Vetting Immigrants and Refugees: Stopping the Terrorist Operative
Force Protection Specialist
Certified Advanced VIPRE VSA Examiner
Fighting in Syria has displaced 7.6 million people, forcing about 4 million of them to become refugees living in five different countries.[1] The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also commonly known as ISIS, has declared that more than 4,000 covert ISIS gunmen are now positioned and "ready" across the European Union.[2] ISIS further claims that many of these ISIS operatives took advantage of the Syrian refugee situation in order to infiltrate Europe.[3]