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Maryland Governor Larry Hogan today announced he wants to put a hold on resettling Syrian refugees in the Old Line State, joining 26 other governors rolling up the welcome mat following Friday’s attacks in Paris.

On Facebook, Hogan writes that he is “requesting that federal authorities cease any additional settlements of refugees from Syria until the U.S. government can provide appropriate assurances that refugees from Syria pose no threat to public safety.” Hogan said yesterday that he and his team were making “a reasoned decision” on the matter.

This, despite the fact that it is dubious whether governors have the legal capability to refuse refugees, and that all of the identified attackers in the Paris attacks are European Union citizens.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland says Hogan’s decision, “goes against our common humanity. To shut the door in the face of those who are the most severely harmed by the very actions we so loudly condemn in Paris is to say that some lives—those of the Syrian refugees and their children—do not matter and are expendable.”

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is currently on an 11-day trade mission in the Middle East, but his office indicated that the state would continue to accept refugees. In a written statement, spokesman Brian Coy said, “Every refugee who is settled in the U.S. undergoes intensive security screening, and the governor has asked Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian J. Moran to ensure that every proper precaution is taken to keep Virginians safe.”

According to the Refugee Processing Center, Maryland has accepted 39 Syrian refugees since the country’s civil war began in April 2011, and Virginia has accepted 24.

D.C. does not resettle refugees, says Tena Gebretsadik, a case manager with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. “We had the problem of finding housing here, with the cost of housing being so high,” he explains.

Genet Derebe, a social worker in the D.C. Office of Refugee Resettlement, says that D.C. only resettles victims of human trafficking and secondary migrants, who are people who have already been settled elsewhere and then move to the District.

Catholic Charities and other church resettlement programs plan to continue their work, despite the political rhetoric. “We are always open to helping families who come into the United States in need of help,” Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said yesterday. “We have that tradition of doing it and we’re going to contribute.”

In September, President Obama pledged to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees, pending stringent background checks by the State Department. Those checks take between 18 and 24 months to complete.

Since that announcement on September 10, Maryland has accepted five Syrian refugees, according to the Refugee Processing Center.