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Eric Swalwell: “I was hoping that you could elaborate on what we are going to do or what we are doing to disrupt any plans of theirs to…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
I was hoping that you could elaborate on what we are going to do or what we are doing to disrupt any plans of theirs to return to the United States and carry out with the tools and hate that they have built and developed abroad?
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Swalwell expresses concern about foreign fighters returning to the U.S. from conflict zones.

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