A Syrian refugee family will call New Haven, Conn. its home for now after being turned away from Indiana.

Gov. Dannel Malloy welcomed the family personally to Connecticut and explained the situation about why the three were diverted. "I told them that people in the United States are generous and good people, but sometimes things happen elsewhere that cause people to forget about their generosity… but that will return to the rest of people in due course."

The family of three fled war-torn Syria and has been living in Jordan for the past four years, Malloy said. The son wasn't even a year old when the family left Syria. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration sent a letter to Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc. notifying them that a family that was scheduled to arrive Nov. 19 would be turned away.

The letter went on to say that all subsequent Syrian arrivals would be suspended or redirected to a state that was willing to accept them. Exodus Refugee Immigration then began searching for a new home for the family.

It turned to Episcopal Migration Ministries, which placed a call with Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven, according to the New York Times.

The denial comes after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence directed all state agencies to suspend resettlement of all additional Syrian refugees. Pence gave the order after the deadly attack in Paris.

The order is in effect, "...pending assurances from the federal government that proper security measures have been achieved," Pence said in a statement. Malloy criticized Pence specifically.