Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
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Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally.
However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.
There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.
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