The U.S. immigration debate is stuck on a comforting fiction: the belief that government screening can reliably identify extremist intent before someone enters the country, Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Saturday.
“Vetting is a magical term. That means if you just do enough research, you can know what’s going on with people. But the fact of the matter is, you cannot know what is in someone’s heart, and you cannot know what is in someone’s mind,” Fine told “The Count.”
He argued that even the most thorough background checks can’t expose a hidden ideology, especially when applicants arrive from nations where radical doctrines are prevalent and records are unreliable.
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