Posted on 11/05/2007 7:54:37 PM PST by RDTF
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government watchdogs have found that thousands of people who shouldn't have been admitted to the United States were mistakenly allowed in last year because of security lapses at legal border crossings.
The number of inadmissible aliens who managed to enter through official ports of entry in 2006 was not disclosed in Monday's report from the Government Accountability Office.
However, a source who has seen a full version of the report, in which those statistics were included, put the total at 21,000.
The author of the GAO report, Richard Stana, said most of those who were wrongly allowed to enter were economic migrants who did not present a security risk.
"But as we saw in the recent past, it doesn't take too many people getting through the ports of entry to cause some real trouble," he said. "And not everyone who comes in and is a danger needs to be a terrorist. It could be someone connected with a criminal enterprise."
Understaffing and turnover at Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the nation's 326 land, sea and air ports of entry, has contributed to the problem, according to the GAO report. However, investigators also cited weak management controls and complacency and inattentiveness by some officers.
GAO investigators arriving at one point of entry found no border agents in the inspection booth, while at other locations, agents didn't ask for travel documents, according to the report.
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We don’t have borders, we have swiss cheese lines...
Meadow Muffin
Care to comment????
Riot Act for border states NOW.
W T F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I please use your witty post as my tagline.
"But as we saw in the recent past, it doesn't take too many people getting through the ports of entry to cause some real trouble," he said. "And not everyone who comes in and is a danger needs to be a terrorist. It could be someone connected with a criminal enterprise."
Well that says it all. Can't these F'en people do their jobs? This is not rocket science.
And the year before, and the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before and next year and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that.
They have started noticing huh? LOL.
Oh and it wasn't mistakenly allowed in it is the governments plan.
ping
So did Fat Tommy Ridge. All of them are incompetent jerks.
Dopey security line with 3.4 ounce limit? A family could board a plane and have a quart of nitro.
I carry a lighter on board every week.
Condition "orange?" What the hell does that mean?
Here is the “public” version of the report. The full version was published in October but apparently included sensitive info so this is the summarized version. I can’t find a lot of things in this report that CNN is reporting (like Stana’s supposed use of the term “economic migrant.”)
http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-08-219
As to the specific number of number of inadmissable aliens—it was an estimate, anyway. It’s not possible to count those that you did not catch. This version of the report says “thousands.”
This is amazing. They will let in hundreds of thousands of illegals, but my cousin was arrested coming back into teh us the other day and was not given bail. Granted he was arrested for a past offense that he had not payed fully for, I think he was about 1000 shy of the full debt. He was coming back from his honeymoon and was arrested and put in jail. (Before I get beat up, I truely believe in If you do the crime you do the time, but then they let all these other people in without checking?).
Anyway, he is out now, payed up and was let go. He is no longer in trouble with anyone, except maybe his new wife.
Homeland Security...................... LOL!!
Thousands? More like millions...
What good will a fence do when we have idiots running the official entry points?
Regards
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