INS is a critical line of defense, and at the moment, it's pathetically inadequate.
I think this is the crucial point. And although it may not be clear from the limited-to-300-words excerpt I posted, it's also Malkin's main point. To save you the trouble of following the link, here's a substantial excerpt from the rest of her piece (everything from here to the end of this post is Malkin):
Despite billions spent on restructuring and new technology, our homeland security system is still unable to prevent a green card approval notice from being sent to a dead person. The fact that the letter recipient is a murdered Sept. 11 victim adds unconscionable insult to bureaucratic injury. A Department of Homeland Security spokesman told me it's up to family members to notify the government when an applicant dies. "It's unfortunate," he said, but there is no mechanism in place to prevent this from happening again.
Eugueni Kniazev's case is only the tip of the incompetence iceberg:
The same overwhelmed and inept immigration system that facilitated Eugueni Kniazev's murder has now made a mockery of his memory.
I still maintain that if you are not a resident of California, Arizona, or Colorado, you have no idea what an absolute joke homeland security is. We have 1000 to 1500 illegals sucessfully jumping the border every day......just in California alone! Tell me with a straight face that the terrorists are not aware of this!!
Nanak? Is that you?
"The nation's various fingerprint databases still have not been integrated because of bickering among FBI, State Department and homeland security officials, which means that most visitors entering the country still aren't thoroughly screened for terrorist or criminal ties.
There is still no system in place for notifying immigration investigators about stolen passports, which led the Homeland Security inspector general to conclude last month that foreigners using the fraudulent documents have "little reason to fear being caught."
The long-delayed entry-exit tracking system for foreign visitors -- in the works for nearly a decade -- has still not been implemented fully.
There is still no systematic tracking of illegal alien felons.
And while millions of legal applicants deal with paperwork backlogs and mishaps that take years if not decades to resolve, the White House supports granting "temporary guest worker" status to upward of 20 million illegal aliens -- a move that rank-and-file homeland security officials say will lead to rampant fraud and even greater bureaucratic overload."
Well, you will take some heat for stating this here, but you will also attract many others who see this first hand every day. Welcome to FR.