Vice President J.D. Vance spoke with CBS host Margaret on Sunday morning as Republicans defended President Trump's decision to end the refugee program that immediately barred hundreds of Afghans from entering the United States last week. -Collided with Brennan.
Vance ripped Brennan apart during the sit-in. “Face the Nation” interview, He argued that the current vetting process for refugees is not thorough enough and that his “primary concern as vice president is to take care of the American people.”
Mr. Brennan asked whether Afghan refugees, including those who have cooperated with the U.S. government, should be allowed into the country, and Mr. Vance said last year that the country “should be properly vetted and not abandon those who have helped us.” He pointed out that he said he thought so.
But Vance was quick to argue that he didn't believe all refugees were being vetted in the right way.
“And now that we know that many of these refugee programs have vetting issues, we simply cannot dump thousands of unvetted people into our country,” the executive added.
When Mr. Brennan pressed further, Mr. Vance fired back, citing an Afghan man who was arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day last November.
The suspect, Nasir Ahmad Tauhedi, was living in Oklahoma City on a special immigrant visa when he was allowed to enter the country after the Biden administration's sloppy withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
“I don't want my children to share neighborhoods with people who haven't been properly tested, and I don't want that for my children, so I don't want it for the children of other American citizens. I'm not going to force it,'' said Vance, who is married and the father of three children.
Brennan said it was unclear whether he became radicalized after arriving in the United States or while in the Middle East, arguing that this was a “very unique case.”
“I don't really care, Margaret,” Vance replied.
“I don't want someone like that in my country. I think most Americans would agree with me.”
Tawhidi arrived in the United States through a humanitarian parole program, not a refugee program, and was granted temporary stay while applying for immigration status, officials announced last year.
President Trump last week suspended the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which was originally expected to go into effect on Monday. However, travel plans for refugees who had already been given the green light to enter the country before the order began were subsequently canceled.
Among those whose plans were canceled were more than 1,600 Afghans who helped the United States during the war in the Middle Eastern country, the Associated Press reported.
Refugee programs have helped hundreds of thousands of people flee war and persecution around the world to reach the United States.
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