A lawsuit by the state of Tennessee, if it succeeds, could allow states to get out of the federal refugee resettlement program. Don Barnett, a senior fellow of the Center for Immigration Studies and an expert on refugee policy, notes that the federal government “has shifted the fiscal burden of resettling refugees to the states, often requiring resources be taken from social services, infrastructure, schools, as well as state taxpayer priorities to implement a federal program.” He adds that “This was not the intent of the Refugee Act passed in 1980 and likely violates the 10th Amendment.”
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