{"id":1664474,"date":"2022-09-29T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664474"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:56:30","slug":"dhs-pursuing-1700-leads-on-alleged-war-criminals-living-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-pursuing-1700-leads-on-alleged-war-criminals-living-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Pursuing 1,700 Leads on Alleged War Criminals Living in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdhs-pursuing-1700-leads-on-alleged-war-criminals-living-in-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S.\u00a0Department of Homeland Security (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-dhs\">DHS<\/a>) said on Sept. 28 that it\u2019s pursuing nearly 1,700 leads of people\u00a0living in the United States who were alleged perpetrators of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-war-crimes\">war crimes<\/a>, crimes against humanity, and other human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The department confirmed the number of leads it\u2019s pursuing in response to questioning by\u00a0Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?523227-1\/dhs-pursuing-1700-leads-potential-war-crimes-perpetrators-us\">testimony<\/a> on war crimes before\u00a0the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin noted that lawmakers have evidence that DHS\u00a0is pursuing people from approximately 75 countries who are living in the\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are known leads. The actual number may be even higher,\u201d\u00a0Durbin noted. \u201cWhen the Department of Homeland Security discovers a perpetrator here in the United States, what options does it have for ensuring that the perpetrator will not enjoy safe haven status in our country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andre R. Watson, assistant director for national security at DHS, explained that the department has \u201cnumerous options\u201d available to ensure the\u00a0perpetrator will not be granted safe haven status, \u201cstarting with the human rights violators and coordination center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watson said that DHS can build\u00a0an investigation based on crime patterns as it relates to a region and that from there, it can find \u201cpeople who are associated with those crime patterns\u201d and eventually lead to the apprehension of that person.<\/p>\n<p> More Prosecutions Needed <\/p>\n<p>However, Durbin asked why, if DHS has over 1,700 leads, no prosecutions have taken place, to which Watson responded that \u201cthe investigations take time because more often than not it requires an extensive work up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He cited\u00a0challenges such as tracking down foreign witnesses who are outside of the United States, meaning officials need to travel to them and conduct interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say our credibility on this issue relies on results,\u201d Durbin responded.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin\u2019s questioning comes as lawmakers seek to pass the\u00a0Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, which would\u00a0update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.\u00a0Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Sept. 28 that it\u2019s pursuing nearly 1,700 leads of people\u00a0living in the United States who were alleged perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other human rights violations. The department confirmed the number of leads it\u2019s pursuing in response to questioning by\u00a0Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}