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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waits to speak at a campaign stop on July 2, 2015, in Brooklyn, Iowa.(Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Breitbart News is reporting that GOP presidentialcandidate Rand Paul told one of itsreporters backstage ata speech in Houston last night that the U.S.should provide extra scrutiny of people coming into the countryfrompredominantly Muslim countries after the Chattanooga, Tenn.,terrorist attack on Friday.

"Im very concerned about immigration to this country from countries that have hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism," Paul told Breitbart. "I think there does need to be heightened scrutiny. Nobody has a right to come to America, so this isnt something that we can say oh, their rights are being violated. Its a privilege to come to America and we need to thoroughly screen those who are coming."

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