Ed Royce: “Ramzi Yousef used a stolen passport to carry out the murderous attack that was conducted on the World Trade Center back…”

“Ramzi Yousef used a stolen passport to carry out the murderous attack that was conducted on the World Trade Center back in 1993. He used that stolen passport to enter the United States and claim asylum and then carry out that attack. Three years after the 9/11 Commission recommended that our border officers have access to Interpol's lost and stolen passport data as an automatic check at our ports of entry, we still do not have a situation where we are utilizing that data, and this amendment would change that. Now, there are many, many examples in Europe where these stolen passports have created a crisis. Fraudulent passports were used in the 2004 Madrid bombing. In the 2005 London subway attacks, again, stolen passports were used, and as argued recently in congressional testimony by the Secretary General of Interpol, and I will quote from that testimony before the Senate, 'Terrorist use of fraudulent travel documents was one of the most dangerous gaps in global security back around the time of September 2001. Unfortunately, it still is today.'”