American - Politician | April 5, 1944 -
With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.
Peter T. King
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I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.
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Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here's a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and firemen. Here's a guy who talks about New York values.
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If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
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My goal, if I could have an ultimate goal, is to have new leaders emerge from within the Muslim community who are not defensive: who, day in, day out, are willing to denounce radicalizations, denounce the attempts by al Qaeda to go into their communities.
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To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.
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The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.
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America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.
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