Friday, June 17, 2016
Breitbart - Paul Ryan Lies to O’Reilly: Says He Passed Bill to Pause Somali Refugee Program - Does not> Applies to other nations, but doesn't pause them either, just asks Fed's to sign off [lie] on vetting. --tma
In a Wednesday interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, House Speaker Paul Ryan made a demonstrably false declaration about his efforts to pause the Somali refugee program.
During the interview, O’Reilly criticized Ryan for failing to message on immigration controls and asked Ryan specifically about the Somali refugee crisis in Minnesota.
O’Reilly: “We have a Somali problem up in Minneapolis-St. Paul. [We] have a problem there and those are refugees from Somalia. And if, God forbid, some refugee comes in and blows people up, it’s going to be grisly.”
Ryan replied by explaining that he passed a bill to pause the refugee program. Ryan said: “Right. Right. That’s why– just so you know that’s why we passed a bill pausing this refugee program, because we don’t think the refugee program works. That’s why we don’t want it to continue right now.”
However, Ryan did no such thing. The bill Ryan championed did not in any way pause the Somali refugee program– it applied solely to refugees from Syria and Iraq. ...
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/16/paul-ryan-lies-oreilly-falsely-declares-passed-bill-pause-somali-refugee-program/