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Georgia Tells Syrian Family To Starve – No Food Stamps For You
No, not the Central Asian country, the one near Florida. 
http://samuel-warde.com/2015/12/georgia-tells-syrian-family-no-benefits/
In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and mounting paranoia regarding Syrian refugees, Republican Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia issued an executive order in November directing that “all agencies of the State of Georgia halt any involvement in accepting refugees from Syria.”
This was quickly followed up by the issuance of an additional memo from the Georgia Department of Human Services directing their staff not to accept or process any applications for benefit assistance from any Syrian refugees.
In keeping with these Republican led mandates, the state Dept. of Human Services confirmed to the Atlantic Journal-Constitution last week that the State of Georgia is refusing to process the application for food stamps and other state benefits filed by a newly arrived Syrian refugee family of three, Mohammad and his wife Ebtesam and their four-year-0ld son Hasan. (The family asked that their last names not be published to protect relatives still residing in Syria.)...
Gov. Deal has stated that he won’t budge on his decision to deny food stamps to the family, telling the Savannah Morning News that: “I’ve already told them if they don’t like the way we administer the SNAP program, the food stamp program — it’s their program — if they don’t like the way we do it, let them come run it,” adding “We’ll hand it over to them.”
This was quickly followed up by the issuance of an additional memo from the Georgia Department of Human Services directing their staff not to accept or process any applications for benefit assistance from any Syrian refugees.
In keeping with these Republican led mandates, the state Dept. of Human Services confirmed to the Atlantic Journal-Constitution last week that the State of Georgia is refusing to process the application for food stamps and other state benefits filed by a newly arrived Syrian refugee family of three, Mohammad and his wife Ebtesam and their four-year-0ld son Hasan. (The family asked that their last names not be published to protect relatives still residing in Syria.)...
Gov. Deal has stated that he won’t budge on his decision to deny food stamps to the family, telling the Savannah Morning News that: “I’ve already told them if they don’t like the way we administer the SNAP program, the food stamp program — it’s their program — if they don’t like the way we do it, let them come run it,” adding “We’ll hand it over to them.”
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The states have some flexibility in their programs but I don't think that they can discriminate against certain applicants like this.
