[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           REFUGEE IMPACT ON THE SAFETY OF THE UNITED STATES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, we know now that one of the terrorists who 
participated in the attack on Paris last Friday entered Europe by 
posing as a refugee. Unfortunately, we have no assurances that a 
similar tactic would not be successful here in the United States.
  The Director of the FBI has testified before Congress that there is 
simply no way to vet many of the Syrian refugees. We cannot allow ISIS 
or any terrorist group to exploit the refugee resettlement program to 
sneak terrorists into our country by having lax background standards.
  This is a real threat. ISIS has promised more attacks, and we must 
take that seriously. We need to, at the very least, pause and assess 
allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. until we have a better screening 
procedure in place and focus on those that are persecuted, or even 
threatened with genocide, simply because of their being a religious 
minority.

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