Posted on 11/29/2002 10:43:41 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Border security, alien enforcement and removal, visa tracking systems and increased security for existing computer systems are the major challenges facing the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as it prepares to move into the new Department of Homeland Security.
A management review this week by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said the INS' ability to screen people seeking to enter the United States remained a "key element of homeland security," but investigators from the office found that the task was hampered by a lack of adequate staff, equipment and infrastructure support.
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Well, we cannot afford to wait a decade. If it takes that long, we might as well raise the white flag, because it will be Aztlan by then.
It would not take a decade to get troops on the border. They could remain there until the INS is capable of taking over.
He also described as an "enormous challenge" the INS' ability to find and remove 7 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the United States,
I am pleasantly surprised they are even talking about removing all the illegals. However, as discussed here several times, if we begin eliminating the incentives (social services, education, anchor babies) to come here, imposing severe fines against employers who knowingly hire illegals, and deporting those illegals caught while forfeiting their property, they will deport themselves.
But nothing is being done....
So who is the contractor on the border camera project? It's a company called International Microwave Corporation or IMC. We've discovered, despite the failures in Blaine, the Justice Department is making IMC the main government contractor for installation of surveillance camera systems along all U.S. borders.
We obtained the no-bid $200 million blanket purchase order for the work made out to IMC.
But this $200 million contract comes with a sensitive political connection. The vice president of government contracts for IMC is a woman named Rebecca Reyes. Her father is Texas Congressman Silvester Reyes.
Congressman Reyes, who sits on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees, tells KIRO Team 7 Investigators "I have never exerted any influence concerning IMC contracts. My enemies at ins may be trying to smear my name."
IMC owners would not go on camera, but its attorney tells KIRO Team 7 Investigators IMC will fix all the problems with the remote cameras very soon.
The company attributes malfunctions to a variety of reasons: Wet Northwestern weather, poor installation by sub-contractors, and INS-Border Patrol administration choosing to remove key elements of the system.
Like a spine and cojones, perhaps?
Well, they did have a couple of problems. They had to tell 10's of thousands of qualified, white, male, citizens that there were no jobs for them while they searched for minimally qualified, minority candidates and a way to con Congress into allowing non-citizens to have those jobs.
That's why 12/31/02 will come and go and they still won't have all of the designated airports under federal control.
Exactly. It's not just the INS and the fact that if an illegal can get past the INS, he/she can deal in fraudulent and stolen documents of American citizens, he/she can get free health care, free schooling for kids, get in on government handout programs, and all the rest makes the job of the INS very difficult. With all the benefits waiting, the immigrants will just try and try until they make it ---it almost doesn't matter what the INS does. We have to end the practice of anchor babies ---it's one of the costliest scams going on.
They had no problem and all the money in the world for hiring 72,000 high school drop-outs at $24,000 to $50,000 a year to screen passengers and baggage in the airports.
I wonder if the money is going to make any difference in their ability to perform.
But, oh no, it'll take decades to do that on the borders!
All they have to do is get ahold of all the white males that passed the TSA test, but were passed over by TSA while they searched for months longer for minority candidates and women that could pass the written test, physical and background check.
The testing and interviewing is already done. All they have to do is hire them.
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