Exercising this authority, allowed 70,000 Afghan nationals into the country. What that also means, in particular relevance to this crime committed against these two National Guardsmen is that There was not the normal sort of vetting process that you would see for refugees or anybody else coming into the country. We knew very little about these individuals and we didn't check up on them once they got here. We didn't know whether they were criminals, whether they had ties to radical terrorist groups or anything. (08:09–08:19)
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Claims Afghan nationals were not vetted as refugees typically are.
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