I hear you. We are now learning that the Phillipine ferry fire was a suicide terrorist. How can you help but wonder what really happened down in Virginia....and Mississippi for that matter?
Report: U.S. border vulnerable
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Posted: 12:13 PM EST (1713 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chronic delays in the integration of FBI fingerprint files with databases used by the Border Patrol leave the United States vulnerable to entry by foreign criminals and terrorists, Justice Department investigators found Tuesday.
Glenn A. Fine, the Justice Department inspector general, said the latest projections are that the two systems won't be combined and automated to check every illegal alien until at least 2008, nearly two years behind the original schedule.
Until then, overworked Border Patrol agents must pick and choose which illegal aliens apprehended at U.S. borders to run through FBI databases that contain some 43 million ten-finger sets of prints of known criminals. That means some will slip through the cracks, possibly to commit more crimes, Fine said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/02/border.security.ap/index.html