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

We are just trying to find a place for them. Mr. Speaker, the next time you hear somebody say, Oh, no, this is a very thorough 2-year process of vetting these refugees of making sure they are not a threat, then I hope it will come to your mind that a representative of the U.N. talking to one of our top Homeland Security people--and I am not going to give his name, but he was told: We don't do any vetting. We are just trying to find a place to put them. When we find somebody who will take them, we feel like we have done a great thing. Well, maybe, if they are not terrorists. But we have seen the data that indicates that for the amount of money it costs to bring a refugee from the Middle East to the United States and take care of them for a year, what happens to the money actually spent, you could take care of 12 refugees if they were kept in the area and provided a safe area. That is what the Obama administration should have done. Instead of drawing red lines that it couldn't find after it drew them, the Obama administration should have said: We are going to participate in creating a safe area, provide flyover and provide people there. We are going to provide a safe area for refugees to come to until the war is over and people can return to their homes. Rather than create a system that will allow our enemies, the Islamic State and others, to do as they promised us they have been doing and will continue to do, and that is putting their terrorists in amongst the refugees, instead of doing that, putting our country at risk, let's let them stay near to their home, provide them safety, help provide them with what they need. Because when the greatest country, strongest country, most charitable country in the history of the world becomes so self-righteous that they feel like they don't need to do vetting, when they become so taken with appearing to be open-minded that they don't even protect themselves by doing what used to be called due diligence and checking on people to make sure they are not a threat to others around them, instead of doing that, we show irresponsibility when it comes to protecting America as when you are at risk of losing the country. But Americans, by a huge majority of electors, electoral college, elected President Trump.