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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Which is why D.C. is such a wasteland. Bush should have put 10s of thousands of troops on the border on September 12, 2001 (which is six years ago?????) as a show of strength before Congress and its bunch of business cronies figured out that open borders mean more business contributions to their election campaigns. Politicians are the most expensive whores of all time...disgusting beyond belief. The USA is in the hands of whores..................!
WTF?
“economic migrants”
= anybody trying to get out of Mexico to get a better life in the US
= just about everybody?
Tell me where my logic is wrong.
I think I can guess why.
And....the government wants to run your health care.....
Do tell.
They might as well...Oh wait they already do run health care to a large extent, regulating, taxing and overseeing every move.
They're not only in, "heath care", they're also in everything from your lawnmower to your light bulbs....
So, we’ve been noticing that .... Glad you guys finally did.
They should not be criticised. They are doing EXACTLY the job that George W. Bush wants them to do. Lay off the lackeys, put the blame where it belongs.
For one thing, think Ramos and Compean.
The staff knows their work is not supported from above. Look at the quote, “Supervisors aren’t demanding that the agents do their jobs and ask the right questions and look at the right documents,” Stana said.”
It’s all a sham. Our so-called representatives want to merge the U.S. with Mexico. They want the border to be a sieve, so that later they can say that we might as well legalize them since they are already here.
I doubt that President Bush got down to the level of detail of what the TSA should confiscate in airports.
Do you think you could do better?
What is best in life? To see innocent Americans slaughtered in their homes, runover by drunk licenseless illegal aliens,
and to hear the lamentation of American girls and women as they are gang-raped by illegal aliens."
Yup. No papers... deport.
I was talking about illegal aliens, not contraband.
Were the democrats not complicit in this they’d finally have something they could nail Bush on.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
My tagline reflects the sentences which were given Ramos and Compean, and which they will do 90% of, reflects the fact that even Japanese officers who ordered or personally executed POWs did less time.
ping
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