A family of Syrian refugees accepted into the United States has been re-routed after the governor of Indiana objected to them coming to his state, officials said Wednesday, according to AFP.
A non-governmental resettlement agency had planned to send the family of three, selected from a UN refugee camp in the Middle East and vetted by US security agencies, to start a new life in Indianapolis. But after Indiana's Governor Mike Pence joined the two dozen state leaders refusing to accept Syrians for fear that violent Islamist infiltrators are concealed among them, the agency re-directed them to Connecticut.