Unvetted Refugees and National Security Risks: What We Still Don't Know
In this episode of the Sean Hannity Show, Sean delves into the troubling issue of unvetted Afghan refugees and the security risks they may pose to the United States. Joined by Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, they discuss the lack of transparency from the Department of Homeland Security regarding the evacuation and vetting processes during the Afghanistan withdrawal. With thousands of individuals flagged for security concerns still untracked, Sean and Senator Lankford highlight the implications of these oversights and the ongoing national security threats the nation faces. Tune in for a critical assessment of immigration policies and the importance of vetting those entering the U.S.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, it is sad.
It's pathetic.
It's remarkable.
It's inexplicable.
I mean, you can use any adjective you want to use.
They're all appropriate.
The idea that we let all these unvetted illegal immigrants into the country.
And we had a case where we knew we were allowing people of questionable character and associations into the country as a result of the botch withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Yeah, we abandoned Americans behind enemy lines.
I was counting the days forever, and then nobody seemed to care.
We had promised Afghan allies that we would help them.
Didn't say that we would allow them all into the country or allow them into the country unvetted.
Here's Oklahoma Senator James Langford talking about how no one has seen the Department of Homeland Security report on Afghan refugees.
And why do I suspect deep in my heart there isn't one?
Has anyone in this body read that report from DHS now on how they're handling the Afghan refugees?
I would go ahead and preemptively answer no, because none of us have seen the report yet.
Here's what we don't know, but yet this body demanded in the last CR to be able to get from DHS.
We demanded to know crazy things like this.
The number of lawful U.S. permanent residents that were evacuated out of Afghanistan.
We don't have that number yet.
We don't know how many were special immigrant visa holders.
We don't know how many were actually applicants for special immigrant visas.
We don't know the number that had any other immigrant status.
We don't know the number who actually worked for our government that was actually evacuated.
We've not been told, though we demanded it to have it by November the 30th.
We don't know the number of people that worked for a partner government or any other entity that we were affiliated with, though we asked for that.
We don't know the number of people that actually came through the process and were later determined to be security threats to the United States that slipped through the process.
We asked for that.
We asked for that to come in by November the 30th.
That's not been turned over.
We asked for the number of people that were getting parole, that their parole was then terminated because of some other criminal activity or something else.
We asked for that.
That's a number they have.
They've not turned that number over.
We asked for even the number of interviews that had been conducted.
We've yet to receive that.
In fact, there has not been a single public hearing in the Senate on Afghan refugees.
Not one.
We do know certain things that we've been able to discover over 76,000.
And this goes back to Lindsey Graham questioning DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, what we knew about the people that got on those planes, those cargo planes in a hasty manner that we allowed into our country.
And, well, we did drop some people off in certain areas and we vetted them for a couple of weeks.
We don't have any evidence that any of that ever took place.
We do know that 6,868, according to the Department of Homeland Security, were flagged for derogatory information, over 5,000 flagged for national security, nearly 1,000 flag for fraud, nearly 1,000 flag for public safety.
And we do know that there's over 1,000 cases still open.
We have no idea about these people and nearly 1,000 national security risks that we know of that are still at large.
Anyway, joining us now to discuss this.
And this is in addition to, we don't know the number.
Is it eight, 10, 12, 20 million unvetted illegals?
We saw them pouring across the border day in and day out, and we were lied to repeatedly.
The border's closed.
The border's secure.
We were lied to about these Afghan nationals.
Oh, no, they've been vetted very, very thoroughly.
We're safe.
We're secure.
Well, now we have multiple instances of Afghan nationals that have been arrested for plotting and planning and scheming attacks on our country.
And we have one National Guardsman, 24 years old, that is clinging to life.
We lost a 20-year-old National Guardswoman from, again, both of them from West Virginia.
And we don't have any answers and we don't have any information on it.
I mean, it is the height of irresponsibility.
The single most preventable national security threat that I've ever seen in my lifetime.
And, you know, I keep saying that these people that allowed this to happen have blood on their hands and they will continue to have more blood on their hands.
And I've pointed out many, many times, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, you know, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers, we know are in the country.
We know they let them in.
We don't know where they are.
