[Marine Inspector]

To be truthful, no one on the ground in INS is impressed with Border Security bill. Other than a possible pay raise for me, it really does very little in improving the border.

The student tracking only computerizes what we already have, which does not track anyone. The INS and Clinton killed the best hope for a great student tracking system a few years ago.

All the high-tech visas in the world will not stop the 2 - 4 million that cross the border illegally every year.

Nothing in this bill would have prevented Atta from getting into the country. It would have slowed down their training, but the terrorist are pretty patient and would have waited.

[patriciaruth]

no one on the ground in INS is impressed

Tell me, are they actually sitting on the ground? Is that why the paperwork is backlogged for a year?

Ignore the feeble joke. I'm actually interested in your opinion about what the problem is and what would fix it, if you would be so good as to opine on the subject.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Nothing that we could do, short of not allowing anyone in from anywhere, could have stopped Atta from coming in.

With Bin Laden's millions, even an extensive background search would have been useless.