Speech #1140068608

Paris. and more recently. San Bernardino. While the President was in Paris recently. he lectured the American people not on the moral necessity to destroy ISIS but instead on our supposed lack of compassion and understanding regarding his latest plan to resettle 10.000 Middle Eastern refugees in America. I represent the great State of North Carolina. It is a State that has provided refuge to those who have fought and died on Americas sidethe South Vietnamese. Laotians. Montagnards. and Cambodians. But the Presidents remarks were disingenuous. because what he didnt tell the American people is that his own FBI Director has warned of Americas inability to properly vet the refugeesan inability that only requires a 1 in 10.000 chance to produce a catastrophic and tragic result. Instead of acknowledging these wellfounded concerns. the President hectored the critics of his planRepublicans. Democrats. and everyone else in betweeneven after French authorities told him several members of the terrorist cell got into France masquerading as Syrian refugees. Syrian refugees with fake passports were caught trying to reach America through Honduras. and Syrians have been arrested trying to cross into Texas. Let me tell you why this administrations rebuke is indicative of a foreign policy that is completely detached from reality. On October 29. 23 refugees died in a rocket attack at Camp Liberty in Iraq. Camp Liberty is a former U.S. military base outside of Baghdad that is home to more than 2.000 Iranian refugees who are members of the main opposition group to the ayatollahs in Tehran. The refugees at Camp Liberty have been fully vetted by American intelligence services. Eighty Iranianbuilt rockets struck the camp that has been home to the Peoples Mojahedin. an organization that has tried to fight the mullahs in Tehran. The ayatollahs want the leaders and the families of these inhabitants at Camp Liberty eliminated. and their friends in Baghdad are doing their bidding. The men. women. and children at Camp Liberty have suffered numerous attacks resulting in hundreds of casualties. Nor has Camp Liberty. which was supposed to be a temporary home before the refugees were settled outside of Iraq. met the most basic humanitarian needs. They lack clean water. decent food. medical supplies. and decent living facilities. and every single day they go to bed at night worried if it is their last day on Earth. The Obama administration pledged to protect these refugees who put their lives and their childrens lives on the line for freedom. Yet it has done absolutely nothing to keep Americas word. Why take in unvetted Syrian refugees and not a handful of refugees from Iran that are fully vetted? To curry favor with the same regime that killed American soldiers during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn? I hope not.