Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Monday that the United States already vets refugees entering the country, and she has no specific plan to make the vetting process more stringent.
Reports from Clinton’s Monday evening speech at Pine Middle School in Reno, Nevada, suggest that Clinton thinks our current refugee-vetting process is just fine.
Nevada-based RGJ reporter Seth Richardson transcribed Clinton’s remarks.
.@HillaryClinton: Don’t get diverted by fear tactics and scare mongering and inflammatory rhetoric. We have to be vigilant to protect U.S.
— Seth A. Richardson (@SethARichardson) November 24, 2015
.@HillaryClinton: If there are ways to make the vetting process stronger, I would look into that. But 9/11 hijackers came here on visas. — Seth A. Richardson (@SethARichardson) November 24, 2015
.@HillaryClinton: We already vet refugees. It takes 18 mos to 2 years.
— Seth A. Richardson (@SethARichardson) November 24, 2015
As Breitbart News has reported, Clinton is a major advocate for importing thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, even after the Syria-based Islamic State terrorist group launched deadly attacks in Paris and continues to threaten Americans. Clinton has said that “slamming the door on refugees isn’t who we are” and even invoked Adolf Hitler’s WWII war crimes to defend her refugee plan.