On the recordNovember 19, 2015
I think it is without question that we have the strongest, the most stringent, and the toughest refugee system in the entire world. I don't think anybody can dispute that. Yet, we are still humanitarians with regard to what our system is. This bill is called the American SAFE Act, but where our greatest danger lies is when rhetoric is given for ISIS to utilize in order to recruit American citizens--those of us who are here to radicalize them--and then they can go to a gun shop and buy an assault weapon. {time} 1245 If we truly want to make sure that America is safe, we should make sure that no homegrown or radicalized person here has access to an assault weapon. We should have a bill. We want every American to be safe, as I hear my colleagues talking. I am with you. How do we make them safe? Make sure that nobody, refugee or otherwise, has the ability to come to our Nation and put their hands on an assault weapon that can harm our people. That is what will keep America safe. Working together with the most stringent refugee system is what we need to do. This is just something to try to keep people from coming in who are running away from rape, from violence, from persecution. Young children and women who are widows overwhelmingly are the individuals of the 2,000 that have been led in here. Let's keep America safe. Let's keep assault weapons out of our land.
