Needham on Refugees: Compassion Doesn’t Require Being Stupid

NEEDHAM: "America is an extraordinarily compassionate nation. We’re — we’ve accepted 50 percent in 2013, we’ve accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees. Compassion doesn’t require being stupid, however, and I think going through, making sure that Congress is having the vetting process to allow these people in is absolutely common sense. When you look at Bowling Green, where two terrorists who came in from Iraq, where we have pretty good records, came in, they were vetted, it turns out they were terrorists. When you look at the Boston bomber, who was a refugee 17 years ago, got radicalized while in America. There are valid concerns to have about refugee programs, making sure that we’re not letting in an ISIS terror in that program. And if the president wants to have that debate, I think it’s a debate that we’re happy to have. And as Ted Cruz said, he should come back and make some of these claims to people’s faces. Let’s have a debate."