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Committee hears testimony linking visa overstays, information gaps and material-support enforcement to recent attacks
Summary
House subcommittee witnesses and members discussed how immigration status, visa overstays and failures in information-sharing may have intersected with the planning of recent antisemitic attacks and urged stronger investigatory tools, improved fusion-center coordination and enforcement against material support networks.
Lawmakers and witnesses at the House Homeland Security subcommittee examined whether gaps in immigration screening, visa enforcement and information-sharing contributed to the radicalization and operational planning of recent violent attacks targeting the Jewish community.
Representative Evans and others questioned witnesses about a suspect in the Boulder attack and asked whether visa overstays, prior statements and attempts to purchase a firearm should have…
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