Now, we had great success, for example.
The DOJ, for example, had a big case today.
They identified, as we reported earlier, the D.C. pipe bomber.
We now know who the individual is.
We'll find out more in the ensuing hours.
And, you know, we learned a lot of the little presser today, but we're going to learn a lot more.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this is James Langford.
He's been saying for years that more needs to be done to screen and vet in any individual that enters our country.
He's been saying it since Biden got into office, highlighting the failures of not vetting these refugees from Afghanistan, highlighting how open borders and not vetting people coming into the country is a clear and present danger and national security risk.
Anyway, Senator Langford, welcome back.
Glad to be back with you again, Sean.
So you can't get a report on the vetting of these people.
Now, I can go back and play Lindsey Graham in a second, but we don't have a full report that went through every individual that they allowed into this country, do we?
We still don't have that because they couldn't occur on it.
And the biggest challenge, and what the clip that you played before was actually during the Biden administration when we couldn't get any of that information to be able to come in from the Biden administration at all.
We still can't get all of that because a lot of those things are required to be able to come in from an Afghan government that obviously didn't even exist.
Now, the Taliban is not going to turn over and to be able to say, here are the details on it.
So vetting somebody from Afghanistan when there's no functioning operating government trying to be able to determine are they a threat or not simply means one thing.
Did we as Americans have information on this Afghan that they were a terrorist?
Is it to check yes or no?
If we had information they were a terrorist, they were let out and weren't allowed to be able to come in, at least most of them.
Some of them we know were later, but then the rest of it was we just assumed the best of everyone on that.
We can't assume that in a war zone, but the Biden administration did and let thousands of people in.
Well, I mean, that's the point.
And we don't know where they are.
We don't know what their radical associations are.
Did you see the report this week that showed that some of the vetting that they did do apparently included getting information from the Taliban directly?
Not exactly the most credible source.
Yeah, not exactly the most credible source.
I feel like asking China about tell us more about fentanyl trafficking.
That's not exactly the most credible source.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what we do, what we can do at this point.
I mean, I do tip my hat to the Department of Homeland Security and Tom Holman and Christy Noam.
I tip my hat to Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, the FBI director, and Pam Bondi, the attorney general, because they've been doing everything humanly possible to track down these people in this country.
But I don't know how you possibly go back and vet millions of people that they allowed to pour into the country while simultaneously lying to it.
You know, if your kids get in trouble, usually not as mad at what they say is if they lie to you about it.
Right.
And they just lied spectacularly to us.
They did over and over again.
I would say a good example of this that I beat the drum on over and over again, coming across our poorest southern border during the Biden administration, where a group of individuals that the Biden administration identified as special interest aliens.
These are individuals coming from areas of known terrorism, but we didn't have any records on them.
So we couldn't say they were a terrorist, but they came from that area, from that region, from the particular family that it looked like they were from that area.
Well, the Biden administration just let them in, but they over and over again said, Well, we're informing the FBI so we can get more information on them.
There were thousands of people that the Biden administration let into our country that they actually identified as a threat, said the FBI was actually going to track them.
I met with the FBI and the FBI during that time period under the Biden administration said there's no way we can track thousands of people, nor do we even have the complete list of all those people that they were allowed into.
So nor could they in any way.
They don't have the personnel.
They don't even have the list on it.
That's the list that the Trump administration is actively going after right now to chase down thousands of people the Biden administration let in that even the Biden administration said they came from terrorist areas or known areas of terrorism, and we know nothing about them.
Senator, they came from over 200 countries, many of them, even Iran, if you can believe it.
You know, Egypt, Poma, the Muslim Brotherhood, Afghanistan is another country, but over 200 countries, you know, people were allowed into this country without any vetting process.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue more with Senator James Langford of Oklahoma on the other side.
Also, your call's coming up: 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Now, Senator James Lankford, great state of Oklahoma, is with us.
We've lived through this era, especially since Donald Trump has made it onto the political scene, where the American people have been repeatedly lied to.
The complicit media, I think, nothing more than an extension of the Democratic Party, you know, pushed the Russia hoax narrative.
It's been proven to be debunked and a lie.
