After Paris attacks, GOP hopeful Rand Paul warns of refugees

[Virgil]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- In the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris, US Senator Rand Paul said Friday that the US and Europe “have to be very careful about bringing refugees to our country that might attack us.”

Terrorist attacks in Paris killed more than 100 people across the city, including the slaughter of hostages in the Bataclan theater, shootings at restaurants and a suicide bomb near a stadium.

Paul called the attacks “devastating” in response to a question from a reporter after his town hall meeting.

“I don’t think we’ve heard yet everything but obviously our hearts and prayers go out to those that were injured and those who may be kidnapped at this point, but it does show that we’ve really got a big problem,” he said.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...RTJ/story.html

-virgil

[serenityrick]

Just heard on CNN and yahoo news that so far at least one of the terrorists was confirmed as being a Syrian "refugee".

[Warlord]

its on drudgereport.com

[Brian4Liberty]

Rand is right. And has been right on this.

[euphemia]

Rand was just interviewed on FoxNews and said anyone wanting to come here to work or study should come under very strong scrutiny. He did not elaborate on that.

[Aquinas]

[CPUd]

Wow, that interviewer was trying to push the idea that more money==more safe, Rand wasn't going for it at all. He's fully prepared to respond to that line of questioning.

[Liberty74]

Didn't Trump a few months ago advocate bringing in all these Syrian refugees to America?

[CPUd]

Didn't Trump a few months ago advocate bringing in all these Syrian refugees to America?

Yes, look up "we have to"

[01000110]

Wow, that interviewer was trying to push the idea that more money==more safe, Rand wasn't going for it at all. He's fully prepared to respond to that line of questioning.

Yup...
But people are easily brainwashed (comment on that youtube):

Jenny Ross 4 minutes agoThis is why we can't have people like paul be president because they don't care enough about protecting the SAFTEY of our country. We need to beef up our military and spend a lot more money on national security and give military all the resources and technology

[CPUd]

Yup...
But people are easily brainwashed (comment on that youtube):



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Those are the people polling unfavorable for Rand, and 15-25% who say they won't ever vote for him.

[qh4dotcom]

A comment I read

In 2011, when Obama started bombing Libya and arming Al-Qaeda backed jihadists, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi warned Europe “If I go down, Europe goes black.” Gaddafi was aggressively blocking the tidal wave of mostly Muslim illegal aliens heading for Europe from sub-Saharan Africa and repatriating them back to Africa. Well, look what is occurring now. Gaddafi is gone and it all is coming true. People don't seem to realize that these brutal dictators, such as Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, were NECESSARY to keep these muslims in check. Without them, the whole region has destabilized. In Paris, the suicide bombers shouted "Allah akbar" while another one shouted "this is for syria" before killing innocents. Idiotic GERMANY is STILL leaving its borders wide open for muslim invasion. This is the beginning of the end of EU. ISLAM IS AT WAR WITH WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

[moraha]

I wish he would make his answers simple. He needs to say something similar the graphic I saw the other day on here....the one that said something about "Marco voted for this this and this war...Rand didn't. Are we save now?"

As much as I agree with what Rand says, his answers frustrate me sometimes. He asked Rand what he would do now that this happened and he wouldn't give a direct answer. All he kept saying was "we need to fix our debt first."

[milgram]

He says "increased scrutiny" a lot, but what exactly does that mean in practice? It sounds like adding red tape rather than actually reducing any of the resettlement programs themselves.