I’m sure they’re doing the best they can, the problem is two fold:
· One, much like many other government agencies, they are totally incompetent. Despite the efforts of some of the brave men and women who take their mission seriously, and are on the front line guarding our borders, the agency has become a works program for those too dim and unmotivated to find a job elsewhere, but too proud for welfare.
· Two, there is a serious mis-understanding starting at the top and filtering on down that the mission of the agency is not to assure that our borders are controlled, but that all immigration is assisted. Be this using government resources to build “travelers aid stations” along the mexican border, granting citizenship interviews in a myriad of languages, or sending deceased terrorists visas, they are working hard to flood this country with inassimilable third world peoples.
Again, the leadership of the INS is made up of those with so little brain activity that they fail to even qualify as liberals.
Someone else said it here two days ago: Aside from the border guards, end immigration and shut the INS until we have a sensible immigration system in place. For those wishing to visit, either come from a country that doesn't require a visa, or stay home.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
How can one argue with such an obvious truth!
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—Federal employees working in the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) should not be held responsible for the visas that were mailed to terrorists, says the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).
AFGE, which represents 24,000 INS employees, is outraged and also not surprised that the Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), Inc., sent Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi student visas six months after they hijacked two airplanes and fatally flew them into the World Trade Center.
Representatives Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) and James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) wrongfully say the INS is to blame, employees and all, instead of the contractor. Tancredo called the INS “completely and totally dysfunctional” and “the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies.” Sensenbrenner said the mailing of the visas “shows once again the complete incompetence of the immigration service to enforce our laws and protect our borders.”
“There are two worlds in the federal workforce—the world of unaccountable contractors, such as ACS, and the world of dedicated federal employees,” said AFGE National President Bobby L. Harnage. “And, the only Mickey Mouse Club I am aware of are the Goofy’s in Congress who continue to blindly support the privatization of the federal government for campaign contributions and increased profit margins for corporations at the expense of taxpayers.” “Experienced INS workers who have been working 12-hour shifts to fight the war on terrorism should not be wrongly accused for a contractors’ serious error,” added Harnage.
ACS, which is headquartered in Dallas, has over 900 federal contracts in 21 agencies that total more than $380 million dollars, according to 2000 figures. According to a corporate profile, the company’s aggressive growth strategy has resulted in its acquisition of more than 50 companies since its 1988 inception, including its $825 million purchase of Lockheed Martin's IMS subsidiary.
And now we know the rest of the story