Michael McCaul calls for end of ‘politically correct’ U.S. homeland security policies

The incoming Trump administration has opened the door for congressional defense hawks to roll back the damage caused by the Obama administration’s “politically correct” policies to defend the United States against terrorist threats, a senior House Republican said Wednesday.

This new, hard-line policy to homeland security and national defense unveiled by House Committee on Homeland Security chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul, will “reverse the damage of the last eight years,” the Texas Republican said.

Mr. McCaul took direct aim at President Obama’s “politically correct” attempts to counter extremist groups like Islamic State and al Qaeda who are actively recruiting fighters and plotting attacks against the U.S. and its western allies.

The White House has actively refrained from using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” and lambasted GOP hawks for attempting to paint all Muslims as sympathetic to such extremist views.

With President-elect Donald Trump poised to assume the Oval Office next month, the time is now to impart “the biggest domestic counterterrorism overhaul in decades,” Mr. McCaul said.

His plan would include the “immediate suspension of all immigration from high-risk areas” such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere, while pressuring the European Union to take similar measures.

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