[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 202]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ARRESTING TERRORISTS, NOT RANCHERS

  (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, while the Federal Government's focus to my 
constituents in the West appears to be reprosecuting ranchers for a 
small rangeland fire or to disarming Americans from protecting 
themselves, Federal agents focused on homeland security yesterday and 
bagged two Iraqi refugees in Sacramento and Houston with ties to recent 
travel to Syria to aid or seek to fight alongside Islamic State.
  Mr. Speaker, as we will hear from the President here on this floor in 
the State of the Union next week, I hope his focus will be on a migrant 
or refugee program that secures our borders, not a gun agenda that 
makes Americans more defenseless.
  With San Bernardino, California, being so fresh in our minds and that 
terrorism activity there, let's heed the words of Texas Governor Abbott 
and other States that are clamoring for a more effective vetting 
process before we bring more migrants into this country.

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