I traveled into Turkey. into Iraq. into the Kurdish region. Erbil. and then west as far as I could go up towards the ISIS lines. I visited a refugee camp there and then back into Turkey. up to Hungary. down to Serbia. into Croatia. back out of there again. and then determined to skip Germany and Austria this time. but traveled up to Sweden to look at the other end of this. There I sat with a briefing of our State Department. Some of that in that room is confidential. but we are working with these countries to tighten up our security. We are offering the expertise that we have developed here because we deal with a lot more people and a lot more travel than they do. I am hopeful that we will be able to share more of our intelligence also with the countries that are participating in a Visa Waiver Program. This will help tighten it up. Mr. Speaker. it will identify those who have traveled to some of these terroristsponsoring countries. and it will also require that they exchange information with us so that we can monitor them more closely. If someone travels and essentially lies about their travelif they have. say. traveled to Iran. traveled to Iraq. maybe Sudan or Syria. and they apply for a visa waiverwe will either have a software program that will kick that out because it shows up on their passport or we will catch up with that and cancel their visa waiver. In any case. it is heightened scrutiny and heightened security for us. We need to do a lot of things to tighten this up. and this is one. It is one also that respects our relationship with the visa waiver countries. those 38. It is prudent. It is careful.
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