Nov. 23 Kyodo - The Brazilian federal police have arrested three Chinese nationals who were about to catch a plane to Miami using forged U.S.
passports, police authorities said Friday.
There are many solid high school students who could benefit from a program at a top tier university. But these universities believe that foreign=smarter. They hold the American student in contempt.
This is a politically correct money motivated decision. If I remember correctly it was reported last week that foreign students in US colleges are an $8 Billion dollar/year industry. Diversity my Aunt Maud!..it's the MONEY.
First the foreigners, then the citizens. Digital Angel, the sub-dermal global positioning and informational chip, debuts on the market Monday, November 26, 2001. Biometrics is being pushed and will be incrementally implemented until we are all tagged and monitored.
Sounds like it's all about foreign nationals,protecting our country, preventing fraud, ensuring safety, but it will be used to fence us in, like those electronic dog fences. Tagged, monitored and controlled.
Let me see 80% of the Denver airport personel weren't even citizens. Baggage checkers would be placed on the line with less than 48 hours training. They were paid near minimum wage and yet all other manner of problems have to be fixed. If the airports had been run the way we were told they were, I'm thinking we wouldn't have had to endure 09/11. What's more, we woudn't be having to turn our airports into war zones and life would have continued as it should have.
Now we've got f-ing tanks at our airports. Evidently our fearless leaders feel that's the proper course. We couldn't possibly impose an incovenience on foreign nationals could we.
Does anyone remember when it used to be a bonus to be a US Citizen? Now it's a plus if you aren't.
We're the biggest saps on the face of the planet. Our officials continue to abuse us and attack us as if we were the problem, when they are. And the foreign nationals are treated with the utmost respect, something we haven't had for what, a decade or more. This sucks!
Gutless. Gee Kev sorry knock your Liberal sensibilities out of whack. We are one big 7-11 store aren't we, open 24 X 7 to serve foreigners day or night.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing some of the "most talented" terroists prevented from entering the US. Given their ages and or inability to assure that they actually attend classes this seems like a loophole big enough to drive a truck through (pun intended).
No one seems to want to face the fact that these terrorists are encompassed by certain specific nationalities and certain religious background. Rather than give heightened scrutiny to others who fit the profile and (gasp!) discriminate, they prefer to see it as a choice between "borders wide open" and "borders shut tight."
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
By what stretch of logic should we hand our strenghts to our current or potential future enemies?
Time and again history has shown that foreign nationals, educated in our country, are not endeared to our culture as a consequence of their experiences. Our present policies are an extension of liberal guilt gone mad.
At least I understood the motivation for Clinton and Ron Brown; simple, personal greed. I don't understand our continued policy now that the cess pool has been mucked out of the executive mansion.
Harvard is one college that sees no problem excepting money, a lot of it, from the Bin Laden family and Osoma himself! Educate Americans First!
Here you go!
http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
When is this going to be in place? Are the Universities paying for this?
by the way, no ban means they can fake the IDs and what not and stil come.
Guns don't kill, illegals do.
The wealthy foreign students will have to pay all the costs associated with these biometric programs (retina scanners cost like $10,000) and the equipment will be in place for expanded use. Good deal for us.
Question ... how hard would it be for a terrorist to borrow the identity of a willing accomplice who has a 'clean' background? Answer ... not very hard.
Second question ... once in the US with his biometric card that says his fingerprints and eyes match up to his name, Mohammad (when his real name is Abu - HeHeHe), what does this biometric card accomplish? Answer ... not very much.
Last question ... how often do solutions proposed by bloated federal bureacuries to problems created by bloated federal bureacracies actually solve the problems? Answer ... not very often.