Speech #CREC-2017-02-07-pt1-PgH1072_t1

There was one panel member that repeated--and I know she didn't mean it to intentionally misrepresent the facts, but she did in saying that no one has been arrested from one of those seven countries for any terrorist activity. Or maybe she said not committed any. So it seems that it is worth taking a look at Neil Munro's article from Breitbart: ``Seattle Judge Was Ignorant About Jihad Convictions Prior to Imposing Refugee Reform Ban.'' ``The Seattle judge who temporarily banned the White House's refugee reform plan acted after mistakenly claiming the federal government has not arrested jihadi migrants from the seven Muslim countries covered by the reform. ``But the federal government has arrested and jailed at least 76 people since 2001 from the seven countries covered in the first stage of the president's reform, which was announced late January. ``That fact means there is a huge error in the judge's rationale for imposing a `Temporary Restraining Order' ban on the president's popular reform of the expensive refugee and immigration programs. ``In a hearing before the decision, Judge James Robart told a lawyer from the Department of Justice that the federal government has not arrested people since 2001 from any of the seven countries named in the reform, since the 2001 atrocity in New York. `How many arrests have there been of foreign nationals for those seven countries since 9/11?' he asked. ``The justice department's lawyer replied, `Your Honor, I don't have that information,' prompting Robart to answer his own question.'' The judge said: ``Let me tell, you, the answer to that is none, as best I can tell. You're here arguing on behalf of someone that says we have to protect the United States from these individuals coming from these countries and there's no support for that.'' All of us are ignorant of some areas. What is incredibly problematic is when you have a judicial official, a Federal judge with a lifetime appointment not only ignorant, but uses his ignorance as the basis of an illegal, unconstitutional order and then adds arrogance to his ignorance.