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Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreigners; report could hurt immigration deal
http://www.washingtontimes.com ^ | July 30, 2013 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 07/31/2013 6:10:56 AM PDT by Whenifhow

The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won’t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system.

The findings were revealed as Congress debates an immigration bill, and the Government Accountability Office’s report could throw up another hurdle because lawmakers in the House and Senate have said that any final deal must include a workable system to track entries and exits and cut down on so-called visa overstays.

The government does track arrivals, but is years overdue in setting up a system to track departures — a goal set in a 1996 immigration law and reaffirmed in 2004, but which has eluded Republican and Democratic administrations.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; dhs; illegal; illegals; immigration; immigrationbill
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from page 2 The executive branch is supposed to report annually to Congress on how many people have overstayed their visas but has failed to do so for the past two decades, saying the information isn’t reliable enough.
1 posted on 07/31/2013 6:10:56 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow
Could(?!) hurt?!!!

Damn well better hurt it.

2 posted on 07/31/2013 6:14:14 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Whenifhow

No problem. Just make ‘em citizens and then start collecting taxes from them. That will improve the economy! </sarc>


3 posted on 07/31/2013 6:15:28 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Whenifhow

heckuva a job, Nappy!


4 posted on 07/31/2013 6:16:58 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Whenifhow
We found one of them!

Suspect in vandalisms on expired visa

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The woman, who has a Chinese passport, arrived in Washington a few days ago and was traveling on an expired visa, prosecutors said. Police said she had no fixed address but that she told officers she lived in Los Angeles.

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5 posted on 07/31/2013 6:17:51 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Whenifhow

Sheila Jackson Lee will straighten DHS right out. /S

As to the million “lost,” or more accurately, freed, it isn’t surprising. We’ve heard estimates of illegals present in the US which vary from 11 to 30 million, although the MSM and Congress seem to have settled on the politically convenient lower bound. Losing track of visitors is entirely consistent with our uncertainty about how many non-citizens are within our borders.


6 posted on 07/31/2013 6:18:09 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Whenifhow

That will all be straightened out as soon as Sheila Jackson Lee becomes the new head of Homeland Security.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 6:18:59 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Whenifhow

The executive branch is supposed to report annually to Congress on how many people have overstayed their visas but has failed to do so for the past two decades, saying the information isn’t reliable enough.
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“The information isn’t reliable”
Apparently the NSA isn’t on the job ! Yet they can track everything Americans do!


8 posted on 07/31/2013 6:21:24 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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The government does track arrivals, but is years overdue in setting up a system to track departures — a goal set in a 1996 immigration law and reaffirmed in 2004, but which has eluded Republican and Democratic administrations.

Eluded? Eluded????!? You get in line at customs when you are leaving and have your passport scanned and entered into a computer. This is something that libraries have done with computers for decades when both checking in and checking out books. Even in the movie Argo one of the points was how to sneak people out of Iran when their fake IDs didn't have paper records matching their entry, and that was in Iran 34 years ago. Things like this aren't done only because those in charge don't really want them done.

9 posted on 07/31/2013 6:29:00 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: Whenifhow
These are people who entered legally, at one time?
I'm sure there are many more than one million illegals here who never showed their passport to anyone.

10 posted on 07/31/2013 6:35:50 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Whenifhow; All

Now we know that illegal alien invasion was a cornerstone of GWB’s “Compassionate Conservatism.”

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Our tolerance for debt-based welfare to immigrants is equal to our tolerance for the debt that we are willing to pass onto our children and grandchildren.

Reduce our tolerance for debt-based Federal Programs, and our tolerance for immigration will also be reduced.

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Our Southern Border is under the control of Mexican Drug Gangs. An illegal attempt by AG Holder to challenge their grip failed with Fast and Furious.

Obama has allowed INS officials to increase the number of “got-aways” and to decrease the number of illegal alien invaders actually caught.

Gullible News outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal routinely run articles quoting Obamanation statistics that numbers of captured illegal alien invaders are down, and thus there is no such thing as the surge of illegal alien invaders from Mexico and other Southern Hemisphere Socialist Countries.

Most News outlets refuse to come to our Southern Border to document their obviously false assertions.

Most State Politicians cower when our sorry NINE SUPREMES dictate that the State has no authority to protect itself from illegal alien invaders.