They pushed the dirty Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by Hillary.
Again, a lie.
We learned from Tulsi Gabbard's declassification that rank and file senior career intelligence officials that, in fact, they had ascertained that there was no Trump-Russia collusion right after the 2016 election.
And Barack Obama and his political appointees decided to come up with a new intelligence assessment, basically sabotaging the incoming president because it was originally designed to prevent Donald Trump from ever getting elected.
All of these instances happen.
And now the latest conspiracy that has been pushed and shoved down the throats of the American people has been debunked.
And that is even the top Democrat on the House Intel Committee said that the Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, that this report that Pete Hegseth gave a kill-them-all order against these narco-terrorists and this drug smuggling boat is now admitting a Democrat that the admiral confirmed there was no such order at all at any time.
And even ABC News, Martha Raditz, not exactly a fan of Donald Trump or anything Republican or conservative, reported that according to sources, the two survivors that they talked about, the double tap, as they call this type of operation, were believed to be trying to continue the operation, salvaging the drugs.
This is what she's saying.
To quote, tonight, we have new information.
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be in communication with others and salvaging some of the drugs.
Because of that, it was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
And that's not what we've been hearing.
Let me play that report.
Tonight, new information.
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others and salvaging some of the drugs.
Because of that, it was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
So again, David, that video will be key.
Oh, well, that's a very different report and a very different narrative than what we've been hearing.
And there's always this rush to judgment that we have with the media and the Democratic Party.
And, you know, it gets a little sickening over time.
It's not fair to the American people.
They're being lied to repeatedly.
Yeah, we're in a situation where we're all looking for the old school Paul Harvey rest of the story.
Every time we try to get a story, there's always a piece they're holding back on.
I mean, we've had the same situation where the media covered up how the Biden administration weaponized the DOJ.
We had members of the House and the Senate that literally had their phones being tracked on it as they were fishing and looking for additional information on the Arctic Frost investigation.
Dulcie Gabbard, who you'd mentioned before, was on a watch list as they were actually tracking her getting on and off the plane while she's a sitting member of Congress.
Over and over again, they were weaponizing the DOJ, but the media never wanted to be able to talk about that.
They just leave accusations at President Trump's feet on it.
So this is a place in a way that now we are the American people.
We have more media sources like your radio program.
We have more places on social media where people can go get accurate information.
I just continue to tell people, don't trust everything that you read in every spot.
Go get the rest of the story every time and to be able to find out the rest of the facts.
And that's important no matter where you get the truth from.
Well, we appreciate what you're doing.
These are incredible times in Washington.
I will tell you that.
I was happy to get out of your swamp yesterday.
I was there for two days, but we appreciate you being with us.
Senator Lankford, we always appreciate you being on the program.
Thank you so much for being with us and hope to catch up soon.
You know, we covered my buddy Stephen A. Smith, and he had this very viral moment when he went out and he said about Senator Mark Kelly, how dare you when he and five other elected representatives, you have a duty to disobey orders in an illegal order.
Okay, but none of them could identify one.
So I'm not sure why Stephen A. decides to do this.
I think, you know, he's just got a passion for punishment, but he went back on the view and it came up as a topic today.
And he's sparring with the ladies of that hard-hitting news show.
Listen.
I'd love to give you the opportunity to perhaps change your position on what you said.
I'm not changing a thing.
I didn't stutter with you.
You want to say loud and wrong?
Well, you could call it loud and wrong all you want to.
You're entitled to your opinion.
I'm entitled to mine.
Here's the reality of the situation.
First of all, I don't give a damn what Pete Heckseth has to say because I will tell you right now, he was never qualified for the job.
When you talk about DEI and eradicating that, excuse me, what was he doing hosting Fox News on the weekend and all of a sudden he's the defense secretary?
Please give me a break.
I don't care what he has to say.
We get that out the way.
As it pertains to Mark Kelly, what I was talking about is military.
What I did was get on the phone with family and friends who have served in the military.
And I said, we're not civilians.
This is not the court of law.
You can be implicated for implying something if you are a former military member or you are a present military member.
It wasn't what Mark Kelly said.
