Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waits to speak at a campaign stop on July 2, 2015, in Brooklyn, Iowa.(Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
Breitbart News is reporting that GOP presidential<span style="color: Red;">*</span>candidate Rand Paul told one of its<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reporters backstage at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a speech in Houston last night that the U.S.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>should provide extra scrutiny of people coming into the country<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>predominantly Muslim countries after the Chattanooga, Tenn.,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>terrorist attack on Friday.
"I’m very concerned about immigration to this country from countries that have hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism," Paul told Breitbart. "I think there does need to be heightened scrutiny. Nobody has a right to come to America, so this isn’t something that we can say ‘oh, their rights are being violated.’ It’s a privilege to come to America and we need to thoroughly screen those who are coming."
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The alleged shooter in the Chattanooga incident --<span style="color: Red;">*</span>which claimed the lives of five<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Marines -- was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>named Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. The 24-year-old was born in Kuwait and immigrated to the U.S.
Paul also cited an incident in his hometown of Bowling Green, Ky., where two Iraqi refugees who were placed in Kentucky tried<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to buy military<span style="color: Red;">*</span>grade missiles.
"I think we’re doing the wrong thing by just having this open door policy to bring in people without significant scrutiny. I’m for increasing scrutiny on people who come on student visas from the 25 countries that have significant jihadism. Also, any kind of permanent visas or green cards, we need to be very careful. I don’t think we’re being careful enough with who we let in," he said.
Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he would ask that senators to look at reinstating the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System program.
Started in 2002 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the DHS system recorded the arrival, stay and departure of people from countries chosen based on an analysis of possible national security threats. Registrants were also required to register when they left. The program was effectively eliminated in 2011.
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