How Hillary Clinton Says the US Can Stop Domestic Terrorism

Outlining what her campaign called a “360-degree strategy to keep America safe”, Clinton’s first step would be to shut down ISIS recruitment in the US, focusing especially on curbing its influence and reach online.

Clinton sought to assure Americans that she would protect the homeland and prevent homegrown terrorists from sprouting following deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, incidents that have thrust terrorism to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton will attempt to underline the gap between her national security credentials and those of her Republican rivals with a speech Tuesday setting out her plan to root out home-grown terrorists like those blamed in the San Bernardino massacre.

While the speech at the University of Minnesota at times could have been mistaken for a political rally, it was also a major policy address for Clinton, where she laid out key planks of her agenda for fighting terrorism.

A spokesman for a Somali-American task force says preventing recruiting “should be a top priority of any USA citizen”. The Praeli family remained in the USA, but when Praeli began to apply for merit scholarships based on a sterling record of achievement in high school, she discovered that she was undocumented.

Clinton spoke just hours before the Republican candidates met in their fifth televised debate on CNN, with combating Islamic State and militant attacks at the top of the agenda.

“We elect a president in part, in large part, to keep us safe”, Clinton said.

Authorities have said about a dozen Minnesota residents have travelled to Syria to join jihadist groups since late 2013, and several more have tried. “It’s been identified as a hotbed for terrorism”, Hussein said.

While it won’t be easy for President Obama’s former secretary of State to try and distance herself from his foreign policy, it’s one she needs to do as much as she can – this week’s NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 73 percent of all voters want a different approach than Obama. Clinton held up efforts to combat extremism among the state’s Somali-American population as a road map for police-community relations around the country.

“Anyone who has traveled in the past five years to a country facing serious problems with terrorism foreign fighters should have to go through a full visa investigation”, Clinton said, “no matter where they’re from”.

“When you’re thinking about a terrorist group or belonging to one, dangling a job in front of your nose isn’t going to do a heck of a lot of good”, said Cornish, a retired law enforcement officer. She has drawn Republican ridicule for refusing to define the threat as “radical Islamic terrorism”, referring instead to “radical jihadists and the hateful ideology that they represent”.

Abdirizak Bihi, a longtime community activist, said that the Democratic presidential front-runner’s comments came at a time when the recent arrests of a group of young men on charges of conspiring to join ISIL were still fresh on their minds. He said his community was seeking a partner and stressed their concern about being categorised as anti-American because of the actions of a few.