***ACTION ALERT*** - Chairman Update

Patriots, it's Chairman Bennett and I have and I wanted to talk to you about a huge public safety issue that's being posed on Oklahoma. Currently there are 1,800 Afghan refugees slated to come to Oklahoma. A thousand of them to Oklahoma City and 800 of them to the Tulsa area. You know when I asked why are we bringing Afghan refugees to Oklahoma I was told don't worry they've been properly vetted. Whether you agree we should take refugees into Oklahoma or not I mean how do we know they've been properly vetted? My concern is we have no clue who these refugees are and repeating the talking points of a federal government who says trust us we've properly vetted them is derelict in our duties at a minimum and no excuse to put our citizens safety in jeopardy. I mean how can American citizens trust the government with properly vetting people from any nation? When the United States government has a track record of abject failure specific to this task we should not trust them. You know I've actually been on the ground in Afghanistan and there's no way to properly vet any refugees coming from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan they don't have driver's license databases, no record center for birth certificates, no criminal databases or any other way to identify who these refugees truly are. We can't verify their backgrounds or their history and there's no database with criminal history to determine who they are and how they've acted. The only database that was in place and it was very limited was the biometric automated tracking system or the BATS system but it had limited information. I mean it doesn't matter anyway because the Biden administration turned over these databases to the Taliban and that by the way that's what they're using to track down our allies and capture them. So why would we even consider in any capacity bringing Afghan refugees to Oklahoma or the United States for that matter especially since there are still American citizens on the ground in Afghanistan? I mean how do you vet people who cannot be positively identified by true name and date of birth? I mean what does properly vetted even mean? Let me give you some examples of the catastrophic failures of how the United States government properly vets refugees. How about Abdurahman Alamoudi? Alamoudi was an Al-Qaeda financier who in 2004 was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison. Yet Alamoudi served as Islamic advisor to President Clinton and Bush and as a goodwill ambassador for the United States State Department. We are outside this country. We can say no Allah has destroyed us but once we are here our mission in this country is to change. You can be violent anywhere else but in America. This country will become a peaceful country. Anybody is a supporter of Hamas here? Hear that Bill Clinton. We are all supporters of Hamas. I'm also a supporter of Hezbollah. Anybody supports Hezbollah here? Alamoudi was a Muslim immigrant and was given the green light by the State Department, the Secret Service and the FBI. Catastrophic failure. How about Gumarad Kalamad who between 2003 and 2014 participated in five United States Department sponsored training programs including weapons and tactics training. Why is that a problem? Because Kalamad was a senior ISIS commander whom the United States government put a three million dollar bounty on. When called out on their vetting failures the United States Department defended themselves by explaining well all appropriate Leahy vetting was undertaken in advance of this training. The real problem is he knows how to plan counter-terrorism operations. So he knows how the people who protect a high value target will be thinking. He knows how the people who protect an embassy will be thinking. And so that puts him in a position to as we would say in the military to red team that. To think very intelligently out of it how to disrupt those plans. That's a dangerous capability. Another ominous signal Kalamad's threat against what he called American pigs. God willing we will come to your cities, to your homes, and we will kill you. The State Department says all appropriate vetting of Kalamad was done before he came to the U.S. Tajik officials have so far not commented on this man or this video. Kalamad has another dangerous skill that goes beyond what he can do with a sniper rifle. In this video he speaks Russian. Analysts say that's a marketing decision by ISIS to use him as a tool to recruit more fighters from Central Asia. Wolf. Brian he also claims to have been trained by the Russians as well right? That's right and another ominous skill Wolf. He says he was trained by Spetsnaz. Those are elite Russian commando forces. So if he's got training from them and from U.S. special forces he probably has considerable skill to use on the battlefield against the allies and of course to train other ISIS fighters. By the way this is the same State Department that has told our governor that the refugees he's accepting have been properly vetted. These refugees cannot be properly vetted and especially in this short amount of time and we certainly shouldn't be welcoming them in with open arms when we can't possibly determine who they are. Instead of just carte blanche putting our citizens at risk by bringing in unvetted refugees why don't we put our citizens first and spend taxpayer money on taking care of Oklahomans first? Or if the government governor wants to bring in Afghan refugees how about we start with those who served honorably with U.S. troops and or as a part of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan who renounce Sharia and adopt American principles for their lives. How about we bring them in first? I mean for security reasons the question of how the United States will vet people from certain countries has to be answered before admitting anyone from those countries. So I encourage you all to call the governor and tell him do not bring Afghan refugees into Oklahoma. They cannot be vetted and we must protect Oklahomans first. Oklahomans our voices must be heard it's time to put we the people back in charge. So call the governor and tell him don't allow these refugees into our state. God bless you and the great state of Oklahoma.