New Trump aide Sebastian Gorka tells Dori why sending refugees to US is ‘immoral’

One need only turn on a television or glance at social media to see last Friday’s executive order for increased vetting to stir up controversy. For those in opposition, the policy has been a source of outrage. Politicians and protesters have called for a repeal and questioned the validity and necessity of such a policy in the first place. Newly minted Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka defended the president’s policy when he spoke to KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson.

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“It’s very simple,” Gorka said. “In the last eight years, the threat which I call ‘global jihadism’ has been allowed to grow to such an extent that it now controls territory in countries to include Iraq, Syria and Libya, with affiliates in another 18 countries around the world.”

Al Qaeda, Gorka pointed out, is still “very, very active” but we don’t discuss it adequately with “places like Somalia and Yemen (where) it is very, very busy.”

Of the seven countries outlined in the executive order, Gorka points to Iran as the nation that presents the greatest threat and echoes the US State Department’s classification as “the largest sponsor of state terrorism.”

“There is a moral imperative for the commander in chief as his primary mission to protect the citizens of America and that’s why this executive order was issued,” Gorka said.

Sebastian Gorka on life as a refugee

Gorka believes the goal for refugees is to return to their country of origin. He cited one interaction in particular in support of this idea. While in Jordan over Christmas, Gorka, a child of refugees himself, visited the largest Syrian refugee camp in the nation. In speaking with the police commander overseeing the facility, who was also of Muslim faith, Gorka was offered a simple perspective.

“Look, the ultimate goal is for these people to return to their homeland,” Gorka said. “The idea that we send them further west to Europe, or even further to the United States, not only doesn’t make sense, especially when it’s impossible to vet them adequately, but it’s also really immoral. You’re ripping people out of their home society.”

“We are a charitable nation,” Gorka added. “But at the same time, we have to be able to secure our borders, secure our citizens in our country and understand that there is a limit to what can be done.”

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