{"id":4732,"date":"2015-11-19T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2015-11-19T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:08:45","slug":"half-of-us-governors-refuse-to-take-in-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/half-of-us-governors-refuse-to-take-in-syrian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors refuse Syrian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MEREDITH SLOAN<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC News, at least half of the country&#8217;s governors are refusing to take in <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/news\/world\/syrian-refugees.htm\">Syrian refugees<\/a> in their states amid heightened security concerns following last Friday&#8217;s terrorist attacks in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS has\u00a0claimed responsibility\u00a0for the Paris terrorist attacks, in which 129\u00a0people were killed. Since Friday&#8217;s attacks, ISIS has threatened to attack Washington, D.C., and New York.<\/p>\n<p>This chilling effect has influenced several United States governors to refuse Syrian refugees. Ultimately the federal government decides on matters of immigration, not the states.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas has taken to Twitter to express his opposition to allowing refugees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-19-at-8.53.06-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4734 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-19-at-8.53.06-PM-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>This tweet caused a mostly negative reaction from his followers and media consumers alike.<\/p>\n<p>An individual with the twitter handle @jonvox responded to Hutchinson\u2019s tweet saying, \u201c You are a horrible man and make me embarrassed to be an Arkansan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Facebook and YouTube have been flooded with political comics and videos that compare the current refugee crisis to World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Those who support the relocation of refugees in the United States have compared the current government opposition specifically to the opposition towards Jewish refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The dissenting opinion of the U.S. governors is less likely to be accepted by media consumers on social media because of the chilling effect of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MEREDITH SLOAN According to ABC News, at least half of the country&#8217;s governors are refusing to take in Syrian refugees in their states amid heightened security concerns following last Friday&#8217;s terrorist attacks in Paris. ISIS has\u00a0claimed responsibility\u00a0for the Paris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/half-of-us-governors-refuse-to-take-in-syrian-refugees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[180,35,99,103,25,31,56,59],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meredith-sloan","tag-facebook","tag-international","tag-political-reporting","tag-social-issues","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-violence","tag-war-reporting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}