mandate for his fiefdom to receive arriving refugees; and,
WHEREAS,
Voter’s Remorse is running high in Tennessee; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT,
All State of Tennessee Legislators, Congressmen/women, Senators and the Tennessee State Governor shall immediately pass a bill with a Veto Proof and if possible an Executive Order proof that halts and defund the Refugee Resettlement program, until deemed appropriate, in order to bring about a more robust national security, and a healthy economy which seeks to put Tennesseans first, not refugees who have no vested interests in our State of Tennessee; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT,
The State of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee reverse’s his decision until the Tennessee State Election in November, 2020 and placed on the State Ballot so all of the Registered Voters of the State of Tennessee are allowed to place their votes for either a YES or NO and all State of Tennessee Legislators, Congressmen/women, Senators and Governor Bill Lee will act promptly and without delay to the wishes of the Voters of Tennessee.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/gov-bill-lee-reverse-your-resettlement-program
Didn’t take long for Lee to show his true colors. Some of us knew he was a fraud from the start and can now have the honor of saying “I Told Ya So”