As governor of South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was sued by residents of the state for supporting former President Barack Obama's refugee resettlement plan.
Haley has long held differing opinions on the federal government's refugee resettlement program. The program resettles thousands of people across the United States each year, many arriving from some of the world's most dangerous regions.
For example, on November 13, 2015, three days after the terrorist attacks in Paris, France, seven Islamic terrorists killed 130 people, including one terrorist who reportedly entered the country posing as a Syrian refugee. were included, but Haley was one of only nine.Republican governors continued to support then-President Obama's plan to resettle Syrian refugees across the United States.
Then, under increasing pressure, late on November 16, 2015, Haley It came out Opposed President Obama's plan to resettle Syrians in South Carolina.
But Haley has made it clear that she only opposes the resettlement of Syrian refugees in South Carolina and continues to support the Obama administration's efforts to resettle refugees from other countries in the state.
“While I agree that the United States should seek to assist individuals in such dire situations, the situation in Syria makes their entry into the United States a potential threat to national security. ,” Haley wrote in the letter. time. “Therefore, I ask you to honor my request and not resettle Syrian refugees in South Carolina.”
About three months later, Walter Brian Bilbro of South Carolina, sued Haley joined other state officials and agencies in calling for an end to refugee resettlement in the state.
“I'm not a member of any right-wing organization, and I'm not affiliated with the NRA. I'm just an ordinary tax-paying citizen who is concerned about the safety of my family,” Bilbrough told the World in filing the lawsuit against Haley.・Told Net Daily. “…Somebody's got to stand up and take a stand. So really, I did it for our kids and the kids of our state.”
In Mr. Bilbro's complaint against Mr. Haley, he accused the administration of not keeping records on refugees resettled in South Carolina and argued that the state's refugee plan is unconstitutional.
Ultimately, in January 2017, a U.S. district judge was fired Lawsuit.
Questions have recently arisen regarding Haley's position on resettling refugees to the United States from terror-hit countries after she appeared to suggest to CNN in October 2023 that she supported resettling Gazans to the United States.
“There are so many people who want to be free from this terrorist grip, who want to be free from all of it. And America has always been sympathetic to the fact that we can separate civilians from terrorists. That's what we have,” Haley said when asked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) opposition to resettling Gazans.
The next day, a spokesperson for Haley's campaign told RealClearPolitics that Haley “opposes the U.S. dispossession of Gazans” and supports plans to keep Gazans in the region.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
