Then reach out to the Saudis and Muslim leaders around the world. Join us in a coalition to destroy ISIS. first in their occupied territory in Syria and in Iraq. and then in their murderous web of recruitment and hate around the world. Several people in the United States have reacted to the tragedy in France by calling for us to suspend refugees coming to this country. Many of these people have not reflected on the refugee situation in our country. Each year. the United States of America accepts about 70.000 refugees from around the world. These refugees are each carefully investigated. reviewed and vetted. That process takes anywhere from 18 to 24 months before a refugee from any part of the world is allowed to enter the United States. We do everything humanly possible and take extraordinary efforts to make certain dangerous people do not arrive on our shores. That vetting process must continue and when it comes to suspicious circumstances. must be doubled in its intensity to make certain our Nation is safe. but for those who are focusing on that as the answer to what happened in Paris. they are very shortsighted. One out of four of the refugees coming to the United States in the last fiscal year came not from the Middle East but from Burma. In addition to that. we find many refugees coming to the United States from Iraq. It turns out that over 3.000 refugees came from Iran. In each and every instance. we should apply the standard of strict vetting and the highest standards of investigation. I certainly stand by that. but those who say we should turn away refugees coming to the United States have forgotten the lesson of history. It was May of 1939. a ship docked in Florida. The ship was named the SS St.
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