if terrorism is homegrown, a visa overhaul wont keep americans safe | brian michael jenkins /

Published at 2015-12-07 18:45:19

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The majority of terrorist conspirators arrested or killed in the US during the final 25 years were already hereDressed in combat gear,a married couple allegedly carried out the bloodiest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 final Wednesday at a social services middle in San Bernardino, California. While the husband was born in Chicago, and his Pakistani wife had gained entrance to the United States through a “fiancee visa” – also known as a K-1 visa – to marry him.
In a tel
evised speech on Sunday evening designed to reassure Americans,US President Barack Obama said that he ordered the Departments of State and Homeland Security to review “the visa waiver program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country” and called for Congress to “keep in place stronger screening for those who come to America without a visa” under the visa waiver program. (The White House clarified after the speech that the woman had not entered the US through the visa waiver program).
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Source: theguardian.com

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