Hillary: Jordan ‘Can’t Possibly Vet All Those Refugees’

Hillary Clinton appeared to admit during a paid speech in 2013 that large numbers of Syrian migrants cannot be properly vetted, a key criticism that has been made of the Democratic nominee’s plan to increase the flow of refugees to the United States by 550 percent over current levels..

A partial transcript of the speech, given to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago’s Vanguard Luncheon in October 2013, was part of a Wikileaks document dump Friday that included thousands of emails to and from Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta.

“They can’t possibly vet all those refugees so they don’t know if, you know, Jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees.”

In the speech Clinton said that Syrian neighbor Jordan could not “possibly vet all those refugees.”

“There’s a discussion going on now across the region to try to see where there might be common ground to deal with the threat posed by extremism and particularly with Syria which has everyone quite worried,” Clinton said according to the leaked emails, “Jordan because it’s on their border and they have hundreds of thousands of refugees and they can’t possibly vet all those refugees so they don’t know if, you know, Jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees.”

In admitting that Jordan “can’t possibly vet” all those “hundreds of thousands of refugees” who may pose increasing threats of allowing radicalization into the country, Clinton’s remarks undercut her own call for allowing increasing numbers of Syrian refugees into the U.S.

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In the wake of terrorist attacks carried out by Muslim extremists in September, Clinton attempted to water down her radical position on refugee resettlement by suggesting more robust screening measures.

“So I am absolutely in favor of and have long been an advocate for tough vetting, for making sure that we don’t let people into this country — and not just people who come here to settle, but we need a better visa system,” Clinton had said during a press conference in New York on Sept. 19 following the New York and New Jersey bombings. “This is the kind of challenge that law enforcement can be and is prepared to address — namely, going after anyone who would threaten the United States.”

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But there’s a disconnect between Clinton’s insistence that she has “long been and advocate for tough vetting” and her 2013 words saying that Jordan could not possibly vet its hundreds of thousands of incoming refugees.

Indeed, what Clinton has “long been an advocate for” is proposing a 550 percent increase in refugee admissions over President Barack Obama’s current 2016 target for refugee settlement – an increase to 65,000 annually.

The Democratic presidential nominee will most likely have a hard time explaining that logical discrepancy away.