Friday, March 3, 2017

Fact-checking Trump's Florida Rally - PolitiFact


Defending his stalled immigration ban, Trump said "there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was nothing."

Trump has said this before. It’s not true.

A refugee vetting system does exist and has existed since 1980. It involves multiple federal intelligence and security agencies as well as the United Nations. Refugee vetting typically takes one to two years and includes numerous rounds of security checks.

Syrians undergo additional checks.

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