Posted on 06/13/2007 6:57:12 AM PDT by philman_36
I sense some confusion on your part about what's happened to our party. I must say that I share your confusion.
Thank you for the response.
Is it true that the period for the so-called “background check” is 24 hours? Native born US citizens can’t get passports for 6-8 months, but we are going to do 24 hour background checks on 20 million illegal aliens?
With all due respect, no matter how y’all spin it, it’s amnesty!
But, to your credit, it will indeed solve the “illegal immigration” problem because they won’t be illegal anymore! LOL!
Ronald Reagan admitted in 1986 the bill he signed, Simpson/Mazzoli would grant amnesty to a projected 1 million illegal aliens. He was also man enough to admit afterwards that amnesty was a mistake. Unlike then today we’re being lied to and what’s worse this amnesty could be 20 times bigger. That is not in the national interest and must be opposed to the end.
It is a bit of a stretch to say “native born US citizens can’t get passports for 6-8 months.” It is usually 6-8 weeks for a passport, but with the current crush of applications, it is admittedly taking longer, with passports currently taking about 8-12 weeks.
Background checks are not a significant factor contributing to the current backlog in processing passport applications. Instead, the key reason for the delay is the non-automated and very labor-intensive process of verifying that the individual is indeed a U.S. citizen. Another major reason for the passport backlog is the time-consuming process for producing the passport itself, which requires an electronic chip, a machine readable strip, and other tamper-resistant features.
The background check at issue for the current undocumented is an automated process involving an electronically captured print that will be run through database checks.
Of the five components of the background check, four of them nearly always generate answers within 24 hours. The DHS Interagency Border Inspection System check is immediate as is the DHS immigration records check. The biometrics check in DHS’s IDENT is completed within 24 hours and so is the FBI biometrics. The current FBI fingerprint load is about 60,000 per day. Assuming checks had to be done for all 12 million over a six-month period, this adds another 67,000 name checks per day – well under the FBI’s current capacity of up to 200,000 per day.
The only one of the five that sometimes takes longer than 24 hours is the FBI Name Check. 68 percent of name checks are returned within 48 hours and another 22 percent are returned within 60 days. Others may take significantly longer, but if the FBI name check is not completed within 24 hours, it will continue during the probationary period — and if any adverse information is found, the alien’s probationary status will be terminated, and the Z applicant will be deported with no chance of gaining a Z visa.
my collegues who are immigration lawyers have already concluded an SOP mitigation memo will go out like other matters in order to “streamline” the very few (if any prosecutions)
This WH response is not a response.
This immigration bill is a serious demonstration of beltway disease.
Be the Executive Branch, and Enforce The Law.
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