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PORTLAND -- Maine Governor Paul LePage says hersquo making big changes to how Maine participates in the federal refugee resettlement program, CBS affiliate WGME reports.Friday afternoon, when the governor was in the WGME studio, he said the state would stop helping resettle refugees here in Maine.Hersquo sent a letter to the president, ending the statersquo participation in the program. Itrsquo a controversial mov stanley shop e, but he says hersquo just lost confidence in the federal governmentrsquo ability to safely and responsibly run the refugee program. Coming to the U.S. as a refugee 01:52 In the letter, he goes on to say he no longer wants Maine associated with that shortcoming. He stanley cup cites an example of a refugee living in Freeport, who went back to Syria and died fighting for ISIS.He says the state has also found welfare fraud especially prevalent wit stanley quencher hin the refugee community, but during our interview, he stressed safety, and concerns the program puts American lives at risk.The president of the United States is bringing in immigrants from Syria without vetting them, LePage said. He says theyrsquo;re vetted; how do you vet someone you donrsquo;t have records on I just sent him a letter today wersquo;re pulling out of t Vurc GOP senators gush over Brett Kavanaugh after private meetings
CBS President Obama announced Monday morning that he supports a plan to allow states to essentially opt out of much of the health care law in 2014, so long as they come up with state-based plans that match the law in terms of extending coverage and benefits and don t add to the deficit. The measure, if passed by Congress, would move the potential opt-out date up from 2017 to 2014 -- the same year that many of the key provisions go into effect, including the ind stanley quencher ividual mandate, which has served as the basis for constitutional challenges to the law in court. The pres stanley botella ident s announcement raised questions about whether the White House was trying to find a way around the legal challenges to the law by changing it to make them moot. Two district court judges have thus far found the law to be unconstitutional, while three have upheld it; the matter is likely headed to the Supreme Court. Gregory Magarian, a constitutional law expert and law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said he didn t think the move would make a differ stanley water bottle ence when it came to constitutional challenges. Magarian believes the law is constitutional. The constitutional challenges depend on the idea that the Affordable Care Act violates states prerogatives under the 10th Amendment, he told Hotsheet. Following that logic, the opt-out simply gives states the option of capitulating to federal policy or submitting to an