Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140100292

I recently traveled with members of the Homeland Security Committee in the House to Tunisia. There have been as many as 100 Tunisians who have traveled to Libya and trained with other foreign fighters and then hope to make the short jump into Europe via Italy and then potentially commit terrorist attacks there or even travel to the United States. Many of those countries are visa waiver countries38 different countries are visa waiver countries. If you make it into Europe through a visa waiver country. you can travel to the United States without a visa. That is a potential threat to the United States. We need to deal with ISIS seriously. which means we need a strategy to crush ISIS and prevent them from not only killing innocent civilians in the Middle East. as we saw when some 400.000 Syrians died in SyriaSyria started out as a civil war. but now it appears to be attracting terrorists from all across the region.
Keywords matched
visa

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN CORNYN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
2016-06-14
Speech ID
1140100292
Paragraph
#0
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