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Rather than focusing on Syrian refugees, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Thursday there’s a considerably more vulnerable opening for terrorists to enter America.
Warner said a greater problem is the State Department’s Visa Waiver Program, which allows individuals from 38 countries – mostly European – to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days for business, vacation or to visit family. The Obama administration needs to tighten up its scrutiny of those seeking the waivers if they have visited the Middle East war zone in the past five years, he said.
He noted that investigators have identified all but one of the Paris attackers as having French or Belgian passports.
“There were 10 million people with European passports last year that traveled to Turkey,” Warner said. “But what we don’t know is, once they get to Turkey, how many of them end up on the beach vs. how many of them ended up potentially going into the war zone and become radicalized.”
“I think the real challenge is: ‘What happens if somebody who’s got a French passport goes to the region, comes back to France and then travels relatively easily to the United States?” the Virginia Democrat said. He also wants those seeking the waivers to provide more biometric information, such as fingerprints, before they can come to the U.S.
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~ The Virginian-Pilot
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