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FIRST ON FOX<\/strong> \u2014 Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a>, R-Texas,\u00a0spoke out Thursday about a 2021 CNN fact-check that claimed it was “misleading” to suggest Afghan refugees weren’t properly vetted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden administration officials insisted their 2021 Operation Allies Welcome vetting was sound,\u00a0but Cruz and other conservatives strongly disagreed. Cruz\u2019s concerns appeared to come to fruition last week when a former Afghan evacuee allegedly shot two West Virginia National Guard members, killing one.<\/p>\n

“As we\u2019ve seen over and over, Democrats, journalists, and self-declared experts work together to push false narratives that promote their shared ideology. In 2021, they created false narratives to cover for the Biden administration\u2019s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the admission of an almost uncountable number of evacuees into the United States,” Cruz told Fox News Digital<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PATEL BLASTS BIDEN’S ‘EMBLEMATIC FAILURE’ AFTER AFGHAN NATIONAL CHARGED IN GUARD SHOOTING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“At the time, I said they weren\u2019t adequately vetting those evacuees and that they were facilitating child trafficking and inviting terrorism. Instead of addressing those concerns, Biden officials ran to CNN and other journalists to attack me,” Cruz continued. “Americans have been and continue to be at risk because of those policies and the cover-up used to justify them.”<\/p>\n

In 2021, Cruz suggested the Biden administration had sent “an invitation to terrorist attacks here in the United States” by bringing unvetted Afghans into the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m very concerned that the Biden administration is bringing tens of thousands of refugees into the United States without thoroughly vetting them,” Cruz said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DC NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTING SUSPECT FORMALLY CHARGED<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

CNN published<\/a> a “fact check” pushing back on statements from Cruz and other Republicans.<\/p>\n

“Facts First:\u00a0It\u2019s misleading to suggest that Afghan refugees who are coming to the U.S. following the Taliban\u2019s takeover are not being vetted. Intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals are conducting security screenings for all Afghans permitted to enter the US. And according to officials and experts, evacuated Afghans are being vetted sometimes more than once \u2014 both before leaving Afghanistan and in transit countries where they\u2019re taken ahead of arriving in the US,” CNN wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to the alleged terror attack, Afghan evacuees with rap sheets that include convictions for sexual battery and lewd acts with a minor and arrests for alleged child abuse and terror-group support were among the “worst of the worst” recently swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS).<\/p>\n

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A senior DHS official said Biden’s “trust without verification” approach to evacuee backgrounds helped drive the recent surge in attacks and plots.<\/p>\n

“Under Secretary Noem, DHS has been going full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists and criminal illegal aliens that came in through Biden\u2019s fraudulent parole programs,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “When\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0let 190,000 Afghan nationals in, they didn\u2019t do criminal background checks, vet social media, someone just vouched for them, and they took the words as truth.”<\/p>\n

“DHS has captured sexual predators, terror suspects, pedophiles and other violent \u2018unvetted\u2019 foreigners in their persistent daily work of executing President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s immigration enforcement orders,” the agency added in a statement.<\/p>\n

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment when asked about the 2021 fact-check.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Charlie Creitz contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ted-cruz-responds-cnn-fact-checking-him-2021-claim-afghan-refugees-werent-properly-vetted <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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