Hope given to S.F.(San Francisco)screeners

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 9-21-02 | Arron Davis

[Technoman]

Hundreds of non-citizen screeners who work at San Francisco International Airport may yet be able to keep their jobs, but efforts to make that happen face tough political opposition with time running out.

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would roll back the new federal requirement that security screeners be U.S. citizens. At San Francisco Airport, nearly 500 of the 1,000 screeners are not U.S. citizens.

[Technoman]

If you have been to any of the Bay Area airports lately, what is known as security looks more like a joke. Most of these "officers" do not exceed 5' 2" (and that's the men), can barley speak English and appear not to have a clue!

One must ask what the good Senator Feinstein has to gain by allowing non-citizens without a grasp of our language to guard our safety in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. Moreover, if it can be proven that Ms. Feinstein's motives are merely to acquire Democrat votes by California's growing ethnic population, ignoring the safety of millions of Americans, wouldn't this be an act of treason?

[Guillermo]

We're being intolerant by not allowing Saudi and other Arab nationals to oversee airport security.

[Glenn]

Homeland Security? We don need no Homeland Security.

Feinstein is such a punk.

[houston1]

The problem is that they're still using the private security firm, whose main goal isn't security, but profit. Thus cheaper immigrant labor is preferred over U.S. citizens who will want higher pay.