Texas Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t afraid to take an unpopular stand. When it comes to honoring the hero who stopped a recent church shooting in its tracks or standing up for Second Amendment rights on college campuses, this is a good thing. But with his Friday evening decision to reject new refugees from Texas, this time the governor has come down firmly on the wrong side.

After the Trump administration reduced the overall number of refugees the United States will accept drastically, it also changed the resettlement rules so that states must provide consent or opt-in to receive refugees. And as reported by the Washington Examiner, Abbott penned a letter Friday in response to this change that he declined to accept refugees to his state for fiscal year 2020.