{"id":40722,"date":"2020-01-11T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40722"},"modified":"2020-01-11T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:28:27","slug":"texas-wont-take-refugees-shameful-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40722","title":{"rendered":"Texas won&#8217;t take refugees? Shameful decision!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=refugees%20%23GregAbbott%20%23TexasTribune%20%23Jesus%20%23Christianity%20%23NewTestament&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abbott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40723\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abbott-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abbott-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abbott-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abbott.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are understandably outraged over a decision by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott has decided that Texas will not participate in a federal refugee resettlement program, which around 40 other governors &#8212; from both political parties &#8212; have agreed to do.<\/p>\n<p>I am profoundly disappointed in Gov. Abbott&#8217;s decision to opt out of the resettlement effort.<\/p>\n<p>By definition, refugees are those who are fleeing terrible living conditions. They seek to enter the United States because, for varying reasons, they fear for their well-being in their native countries.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those on the far right declare fealty to their religious faith. They are chiefly Christians who adhere to the Jesus Christ&#8217;s teachings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I cannot find a single New Testament passage that suggests Jesus would approve of any effort to turn away the dispossessed, the downtrodden, those who are fleeing repression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2020\/01\/10\/abbott-tells-trump-administration-texas-wont-resettle-refugees\/\">According to the Texas Tribune<\/a>: <em>Abbott said the state and nonprofit organizations should concentrate resources on those already here, according to a letter the governor sent to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is not the action of a compassionate government with leaders who proclaim themselves as caring about their fellow human beings.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=refugees%20%23GregAbbott%20%23TexasTribune%20%23Jesus%20%23Christianity%20%23NewTestament&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are understandably outraged over a decision by the state. Abbott has decided that Texas will not participate in a federal refugee resettlement program, which around 40 other governors &#8212; from both political parties &#8212; have agreed to do. I am profoundly disappointed in Gov. Abbott&#8217;s decision to opt out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas won&#8217;t take refugees? Shameful decision!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2006,3875,4728],"class_list":["post-40722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-refugees","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40724,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions\/40724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}