Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-03-10-pt1-PgH2045-6_t1

Aren't you worried they will come after you, try to destroy you the same way? I am more concerned about my country. We have got to salvage this country's freedoms from the brink that it came to under the Obama administration Then we have a report, March 6, Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner: 300 Refugees Probed As Terrorists. ``In a bid to bolster President Trump's new executive order suspending travelers from six nations into the U.S., federal law enforcement officials revealed that they are investigating 300 refugees for terrorist ties. ``While U.S. officials would not provide details on the FBI investigations, they did say that they are refugees `who either infiltrated with hostile intent or radicalized' since coming into the United States.'' So these investigations are ongoing. I heard yet again this week a number of times, some of my friends across the aisle would say: Look, these refugees are not a problem. They are vetted for 2 years. We don't have to worry about them. Yes, we do. We have already seen people who came in as refugees, people who were granted asylum. A couple of them, I believe it was Tennessee or Kentucky where they got asylum. They had not bothered to check or notice that their fingerprints were on IEDs that were set up to kill Americans. So this 2-year vetting, oh, no, no, it is a long, tedious process to make sure they are okay. Well, I found out this week from an official with Homeland Security who said he wanted to know just how thorough the 2-year investigation and vetting was by the U.N. because he knew Homeland Security didn't do 2 years of vetting on these refugees. And, of course, the judges--who don't know ``sic `em'' from ``come here''-- out in the 9th Circuit think they have the right under the Constitution to be dictators, and for them, without proper knowledge of what is and isn't a threat to this country, to just dismiss orders that the President had the authority to make and just say, oh, they are unconstitutional, even though from their own statements they proved their own ignorance. So we have got refugees coming in. Thank God somebody at the Homeland Security Department wanted to get to the bottom of exactly what occurs during the 2 years that the United Nations refugee program does in vetting people. So he went straight to the person in charge of the refugee program at that time. He said: I would like to get a description of the processes of vetting that refugees go through from these countries they allege they are coming from. What all does the U.N. do to vet these refugees? And the answer came back: Well, actually, we don't do any vetting of the refugees. It is a long 2-year process most of the time, as we are trying to convince countries to take these people. We are not spending any of that time looking into their background.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that refugees are not properly vetted and pose a security threat.
Keywords matched
refugee Refugees refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
LOUIE GOHMERT
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
—
Date
2017-03-10
Speech ID
CREC-2017-03-10-pt1-PgH2045-6_t1
Paragraph
#3
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