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And the FBI is currently looking for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up for a language seminar in Montana.

Jeez, the more I read some of the recent news the more upset I get at our lax attitude RE: immigration, illegals, visa non procedures, no check before, during or after granting visas, no apparent contact phones, addresses or persons in the U.S. who could vouch for or who have sponsored visa holders.

Is our system so broken that even during the war on terror we seem to not have any ability or will to guard borders or guard against people whose profile indicates a higher risk.

I'd say that people from any Arab country entering our country should raise some flags and cause more intense scrutiny. If 80% of the populations of Arab nations hates the U.S. then wouldn't it follow that possibly 80% of those who enter our country from those countries may be risk factors.

We're at war for crying out loud and our State dept. just plods along with business as usual.

Folks, we're going to have to get hit BIG TIME again. It appears that only then will we get serious and start acting like we're concerned.

I'm convinced that only another 9/11 will wake us up.

More to make your blood boil:

Between the beginning of Fiscal Year 2001 and the mid-way point of Fiscal Year 2005, the DHS audit revealed that 605,210 individuals from countries "other than Mexico" (OTMs) were apprehended and 309,733 of that total were eventually released.

Above data from the linked article below:

Illegals From Terror-Sponsoring Nations At Large in US
	Posted by Diana in Wisconsin On 08/08/2006 2:46:38 PM CDT · 14 replies · 318+ views CNSNews ^ \| August 8, 2006 \| Kevin Mooney (CNSNews.com) - Almost half of the illegal aliens arriving in the U.S. from terrorist-sponsoring or "special interest" nations in the past few years have been released into the American population following their apprehension. This key finding is published in an internal audit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by Cybercast News Service . The so-called "catch and release" policies have allowed more than 45,000 illegal aliens from countries that are well known for their anti-American views or considered "hotbeds of Islamic fundamentalism" to be freed. U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), in conversations with sheriffs operating along the Texas-Mexico...

Is our system so broken that even during the war on terror we seem to not have any ability or will to guard borders or guard against people whose profile indicates a higher risk
IMHO, yes

wouldn't it follow that possibly 80% of those who enter our country from those countries may be risk factors.
a definite certainty.

Don't you think that a few questions are in order here?
I wonder who will volunteer for that job?

We might as well give up. If anything seems or looks suspicious we should do nothing without probably cause or unless a crime has been committed.
I believe for as dumb as the US senate is.....even they may probably vote and approve such an authorization.

I'm convinced that only another 9/11 will wake us up.
at this point I don't know the answer to that question