White House calls for immigration reform after NYC terror attack

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 12/11/17 02:43 PM EST

The White House on Monday called on Congress to overhaul the immigration system, saying an attack in New York City is evidence the U.S. needs to strengthen border security.

“This attack underscores the need for Congress to work with the president on immigration reforms that enhance the national security and public safety,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “We must protect our borders and we must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to people, and we must move to a merit-based immigration system.”

A 27-year-old man from Bangladesh was arrested earlier Monday after he allegedly detonated an improvised bomb near the Port Authority Bus Terminal during rush hour. No one was killed in the attack, but several people were injured.

There is speculation that the suspect was inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), although officials have not confirmed this.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364310-white-house-calls-for-immigration-reform-after-nyc-terror-attack

[riversedge]

1. I was waiting for trumps comment to say this. As he did not disappoint.

[Auggie]

13. Me too

[samnsara]

2. hows that gonna stop the 24 yr old white kid born in the US from..

...becoming radicalized or doing some other random act of stupidity?

[George II]

12. Or a 64-year old white wacko from shooting 600 people, killing about 60?

When it comes to terrorism in the US and the "them vs. us", "us" are WAY ahead!

[bdamomma]

3. may be this action

was precipitated by tRump wanting to move the US Embassy from Tel Av-iv to Jerusalem. He is just poison.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. "We've always been at war with Eastasia"...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. I guess the Moron needs to expand the Muslim Ban.......

to include every country in the world that has Muslims in it. That includes Europe and Asia.

Good luck with that.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Home grown morons are a bigger threat

[NastyRiffraff]

7. He finally noticed there WAS an attack, did he?

This morning he was tweetwhining about "fake news" reports that he watches TV 4-8 hours a day. Not a peep about the Port Authority/Times Square attack.

[dbackjon]

8. What happened to "Too early to Politicize"?

[SummerSnow]

9. When a European country has a terror attack he immediately tweets about it

he would even go far as to say what those leaders should do when it happens. However he stays silent when it happens on his own soil. Hypocrite

[flotsam]

10. How shitty a bombmaker do you have to be

to detonate one within a foot of your heart and survive???

[louis-t]

11. Must've been a Mentos and Coca-Cola bomb.

[denbot]

16. Snort..

[Grins]

14. "There is speculation that the suspect was inspired by the Islamic State..." or was it

.....Trump's moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem?

[They_Live]

15. We must all return to our country of origin, er, heritage....

until only tump's "pure" 29% remians. What does that remind me of????

[Voltaire2]

17. I think we need a wall around the entire coastline.

Clearly mexico isn't enough. Giant walls from coast to coast. Turrets, barbed wire, minefields, drones, the works.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. Whatever happened to, "We are going to wait until all the facts are in"?

Oh, that's right, this guy didn't have white skin. Never mind.

[TomCADem]

20. Or, How Dare You Politicize A Tragedy?

nt

[uppityperson]

19. Several injuries, no deaths change in laws. 546 injured, 58 dead nothing

FU WH.