Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-02-02-pt1-PgH929-3_t1

The argument that it was a religious test; this executive order is not a religious test. It doesn't reference religion. In fact, when I have asked questions of the officials of the Obama administration, I have said to them: Why is it that Christians don't seem to be allowed into the United States as refugees under the Obama administration? We saw one group that was 1,500-some-strong that had one Christian in there. So I traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, and sat down with the lead on UNHCR, the United Nations Council on Refugees. And there, I believe her name is Kelly Clements, I asked: Do you determine when you are vetting refugees, what their religious is? She says: Yes, we do. And she said they had 115,000 refugees that they had run through their process that they had vetted. And of those 115,000, I said, how many of them are Christians? And she said: 15,000.
Keywords matched
Refugees refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
STEVE KING
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
Date
2017-02-02
Speech ID
CREC-2017-02-02-pt1-PgH929-3_t1
Paragraph
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