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TexasTowelie

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Sun Feb 5, 2017, 05:12 AM Feb 2017

Florida House Speaker Threatens to Ban Refugees From State, Thanks Trump for Muslim Ban

Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He's spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro "human life" (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion "March for Life" in Washington, D.C.

But Corcoran's concern for human life does not apparently extend to living, breathing victims of war, including people whose lives have been destroyed after attacks carried out by United States forces.

On Friday, that same "pro-human-life" legislator wrote President Donald Trump a letter, thanking him for instituting his ban on Muslim refugees, adding that he was worried that the Syrian, Iraqi, and Afghan refugees already settled in Florida last year posed a "legitimate" security risk, due to "terrorism."

He also said the Florida House of Representatives is "seriously re-evaluating" whether the state will continue to accept refugees. He then requested to meet with Trump officials in the near future.

Read more: http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/florida-house-speaker-threatens-to-ban-refugees-from-state-thanks-trump-for-muslim-ban-8403283

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Florida House Speaker Threatens to Ban Refugees From State, Thanks Trump for Muslim Ban (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
So, is he sending the Cuban refugees home? sinkingfeeling Feb 2017 #1
good luck with that... dhill926 Feb 2017 #2
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