[JustPiper]

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

[JustPiper]

A Radioactive Project Hits a Snag with Bush Administration
A proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico is getting extra scrutiny from senior officials, as it involves a company linked to leaked nuclear secrets.
By ADAM ZAGORIN

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,596639,00.html

[MamaDearest]

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.

Then how on earth do they plan to assimilate all the fingerprints they are taking from incoming foreigners and make it usable now? Is the procedure just a bandaid on a wound that needs a tourniquet?

[Ohioan]

There is no excuse for not simply closing most of the Southern border--a far better use of our military than rebuilding other nations, as a means of preventing further problems. Access across the Mexican border is not essential for most of our trade; and what trade we do with Mexico could still be allowed via the main roads into America, which could be supervised by immigration and customs operatives, while the army stopped ALL intrusions that were not along those main roads.

If our armed forces could find Sadaam in something not much bigger than a post hole; they could close the Southern border.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

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Some slip through? I think its 4 out of 5.

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