Posted on 06/02/2002 6:10:40 PM PDT by summer
To FR, from summer:
I read the following blurb today in an offbeat newspaper, dated June 5, 2002, at a local café, and then found it again online at Townhall, where I posted it in bold, below. Here's the blurb I first read:
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WELCOME AND BLOW US UP. Among a laundrey list of idiotic border policies exposed by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo) is State Depratment form D-156, the official non-immigrant visa application. It asks:
"Do you seek to enter the U.S. to engage in…subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. secretary of state?"
Before responding, the applicant is assured that: "a YES answer does not automatically signal ineligibility for a visa."
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TownHall.com Columnists
John McCaslin
April 12, 2002
ALIEN STORIES
The chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has compiled a list of 55 "unbelievable but true immigration stories." While we wish we could retell them all, here's an eye-opening sample:
1) Immigrants who are detained on deportable offenses are often released with a summons to appear at a future hearing. The summons has become sarcastically known as a "run letter" because it simply prompts the alien to run from the law and disappear back into the community undetected.
2) ) The best place to buy fake U.S. documents to gain entry from Mexico is blocks away from the border crossing in Juarez. The best person to ask for help: the Mexican official guarding the gate, who personally advised Tancredo how to obtain and pay for documents.
3) U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Juarez/El Paso, Texas, border sometimes ask border-crossers to step through the "drug-sniffing door," which is simply a wooden door frame on wheels.
4) The town of San Luis, Ariz., has only 3,000 residents but 20,000 post office boxes. The reason? It provides Mexican citizens living across the border with "permanent" U.S. addresses so they can come to the United States and collect public benefits, i.e. welfare checks.
5) Juan Hernandez, head of the federal government's Office of Mexicans Living Outside Mexico, tells Tancredo that the American Southwest/Northern Mexico "is not two countries; it's just a region."
6) Last summer, the Mexican government distributed "survival kits" to Mexicans near the border containing granola bars, water, first-aid supplies and condoms - presumably to make their upcoming illegal journeys into America easier. The next set of stories relate specifically to new U.S. national security concerns post-Sept. 11:
7) State Department form D-156 (the official non-immigrant visa application) asks: "Do you seek to enter the U.S. to engage in subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? A YES answer does not automatically signify ineligibility for a visa."
8) Saudi Arabians wishing to travel to the United States typically are not interviewed by the State Department. They can obtain visas through travel agents or "drop boxes" adjacent to U.S. consulates in the country (15 of the 19 hijackers from Sept. 11 obtained their visas in Saudi Arabia).
9) Through the so-called "diversity visa" program, Uncle Sam encourages people from each of the seven countries on the State Department's terrorist watch list to apply for visas to enter the United States.
10) According to several universities, the Immigration and Naturalization Service routinely takes six months to respond to notifications from school registrars about those foreign students, admitted to the United States solely for education purposes, who don't show up for classes.
11) Since Sept. 11, no action has been taken to tighten the "visa waiver" program, allowing people from 29 countries to enter the United States without a visa or even an interview.
This is when the Mexican government as much admitted that it has a very important role in illegal immigration to the US ---they couldn't distribute the condom kits to illegals if it didn't know who they were and where they were going.
Nothing whatsoever is being done is what scares me the most.
And the band plays on.
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