We have seen countless examples of these people
being hunted down by terrorists. They have been assaulted, they have
been kidnapped, they have had family members held for ransom, and they
have been murdered. That is why I have worked on a bipartisan basis for 10 years
establishing the Special Immigrant Visa program with the late Senator
Kennedy, with Senator John McCain, Senator Shaheen, my Republican
colleague Adam Kinzinger, and Congressmen Stivers and Hunter who were
veterans themselves and understood why this program was important. There is a lot of talk about extreme vetting. Trust me--the
applicants for these visas are extremely vetted, taking 2 and 3 years,
sometimes longer, fighting the bureaucracy, trying to make sure that
they can escape to safety. Many have been killed because the extreme
vetting process took so long. To turn their lives upside down and put them at risk because there are
people in the White House who don't understand or who don't care is
appalling.
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