Ayotte: Visa Waiver Program with France Creates Problems Tracking Terrorists

“This is a horrible terrorist attack. Obviously, our prayers go out to France and to those who have been affected by this. But this really highlights the danger that we face from terrorists and obviously as we look at the situation with ISIS, there have been thousands of foreign fighters that have joined ISIS. We don’t yet know who is responsible for this attack and they need to be brought to justice. But that said, those foreign fighters are of deep concern for us because, for example, France -- many have gone to the fight and joined in Syria and Iraq. The problem is that we have a visa waiver program with France and so if we don’t have track of all those individuals they could also travel to the United States of America. So that's just critical, that we get control over who these people are and make sure that they can not only go back and affect countries like France, like we unfortunately saw terribly with what happened in Paris, but also our country.”