Editing Sam Brownback (section)

===Immigration===

==== Senate record ====
Brownback had a Senate voting record that has tended to support higher legal immigration levels<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=KS&VIPID=317|title=Immigration-Reduction Grades - NumbersUSA - For Lower Immigration Levels|website=grades.betterimmigration.com|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=January 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107050946/http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=KS&VIPID=317|url-status=dead}}</ref> and strong refugee protection. Brownback was cosponsor of a 2005 bill of [[Ted Kennedy]] and [[John McCain]]'s which would have created a legal path to citizenship for millions of [[illegal immigration|illegal immigrants]] already present.<ref name="immbill2005">{{cite web |title =Democrats are flocking to McCain's immigration bill |url =http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/democrats-are-flocking-to-mccains-immigration-bill-2005-08-17.html |access-date =June 21, 2007 |archive-date =August 25, 2007 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070825202707/http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/democrats-are-flocking-to-mccains-immigration-bill-2005-08-17.html |url-status =dead }}</ref> On June 26, 2007, Brownback voted in favor of S. 1639, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01639:|title=Search Results – Thomas (Library of Congress)|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=October 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018153249/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01639:|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00228|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session|website=www.senate.gov|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=October 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018060924/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00228|url-status=live}}</ref> Brownback supports increasing numbers of legal immigrants, building a fence on Mexican border, and the reform bill "if enforced."
While he initially supported giving guest workers a path to citizenship, Brownback eventually voted "Nay" on June 28, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00235|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session|website=www.senate.gov|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=December 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230043655/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00235|url-status=live}}</ref> Brownback has said that he supports immigration reform because the [[Bible]] says to welcome the stranger.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/on-the-road-a-week-with-values-voters/ |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=On the Road: A Week With 'Values' Voters |first=Michael |last=Luo |date=October 28, 2007 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |archive-date=November 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119110347/http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/on-the-road-a-week-with-values-voters/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Record as governor ====
On April 25, 2016, Brownback issued executive orders barring state agencies from facilitating [[Refugees of the Syrian civil war|refugee resettlement from Syria]] and other majority-Muslim countries, in concert with the federal [[Office of Refugee Resettlement]] (ORR). He maintained they presented security risks, and his decision entirely removed Kansas from the program. The ORR served notice that it would instead work directly with local refugee resettlement organizations. Kansas was the first state to withdraw from the federal refugee resettlement program.<ref name="newsweek" />

As a result of Brownback's action, Kansas lost about $2.2 million annually that had been provided to support resettlement agencies. The state had been working with three such agencies, among them Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, in making appropriate placements. In the seven months preceding his order, 354 refugees were resettled in Kansas, with 13 Syrians placed in the Wichita or Kansas City areas in the previous 16 months. Representative [[Jim Ward (Kansas politician)|Jim Ward]] from Wichita called Brownback's announcement "a distraction", intended solely for political purposes, as Kansas faced a $290 million budget deficit.<ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article73945807.html Gov. Sam Brownback withdraws Kansas from federal refugee resettlement program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729013339/http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article73945807.html |date=July 29, 2017 }}, ''[[Kansas City Star]]'', Edward M. Eveld, April 26, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2017.</ref>