Posted on 12/20/2009 11:28:08 AM PST by Beaten Valve
In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport.
The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located about 60 miles north of New York City. Stewart is a major passenger airport for the state’s mid-Hudson region that also handles large quantities of cargo and serves as a military field.
The illegal aliens all had security badges approved by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency created after the 2001 terrorist attacks mainly to protect airlines. The TSA’s national background check failed to detect the fake Social Security numbers and other bogus documents provided by the illegal immigrants to obtain clearance.
So the embattled 43,000-member Homeland Security agency, which has received hundreds of millions of dollars from Congress to fulfill its mission, granted the undocumented aliens “trusted agent” security badges. This allowed them to work at an airport warehouse business and access key operational areas. An alert airport employee noticed the suspicious documents and reported the illegal aliens.
This sort of negligence is par for the course for the TSA, which has come under fire in recent years for leaving airplanes extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Just last month the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General revealed that the TSA is failing to ensure the security of tens of thousands of cargo packages transported daily in the bellies of passenger planes, leaving aircraft at risk of a terrorist attack.
That probe also found that workers who handle the cargo had not received the required background checks or training, further adding to the security crisis. Previous Inspector General probes have over the years revealed similar problems in the TSA’s dismal air cargo security system and exposed dozens of security failures in other crucial areas nationwide.
Whaddia talking about Joe?
They found people that were in the country illegally wandering around the *INSIDE* of Bush's Homeland Security Boss, Mr. Chertoff.
During war time no less.
See #22 Tom.
TSA Clears Illegal Immigrants To Work At NY Airport
Marvelous. This is next.
Sí extranjero legal del ama, veo que mi hizo una oferta lo prueba.Not to worry.¿Puede usted ahora demostrarme donde la gente rica almacena sus joyas? Necesito un dinero del Taco. Y No. Eso no es una bomba en mis pantalones. Me plazco apenas verle.
Gracias.
During war time no less.
Nice.... Last time I flew out of Newark the guy checking my bags at the curb had a name tag that read “Mohammed”.
How many unemployed AMERICANs in this country again?!
Chertoff!
What a bloody disaster that guy was!
If anyone wants to now why we lost in 2008, they need look no further than Bush, McCain, Lindsay Graham, Chertoff and the rest of the motley crew of amnesty peddling clowns, who continued to try and make the fool out of the American people. They basically pissed off the Republican base. McCain has a lot of crimes to answer for, with his ridiculous amnesty bill.
Soon no one will want to fly, perhaps the rail system in the USA is about to go into the black for the first time since the 1950s.At least there citizens can arm themselves and be ready to defend.
Let’s see....how many Twilight Zone episodes have we lived thru this year???
Maybe the globalist elite want to invite another terrorist attack on U.S. soil so they be can have a motive for taking over the rest of the country through martial law.
And Why hasn’t DHS or ICE arrested their employer? They have been boasting about going after the employers of illegals.
Not taking every Illegal Alien and deporting them is treason.
Any support of Illegal Alien Amnesty, in any form, is Anti-American Bigotry.
Any Illegal Alien hired instead of an American Citizen is sedition
The Obama Government is just the latest incarnation of the French Revolution...
ping
No background check by anyone will detect a fake Social Security number!
Yeah...Can you see me wearing a uniform again???
If they’ll hire illegals, than I should be a shoe-in...
But you’ll be over-qualified, and not diverse enough... hah
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