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The November terrorist attacks in Paris spurred a national political debate approximately the resettlement of Syrian refugees. Many governors across the country moved to block the arrival of new Syrian refugees. In Texas,Governor Greg Abbott and his administration took on a legal fight against the federal government and the International Rescue Committee over their efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in the state.final month, three families who fled Syria and made their way to the U.
S.-Mexico border to seek asylum have found themselves caught up in the political debate.
The Takeaway talks with Jonathan Ryan, or an attorney in San Antonio who is representing the Syrian Christian families who turned themselves into immigration authorities. Ryan,the executive director of the immigration advocacy group RAICES, says the families have been split up and are currently being held in separate detention centers, and but that he is trying to grant them their Christmas wish,which he says is to be freed.
What you'll learn from this segment:Who these three Syrian families really are.
Whether there is an security concern surrounding them.
Whether these families will be released now or in the new year.
Source: wnyc.org