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Two Republicans leaders said Sunday that Obama administration needs to be more aggressive when it comes to protecting Americans from the threat of terrorism.
The recent attacks in Paris have brought new attention to the threat of Western jihadists traveling to rouge states like Syria to train with terror groups. One of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Said Kouachi, traveled to Yemen in 2011 and trained with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active terror affiliates in the Middle East.
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Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday on "Face The Nation" that the U.S. needs to do a better job tracking suspected jihadists that hail from European nations and can return to their home countries to carry out attacks.
"We don't have a good handle intelligence-wise who was on the ground in Syria, and Iraq, and Yemen to identify them, to put them on no-fly lists so they can't get in the country," he said.
Analysts say thousands of Europeans have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has proclaimed its own Islamic state in the territory it holds. In addition, American officials believe about 150 Americans have tried to join the group as well.
"This is a threat that happened in Paris," McCaul said. "It could happen anywhere."
He added that Europe in particular needs to strengthen and tighten its travel restrictions and said the U.S. may want to re-examine the agreement that allows Western European citizens to come to America without a visa. McCaul said his committee plans to launch an investigation to find security and defense gaps when it comes to tracking foreign fighters.
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Published January 08, 2015
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 photo of President Barack Obama in Phoenix.(AP)
Republicans are charging ahead with their effort to block President Obama's immigration executive actions, teeing up a House vote as early as next week as they move toward a major confrontation with the administration.
GOP House leaders huddled Thursday with colleagues in an effort to build consensus on a bill to "defund" the president's initiatives. Under the recently struck budget deal, the Department of Homeland Security is only funded through Feb. 27 -- Republicans want to use the deadline as leverage to block the immigration spending.
On the Senate side, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the new chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bill Thursday to block funding for Obama's immigration executive actions. He said the measure would "stop unelected bureaucrats from using the dollars of hardworking taxpayers to implement the president's unconstitutional executive actions."
The strategy opens yet another front with the Obama administration just days into the new, Republican-controlled Congress. Lawmakers already are moving legislation on ObamaCare and the Keystone pipeline which the White House has vowed to veto.
The White House is likely to fight hard to preserve funding for the immigration initiatives, which would spare potentially millions of illegal immigrants from deportation while allowing them to work in the U.S.
But those pushing the "defund" bill also have to contend with renewed concerns about homeland security funding in the wake of the Paris terror attack.
A senior GOP source who asked not to be identified indicated that Republicans must walk a fine line on DHS funding.
Lawmakers like GOP Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., have urged Congress not to jeopardize DHS funding over the immigration battle. House Speaker John Boehner also assured Thursday that his party would fund DHS.
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Published January 09, 2015
Jan. 9, 2015: House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans.(AP)
House Republicans are expanding their push to take on President Obama's immigration policies, looking to block not only his recently announced executive actions but also a 2012 program shielding immigrants brought illegally to this country as children.
GOP lawmakers crafted their game-plan on Friday in the hopes of putting related budget legislation to a House vote next week. Under the recently struck budget deal, the Department of Homeland Security is only funded through Feb. 27 -- and Republicans want to use the deadline as leverage to block the president's immigration policies.
But the working plan goes further than the approach initially discussed by some House Republicans. That approach would have taken aim just at executive actions Obama announced in November that provided deportation protections for millions of immigrants in the country illegally -- mostly the illegal immigrant parents of legal residents.
Conservatives in the GOP caucus pressed leadership to go further, and shut down an earlier 2012 program that has granted work permits to more than 500,000 immigrants brought here illegally as kids.
Other changes would undo Obama directives to immigration agents that had sought to limit deportations of people with no significant criminal record.
Conservative lawmakers said their plan would combat the president's "lawlessness."
Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., predicted the approach would "garner a lot of support among our colleagues when the leadership brings this bill forward."
The outcome won't have the support of a handful of moderates in the caucus, including lawmakers representing heavily Latino districts.
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