Post by Logan on Feb 19, 2016 2:14:09 GMT -6
A Richland County man has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the resettlement of refugees in South Carolina in order to protect the state from “criminals, narco-drug traffickers, terrorists, rapist(s)” and people “hostile to assimilation and the laws of South Carolina.”
The suit names as defendants Gov. Nikki Haley, the state Department of Social Services and two nonprofit agencies that help refugees start new lives in the state.
“The extraordinary and well founded potential for terrorism and other violent crime made possible by this inflow of Refugees from hostile Islamic states was simply not properly addressed in the State Plan,” Walter Brian Bilbro, the plaintiff, says in an affidavit in support of his motion for a temporary injunction or temporary restraining order against the state’s agreement with the federal government to allow refugees to resettle here.
In response to the lawsuit, the governor’s staff referred to a letter she wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks last November in which she asked that no Syrian refugees be allowed to resettle in South Carolina, “until I can be assured that all potential refugees from Syria have no ties to terrorist organizations.”
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/pickens-county/2016/02/17/lawsuit-aims-stop-resettlement-refugees-south-carolina/80501526/
The suit names as defendants Gov. Nikki Haley, the state Department of Social Services and two nonprofit agencies that help refugees start new lives in the state.
“The extraordinary and well founded potential for terrorism and other violent crime made possible by this inflow of Refugees from hostile Islamic states was simply not properly addressed in the State Plan,” Walter Brian Bilbro, the plaintiff, says in an affidavit in support of his motion for a temporary injunction or temporary restraining order against the state’s agreement with the federal government to allow refugees to resettle here.
In response to the lawsuit, the governor’s staff referred to a letter she wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks last November in which she asked that no Syrian refugees be allowed to resettle in South Carolina, “until I can be assured that all potential refugees from Syria have no ties to terrorist organizations.”
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/pickens-county/2016/02/17/lawsuit-aims-stop-resettlement-refugees-south-carolina/80501526/