Rand: We’re at Risk from Refugees, Visa Waiver Nations

‘I say they should all come in through global entry, sort of a frequent flier program where you have to get background check or they have to wait 30 days’

PAUL: "Well, I think it’s all of the above. My bill would have addressed refugees, students, visitors and those who want to emigrate from countries that have significant jihadists movements. But even just isolating on the refugee thing for a moment, we had two Iraqi refugees come to my hometown, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and then proceeded to want to buy stinger missiles. It turns out one of them had fingerprints in our database system because he had his fingerprints on a — on a bomb fragment from Iraq, and yet we didn’t catch him. So this was just a couple of years ago we were not vetting refugees adequately. The Boston bombers also came here as refugees and became radicalized. So I think that for the president to say there’s no danger is incorrect. But I do agree with those who say the visa waiver program is a problem. There are many French citizens who want to attack their government and attack us and we have no program for screening them. I say they should all come in through global entry, sort of a frequent flier program where you have to get background check or they have to wait 30 days. Right now we have nothing in place and I think we are at a great deal of risk from a variety of sources, refugees, but also visa waiver nations."

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