On Saturday, a 5-year-old Maryland boy was held for hours at the
Washington Dulles International Airport while his frantic Iranian-born
mother waited outside. Meanwhile, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, alt-
right provocateur Steve Bannon reassured the President that their
extreme vetting was protecting us from evil. Okay, Mr. Bannon. Let's talk extreme vetting. Before refugees make it to America, they are first vetted by the U.N. Commission for Refugees. Then the State Department investigates and
interviews them overseas, checking them against databases with data
from battlefields, email intercepts, intelligence, and other
interviews. If they make it this far--and many do not--they are
fingerprinted and investigated again by the FBI.
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