Welcoming Terrorists
Bureaucrats Ignore Immigration Laws
New York Times -- October 12
U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas
Dallas -- Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.
New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.
Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi's checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas. [...]
Homeland security officials caution that universal exit monitoring is a daunting and costly goal, mainly because of the nation's long and busy land borders, with more than one million crossings every day. The wrong exit plan, they said, could clog trade, disrupt border cities and overwhelm immigration agencies with information they could not effectively use.
..."You can't ask the immigration system to do everything," said Doris Meissner (Get a load of Meissner)
 American Patrol Report Comment: In other words, bureaucrats refuse to enforce immigration laws, despite what Congress and the American people demand. |
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