A senator from Kentucky continues to question how two Al-Qaeda cooperatives living in Kentucky went undetected for so long. Two Iraqi men living in Bowling Green were arrested back in May for conspiring with the terrorist group to kill U.S. Citizens abroad.
Senator Rand Paul spoke to NEWSFIRST about the arrests Thursday, saying he still wants to know how they got here.
"I want to know why the taxpayers are being forced to subsidize, give them government housing, government food stamps, how they got in here without a significant background check and why does America want to have 18,000 refugees coming here under asylum," Paul said.
Senator Paul says he thinks more safeguards should be in place to assure political refugees are more thoroughly screened.
