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Add New Jersey to the growing list of states closed to Obama's Syrian RefuJihadi Resettlement Program.
Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday sent a letter to President Obama saying New Jersey will not accept any Syrian refugees from the war-torn country.
In the letter, Christie argued the Obama administration failed to notify the state or coordinate with New Jersey agencies on resettling refugees in the Garden State.
"The threat posed to New Jersey by ISIS is very real. I write to inform you that I will not accept any refugees from Syria in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Paris," Christie wrote.
"I urge you to halt your plans to accept more Syrian refugees in the United States," he said. "I have no doubt that ISIS will try to exploit American humanitarianism to expose Americans to similar deadly risk."
Tough talk, right?
Maybe. But then, in his next breath, Christie explicitly refused to endorse re-establishing any surveillance of Muslims and their mosques.
Gov. Chris Christie on Monday rejected a suggestion by Republican presidential rival Donald Trump that the U.S. should "strongly consider" closing mosques in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
"We don't need to do that," the New Jersey governor said during an interview on conservative host Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
"What we need to do is to make sure we're getting every bit of intelligence we need to intercept those folks before they act."
New Jersey, which has one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.S., is home to 109 mosques — tied with Illinois for the most in the country, after New York, California, Texas, and Florida, according to statistics from a study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.
How he plans to get "every bit of intelligence" without watching those mosques, something he repeatedly opposed, remains a mystery to me. Because it's not like a mosque in New Jersey has ever been used to incite terrorism, right?
So I sure hope that "largest Muslim population in the U.S." we have around here
is chock-full of those peaceful fellers I keep hearing so much about. Otherwise
we just might be in for a rude surprise. And I really don't want to have to
say, again, "I told you so."
Posted at 15:58 by Chris Wysocki
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