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Thousands mistakenly allowed past U.S. border, report says
cnn.com ^ | Nov 5, 2007 | Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; aliens; border; economicmigrants; enemywithin; gramsci; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico; oops; trojanhorse
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To: ARE SOLE

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..................!


21 posted on 11/05/2007 8:54:54 PM PST by Stayfree (*************************Get your FLUSH HILLARY T-shirt at FLUSH HILLARY.com!!!)
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To: RDTF
In other news, I was 3,000 miles from home, tired to grab 10 bucks for gas, and the ATM knew within .5 seconds I was .1 cent overdrawn, and spewed a ..."Sorry sucker" in rotating red lights on the screen....Yet all these company's and the government don't have a clue if Jose Enrique Gonzalez Hernandez is here in the freaking country illegally??

WTF?

22 posted on 11/05/2007 8:58:07 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: RDTF
Thousands mistakenly allowed past U.S. border, report says


Thousands?

Try MILLIONS!!!
23 posted on 11/05/2007 8:58:38 PM PST by Deo volente
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To: RDTF

“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.


24 posted on 11/05/2007 9:07:03 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: RDTF
"Employee retention and recruitment problems at CBP may be indicative of larger morale and vacancy problems at the Department (of Homeland Security)...

I think I can guess why.

25 posted on 11/05/2007 9:12:14 PM PST by KittyKares (.)
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To: RDTF

And....the government wants to run your health care.....


26 posted on 11/05/2007 9:13:43 PM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: KittyKares
I think I can guess why.

Do tell.

27 posted on 11/05/2007 9:15:38 PM PST by investigateworld ( Those BP guys will do more prison time than nearly all Japanese war criminals ...thanks Bush!)
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To: goodnesswins
And....the government wants to run your health care

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....

28 posted on 11/05/2007 9:18:22 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: RDTF

So, we’ve been noticing that .... Glad you guys finally did.


29 posted on 11/05/2007 9:22:15 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Cobra64
"Home land security is such a joke! Jerkoff has done a half—s job... So did Fat Tommy Ridge. All of them are incompetent jerks. "

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.

30 posted on 11/05/2007 9:27:35 PM PST by matthew fuller (Crop-circles, killer rabbits and UFO'S are caused by GLOBAL WARMING!)
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To: investigateworld

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.


31 posted on 11/05/2007 9:32:49 PM PST by KittyKares (.)
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To: matthew fuller
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.

I doubt that President Bush got down to the level of detail of what the TSA should confiscate in airports.

32 posted on 11/05/2007 9:43:20 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64
This is not rocket science.

Do you think you could do better?

33 posted on 11/05/2007 10:02:50 PM PST by Marine Inspector
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To: rwgal

“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."

34 posted on 11/05/2007 10:09:18 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Marine Inspector

Yup. No papers... deport.


35 posted on 11/05/2007 10:19:20 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64
"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. "

I was talking about illegal aliens, not contraband.

36 posted on 11/05/2007 10:23:41 PM PST by matthew fuller (Crop-circles, killer rabbits and UFO'S are caused by GLOBAL WARMING!)
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To: RDTF

Were the democrats not complicit in this they’d finally have something they could nail Bush on.


37 posted on 11/05/2007 10:38:33 PM PST by onedoug
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To: RDTF
That's how they let inadmissable aliens in: BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT DOING THEIR JOB!

"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

38 posted on 11/05/2007 10:40:42 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: KittyKares
Correct

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.

39 posted on 11/05/2007 10:56:00 PM PST by investigateworld ( Those BP guys will do more prison time than nearly all Japanese war criminals ...thanks Bush!)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


40 posted on 11/05/2007 11:45:55 PM PST by gubamyster
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