"Congress should act to prevent Americans who have travelled abroad for training from returning here, and to stop the flow of refugees from hotbeds of terrorism in the Middle East that President [Barack] Obama is determined to bring to our country," Cruz stated.
The country “must avoid the trap of misconceiving these attacks as isolated incidents somehow disconnected from the larger ideological struggle against jihad,” the Texas Republican said. He added that “radical Islamic terrorism [is] engaged in a coordinated campaign designed to disrupt our very way of life."
Daesh claimed responsibility for stabbing attacks at a Minnesota mall over the weekend, but so far the group hasn’t said whether it was responsible for bomb explosions in New York City and New Jersey.
