Schmitt Asks Cuccinelli: 'What Changes To The Naturalization Process Would You Recommend?'

[00:00:00]Cruz is coming and should be here in like 2 minutes. So, in the 2 minutes um that I have to filibuster here, I'm going to ask you, Mr. Cuccinelli, you talked about you know, that incident when the individual refuses to right the oath and cuses out people. Um in your experience, what changes to the naturalization process would you recommend that we currently have, you know, changes to the system that we have now?

[00:00:25]>> So, part of the problem that exists now is the corporate culture that has grown up around this process, which is in USCIS, if you go back to the Clinton era, it was INS.

[00:00:40]Um and um and and nobody in particular is to blame for that. But, the pressure is always to move people through, whereas the pressure ought to be to vet thoroughly um for those who frankly will contribute to the United States of America more rather than either less or maybe detract from fraudsters, terrorists, etc. And um and you know, I'll be really blunt on some examples.

[00:01:13]Um uh two religious groups come to mind. Hindu nationalists, which we're seeing play out in India, and then Islamists who are committed to Sharia law. Sharia law is a governmental system that accompanies Islam. It is not a religion of itself, it's a political structural belief.

[00:01:38]And um if you look at Pew data, no right-wing organization, Mr. Chairman, uh and I'll pick the worst, I'll go to the biggest number, Afghanistan has a 99% commitment, meaning of the uh surveyed population to Sharia.

[00:01:58]Well, [snorts] Sharia is incompat- is a governmental system incompatible with the constitutional principles of the United States. So is Hindu nationalism.

[00:02:08]And if people are identified as holding those views, they should be immediately excluded from the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. And there's no effort to vet those positions in any meaningful way. Uh case-by-case from rather obvious uh countries. If you want to be efficient about it, you could apply all the same you know, questions to every country if you wanted to treat everybody the same and as a matter and give up the efficiency that involves, but I mean, that's [snorts] a that's an enormous number um that fits perfectly legally within the constitutional structure on the front side of naturalization.

[00:02:54]Not so much on the back side of naturalization.

[00:02:57]>> Thank you.