American - Politician | January 14, 1962 -
We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.
Michael McCaul
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I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.
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I think there's kind of a simplistic, kind of knee-jerk response that all you have to do is build a 2,000-mile wall, and problem solved.
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The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.
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We're a compassionate nation.
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I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.
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First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.
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Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.
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Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
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It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.
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We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.
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When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.
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