Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., attacked President Obama’s approach to the Middle Eastern refugee crisis Friday by saying it would endanger Americans, and said Obama is “delusional” for thinking that allowing more into the country is in any way compatible with safety.
“Americans are now being told by terror deniers that climate change and ‘openness’ to Syrian refugees will stop the [Islamic State] death march. How delusional,” she wrote in an op-ed at Fox News.
“The reality is that we must suspend the refugee resettlement program because it is endangering the American people,” she said.
Blackburn said Obama has long ignored the threat posed by Islamic State fighters, even as Islamic-inspired violence has made its way to the United States.
“President Obama’s terror denial has been apparent since his administration described the 2009 terror attack at Fort Hood as ‘workplace violence,'” Blackburn wrote. “In 2012, Hillary Clinton and other officials blamed a well-coordinated terrorist attack on our embassy in Benghazi on a YouTube video.”
Blackburn has proposed legislation that would require Congress to affirmatively approve of Obama’s refugee resettlement plan, and require reports from the administration on how much any resettlement proposal would cost, and identifying the terrorist activities that refugees have brought to the U.S. so far.
“The American people are not delusional,” she wrote. “The American people do not need to be lectured by terror deniers like President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and other Democrats about ‘openness,’ ‘compassion,’ and ‘love.'”
“The American people are sick and tired of being patronized and being told their fears are irrational,” she added.
