Madam Secretary: Welcome.
Senator: The inner sanctum.
Madam Secretary: Please, have a seat.
Senator: Oh, you know, I've tried to get meetings before, but you're always booked. But it looks like I have your attention now. Unfortunately, it has to be short. I have a press conference.
Madam Secretary: Call it off, Senator. It's a matter of national security.
Senator: And the matter is?
Madam Secretary: Classified. But American lives are at stake.
Senator: Oh, yes, because of this reckless and secretive plan that you've cooked up to bring a boatload of potential terrorists to our shores.
Madam Secretary: Senator, you know as well as I that only a fraction of the one percent of the nearly one million refugees admitted to the U.S. Since 9/11 have ever been arrested on terrorism charges.
Senator: It only takes one. Look at the dirty bomb.
Madam Secretary: Which was perpetrated by a native-born American citizen.
Senator: Good folks in my state know the difference between native-born and real, and I'm wondering if you do.
Madam Secretary: Morejon-- that's a Cuban name, right? When did your parents arrive in the U.S.?
Senator: I'm guessing that you know the answer to that.
Madam Secretary: Of course I do; I'm the Secretary of State. They were Marielitos, part of the boatlift of 1980.
Senator: They were fleeing a repressive regime.
Madam Secretary: Which is why the good folks in these parts gave them Visas...
Senator: That you and your president have cravenly cozied up to.
Madam Secretary: ...Instead of smearing them as potential Communist sleeper agents sent to destroy our way of life. But, hell, your boat made it here-- what do you care, right?
Of course, we admitted many Cuban refugees in the late 50’s and early 60’s because of their anti-communist views and open resistance to Castro. In addition to them providing the U.S. with intelligence during Castro’s rise.
Not to mention the rather significant fact that Cubans aren’t a religious and political movement bent on the slaughter or forcible conversion of anyone and everyone who rejects their worldview.
Yes, some people in the late 50’s and early 60’s expressed concerned about Communist infiltration through mass Cuban refugee acceptance. But compared to those people, who were largely proven wrong, based on what we have already seen in San Bernardino, Paris, and the rape crisis throughout Europe, those who speak out in concern over the sinister intentions of Islamic terrorists and our government’s inability to detect them, have already been proven right.