More than two dozen governors have voiced opposition to the federal government resettling Syrian refugees within their states in the wake of attacks in Paris carried out by Islamic state terrorists, one of whom posed as a refugee in order to enter France.

In September, President Obama announced that the U.S. would take in as many as 10,000 Syrians in addition to its 2014 annual cap of 70,000.

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