Good news from Heinz boy Kerry. On Meet the Press who told a softball tossing Chuck Todd that ‘for the most part’ we know who’s entering the country. This was in reference to the so called Syrian refugees who are flooding countries in Europe and making their way here. Feel safe yet? For the most part isn’t exactly comforting.
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CHUCK TODD: You’ve spent a lot of time with a lot of diplomats from around the world. What’s been their reaction to Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration into the united States?
JOHN KERRY: Well, those people who know the United States well are quite shocked because they see it as totally contrary to American values, as discriminatory and, frankly as potentially dangerous in that it seems like a person running for President of the United States, is doing well in the polls, is prepared to take actions that would, in fact, ratify the notion that people are at war against Islam, not against Daesh. And so I think you have to be very careful just by categorizing people by being Muslim. That is discrimination and it is contrary, I think, to the fundamental values of our country. We have plenty of ways to vet people. We already do it! We have a huge process of examining people for visas. We know who’s coming into our country for the most part.
TODD: You’re talking about a review of the State Department. The wife in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, it turned out, she’d been communicating radical beliefs on social media before she applied for her fiance visa. That’s not something that’s done during the vetting process. Is that something that now needs to be done during the vetting process? Does that now need to be something that’s done in the visa-vetting process: a look at social media, things like that?
KERRY: The review has been ordered and we need to look at whether there are means and whether we should be and how we can do it. But clearly the social media has placed a whole new burden and a whole new set of questions but not impossible ones to resolve and I think we need to look at this very, very carefully which what we’re doing before we jump to a wholesale prohibition without understanding what the implications may be.
Doesn’t John Kerry’s ‘we know who’s coming into the country for the most part‘ make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?