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Your Homeland Security dollars at work
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| 26 January 2005
| Michelle Malkin
Posted on 01/26/2005 4:57:58 AM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: MisterKnowItAll
Do you think the Federal Government should check the death registration of all states? They should check for criminal activity but there would be a large added cost to seeing who has died, and it serves no purpose as they will not appear and the "problem" is solved.
This is only an issue if you really need one.
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posted on
01/26/2005 5:41:34 AM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Cat got your tongue? Or do you just not have an opinion on your post? If that is the case why did you post it? Are you fearful of the threat that dead people pose?
None of the above, just wasn't available to post for a while. (After I post this reply I'll be unavailable for several hours too, so don't mistake my silence for anything else.)
I think there are at least two issues here.
The first, and the less worrisome, is that, although it's admittedly very hard to collate information among departments, there are some trivial things that ought not to be missed. If it takes three-plus years to approve someone for immigration, surely it's not unreasonable to perform some sort of check to make sure the person is still alive. But this probem may handle itself so long as the immigrant has to appear in person with ID and so forth in order to confirm.
The second, and the more worrisome, is that those documents could have been used by someone else. In this case the deceased immigrant was a victim rather than a terrorist, so his family and friends won't be trying to misuse those documents to get a green card for someone else. But I don't know, and neither do you, that similar documents haven't been sent out for other now-deceased immigration applicants and used by other parties with false identification.
Those are tentative opinions and open to change, of course. But even if these concerns can be addressed, I don't think the issue itself is a nonstarter.
To: MisterKnowItAll
The DNC will pick up his green card and will even be considerate enough to vote for him, maybe several times.
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posted on
01/26/2005 6:05:54 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: MisterKnowItAll
Thanks for your thoughts -- welcome to FR.
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posted on
01/26/2005 6:14:31 AM PST
by
TBarnett34
("Unnngh!" -John F'n Kerry, 11/2/04)
To: MisterKnowItAll
what scares me more than anything is that if a person get's into this country so easily what of a nuclear weapon? or biological agent?
To: MisterKnowItAll
To: Conspiracy Guy
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posted on
01/26/2005 6:50:46 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
To: MisterKnowItAll
If his name had been "Eugueni Ali Muhammed" I might be concerned.
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posted on
01/26/2005 6:52:26 AM PST
by
Registered
(They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture)
To: Registered
"If his name had been "Eugueni Ali Muhammed" I might be concerned. For all we know it is
To: Kelly_2000
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posted on
01/26/2005 6:59:51 AM PST
by
Registered
(They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture)
To: Tax-chick
LOL. Not as skinny as Coulter. Not as sharp as Coulter either. But still usually on the right side of the fight.
To: MisterKnowItAll
I don't know why this is suprising. Nothing in D.C. functions anyway but opposite of how it was created to function.
To: Conspiracy Guy
I agree entirely. Seeing those bones gives me a chill, though.
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posted on
01/26/2005 7:12:58 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
To: Conspiracy Guy
"Interdepartmental communication is abysmal at all levels of government."
Purposefully so. For instance, if the Dept of Agriculture is doing a survey of crops in your area and finds that you have a field full of marijuana, they just catalog it under 'other' and go on about their business. When their people used to go out into the field a lot (it's done primarily by satellites now), they would often be confronted by guys with guns thinking the government was coming to burn down their fields. The laws barring the DoA from contacting the DoJ regarding their findings has allowed the DoA to do the job they were intended to do. Now, of course when a report comes out and says that a third of some county's crops are "other", the DoJ can probably pick up on the fact that something's going on there.
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posted on
01/26/2005 7:20:18 AM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
To: Tax-chick
To: Registered
"If his name had been "Eugueni Ali Muhammed" I might be concerned."
Oh, I don't know - names like Ted Kaczynski, Richard Reid, Tim McVeigh, and John Walker Lindh don't sit too well with me either.
Not everyone with a grudge against the US and a willingness to kill her people has a multi-hyphenated name. INS is a critical line of defense, and at the moment, it's pathetically inadequate.
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posted on
01/26/2005 7:25:44 AM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
To: NJ_gent
To: Conspiracy Guy
She is cute though ; ) She's coming to Emory at some point this semester. They're having a dinner here beforehand..and tickets to the dinner are $35 (they said they had to pay for Michelle's food..;)
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posted on
01/26/2005 7:35:33 AM PST
by
TBarnett34
("Unnngh!" -John F'n Kerry, 11/2/04)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Connect dem bones, dry bones, dry bones ...
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posted on
01/26/2005 7:38:26 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Wielder of the Dread Words of Power, "Bless your heart, honey!")
To: Registered
How do we know you are THE Registered?? You could have kidnapped Registered, and Re-Registered as Registered!!
Well, what about it fella?? Type out the emanations of "Sore Loserman" so we know you are the bona fide Registered, instead of Mohammed the Torch!
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