Frankly. military history shows that air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy. Lastly. I called on the Obama administration and Congress to reassess our border security and do whatever is necessary to make us stronger. One element of that effort is legislation I introduced earlier this year. a bill that would enact changes to the Visa Waiver Program and provide additional tools to enhance border securitychanges that. in my opinion. are absolutely necessary to fill and plug a gaping hole in our border security. Let me talk about that for a moment. The current Visa Waiver Program allows citizens from several dozen nations to travel to the United States without a visa. They are citizens of these nations. In order to expedite the travel process. we entered into the Visa Waiver Program. That works fine if you dont have a situation like the one that exists today. with ISIS and other forcesAlQaeda and otherstrying to bring people into the United States. to plant people here to carry out evil acts against American people. My bill would amend the Visa Waiver Program by tightening existing pretravel clearance procedures and making them more focused on counterterrorism efforts. We have to now recognize the reality that exists here in terms of abuse of the Visa Waiver Program or the possibility of abuse and inserting terrorists into the United States. The bill would ensure stricter compliance with information sharing agreements by those countries that participate in the Visa Waiver Program and suspend their participation if they do not come into compliance at a 100percent level. We cant afford any glitches. We cannot afford 99 percent.
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