I’ve been saying this for years, but the whole seeking asylum or refuge story that often comes to the border from people looking to migrate into the country is a huge ploy in most cases.

People know that this helps them get into the U.S. so of course, they’ll say they’re seeking refuge.

Here’s one big problem though. Terrorists know that this will help them get into the country as well.

According to ABC News,

Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky — who later admitted in court that they’d attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq — prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists’ fingerprints.

But seriously, how is it that someone who is a known terrorist overseas even gets into the country to begin with? How is it that they’ve bought a house and live next door? How is it that they’ve been able to set up clandestine ISIS camps on our home soil?

According to a statement issued byPeter Boogaard and the vetting process of the Department of Homeland Security, “Our procedures continue to check applicants’ names and fingerprints against records of individuals known to be security threats, including the terrorist watchlist, or of law enforcement concern… These checks are vital to advancing the U.S. government’s twin goal of protecting the world’s most vulnerable persons while ensuring U.S. national security and public safety.”

Here’s my opinion. We absolutely need proper vetting. It truly is a matter of national security. Even if we do need to temporarily put a halt on new immigrants while we improve our processes, it seems most necessary.