Roanoke Mayor Makes the Most Appalling Argument Yet for Rejecting Syrian Refugees


Here is Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Virginia—a member of Hillary Clinton’s Virginia Leadership Council—making perhaps the worst argument we’ve seen yet for rejecting Syrian refugees:

A take so bad that it prompted this member of Congress to weigh in:

 

Update: Bowers is off the Clinton team as of Wednesday afternoon.

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