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Gary Palmer: “It appears that not only are we not doing a particularly good job of vetting people coming here on visas, we are not…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2015
It appears that not only are we not doing a particularly good job of vetting people coming here on visas, we are not adequately vetting the refugees before we admit them, particularly from countries that might be problematic, that somehow people get moved to the head of the line.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Palmer criticizes the vetting process for refugees and the prioritization of their applications.

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