Rick Scott: Florida Won't Take Syrian Refugees Without 'Extensive Evaluation' Of Risk

Florida is reexamining its Syrian refugee policy f ollowing the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 dead and hundreds of others injured. On Monday, in a letter to U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, Gov. Rick Scott announced he would be opposing the resettling of 425 Syrians to Florida. Scott said "the news that at least one of the terror attack suspects gained access to France by posing as a Syrian refugee" has led Florida to reevaluate its resettling plan, citing homeland security concerns. Instead, Scott is asking Congress to block President Obama from using federal tax dollars to relocate Syrians without "an extensive evaluation of the risk these individuals may pose to our national security." Florida is one of six states that has housed the majority of the 1,500 Syrian refugees that have entered the country in the last four years, along with Texas, California, Michigan, Illinois and Arizona. About 3,000 Syrians live in South Florida.