He had been here through Operation Allies welcome program, minimal to little vetting. I was on the phone last night with Secretary Kristi Noem at length. They did not do biometrics. They did not do social media. They did very little if minimal vetting on all of these people. And now to take a step back. We have a 1.5 million backlog of people that have come into our country. (01:00–01:03)
CLAIM
Asserts that biometrics and social media checks were not conducted during vetting.
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