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Kernkamp letter: Refugees

With the highly organized group of terror incidents in Paris, involving not only Syrian travelers to France but at least one radicalized French citizen, does anyone still think that it is a good idea to bring thousands of Middle East “refugees” to Idaho? The FBI recently admitted that they had no way to certify that anyone coming to the U.S. as a refugee was who they claimed to be, and had no way to check their background.

Even if other states are not, we should be smart enough to see the danger of bringing these people in.

John Kernkamp, Caldwell

This story was originally published November 21, 2015 at 12:25 AM with the headline "Kernkamp letter: Refugees."

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