WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The proposal to make public the Obama administration’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States is reasonable and may strengthen national security, advocacy group The Minuteman Project Founder Jim Gilchrist told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"Briefly, the Minuteman Project stands with Judicial Watch on this matter," Gilchrist said. "Immigration from anywhere in the world that is known to support and promote terrorism requires a much more thorough scrutiny."
Gilchrist said the US vetting process for Syrian refugees needs a more "common sense approach" as to who may be allowed in the United States. A tougher approach, he argued, is required because terrorists might use the weak immigration probing process for their purposes.
"There is a big difference between an immigrant from the Vatican, for example, and an immigrant from terrorist enclaves common to the Middle East," Gilchrist said.
On December 2, Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the United States on a fiancée visa and married Farook.
