Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a Democratic Senate candidate in Illinois, dismissed concerns this week about her support of an influx of Syrian refugees by arguing that the U.S. does not accept military-aged men from Syria unless they are torture victims.

“To come to the U.S., the UN High Commission for Refugees actually selects largely families with no men of military age, and there are no men of military age in these families because the men are dead,” Duckworth said Wednesday at a roundtable event hosted by the Illinois Farm Bureau.