Posted on 01/28/2016 7:37:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The problem of forged or fraudulent passports in Europe – especially from the Middle East – is so bad that it has forced the U.S. government to warn five countries that they have until next week to act, or they will lose their visa-free travel rights.
Interpol says there are 250,000 passports, mostly from Iraq and Syria, that have been lost or stolen in the last five years. And that includes blank documents.
American and European security officials speak of an “epidemic” created by a spike in demand from asylum-seekers — and from terrorists like those who carried out the Paris attacks last November, two of whom were carrying counterfeit documents.
In the aftermath of Paris, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security became so worried about the implications for screening travelers to America that it gave France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Greece a February 1 deadline to fix “crucial loopholes” or lose access to the U.S. visa waiver program. The program allows about 20 million people per year from 38 countries, most of them in Europe, to enter the United States for business or pleasure without a visa.
Next week, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson will report to President Barack Obama on how these countries have progressed.
On the issue of fraudulent passports, U.S. officials see a particular problem with two of the five: Greece and Italy.
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Put a pause on it until we can find out what the hell is going on.
Sounds like a smarter plan every day.
Who had the balls to say it first ?
Uh,you?
What is a quacrter million among friends?
Trump did.
Paul Ryan and every other hack RINO condemned Trump saying, “That’s not who we are.”
Trump was right. Now people see it.
Back last fall, I posted a comment on a news article concerning the refugee issue up here in Canuckistan that mentioned the forged documents phenomenon occurring. Nonetheless, some twit screamed bigotry at me. Wanting law-abiding gun owners to go through a mile of paperwork and waiting periods, but they will howl racism over requiring proper ID to enter the country or vote. These people do not compute.
Do they even jeed a passport as they are walking in to europe or getting on to planes as Obama brings them over?
That way no one knows who the h*ll they are.
Trump/2016 !!!
Any one who holds a Syrian or Iraqi passport should be required to turn it in and show documentation as proof of identity before new passports in an entirely different format are issued and honored. The old passports should become worthless as a result of this fraud.
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