They opened the trunk of his car, and as they did,
he ran, and with good reason because they saw a car full of explosive
materials in the trunk. That so-called Millennial Bomber was caught. Since then, I have been an advocate for using biometrics as a standard
for us pushing visa waiver countries for letting people into their
country, as Mr. Ressam did travel, as I said, from Algiers to France,
cooking up a new identity, and then France to Canada, and Canada to the
United States, each time cooking up an identity. But if we had cooperation with these countries on biometric
standards; if we had implemented those biometric standards, and pushed
those countries that give access to our country through the Visa Waiver
Program, we would be a lot further down the road in finding those
individuals who mean to do us harm. We need cooperation by these other countries and the best techniques
and standards to help us. That is far different than denying access to
individuals, for example, from the Somali community that is a very big
refugee community in our State. As I said, I will leave it to our
Washington attorney general and our Governor to continue to pursue that
effort. I have heard from many Washingtonians who are concerned about this
nomination.
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