Let me just say that nothing the President did made us safer. And one
of the most outrageous claims the President made was that we don't have
extreme vetting. The Presiding Officer and I both serve on the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, and after we realized that we needed to
take a closer look at refugees and making sure bad guys weren't getting
into this country, we instituted an amazing array of vetting processes. Let me first start with this important principle. Nobody applies to
the United States for refugee status; they apply to the United Nations. Less than 1 percent of the people who apply for refugee status with the
United Nations are granted the opportunity to go forward. So we start
out with 99-plus percent of the people who apply to be a refugee turned
down at the United Nations, so the less than 1 percent who come to us,
come to us for another aggressive screening process. I went to Jordan
and watched it. There are multiple interviews.
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