A U.S. district judge ruled Wednesday that Texas cannot ban Syrian refugees from resettling in the state, shutting down a second attempt by Texas to obtain a restraining order in the case. U.S. District Judge David Godbey’s order could affect 30 other state governors in their efforts to block the refugees, according to Reuters.

President Obama vowed to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees and has already admitted 2,000, said Reuters. Texas filed the lawsuit in November, following the Paris attacks, citing concerns over extremists infiltrating Syrian refugees during resettlement in the state.

Judge Godbey wrote in his decision that the Court was aware of the dangers resettlement posed. “The Court does not deny that the Syrian refugees pose some risk,” he said. “That would be foolish. In our country, however, it is the federal executive that is charged with assessing and mitigating that risk, not the states and not the courts.”

“The fact that this Court is required to assess the risk posed by a group of Syrian refugees illustrates one of the problems with this case,” stated Judge Godbey. “The Court has no institutional competency in assessing the risk posed by refugees.”

Judge Godbey’s dismissal of Texas’ request to ban Syrian refugees reiterated his position from his decision in Texas’ first request in December, that the evidence presented was “largely speculative hearsay,” wrote The Huffington Post. “The (Texas) Commission has failed to show by competent evidence that any terrorists actually have infiltrated the refugee program, much less that these particular refugees are terrorists intent on causing harm,” Judge Godbey said Tuesday.

According to Reuters, Texas has become one of the main relocation sites since the Syrian civil war erupted around five years ago. Since then, 243 Syrian refugees have resettled in the state.