“I don’t trust this administration to effectively vet the people that they’re asking us to take in,” Christie has said of his opposition to the refugees. “We need to put the safety and security of the American people first.”
But de Blasio continued to criticize the New Jersey governor today for his position, holding up a picture of refugee boy whose body washed up on the beach and saying, “I'd like to know what Gov. Christie wants to do about this.”
“This child's death was on the front pages of newspapers all over the world,” de Blasio said. “Gov. Christie specifically said he did not think it was appropriate for small children to be brought in. Is this what he wants to see happen to people? Is this what he wants to see happen to children? We don’t accept that here in New York City.”
And in a television interview, de Blasio accused Christie of “playing to the cheap seats.”
“I have to say some people bluntly are playing to the cheap seats here, Gov. Christie most notably, who in fact talked about not letting in the young children,” de Blasio said today in an interview with CNN. “What on earth does that have to do with our security situation?”
New York City has already accepted eight refugees in response to the Syrian crisis so far, and De Blasio assured the only way they were allowed into the city, as is always the case with refugees, is through a careful and extensive vetting process.
De Blasio has also criticized another Republican presidential candidate and New York resident Donald Trump for suggesting that mosques may need to be closed in the United States.
“We will adhere to the words of our Founding Fathers, not Donald Trump,” de Blasio said in a statement. “Mosques don't commit acts of terrorism. People do.”
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