Speech #1140101825

Rather than engaging in political showmanship. trying to gain partisan advantage in the November election. how about we come together and say: If you join ISIS. you are not using a U.S. passport to come back here and murder American citizens. That ought to be a unanimous agreement if we were focused on keeping this country safe. Likewise. lets talk about the problem of refugees. What are the consequences of the willful blindness of this administration that President Obama. in the face of this terror attack. says that he will admit some 10.000 Syrian Muslim refugees. despite the fact that the FBI Director has told Congress he cannot possibly vet them to determine if they are terrorists? Here is what FBI Director Comey said: We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database. we can query our database until the cows come home. but there will be nothing to show up because we have no record of them. This is an FBI Director who was appointed by President Obama who is telling the administration they cannot vet these refugees. Yet what does the administration say? What does Hillary Clinton say? What do the Senate Democrats say? Let the refugees in. even though ISIS is telling us they are going to use those refugees to send terrorists here to come and murder us. This transcends mere partisan disagreement. this is lunacy. We know the Paris attack was carried out in part by people who came in using the refugee program. taking advantage of the refugee program. Indeed. earlier this year. on January 6. 2016. Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan. a Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee in 2009. was charged with attempting to provide support to ISIS. He wanted to set off bombs using cell phone detonators at two malls in my hometown of Houston. TX. This is a refugee who came from Iraq. Yet. do you hear the administration saying: This is a dangerous world. Jihadists are attempting to kill us. We have to keep us safe. They dont say that. The legislation I have introduced. which I would urge this body to take up. would impose a 3year moratorium on refugees coming from any nation where ISIS or Al Qaeda or radical Islamic terrorists control a substantial portion of the territory. We can help with humanitarian efforts. We can help resettling refugees in majority Muslim countries in the Middle East. America is a compassionate country that has given more than 10 times as much money as any country on Earth to caring for refugees. But being compassionate doesnt mean we are suicidal. It doesnt mean we invite to America. we invite to our homes people who the FBI cannot tell us if they are terrorists or not.