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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I was at the border several times last month including crossing into Juarez with my wife and in-laws. We saw thousands of people crossing into El Paso, and I wondered how many of them would not be going back into Juarez. The markets of downtown El Paso were full of people shopping from Juarez. How they can keep track of those people after they’re done “shopping” I have no idea.
Here, in northeast Azatlan, I’m starting to see more and more license plates from Mexican “states?” I’ve also noticed that the vehicles are mostly vans. Thought maybe it was just my imagination but my son mentioned it to me before I said anything. I guess the Mexican “tourism” business is picking up some. < /s>
economic migrants
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Millions, and when they get the children counted, we’ll have to pay higher taxes build more Government Schools.
economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants economic migrants(Beavis and Butthead moment)
Where can I be a economic migrant? This high tax Government has robbed me of millions of opportunities for better economics.
The United States has about as much border security as Wal-Mart. The internal security is worse.
Apparently you missed the entire meat of the article!
BUMP
No problem, go for it...
Meadow Muffin
What? They are. Their job is to file reports. I feel So much safer now. /sarc
Time after time, again and again, Washington continues to confirm the American people have absolutely no reason whatsoever to trust the federal government...on anything.
For years I’ve asked this question...Name 3 things the government doesn’t tax, regulate or prohibit? No one ever could. I finally found one.....
Illegal Immigration.
That’s so good I’ll probably try to take credit for it...
Thousands must be the new way of spelling hundreds of thousands.
Check this out Czar.
Groping Mexican blames 'cultural differences'
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm? id=1771022007&format=print
[snip]A MEXICAN waiter who groped 12 women in Edinburgh in the space of two months, blamed his crimes on "cultural differences".
"He told the police he was just playing. 'That's what we do in Mexico', he had said. It was a cultural difference."
In today's politically correct bizzaro world, it almost makes sense...
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