Rep. Randy Fine said on Newsmax Saturday that the Trump administration’s move to halt asylum and immigration benefit applications for applicants from high-risk countries is necessary because vetting in some places “is a lie.”
The Florida Republican, speaking with Newsmax’s “The Count,” added that some countries lack the systems needed to reliably screen applicants.
“They don’t have databases,” he said, adding that even with records, “you can’t know what’s in someone’s heart and you can’t know what’s in someone’s head.”
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