Mark Steyn: If We Accept Refugees, We’ll Have No Clue Who They Are

‘Several Republican candidates seem to think we should take these refugees and seem to think that we have the capacity to check their bona fides’

HANNITY: "That also raises another question. The president, even though James Clapper and our State Department have told us -- the highest levels on our intelligence community have told us that ISIS and al Qaeda will infiltrate the refugee population, they want to take as many as 200,000. I assume that number will go higher over time. I happen to be of the belief that if we risk taking one radical Islamist into the country in the refugee population, that we've made a big mistake and put the entire country at risk. Are the Republicans going to fight back on that?"
STEYN: "Well, I would certainly hope so. the fact is several Republican candidates seem to think we should take these refugees and seem to think we have the capacity to check their bona fides. I happened to go through U.S. immigration --" [crosstalk] 
HANNITY: "How do you do that? How do you determine if someone's a genuine refugee or somebody  is a terrorist who has been trained to lie to you and say that he's here for humanitarian reasons for a better life for his family? They lie."
STEYN: "They won't. They won't because it will be a straight -- my lawyer told me that my application -- they spent six minutes on it. I would think that if anything it's maybe down to three minutes by now. So I would imagine that most of these refugees will in effect be no more different than what's happening at the Hungarian border where every so often a bunch scramble across the fence and you don't know who the hell they are. Here you'll just be filling in the paper but it will be the same as scrambling over the fence. you have no clue who they are and what their real name is and where they came from."

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