House votes to let foreign governments screen terrorist suspects against US databases

Published September 4, 2018 11:42pm ET



House lawmakers on Tuesday evening passed a bipartisan bill that would allow the government to provide training and biometric technology to allied countries so that suspected terrorists, gang members, and other criminals traveling to the U.S. through areas known for human smuggling can be detected and arrested on foreign soil prior to illegally entering America.

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said his Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization Act of 2018 would allow the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations office to provide training and equipment to friendly nations.

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