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Mechanisms In Place To Guard Against Potential Resurgent Terror Threat From Afghanistan, Mayorkas Says

Mechanisms In Place To Guard Against Potential Resurgent Terror Threat From Afghanistan, Mayorkas Says
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Photo: DHS

Following the rapid rise of the Taliban to control of Afghanistan, even if terrorist threats reemerge from that country the U.S. already has safeguards in place to protect itself and doesn’t need to add new security mechanisms, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Thursday. Mayorkas, speaking at the National Press Club, pointed to concerns about the “threat landscape” posed by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and whether “new processes and systems” need to be layered in in case the…

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