It's the fact that he was a combat Navy pilot who served in the military, who would tell folks, ignore an order when it could get illegal.
I said illegal.
I'm talking illegal.
I understand that.
He said, you don't have to follow an unlawful order, and that is in the military code of conduct.
I'm saying to you, hold on, which I'm aware of, which I'm aware of.
But it didn't sound like you were aware of that.
No, no, no.
I disagree with you.
It's not a question.
He didn't even ask you a question.
He had two governors, by the way, text me to tell me I was wrong, and they agree with you.
You are.
And I had two senators that reached out to me and said, you aren't wrong at all.
It is the height of irresponsibility for anybody to say this.
The only reason these Democrats are saying it is because Donald Trump is the commander in chief and they just hate Donald Trump.
That's it.
Stephen A. Smith was right, is right.
They were wrong, are wrong.
And what they did was extraordinarily dangerous and they knew what they were doing.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, the Buckeye State, Ohio, Matt, Sean Hannity Show.
What's going on, Matt?
How are you?
I'm doing good, Mr. Hannity.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I wanted to talk about something you mentioned on, I believe it was Tuesday, about Luigi Mangioni's supporters being furries.
Well, no, what I said, but he had a court hearing and all these Luigi Mangione, you know, sycophants.
And apparently, he's been getting thousands of letters from women that want to date him, marry him, bear his children, which I find strange and bizarre, considering he's being accused of cold-blooded murder of a father and a husband and shooting him in the back of the head.
I'm not sure why people would worship at the altar of somebody like that.
And the evidence seems pretty incontrovertible to me.
But at the protest, but not only the people that love him and adore him and are worshiping him, but a bunch of, you know, these furries now show up at every event.
And I don't know what a furry is.
I have no idea.
I've asked people to explain it to me.
Nobody on my show really knows.
I mean, they give some bizarre explanation, but I can't get a straight answer.
The only way I can explain it from my understanding is, you know, they are you sound like a furry.
Are you a furry?
I am not a furry, sir.
Okay, so, but you're an expert on furries.
No, I dressed up as Winnie the Pooh one time for Halloween to appease my wife, but I don't identify as a fair.
So, but it's kind of a, it's a, it's a gender identity thing.
Well, I'm told that schools, if kids say they identify, let's say, as a cat, are allowed to put a tail on and wear it to school.
Have you heard of instances like that?
I've heard of that.
I can't substantiate that, at least not where I'm from.
And I've never seen it in the schools around me.
But I do know, you know, I'm in Ohio, Northeast Ohio, and I know Kenn State University, a very liberal arts school.
They have a furry club where individuals meet and, you know, have gatherings to be creative.
And it just, it seems like it's another way for people to.
I mean, is there some type of like sexual connotation to this that I as a matter of fact, stay on the line.
We're going to add Julie from Washington State.
Apparently, there's an issue in her state on this very issue.
Julie, how are you?
Say hi to Matt in Ohio.
Matt, say hi to Julie.
Hello, Julie.
How are you?
Good.
All right, Julie, enlighten us.
What's going on in your state?
Well, good old Blue Washington.
We have.
teachers and staff at schools that accommodate furries by putting litter boxes in the bathrooms and serving them their meals.
Wait a minute.
Wait, Julie.
Julie, you're making this up.
You got to be making this up.
Are you making this up?
My grandson absolutely won't go to a couple of the schools in town because of the furries that identify as kitties or dogs, and they are accommodated just like trans going into girls' locker rooms.
I have never seen a story about litter boxes.
Linda, why don't you go to Grock and see what Grock has to say about this?
Yeah, the parents are accommodating their kids.
It's sick.
It's just absolutely gone way over the top, way over the top.
And they wear their tails and their ears and their whiskers.
And how are parents reacting to that?
Well, a lot of the parents that, you know, that are as crazy as their kids are accommodating them.
It's just a phase or whatever.
But there is a sexual connotation to the hardcore furries that prefer to breed with animals of their like or whatever.
I don't know a lot about that part of it, but I have heard of furry date nights, you know, as it were.
So yeah, it's a sick part of society for sure.
For sure.
Let me give you the answer that I got from Grock, okay?
And that's artificial intelligence.
