On July 20 at the Republican National Convention, New Gingrich said, “Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent.”
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Gingrich said Clinton “wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent.”
Clinton has said she’d like the country to move from 10,000 Syrian refugees under Obama’s plan to 65,000, an increase that could be as high as 550 percent.
Gingrich said the United States cannot screen the additional refugees, but that ignores the average screening process of one to two years and involving in-person interviews and NGO referrals.
With that caveat, we rate Gingrich’s statement Mostly True.
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