Speaker, it is not a frivolous statement that I make; it is a
truthful statement because less than 72 hours ago, without the counsel
of many experts, Members of Congress who are on the jurisdictional
committees, without the notice and input of the Secretary of Homeland
Security, an executive order was produced by one young staffer in the
White House and another individual who has pushed an agenda of
exclusiveness. That is not the way to run this country. So this executive order came out, and what we find is that 67,000
refugees are stranded around the world who actually had documents, who
were vetted, and, as some stories have told us, waited 10 and 12 to 13
years to be able to get in line and to be vetted to come to the United
States of America. The tragedy is that some of them were, in fact, our
friends from Iraq who have stood by our military personnel who had, in
fact, provided them the interpretation that they needed to save their
lives. In one story we heard tonight on the steps of the United States
Supreme Court was a woman who finally got here with her two children.
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