Kids in America are not universally, quote, allowed to go to school dressed as furries.
There's no nationwide law or policy permitting it, but the reality is far more nuanced and often restrictive than viral rumors suggest.
Public school dress codes are set at the local and district level, and furry attire like tails, ears, collars, full costumes is frequently prohibited if seen as disruptive, distracting, violating general rules against costumes, accessories, and interfere with learning or non-human emulation.
However, enforcement varies widely.
Some students do wear elements, cat ears as a headband without issue, depending on the school.
Well, apparently, this is what they're saying.
Well, we'll do some deep diving for you, Sean, and see if we can't get some pictures of litter boxes and kiddie bowls.
Well, I'm now discovering in Texas, they have the Furries Act.
Unlawful representation of role-playing in education would prohibit non-human dress or actions, tails, animal noises, litter box use in public schools.
This is what our government is doing.
I mean, I immerse myself in substantive issues.
I mean, you know, we're dealing with National Guardsmen being shot.
We're trying to get the economy rolling and bringing in the golden age in America.
You know, we're talking about peace around the globe and this is what they're dealing with on the local level.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, You want to react to that, Matt?
Yeah, like I said, I teach in a school district.
I have not seen that with any of our students.
I do work with an individual, an employee within the district that actually is a furry, them and their spouse, but it doesn't come into the school.
So I do know that it does happen outside of the school.
But yeah, me personally, I have not seen it within the school.
But yeah, it's definitely a real thing.
It's pretty popular in certain districts, especially the more liberal ones that are open to things like that.
Well, I appreciate both of you.
Linda sent me an article.
I've never heard of this website, but I'm just going to read it anyway.
McSweeney's.
I have no idea what it is.
It says daily humor.
I don't know if I want to read what this one in particular says, but I don't know.
I really don't have time for insanity.
This is nuts.
Quick break right back to our busy telephones.
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All right, Stand the Man in the United Socialist Utopia known as California, Gavin Newsom's California.
Sir, how are you?
I'd say Gavin's the frontrunner for Democrats right now.
What do you think?
Well, I think that'd be the huge mistake.
And that's one of the reasons I'm calling, Sean, is because of the gas prices here.
You know, everybody mentions gas prices are down nationwide.
But I just filled up yesterday at Costco.
I'm down here in Orange County, and I paid $4.94 for regular at a Costco.
$4.94 for regular.
And by the way, Costco is where you're going to get the cheapest gas, right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I just want to let you know about that.
Now, I listen to a San Diego station quite a bit, and that's how I listen to you.
And they mentioned that the gas prices are going down, but they go down like one penny a day.
So, you know, so when they say gas prices are coming down in California, yeah, to the point of one penny a day, you know, that's nothing.
You know, let me ask you a question.
You have the highest income taxes in the country.
You have the highest sales taxes in the country, the highest gas taxes in the country.
You have by far the largest number of illegal immigrants in the country, the nation's highest poverty rate, highest unemployment rates, and you're highest in the nation in terms of all these taxes, bloated bureaucracy, and you still run massive deficits.
So I imagine your next question is going to be, is, why am I still here?
Okay.
Answer your own question.
Well, I was born and raised here in California.
My wife and I, we both have elderly parents.
So we're here for that.
But we're getting to the point to where we're just about ready to say, you know, call it quits.
Well, look, I can sympathize with that because I stayed in New York a lot longer than I wanted to.
I did for the sake of my kids.
And, you know, I just had to do what I had to do.
But you know what?
Bring your elderly parents with you.
Arizona is beautiful.
Nevada is beautiful.
Florida is beautiful.
Texas is beautiful.
The Carolinas are beautiful.
Tennessee is awesome.
I'm just, you know, I have not been one to be fearful of moving in my life.
I've lived in New York.
I've lived in Rhode Island.
I've lived in California for five years.
I lived in Alabama.
I've lived in Georgia.
I went back to New York, came down to Florida.
And I will tell you, it's broadened my horizons.
And I learned so much about the country.
I've traveled to every state now in the country.
And I'm very honored to meet the people in this great country.
And every state has very, you know, unique qualities and distinctions that are unbelievable.
