When asked about the problem of Syrian refugees and how they would each approach it, both Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley said even after the Islamic terrorist attack in Paris that they would welcome at least 65,000 Syrian refugees. “I was the first person on this stage to say that we should accept the 65,000 Syrian refugees that were fleeing the sort of murder of ISIL,” O’Malley said. “And I believe that that needs to be done with proper screening.”
Clinton agreed, “The administration originally said 10,000,” she said. But she wanted even more than Obama. “I said we should go to 65,000 but only if we have as careful a screening and vetting process as we can imagine, whatever resources it takes.”
Neither acknowledged that at least one of the Islamic terrorists in Paris was carrying a Syrian passport and came in the ‘refugee route’ through Greece. Nor have they acknowledged ISIS specific threat to smuggle people in with the ‘refugees’.
Neither acknowledged that the FBI Director, James Comey, has already said there is no way to adequately vette the refugees who are coming in. There are no records and as Europe shows, you have people buying Syrian passports to get in.
According to the Daily Caller:
FBI director James Comey said during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on in October that the federal government does not have the ability to conduct thorough background checks on all of the 10,000 Syrian refugees that the Obama administration says will be allowed to come to the U.S.
“We can only query against that which we have collected,” Comey said in response to a line of questioning from Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson .
“And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”
Former FBI director James Kallstrom also reiterated this after the Paris attack, saying that the refugee policy was ‘crazy’ and that the FBI did not have enough manpower to watch the people that needed to be watched ‘by the thousands’. He asked, why would politicians want to put more weight in the packs of the FBI by bringing in people who could not be vetted.