“Well-trained … ninjas” from Chile are burglarizing wealthy Americans in the Detroit, Michigan, suburbs after using the Visa Waiver Program to get into the United States, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says.
Israel officially qualified for the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Wednesday, allowing Israelis to travel freely to the U.S. rather than submitting an extensive visa application, following several key reforms to meet U.S. criteria.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will speak Friday how “communities are being impacted by home invasions being carried out by foreign criminals exploiting Chile’s status in the Visa Waiver Program.”
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are sounding the alarm over President Joe Biden’s “screening protocols” for foreign nationals seeking visas to enter the United States after a British national took hostages at a Jewish synagogue in Texas only weeks after being allowed to legally enter the U.S.
President Joe Biden’s federal agencies are dodging the question of how 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, the British terrorist behind a hostage standoff last weekend, was allowed to enter the United States from the United Kingdom.
Illegal aliens, and foreign nationals using the little-known Visa Waiver Program (VWP), from South America are flocking to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to burglarize rich Asian Americans, the Washington Post reports.
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to expand the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) despite warnings from investigators who reviewed failures in the immigration system after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
President Trump expanded the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), adding Poland to the list of 38 counties from which nationals can freely travel to the United States without a visa, despite warnings from investigators who reviewed failures in the immigration system after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Vital immigration controls have yet to be implemented now, fifteen years after the 9/11 Commission released its report on how to prevent another terrorist attack in the United States.
A foreign national charged with murdering 12 elderly women overstayed his visa and was never deported but managed to obtain a green card and legal immigration status.
President Trump is ordering a crackdown on the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who overstay their visas after arriving in the United States with a presidential memorandum.
The U.S. government has proposed asking visitors to voluntarily disclose their Facebook, Twitter, and other social media information before they are admitted into the United States, as part of of security efforts to screen foreigners for links to terrorism.
The Visa Waiver Program allows foreign nationals from 38, largely European, countries to travel to the U.S. without a visa for tourist and businesses stays up to 90 days. The program requires participating countries to enter into information sharing agreements to report travel threats. The GAO reports, however, that many VPW countries are not living up to their ends of the bargain.
Travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries who have visited Libya, Somalia, and Yemen will need to obtain a visa in order to travel to the U.S. under new Department of Homeland Security travel restrictions.
A Somali man charged into a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant on Thursday evening and immediately began attacking innocent patrons with a machete, according to reports.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have access to fake passports they can use to travel legitimately, testified Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Rep. John Katko (R-NY) accused a repetitive committee witness of sounding like presidential candidate Marco Rubio during the last Republican debate.
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) expressed frustration and outrage Wednesday at the Obama administration’s move to exempt Iran and other terror hot spots from a new law enhancing security measures in the Visa Waiver Program.
Representative John Katko (R-NY) blasted the Obama administration for “carving loopholes into the law” passed by Congress to tighten the Visa Waiver Program that “have no basis in law” and demanded a report on who got these waivers during Saturday’s
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) has filed a resolution to censure and condemn President Obama over his administration’s move to exempt certain travelers to the U.S. who have recently been to Iran or other terrorist hotspots from the new, congressionally mandated, enhanced Visa Waiver Program security measures.
Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stated that “you can’t have a visa waiver for all the European countries, where you have radicalized Muslims in these countries. If they go to Syria to be radicalized, or other countries,
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) says he plans to censure President Obama over the administration’s move to exempt certain travelers to the U.S. who have recently been in Iran or other terrorist hotspots from the recently enhanced Visa Waiver Program security measures.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday began implementing restrictions to its Visa Waiver Program under a law passed after last year’s Paris attacks that makes it harder for citizens of some countries to visit. Several of the Islamic
The Obama administration is excluding large categories of Visa Waiver Program travelers who have recently traveled to terrorist hotspots including Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Sudan from the new requirement that they must first obtain a visa to come to the U.S.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif announced Wednesday the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran is in jeopardy following a new U.S. law that puts visa restrictions on Iranian nationals.
In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Paul Ryan defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.
House Republican leaders are expressing concern and frustration about Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent assurances to Iran that the Obama administration could ignore aspects of the Visa Waiver Program reforms that might impact Iran.
If politics is the fine art of getting people to approach important issues emotionally, instead of rationally, then immigration is the masterpiece example of that art.
Speaking to the New York Police Department Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey took issue with a New York Times report which suggested San Bernardino attacker Tashfeen Malik had posted material on social media praising jihad.
Congressional leaders have averted a government shutdown and have set new policies, such as strengthening the visa waiver program, according to Reuters.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to increase scrutiny of social-media posts by visa applicants before certain individuals are permitted to enter the United States, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned from a person familiar with the plan.
Representative Will Hurd (R-TX) said that “we are not getting the information we need from our European allies” on potential terrorists during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “If we get the right information to the right people, we
Philip Haney, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower, suggested on Breitbart News Daily that the Obama administration does not want to monitor Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), an Islamist movement whose members have been linked to terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and which has a strong presence in the United States.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that “we have very little background, very little knowledge” on the 20 million people who came to the US last year from favored nations under the visa waiver system on Wednesday’s “Your World with Neil
“Some” of the Paris terrorists who killed 130 people in November would have been prevented from traveling to the U.S., a Customs and Border official testified Wednesday before a Senate Panel.
The nation’s efforts to screen refugees, asylum seekers and visitors are broken and expose the nation to potential terrorist attacks, says a report from The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said that he would support suspending visas to Muslim countries with active jihadist populations, but fellow GOP presidential candidate Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s amendment that dealt with this subject went too far
President Obama misidentified the visa path by which Tashfeen Malik — one of the San Bernardino terrorists — entered the U.S. in his Oval Office address to the nation Sunday night.
Sen. Rand Paul calls his presidential competitor Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) “the weakest” of the Republican presidential candidates when it comes to national defense. “Rubio has never been very good with border security, he’s pretty much has been an open
Representative Candice Miller (R-MI) argued the US has to strengthen the visa-waiver program since “The next terrorist to attack our country could be only one flight away” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “The next terrorist to attack