As long as THE NINE SUPREMES have 4 Socialist Judges, there will always be a high risk that some gullible Judge from the Majority will cross over to the dark side and continue the destruction of our US Constitution as the signature accomplishment of the US Welfare State. Traitor John Roberts’ support of Obama’care’ is the most horrific example.

Thus, it is incumbent upon those of us who still value the US Constitution to oppose the dark side, what we now call Obamanation.

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The purpose of passing a Federal “reform” immigration bill this year is to allow illegal alien invaders from Mexico, and other Central and South American Socialist Countries, to vote for Socialist-Democrats and appeasing RINOs in the 2014 and 2016 USA National Elections for more debt-generating welfare to future illegal alien invaders to become future Socialist-Democrat voters.

These future Socialist-Democrat voters should be called “McCain-Rubio Democrats,” as no other Senators have done more to encourage gullible RINOs to appease and otherwise cave-in to debt-dependent Democrats than these two sorry RINO Senators.

Stand your ground, FReepers! Raise the Gadsden Battle Flag!

It is us against the gullible supporters of Obamanation!

For example:

While Rubio and his Eight Senate Gangsters put out political smoke and mirrors to “get a bill passed this year,” nothing they have said will change the basic problem of aliens illegally invading the USA.

The Basic Problem: Illegal aliens invade the USA for Welfare and Wages.

Solutions that address the Basic Problem:

1.) End the Anchor Baby Law.

2.) End the Hospital Emergency Room No Payment Law (EMTALA).

3.) End ANY other Welfare to Aliens.

4.) Fine US employers $1,000 per day per employee who is an alien.

5.) Spend NO money on “securing the border.” It is a bottomless money pit.

6.) Spend money on Chainlink/ Concertina wire desert prisons for the EXISTING Federal Law for a mandatory 6 month imprisonment for repeat offenders who have invaded our Country more than once.

7.) Transfer Border Invasion Enforcement to the US National Guard in each State, and thus under the control of the Governor of each State. The less Federal involvement, the better.

8.) Repeal all State and Federal Laws that prohibit voter officials and Police from requesting proof of US Citizenship for any reason what so ever.

9.) Be as hostile to all illegal alien invaders as we should be to all Federal politicians and Federal Judges who vote for or support another Ted Kennedy-style amnesty bill with no significant Federal enforcement.

Contact your local TEA Party, and plan to kick the sorry RINOs and even sorrier Democrats out of Congress in 2014!

It is all about the money FReepers, YOUR tax money.


11 posted on 07/31/2013 6:36:27 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Whenifhow

Quick and easy way to “find” every last one of them; Just have some lefty organization conduct a poll of chicano voting intentions. They’ll report the voting intentions of every last man Humberto of them./S


12 posted on 07/31/2013 6:39:44 AM PDT by Tucker39
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To: COBOL2Java

Guess what would happen if a single American got caught pulling a stunt like that, abroad!


13 posted on 07/31/2013 6:41:00 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Whenifhow

Another incompetent government agency, I’m shocked.


14 posted on 07/31/2013 6:42:34 AM PDT by matt04
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To: Whenifhow

The report should probably say 5 or 10 million.

I doubt that Homeland Security could find their ass with both hands and a flashlight.

But don’t worry Sheila Lee will straighten this out.


15 posted on 07/31/2013 6:44:33 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Whenifhow

The Immigration Reform Act assumes that there exists an administration with the willingness, competence and honesty to carry out the law.

But no such administration exists.


16 posted on 07/31/2013 6:44:42 AM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: Whenifhow

If they say they lost track of one million that means they don’t really know the true number.

It’s probably more like three million, five million or ten million.

But as long as NSA and DHS is keeping track of Military Vets, Bitter Clingers, Christians, Gun Owners and Obama Critics there is no need for concern.


17 posted on 07/31/2013 6:47:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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To: Whenifhow

EXACTLY why the Rube Goldberg operation of government agencies will NEVER do their part to keep track of all those newly legalized illegals.


18 posted on 07/31/2013 6:47:56 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: BitWielder1

Everyone thinks the illegals are all Mexican, but the west coast is overrun with Asians and I bet many of them are in this category.

1 million? Is that all? In what timeframe are they counting this as a DHS statistic? How many million altogether?


19 posted on 07/31/2013 6:48:59 AM PDT by wrencher
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To: Whenifhow

“Eluded” Democrat and Republican administrations—as if Clinton, W, or Obama had the least bit of interest or intention to uphold our immigration laws!


20 posted on 07/31/2013 6:50:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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