They are already interviewed. Their background is
checked. Moving forward, the number of refugees entering the United States
will fall by 50 percent. It is clear that the President of the United
States has a fundamental misunderstanding of America's leading role on
refugee resettlement. Today, I will meet with King Abdallah of Jordan,
a nation that has accepted 650,000 Syrian refugees. And President Trump
is holding our program to accept approximately 10,000 Syrian refugees,
placing it on hold. Jordan is one of America's global partners in fighting extremism. It
will be interesting to see the reactions we get from our partners. If we close our doors to refugees, we will not only close our doors
to U.S. humanitarian values but also severely damage America's global
credibility on universal values. The United States is a nation of immigrants and refugees from all and
no faiths. We learned from our mistake with the St. Louis, and we are
the Nation that received refugees from the Holocaust after the Second
World War. We are the Nation that opened our doors to hundreds of
thousands of citizens fleeing conflicts and political oppression in El
Salvador, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The United States must continue to lead by example, but President
Trump's cruel Executive order on immigrants and refugees undermines our
core values and traditions, threatens our national security, and
demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of our strict vetting
process--the most thorough in the world. It is a dangerous and
shortsighted policy that erodes our moral leadership and harms our
national security as well as our alliances and partnerships worldwide. This is not the kind of America that Americans deserve.
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