The immigrant contribution to the terror threat in the US

Red States:
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security released a report that indicated roughly three out of four individuals “convicted of international terrorism-related charges between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2016 are foreign-born individuals who entered the United States through our immigration system,” according to an official release from the White House. The report also indicates nearly 2000 individuals were removed by ICE due to national security concerns, and that 2017 saw 2.5K DHS run-ins with individuals traveling to the U.S. and known to be named on the terrorist watch list.

“This report reveals an indisputable sobering reality—our immigration system has undermined our national security and public safety,” said Attorney General Sessions. “And the information in this report is only the tip of the iceberg: we currently have terrorism-related investigations against thousands of people in the United States, including hundreds of people who came here as refugees. Our law enforcement professionals do amazing work, but it is simply not reasonable to keep asking them to risk their lives to enforce the law while we admit thousands every year without sufficient knowledge about their backgrounds. The pillars of President Trump’s immigration policy—securing our porous borders, moving to a merit-based immigration system that ends the use of diversity visas and chain migration, and enforcing our nation’s laws—will make their jobs easier and make the United States a safer place.”

Art Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC writing for CSN News, notes that while the US is better poised to identify terrorist threats from individuals since the disaster of 9/11, many emerging efforts to tackle the problem are being stymied in federal courts.
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There is much more.

The job of preventing terrorist attacks could be much easier if the US is allowed to properly screen and vet the immigrants coming into the US.  The combination of an immigration lottery and chain migration only compounds the risks.

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