To: Governor Laura Kelly

Brownback, your fear of terrorists is hurting Muslims in Kansas!

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Governor, people don’t flee for their lives and spend years in camps to become killers when they've been targets of terror. I trust the Department of Homeland Security to make resettlement decisions, you don’t? If you are concerned about the safety of Kansans, consider the hatred you are stirring toward our Muslim friends who already receive unjust and frightening threats. Your "no refugee" policy is the real danger to Kansans!

Why is this important?

On April 26, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback notified “the Obama administration" that the Kansas Refugee Resettlement Program State Plan, which resettles refugees with help from federal funds, will no longer accept those funds because he says Kansans are in danger of terrorists from Syria, Iraq, or Sudan sneaking in as refugees. Because governors have no authority to limit who enters their states, the federal government will now have to identify a private Kansas entity to run an “alternative” resettlement program under the Wilson-Fish Amendment. While this eliminates supervision by the state over the funds, it has no effect on which refugees come to Kansas or on the 13-step screening process. Apparently the governor is trading away the public’s goodwill towards our Arab and Muslim neighbors to avert attention from the serious problems the state faces.