SCOOP: Rep. Andy Barr praises Trump’s travel ban: “if we can’t vet them, they don’t belong here”
"President Trump is cleaning up Biden’s mess and I fully support him," the Kentucky lawmaker explained.
President Donald Trump’s move to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” won quick praise from Rep. Andy Barr (R., Ky.), who said that the administration’s move — made in the wake of the murder of a National Guardswoman blocks from the White House — is necessary.
“I join all Kentuckians and Americans in mourning the murder of Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom,” Barr explained. “Our troops deserve support — not reckless Democrat claims that they’re following ‘illegal orders,’ putting a target on their backs.”
Weeks after President Joe Biden’s failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, Barr voted against a measure Biden subsequently signed that provided billions of dollars of emergency funds to unvetted refugees from Afghanistan. Several top members of the Trump administration, including then-Sen. Marco Rubio and then-Reps. Mike Waltz and Lee Zeldin, sided with Barr in the vote.
“President Trump is right to pause immigration from countries we can’t vet,” Barr added. “As I’ve said repeatedly, ‘if we can’t vet them, they don’t belong here.’ That’s why I voted against Biden’s $6 billion Afghan resettlement package that rushed unvetted arrivals into the country. President Trump is cleaning up Biden’s mess and I fully support him.”
Trump’s move won quick praise from intelligence community experts too. Joe Kent, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), explained that “vetting a foreigner in a war zone to determine if he will fight a common enemy is vastly different than vetting a foreigner to see if he is suitable to live in our country.”
“Yet under Biden tens of thousands of Afghans were brought to America using the war zone vetting standard,” Kent added. “This is why the DC attack happened. The solution is rounding up everyone Biden let in & deporting them immediately.”
A Senate source told the Washington Reporter that Trump’s order is going to be helpful for the midterms. “Pausing third-world migration means safer streets and reduced inflation. The fact that President Trump’s order has already won praise from Representative Barr and Director Joe Kent shows that this has widespread support.”