Interview would not work

Submitted by Vander (United States), Sep 9, 2016 at 17:08

Mere Interviews will fail. Such interviews would produce many false positives and miss a great number of fundamentalists and even terrorists. A genuine background check requires looking into an immigrant's education, work, and social history. This would require investigation of their home country mosque, and speaking with the immigrant's neighbors, as well as governmental authorities and human rights groups.

Since so many of these immigrants come from unstable, despotic regimes, we could not trust their home country government. A background check would actually amount to an intelligence operation.

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