Posted on 07/21/2011 12:42:02 PM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) – Preventing terrorists from traveling freely has been identified as an important component in securing the U.S. homeland, but a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has identified four “key gaps” undercutting the efforts of America’s foreign partners to prevent terrorist travel overseas.
While the United States is taking action to “close key gaps” in foreign countries’ ability to deter terrorists’ travel overseas, problems such as miscommunication and overlap still exist among U.S. agencies undertaking those efforts, according to the June 2011 report.
It said the U.S. “lacks a performance measure to assess government wide progress in closing the key gaps in foreign countries’ capacity to prevent terrorist travel overseas.”
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Here, once again, we are trying to tell other countries how to protect their borders, when we can’t protect our own.
“four “key gaps”” + 2
1. Immigration Bill of 1965(Ted Kennedy/LBJ)
2. Immigration Bill of 1986(Ted Kennedy/ Ronald Reagan)
3. George HW Bush
4. Bill Clinton
+
George W. Bush
Obama
The fifth gap is that they’re not really trying.
we leave the Southern Border of the US wide open. Bring the money home, close the border.
And a possible future gap called Rick Perry
South Africa has a razor wire border fence that is electrified with 10,000 volts. Why can’t we have one of those?
... and a good one. You are absolutely correct.
How would the drug cartels get their drugs across the border then? If they don't make money, they can't donate to US politicians.
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