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Texas Sues to Block Syrian Refugees

Want to prevent two families from settling this week.

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Texas has filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to block the resettlement of two Syrian refugee families scheduled for later this week. In the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the federal government violated its own law by moving forward with plans to accept

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