The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris, Brussels, Istanbul and California. The United States should keep most foreign-born people out so we can prevent future attacks.
Europe is feeling the brunt of the attacks because of the refugee crisis. How long do we have to wait before the Islamic State group sneaks enough operatives into the United States for a large attack?
One of the few methods of preventing attacks from foreign combatants is secure checks before accessing the country. This is an issue because Islamic State agents may fake their backgrounds or enter the country illegally.
Unfortunately, too many people in this country want to let anyone inside. People who cross into the country and are not citizens have no constitutional rights. Let’s use that to our advantage.
With the number of people crossing into the United States through the Mexican border, I’m surprised we haven’t had more attacks. The borders need to be secured now, and those living in the country illegally need to be dealt with to ensure no Islamic State infiltrators are already in the country.
The National Security Agency should spend less time looking for potential threats on the phones of U.S. citizens and, instead, serve their purpose better by keeping a constant track on where aliens go and who they contact. The NSA should know pretty quickly who is a threat for the nation and how they operate.
The simplest option would be to prevent any movement to the United States by anyone from the Middle East not in higher education or with advanced degrees. I doubt the guy with a medical degree or the student majoring in physics wants to waste their time terrorizing citizens.
Whoever is chosen as the next commander in chief will decide how prone we are to attacks like those in Paris and Brussels. Weak leftist ideologies on foreign policy have been useless to combat the threat of the Islamic State in Europe.
We must put pressure on our supposed “Middle Eastern allies” to combat the Islamic State threat by any means necessary. We should not have to sacrifice our soldiers and money on a problem caused by radical Islam and those who fail to condemn it completely.
The next president must be willing to protect the rights of U.S. citizens while using the powers of the government to seek out infiltrators. Another eight years of a weak president will no doubt lead to another 9/11 or worse.
Garrett Marcel is a 22-year-old petroleum engineering senior from Houma, Louisiana.