Giuliani on Middle East Refugees: ‘We Would Be Foolish to Allow These People to Come into the U.S.’

‘We already have 1,000 investigations of radical Islamic terrorists in the United States’

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GIULIANI: "Well, I would say that those countries are certainly countries where we would have to be very careful. Now let’s take Egypt for example. Egypt, we could probably do some pretty good vetting. The CC government is a strong ally. It has a pretty good hold on the Muslim brotherhood. I’m not saying perfect, but they’ve done a lot of work in reducing the power of the Muslim brotherhood. They have a very, very mature and really strong army. You could do vetting in Egypt. Yemen, a lot more volatile, a lot more difficult to do vetting. I think this is going to be a country by country decision. Pakistan you can do pretty good vetting. So a lot of this is going to depend on, you know, how cooperative is the country we’re talking about? How many records can we get? The reason the Syrian problem was so bad, the Syrian refugees, it’s not just if you can’t vet them which actually director Comey, I think about five members of the Obama Administration have made clear. That you can’t vet these people, these refugees from Syria. The problem also is that baghdadi said he is going to put terrorists operatives in with the refugee population. He’s told us he’s going to do this."
TAPPER: "Right."
GIULIANI: "So we could be foolish to allow these people to come into the United States. We’re sort of being warned that he’s bringing more people into attack us. We already have 1,000 investigations of radical Islamic terrorists in the united States. We can’t add another whole group to that."

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