Again I come back to the fact that that, particularly with home-grown terrorists, the State and law enforcers are in the best position to create the relationships within the communities that will allow them, and have allowed them in numerous cases, to stop terrorist attacks before they occur.
Thompson emphasizes the role of state and local law enforcement in preventing terrorism through community relationships.
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At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.
There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.
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