They moved without detection. In some cases. they moved with those fraudulent passports from Syria. Given the high number of foreign fighters returning home from that ISIS stronghold in Syria and from the ISIS training camps in Iraqand. frankly. from Libya as well. we have now heardthere is a recognized and urgent need for improved border security and information sharing between governments. This bill is a way to get there because this threat is not just limited. by the way. to us in the United States and to Europe. Earlier this month terrorists who had received training inside Libya were killed by Tunisian security forces during an attempted attack inside Tunisia. So these attacks now demonstrate how easy it has become for terrorists and for foreign fighters to move across open borders. This legislation makes several important changes to how border security is administered. It improves the tools deployed at the border. It increases the border security coordination between Allied states. It does it in the following way: This legislation requires the Departments of State and Homeland Security to produce an annual scorecard assessing the border security efforts of countries around the world. This is going to identify the weaknesses and areas for improvement abroad. It will also mandate a streamlining of our own efforts to assist partners overseas with their border security programs. The administration will then submit a plan to Congress for prioritizing U.S. assistance on this. This bill requires the establishment of minimum standards for border security on the part of our Allied states. Countries that fail to meet these minimum standards can have U.S. foreign assistance suspended. cut off. employing the same incentive already in place that we use today in order to force compliance against human trafficking overseas. against those states that commit human rights violations. Many of the Members here are familiar with how we leverage those states to force them to pass legislation and change the way in which they address these issues.
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