Posted on 06/19/2002 1:19:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) --
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WTF??? Who can’t finish a tourist stay in six months unless they’re planning on undertaking something really, really big. Like say, flight school (no student visa required) and hijacking a plane and plowing it into a large building.
This type of idiocy from the INS just goes to reaffirm my belief that NO tourist or student visas should be issued until the INS is overhauled to the point where it no longer resembles it’s current form whatsoever.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
90% of all tourists have return tickets and they would be allowed to stay for that period of time.
The other 10% don't and can easily tell the Inspector the length then intend to stay.
The number of tourist that actually request or stay 6 months is so small, they would have no impact on the tourism businesses, and would be allowed to stay once they explained them selves to the Inspector.
Florida, in fact, seems to be a favorite destination for the terrorists.
What will be the condition of the Florida tourist industry if the invaders set off a 9/11 event in Florida? It's time to protect our borders.
Even after the President has declared war on terrorism, it seems that politicians are still only concerned about their reelections and businesses are still only concerned about their bottom lines.
And by the way, it's time to become self-sufficient in oil production. Let's drill (hundreds of miles) off shore.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. My issue isn’t with the front line Inspectors, it’s definitely with the idiots at the top like Ziggy.
I know the frustration of working for a complete idiot, but imagination fails me when I try to comprehend what it must be like to be charged with defending our borders, to take direction from a P.C. morons like Ziggy and the rest of the INS leadership.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
I may be wrong, but it's my opinion that there's nothing wrong with the INS that new leadership and a strong directive wouldn't help a whole lot. I still don't think our leaders get it! Until they do, all the suffling in the world won't fix things.
This proposal is a step in the right direction and "our leaders", aka the Bush Administration, support it as well as the proposal to fingerprint all suspicious visitors or visitors from countries on the terror list. This is not mere shuffling, as in moving departments under HLS, it looks to me like they may be trying to get their act together after all. BTW, Jeb Bush has no say on Federal matters, I don't know why they even bothered to ask him about it.
Which brings us to Attorney General John Ashcroft's proposal for a system that would fingerprint and photograph perhaps 100,000 incoming visitors and another 100,000 foreigners already in the country who fit the profile of potential terrorists. This information will be matched against the federal database of known terrorists or criminals, and the individuals detained if there is a match. Mr. Ashcroft reports that under the pilot program begun last fall, some 1,400 wanted criminals have been arrested attempting to enter the country.
The attorney general's idea is a sound one, and under the Enhanced Border Security Act, which Mr. Bush signed in May this system should be rapidly expanded to include biometric identification for all foreign visitors. The more checking we do, the safer our country will be.
LOL.
Why bother? It would be so much easier just to ban people from the "terrorist" countries from visting the United States. No more "tourists", "business people", "students" etc. from countries like Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon etc.. And shut down their embassies too. I damn sick and tired of seeing their faces on the news programs defending homocide bombers.
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