Tom Tancredo: “absolutely. Here is the thing: we are now 10 months past 9-11. We can talk about the errors we have made in the Congress…”

“absolutely. Here is the thing: we are now 10 months past 9-11. We can talk about the errors we have made in the Congress in the past and the errors this government has made in the past in the crazy-quilt patchwork type of immigration policy that we have been dealing with here for years, and we can affix blame there, and rightly so. But would the gentleman not think that subsequent to 9-11, subsequent to that horrible event, we would have done something to correct this action, to say, okay, we have made mistakes and we recognize it? But not only have we not done anything significant to correct it, but an interesting article that I came across just the other day said that, since 9-11, we have given out over 50,000 visas to people from countries on the terrorist watch list. This is not just people from countries that are kind of on the fringe; these are people from the countries on the terrorist watch list. We have given out 50,000 visas since then. It is still the case that if people live in Saudi Arabia and want to come to the United States they do not have to go see an actual counselor; they can put it in a drop-box. They can get the visa. No one interviews them. This is coming from Saudi Arabia, a country that we already know many people have come from who have done horrible, horrible things to the United States.”