4 Top Officials on Immigration Are Replaced

The NY Times ^ | March 16, 2002 | By ERIC SCHMITT

[vannrox]

Big News. But no one seems to be discussing it.

[ppaul]

FREEP this poll:
NATIONAL ID CARD - Should the federal government require us all
to carry electronic identification?

[anniegetyourgun]

It's huge, and the AG needs wide latitude to eliminate the lackeys, dimwits, clock-watchers, and flagrant violaters. I say bravo.

[Pern]

...sent a letter to Congress today asking lawmakers to give the agency authority to fire people for misconduct or incompetence.

I'll believe it when I see it. No one was fired for this, that's probably why not too many people are talking about it. Govt. worker = incompetence now days. Same O', Same O'.

[Joe Boucher]

Ought to disband the agency and shoot its leaders but I'm just a typical middle class white guy.

[RJCogburn]

Mr. Ashcroft said that "it is essential that I have the authority to quickly discipline or terminate individuals for acts of negligence

It appears AG Ashcroft can move quickly. Good. But he ought to 'discipline or terminate' himself for negligence, as he allows the criminals at Loral to walk away in the matter of missle guidance technology transfers to the Chinese while fining the shareholders $millions.

When he is done with his self-discipline for that, assuming he did not terminate himself, he can discipline himself again for failing to seek justice for the lynx fur hoax or the back-dated BIA documents.

He remains a disgrace.

[Pern]

Cast my vote on the poll:

Yes = 13%

No = 84%

HA!HA!

[Pern]

He remains a disgrace.

Thank You! Couldn't have said it better. Watch out for the die-hard current administration worshipers, though. Got a flame-suit?

[goodnesswins]

Did anyone see the 60 Minutes piece last week....are any of these "reassigned" people ones who were discussed on that program?

[Congressman Billybob]

BUT WAS ANYONE FIRED? So, they rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic. If no one got fired, they didn't really mean it.

Per the screen name of one of the FR posters, if there are not "heads on pikes," the message was not sent to the beauracracy in general that people who are dumb as a box of rocks should be seeking employment elsewhere than in OUR GOVERNMENT.

We're waiting....

Congressman Billybob

"Approaching the Heliopause from 1776." Next is, "The Truman Factor."

[Paulus Invictus]

Congressman BillyBob: You should know by now that it is impossible to fire a government employee, especially the bigger perps, like Klintoon etc. We actually pay them to live like princes although they are criminals. 'Splain me that, Congressman!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Along with Mr. Ziglar, Mr. Anderson, an immigration specialist and former top Senate Republican aide, is one of the few political appointees at the agency.

I think this answers your question about why no one got fired, they are protected by Civil Service rules.

Can't be just let go without a drawout process!

[Reagan Man]

The INS should be rebuilt and restructured from the bottom up. There should be two agencies formed from the existing incarnation, with significant increases in the workforce. One agency would be strictly for legal immigration and naturlization, and a second to handle illegal immigration and border enforcement efforts, as it relates to homeland security issues. It can be done. If more aggressive force is required, bring in additional military assistence for tactical support.

America's at war. This is no time to be screwing around. Let's do the right thing.

[LiberteeBell]

Removed, fired, whatever. What this amounts to is a few peons getting disciplined for a clerical error. Did anyone die? Did any major property damage occur?

What I want to know, where's the investigation into the biggest intelligence failure in US history? Why aren't any heads rolling for 9-11?

[VOA]

4 Top Officials on Immigration Are Replaced

Very cool.
I'm pleased to see that Dubya's oath to "smoke 'em out, get 'em on the run" and to
take care of the scoundrels also applies to some govenmental incompetents.

[TomGuy]

4 "reassigned"...well, it's a start....which should have started at least 6 months ago.

[IWONDR]

"The immigration service said on Tuesday that the two men were initially notified last summer of the change in their visa status to student from visitor, but that the "secondary notification" to the school did not go out until after the paperwork had been done manually by a contractor."

I agree that accountability is needed. However, in this instance it may not be a federal bureaucrat that needs to be held accountable; rather, a private contractor appears to be where the buck stops (or didn't stop) in this instance.