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Ken Paxton: “They did no vetting.”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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FULL Ken Paxton one-on-one with KXAN's Phil Prazan

Published | Video Starts at 08:37

We sued over the Syrian refugees because they were planting Syrian refugees in here without vetting who they were. And so as Texans, we didn't have any idea whether these people were terrorists or not. They did no vetting. And so I would much rather it be shut down and looked at and make sure that we can vet these people before they put them in our state, and then we don't know where they are. (08:37–08:39)

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Asserts that there was no vetting of Syrian refugees.

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