BUSH: GET TOUGH ON STUDENT VISAS

New York Post ^ | 10/30/01 | VINCENT MORRIS

[kattracks]

October 30, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday asked a new task force to crack down on terrorists who slip into the country as students or through lax border points along Canada and Mexico.

"We're going to be very diligent with our visas," said Bush, convening the first meeting of his new Homeland Security Council, which was created to prevent a repeat of the Sept. 11 terror strikes.

[madrussian]

As long as immigration restrictions are purely reactive and target only those who the authorities think are potentially dangerous and no comprehensive overhaul of the immigration policy is done, we aren't getting anywhere.

[MissAmericanPie]

It never is any where good enough, the government is all about half measures, or no measures, yet we are suppose to now trust them to get us through this mess they created while we watch them blow it time and again.

Our borders are still open, we have no idea who is arriving in our country on airlines from Saudi, Sudan, Jordon, they say it's none of our business.

They are sterilizing the Capitol, yet postal workers can go pound sand. They have no idea if mail arrived in peoples private homes exposed to Antrax, they don't have the cipro stores they first claimed to have, they are looking for some gap toothed hillbilly instead of taking the terrorists word that an attack was coming and here came the Antrax right after that, yet they want us to buy that it is not related.

All they are interested in is us spending our money until we die in some attack at which time they will promptly replace us with a third worlder longing to be free.

[riley1992]

Yours was my first read of the morning and I picked a good one to start at. Great rant, MAP. I agree 100%.

[SocialMeltdown]

This is no where near good enough.

You are correct, sir.

Notice how they are stressing "visas" and not immigration/migration reform.

If anyone believes that 9/11 will alter "migration" patterns of "cheap labor", they are profoundly mistaken.

[swampfox98]

Tom Ridge, who this month took charge of Bush's new Homeland Security office, says the task force will take a broad look at America's leaky borders and press Canada and Mexico to do better.

No one in the Bush administration is serious about this. This is all media hype. I look for Bush to implement an amnesty plan which will make every illegal legal, then his administration will do some closer monitoring of the borders. Not before.