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Through the refugee program. >> do they have a right to be here? >> well, i mean, if theyre admitted as a refugee and havent committed a crime. >> do they have a right in the constitution that says refugees have a right to come to our country, our home land, the answer is no. >> were the united states of america. we welcome all immigrants. >> no, we dont. >> the refugees cannot come in if they have a criminal record or other reason. >> are you calling assad to ask if he is a pedophile or -- >> t...

As a race of our enemies, saying whether youre in the u.s., full american citizens or back in japan, you cant trust any one of those and sounds eerily similar to syrians, arab americans and muslim americans. we cant treat everybody the same. we have to distinguish the peoples religion and their racial and ethnic backgrounds as a part of their trait but thats not who they are. >> virginia state delegate mark keam, thank you for coming in and talking to us. >> thank you, chris. heres what we kno...

Through the refugee program. >> do they habe here? >> well, i mean, if theyre admitted as a refugee and havent committed a crime. >> do they have a right in the constitution that says refugees have a right to come to our country, our home land, the answer is no. >> were the united states of america. we welcome all immigrants. >> no, we dont. >> the refugees cannot come in if they have a criminal record or other reason. >> are you calling assad to ask if he is a pedophile or -- >> they have other...

Through the refugee program. >> do they have a right to be here? >> well, i mean, if theyre admitted as a refugee and havent committed a crime. >> do they have a right in the constitution that says refugees have a right to come to our country, our home land, the answer is no. >> were the united states of america. we welcome all immigrants. >> no, we dont. >> the refugees cannot come in if they have a criminal record or other reason. >> are you calling assad to ask if he is a pedophile or -- >> t...

Various ideas. >> you have done extensive reporting on this, traveling to syria, meeting with westerners. is this the kind of story you hear, you heard a lot? >> yeah, i mean, theres not really a one size fits all approach to radicalization. some young men are vulnerable, attracted to isis because they want a sense of belonging, a sense of meaning and purpose in their life. they want to be part of that brotherhood. other guys who maybe have more criminal backgrounds, street kids, they are attrac...

And whats app. thats been a change. the other major change is who is being appealed to, and you are seeing so many young men who have criminal records who have backgrounds on the streets who have been involved with gangs, who are suddenly drawn to the jihad, and what crimincriminolos it creates a brew, the zealot creates a criminal, knows how to stay below the radar, get weapons, knows how the police work, and thats a dangerous and powerful combination. >> you said you spent the day in saint den...

>> well, as you said earlier, the vetting process sometimes takes one to two years. were not saying stop the process. so, if theyre being vetted now, theyll continue to vet them. im not sure there would be any kind of delay. i trust the folks to be able to put a process in place but most of these refugees that are still abroad, about 60% are military aged males. so, theres a large group and its going to be tough to put backgrounds together but doesnt mean you stop the process. >> independent sen...

The homeland security website addresses the potential gaps in vetting related to the refugee program. one of the 32 findings. we had fbi director and secretary jay johnson testify before the homeland security committee there are certainly potential gaps if the vetting process because its only as good as the information we have. isis has said that they want to try and use the refugee process to potentially infiltrate and the fact that we have our highest security officials saying look, you can, t...

Officials. youre getting information from your sources, evan, what are you learning? >> there is growing concern at least one paris attacker or possibly more had clean enough backgrounds they could have traveled to the united states under the visa waiver program. one of the attackers was on the in fly list and four or on the tide watch list. this is the lower level list, no-fly list is the highest level security list. there this is agreement, however, about how well the watch list would work. on...

Are having fun kicking him around, and who can blame them, hes kicked them pretty hard. i think the debate over syrian refugees is the public groping for a language to talk about something that is a more real problem. weve seen the breakdown of security cooperation inside europe. mentioned belgian police were talking to each other. there is a large, disaffected population within europe, probably about one-sixth of their muslim minority is susceptible to various messages of radicalism. and people...