Kobach: Trump Administration Could Begin Extreme Vetting Now If They Have the ‘Willpower’

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, also the vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday regarding his latest Breitbart News piece on refugees and terrorism.

On June 21, Kobach wrote:

The left-leaning Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled against the Trump Administration’s “travel ban” and kept in place the preliminary injunction that prevents President Trump’s executive order from going into effect. In a classic case of judicial activism, the three Clinton-appointed judges declared that the president’s order “does not offer a sufficient justification” to satisfy them. Never mind that the relevant statute does not require the president to satisfy federal judges (or anyone else, for that matter) that his decision is a good one.

Like other liberal critics of the president, the judges questioned whether the six nations subject to a 90-day travel ban (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) really represent the most dangerous sources of terrorists in the world. No doubt this discussion will continue in the court of public opinion.

While citing serious problems with America’s current refugee and asylum programs, Kobach said on Friday, “One thing [the Trump administration] can be doing right now, without waiting for a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, even without approval of the executive order, they can be dialing down the number of refugees to a very small number on their own.”

Kobach continued, “And they can be doing the kind of extreme vetting that we’ve heard President Trump talk about. … We can be dialing up the level of extreme vetting right now.”

“The president can already direct Secretary Kelly and his staff to make that intense screening happen now,” said Kobach. “I am hopeful that he will and that it will happen quickly.” He added that it would require a lot of work to implement, “and there may be many in the bureaucracy who don’t want to change the way things are done, so it’s going to take willpower on the part of the president and on the part of the leadership at DHS.”

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