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Ken Paxton: “We sued over the Syrian refugees because they were planting…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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

Published February 1, 2017 | Video Starts at 08:27

What's just your first thoughts on the refugee ban that Trump did? So I'm actually a little bit encouraged by it, because we sued over that. We were unable. 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. (08:27–08:33)

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