My plans this past Sunday had to be changed, so I was home and was able to watch the morning talking head shows.

Marco Rubio was on ABC’s This Week, and was asked about refugees coming to America from Syria.

He stated,
“The problem is not the background checks. The problem is we can’t background check them. You can’t pick up the phone and call Syria. And that’s one of the reasons why I said we won’t be able to take more refugees. It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we can’t. Because there’s no way to background check someone that’s coming from Syria. Who do you call and do a background check on them?
The bottom line is that this is not just a threat coming from abroad. What we need to open up to and realize is that we have a threat here at home — home-grown violent extremists. Individuals who perhaps have not even traveled abroad, who had been radicalized online. This has become a multi-faceted threat. In the case of what’s happening in Europe, this is a swarm of refugees, and as I’ve said repeatedly over the last few months, you can have 1,000 people come in, and 999 of them are just poor people fleeing oppression and violence, but one of them is an ISIS fighter. If that’s the case, you have a problem, and there is no way to vet that out. There is no background check system in the world that allows us to find that out, because who do you call in Syria to background check them?”

Later he tweeted,
“We won’t be able to take more refugees. It’s not that we aren’t compassionate. But we can’t. No way to background check”, which was a quick summary of his statement earlier in the day.

He included a link in the tweet, so I hit on it, and it brought me to his campaign page with a very prominent “donate” button right at the top, in green, and the first thing seen.

But as far as vetting refugees, under the existing process it takes up to 18 to 24 months to check out refugee who are located in refugee camps before they are allowed to enter the United States.

Many of those refugees who would be approved in 2016 are already going through the security-screening process which includes
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• Biometric screening
• A mandatory interview with the Department of Homeland Security
• A medical screening
• A cultural orientation program (which consists of videos on housing, employment, education, and hygiene, among other topics)

A potential refugee must have approved status for each step at the same time, and most security checks expire after 15 months.

So, Rubio was wrong on two counts.

The first is claiming that there is no way to effectively vet refugees. Many have not been allowed in with the process now in place.

And second, encouraging  people to his web site to read his remarks on This Week and see the video of his appearance on the show, only to connect them to his campaign donation page.

Less than 48 hours after the attacks in Paris, Marco Rubio found a clever way to get people to contribute to his campaign as he, and only he, can save the United States from Paris-like attacks.

Just send the money to make that possible.