Posted on 03/14/2006 6:12:11 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn has sent a letter to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff about the decision to allow Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman, into the United States to become a student at Yale.
Dear Secretary Chertoff: I write to you regarding Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman currently attending Yale University on a student visa.
In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act and expanded the terror-related grounds of inadmissibility. Under current law, an alien is inadmissible or removable on terror-related grounds if he is a representative of any designated or nondesignated terrorist organization. Further, an alien is inadmissible or removable if the alien endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization. The REAL ID is clear that the grounds of inadmissibility and removal apply regardless of when the conduct in question occurred.
Mr. Hashemi was an official spokesman for the Taliban, which gave safe haven and other material support to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and continued to do so even after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Yet the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted him into the United States on an F-1 student visa. I would like to know what steps the Department of Homeland Security is taking to determine whether Mr. Hashemi was properly admitted and whether the Department of Homeland Security will seek to deport Mr. Hashemi under one of the terror-related grounds of removal.
I am also concerned about the Department of Homeland Security’s role in reviewing Mr. Hashemi’s student visa application prior to its issuance. The report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States concluded that the key officials responsible for determining alien admissions (consular officers abroad and immigration inspectors in the United States) were not considered full partners in counterterrorism efforts prior to September 11, 2001, and as a result, opportunities to intercept the September 11 terrorists were missed.
Congress subsequently passed the Homeland Security Act, and section 428 allows DHS to assign staff to consular posts abroad to advise consular officers, review visa applications, and conduct investigations. Yet it is not clear that DHS officials were afforded an opportunity to review Mr. Hashemi’s visa application prior to its issuance. Please provide an update on the progress DHS is making in assigning officers to the consulate in Islamabad and whether those officers are fully integrated into the visa screening process.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
JOHN CORNYN United States Senator
GOOD JOB, John Cornyn!!
US Laws evidently only for US folks!
A 7th grade education and a 7th century world view.
I guess he is the Yale official Talliban representative in the interests of "cultural diversity"
I think he is part of a cell here to do damage!
"Doesn't this boy only have a 7th grade education? How the hell did he pass the SAT's? Probably bought his way in."
Knowing Yale, he probably got in due to his Extracurricular Activities.
I want to know how many of these foreigners are taking the place of smart, hard working American students that are trying to get into college. This terrorist and the one at UNC took the place of our sons and daughters that are good AMericans.
I wish someone like O'Reilly would do some research on this
Can you spell "cultural diversity"?
Definition for the day - reason for allowing a terrorist Muslim access to an education 99.99% of Americans will never get close to.
I hope Cronyn is successful in getting his intolerant anti-woman behind booted out of the country.
it's reported as only 3rd or 4th grade
Now if this was a bunch of Democrats, I'd been surprised if one of 'em hadn't shot himself.
They can't adopt a position until they know which way the president will go. Their entire justification for existence is based on opposing anything Bush does/says. I don't know what they're going to do when he's gone....
CLUE ~ this guy definitely knows where the smack dealers are. Don't be so naive.
4th. grade and a GED
You answered me thus:
CLUE ~ this guy definitely knows where the smack dealers are. Don't be so naive.
Huh?
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