{"id":10665,"date":"2015-11-17T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2015-11-17T01:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T07:08:28","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-releases-statement-on-paris-attacks-refugee-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/11\/17\/tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-releases-statement-on-paris-attacks-refugee-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam releases Statement on Paris Attacks, Refugee Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-319699\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tennessee-State-Government.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"240\" height=\"79\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has released the following statement regarding the terrorist attacks in Paris and the placement of Syrian refugees:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we mourn the loss of innocent life from Friday\u2019s horrific and cowardly attacks in Paris, these terrible events have once again shown us that the threat of Islamic terrorism knows no boundaries and recognizes no borders. We as a state must do everything we can to provide Tennesseans the safe environment to live, work and raise a family that so many across the world seek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105761\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105761\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105761\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam2-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cSince Friday the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has been in contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and this administration has actively shared information with our local public safety partners across Tennessee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working to get specifics from the U.S. Department of State on the status of any Syrian refugees currently slated to come to Tennessee. While screening, acceptance and placement is legally under the authority of the federal government, they have said in the past they would be open to cooperating with receiving states. Today I\u2019m asking the federal government to suspend placements in Tennessee until states can become more of a partner in the vetting process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has released the following statement regarding the terrorist attacks in Paris and the placement of Syrian refugees: \u201cAs we mourn the loss of innocent life from Friday\u2019s horrific and cowardly attacks in Paris, these terrible events have once again shown us that the threat of Islamic terrorism knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3359,3234,3233,284,260,10558,10559,5442,3350,10560,4351,10561],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-haslam","tag-fbi","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-nashville-tn","tag-paris","tag-paris-france","tag-refugees","tag-tennessee-department-of-safety-and-homeland-security","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","tag-u-s-department-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}