Among other security enhancements. the bill requires VWP countries to issue ePassports to their nationals and continuously share terrorism and foreign traveler data with us. The VWP is only one part of the national discussion that we should be having. There are Islamist terrorists looking at all aspects of our immigration policy to find any way possible to exploit it. We learned that lesson on 91 11. and we learned that lesson last week in San Bernardino. Mr. Speaker. I hope this body continues to address deficiencies in U.S. immigration policy by taking up and passing additional House Judiciary Committee bills. including those reported out of the Judiciary Committee to reform the U.S. asylum process. to change the way unaccompanied alien minors are treated when they cross the U.S. border so that there is no longer an incentive to run across the border. and to finally prevent the interior immigration enforcement switch from being turned off at the whim of whoever resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. as well as their staff members. for their work on the bill. Much more needs to be done to prevent exploitation of U.S. immigration policy by terrorists. but H.R. 158 is another good step in helping to ensure the safety of Americans. and I support it. Mr. Speaker.
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