Kelly asked Pompeo what he thought, and he responded slowly, likely knowing little about what Nielsen was saying. I jumped in (and Pompeo happily receded) to point out that the High Commissioner had no real role in this kind of immigration processing work; that its budget and personnel were already overstrained by, among other things, the Venezuelan refugee crisis; and that in any case, the US shouldn’t subcontract decisions on admission to the US to the United Nations. Nielsen couldn’t answer these points, so I continued to probe on what the refugee agency’s role would be as she stumbled
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