Posted on 01/26/2005 4:57:58 AM PST by MisterKnowItAll
Do you remember when immigration officials sent out flight school visa approval notices for two of the 9/11 hijackers -- six months after they had committed their suicide attacks on America?
President Bush proclaimed his outrage, four federal immigration officials were reassigned, and Washington vowed that such embarrassing bureaucratic paperwork snafus would never happen again.
I'm sorry to report to you that it has, in fact, happened again.
On Jan. 15, immigration officials sent a notice to Eugueni Kniazev of Brooklyn, N.Y. The letter informs Kniazev, an immigrant from Siberia, that he is now "deemed to be a lawful permanent resident of the United States." The notice directs Kniazev to obtain a new alien registration receipt card (what we commonly call a "green card") and instructs him to appear in person at the immigration office at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City with his passport and three recent photos.
But Eugueni Kniazev won't be appearing at Federal Plaza. He won't be going anywhere. Kniazev, 47, was an employee of the Windows on the World restaurant located on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower. After working his way up from dishwasher to facilities manager and living the American dream, Kniazev was murdered in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Let me repeat that for the clueless paper-pushers at the Department of Homeland Security: Eugueni Kniazev won't be picking up his green card because he has been dead for nearly three-and-a-half years.
What on earth is wrong with our federal government? Can you imagine how upsetting it must have been for family members to receive the letter? . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
This is only an issue if you really need one.
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.
The DNC will pick up his green card and will even be considerate enough to vote for him, maybe several times.
Thanks for your thoughts -- welcome to FR.
OK
She needs to eat.
If his name had been "Eugueni Ali Muhammed" I might be concerned.
For all we know it is
Quit try'n to scare me!
LOL. Not as skinny as Coulter. Not as sharp as Coulter either. But still usually on the right side of the fight.
I don't know why this is suprising. Nothing in D.C. functions anyway but opposite of how it was created to function.
I agree entirely. Seeing those bones gives me a chill, though.
Dem bones dem bones.
Exactly.
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..;)
Connect dem bones, dry bones, dry bones ...
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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