[LibFreeUSA]

“Individuals will be held responsible for any professional incompetence that led to this failure,...”

OK! How FAR BACK are we going to go here?

Remember! This is the same bunch at INS (then headed by Meissner / Reno / Clinton) that sent 'storm troopers' into an American home at 5 AM at GUN POINT to take a 6 year old kid back to a criminal dictatorship!

BUT THEY COULDN'T (WOULDN'T) PROTECT US FROM THESE TERRORISTS WALKING THE STREETS AND "APPROVING THEM" FOR FLYING LESSONS, WHILE THEY WERE TAKING A KID A GUN POINT!

[pabianice]

I'm sensing some sudden vacancies in the SES...

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[AmericanDave]

I'M SICK of it! Why don't we just SHUT DOWN IMMIGRATION untill they fix the system? Do we HAVE to let people immigrate unless their backgrounds are squeaky clean?

[Chi-townChief]

BUMP

[yoe]

This is more mind boggling than just a slip up. Most of the people I know realized the INS has been a sleep at the wheel for years! President Bush should fire his new hire now!

[angkor]

“Individuals will be held responsible for any professional incompetence that led to this failure,” he said, “and inferior INS quality-control mechanisms will be reformed.”

This is pathetic. Everyone in Washington know the INS is self-destructing and is routinely called "the worst agency in the federal government." John Ashcroft is boss of the INS. Does he not yet know how screwed up it is? Does he not know that the INS "information systems" are antiquated and non-functional? Does he not report any of this to GWB?

And if GWB realized only this week that the INS is in a meltdown, then he has no business whatsoever adding one million 245(i) scofflaws to the INS rolls. Actually, it is unbelievable that he never asked Ascroft "what is the state of the INS."

[dougherty]

I just wanted to gag yesterday when I saw Bush on the news, carrying on about the INS. This is the same man, who went against the opinion of the majority of citizens, and pushed through an amnesty bill. Give me a friggin break. He is not serious about cleaning up the INS or stopping the illegals. He only becomes concerned when they make a fool out of him, with the way he carries on about protecting the borders (yeah, right! some protection, lol).