Posted on 06/25/2016 11:04:54 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Cuba is refusing to approve visa applications for members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, according to the committee's chairman.
Members were hoping to leave on Friday afternoon to examine lagging security in the country's airports, which are set to begin making flights to the U.S. this year. The lawmakers were forced to cancel when their applications were denied that morning.
"We wanted to look at their airport security ... because TSA has been backchanneling to us that it's not adequate," said Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. "So I attempted to go down there to just look at them, there were five of us, and they denied our visas."
Officials say Cuba is set to begin making 110 daily flights into the U.S. from 10 airports in the country this fall, but lack security measures that include scanners and bomb-sniffing dogs.
"This whole, 'Let's open Cuba up to everybody,' they just denied the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee a visa application," McCaul said. "My thoughts are that they just did not want me going down there looking at security, because I could see problems."
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McCaul noted that drugs already make it into the U.S. on planes coming from countries like Puerto Rico, which have security superior to Cuba. "If you can get drugs on a plane, you can get a bomb on a plane," McCaul said.
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obumbles was just down there determining position and protocol
Later in the day, McCaul’s office released a satirical image of the chairman staring into the distance, papers and briefcase in hand. “The terminal 90 miles from inspection,” the image said, “the closest the Homeland Security Committee can get to Cuba.”
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Officials say Cuba is set to begin making 110 daily flights into the U.S. from 10 airports in the country this fall
Cuban TV programming to be broadcast in U.S.
http://www.12news.com/news/nation-now/cuban-tv-programming-to-be-broadcast-in-us/245869783
I remember when Puerto Rico was a territory. Its a country now, who knew?
“Cuba is refusing to approve visa applications for members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee”
Cuban communists don’t like “American” muslims?
I miss when I lived in a country rather than a homeland...
Shouldn’t the flights be put on hold until the Cubans have the necessary security measures in place and can demonstrate them to DHS and by extension DHS oversight? Because if there is a terrorist incident involving flights from Havana, they’re going to be shut down for a good long time.
And shouldn’t every airport worker in the tower and on the strip be held criminally responsible for allowing any of these planes to even LAND ?
Because if there is a terrorist incident involving flights from Havana, they’re going to be shut down for a good long time.
Not as long as “we”’re still trying to determine motive for the terrorist attack(s).
Those 110 daily flights should be delayed until security can be assured. Otherwise, it’s just begging for a disaster here.
And flight TO Cuba should be suspended as well.
Interesting take,
Country as opposed to Homeland.
Obozo is a traitor, pure and simple
it’d be a real shame if 110 flights a day were denied entry into American airspace. And I do wonder if the Castros will use the flights to offload another 40,000 criminals into the USA like they did back 35 years ago?
In my best Ernest Hollings voice: There’s too much logic goin’ on here.
Threads full of logic, but that is not what guides the 0bama regime. He and his fellow travelers are ideologues.
A governmental house cleaning is in order.
5.56mm
But Clown Prince nobama said they were our friends. This situation with the congressmen must be all lies. The commie bast***s are our friends.
Sheesh...Solution could/should be simple: No visas for Homeland Security Committee, no planes fly in oh and no TV for good measure!
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