Posted on 03/07/2006 4:47:40 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet
Albanians are largely Muslim: not a good move..
They don't
But others try not to talk about them .. they are like that family member that everyone whispers about but never openly discusses in public
[snip]The Department of Homeland Security frequently proclaims it's doing everything possible to protect us and this country from a terrorist attack. It turns out, however, the truth is somewhat different.
The Department of Homeland Security itself is anything but secure. It turns out private guards at the department's headquarters in Washington now say they don't have enough training, nor equipment to provide security to headquarters.
At one point, guards emptied an envelope containing suspicious white powder into the air outside the building. The company that provides those guards, Wackenhut Services, is, by the way, owned by a firm based in Great Britain.
Feeling reassured now?
Still ahead here, charges of bribes, green card giveaways and fraud inside the U.S. immigration bureaucracy. Ready for a guest worker program? We'll have a preview of an explosive new report here next. And how the agency responsible for investigating foreign transactions has consistently violated U.S. law.
DOBBS: A shocking new government report is expected to charge the Bush administration with gross mismanagement of this country's immigration system. The report says the Bush administration's so- called temporary guest worker program has no chance of succeeding because of widespread fraud within our nation's immigration bureaucracy.
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT : The Bush administration's top homeland security official is again promoting the temporary worker program opponents say is a thinly-disguised illegal alien amnesty.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: If we don't do some kind of a temporary worker program, I think it's going to be impossible to address the challenge of what could be eight to 11 million illegal migrants who are currently in this country.
WIAN: That estimate is probably low, and even so, the agency that would be in charge of a guest worker program is already overwhelmed and plagued by fraud. What's more, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service is not expected to be up to the task for at least five years. Those are just some the findings of a Government Accountability Office draft report now in the hands of two congressional committees and the Department of Homeland Security.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley recently gave colleagues a preview, saying, "You'd all be shocked if you learned about the internal fraud and abuse at CIS. Officials are being bribed. Visas are being given away. Green cards are being sold."
The year-long study found CIS denied 19,000 applications for citizenship or immigration benefits due to fraud last year. Many of the other 800,000 rejected applications were also likely frauds but denied for other easier to prove reasons. Fraudulent applications are rarely prosecuted.
ROSEMARY JENKS, NUMBERSUSA: If your application is denied based on fraud and you're not prosecuted, then there is nothing that bars you from continuing to apply again and again and again until you get what you're looking for. In the 1986 amnesty, we gave a green card to at least one of the terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. And here we are, we're set to do it again.
WIAN: More than 5,000 applicants for immigration benefits are identified as potential national security threats each year. The Bush administration last month asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars for the citizenship and immigration service this year to begin implementing its temporary worker program.
DOBBS: The anti-fraud effort, of course, the fraud on the part of those applying for visas and even citizenship in this country. But at the same time, Casey, you're reporting that the institution, the bureaucracy itself, has corruption within it, at least according to Senator Grassley.
WIAN: And Senator Grassley was very clear about that in a hearing on Thursday that received very little attention. The overwhelming fact from this report is that the Citizenship and Immigration Service has absolutely no idea how widespread the fraud is because so many of these applications are denied for other reasons.
DOBBS: None of this even goes to the issue of compatibility of computer systems and databases that are absolutely critical to following the flow of those entering this country.
WIAN: Actually, there is a mention of the computer systems, and that's -- they're five years away of getting computer systems up and running that would detect fraud across the different homeland security agencies.
Senator Chuck Grassley will be talking about his efforts to uncover fraud inside our immigration bureaucracy on Wednesday.
TUCKER: The latest poll by Quinnipiac University found that 88 percent of those asked think illegal immigration is a serious problem. Put another way, 94 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of Democrats see illegal immigration as a serious issue .
Yes, I do know that the Port Authorities are state or Interstate controlled. I used the term "US gov't" as shorthand for that - assuming that everyone would know that it was other than "Fed'l gov't". :-(
I have been sort of bewildered by how so many people got hysterical over this issue. Not only are several other foreign gov'ts (Singapore, Hong Kong) running terminals, but all of them are using American stevedores, and I did think those were very much mob controlled. Why do we trust them?
Anyway, I don't know a lot about those mob connections, so if you'd like to tell me more, I'm all ears (or eyes).
BUMP that.
At the moment the Mob does not care to have the following happen: (1) Have a fullscale Congressional investigation of the issue of port security, or (2) Have a Middle Eastern contractor like UAE doing business there because they will trigger a much closer federal supervision of all port activities, and this will, of course, reveal what the Mob is up to.
Although most of us are not surprised at all to find Harry Reid and Chucky Schumer demonstrate that their interests parallel those of the Mob, what about the Republican Congress-critters carrying their water?
Can they explain themselves?
I think this flap is all about the intent of hurting Bush - from both parties. I don't think either side considered Mob interests. Some might be sorry about that in days to come.
Don't be ridiculous. The Mob has the biggest interest in any question about who really runs the docks.
The dock question is being raised by politicians who have no idea how the system works. They just see it as an opportunity to blast Bush. They have no idea that they are "messing with the Mob".
Some of them might get a rude awakening - and that's what I was wondering. Will the Mob just stay quiet, or will they do something to protect their territory?
Notice how the 45 day period for examination is being totally ignored by these guys. The Mob obviously wants the whole deal over and done with NOW, and without anybody getting out there and checking out things that might reveal Mob involvement.
To be sure, the DP World proposed takeover of terminal operations will have ZERO effect on our security.
Overall security is tasked by DHS to the Coast Guard. Most of the ground security is outsourced to the lowest (supposedly qualified) bidder. There is your weak link, not the bean counter in the office or overseas.
It will be a seamless transition to the public and those who do business in the ports.
This is all "death by a 1000 paper cuts" for our President.
If this were happening during the Clintoon years, public praise would be that we are so tolerant and humanitarian, not public outcry that we are giving the Country to Arabs.
The "system" I was specifically referring to is the system that law enforcement uses to verify credentials, identity, and background. Sorry I didn't make that clear in my previous post.
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In this age, even the organized crime outfits are suffering from an overabundance of multiculturalism..
I see - you are suggesting that the Mob has some influence over what is happening. Your suggestion makes sense, but I have no way of knowing if it is true.
I will tuck it into my mind as I read all the other stuff about ports, and decide if it could be true.
Give him a call.
LOL. Duncan Hunter has dug a hole. He thinks this will help his next campaign. I don't know if he's right or wrong.
the port authority police dept. is one of the highest paid in the country.
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