McCain Urges Caution on Accepting Syrian Refugees: ‘If I Were Baghdadi, I’d Be Infiltrating’

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MITCHELL: “Well, can Congress support more money to bring refugees here to go through the background checks? Because I talked to many of these people. They are in limbo, also. They can't -- even those who get here can't get asylum status. They can't get any action out of the State Department. We don't have enough people even doing the screening.”

MCCAIN: “Well, I think we have to look at the situation. If I were Baghdadi, I would be infiltrating some young men of my own to try to get in with the refugees and do bad things in both Europe and the United States. There at least has to be a screening process that we can rely on. But second of all, we are already taking 70,000 refugees a year and there has to be some kind of strategy to end this endless flow which is coming as you know not just from Syria, although the majority, but from other countries that are also beset by ISIS and turmoil and carnage. So there has to be at least in my view, there has to be some strategy to not have to address the refugee problem at the end point, but at the beginning.”