[testforecho]

The end of the memo is particularly interesting. Even while ordering inspectors not to follow immigration rules for the sake of moving "customers," she puts in a word about enforcing the law. "Our time is very limited and we must use it wisely," wrote Sanchez, who now works for the INS in Dallas. "We must facilitate the entry of all passengers while not compromising our law enforcement efforts."

Letting people into the country was the easiest thing to do, and the bureaucracy naturally followed the path of least resistance.

Unfortunately so did the terrorists.

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I posted the Miami Herald article earlier today, but this is such an overwheming, systemic indictment I thought it should go on the Front Page.

[piasa]

If it were up to Dick Gebhardt, he would have made ATTA a legal resident, maybe even a model citizen, for 'staying over.'

[dirtboy]

In September 1994 then-INS commissioner Doris Meissner authored a pamphlet titled "Serving the Customers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service."

"We intend to improve the way we do business," Meissner wrote. "Customer service is a top priority."

Unless, of course, the customer in question is a little kid washed up on our shores from Cuba, and the boss wants him sent back to appease Castro. Then Doris will squelch information that the father might be under duress. Talk about warped priorities from the INS...

[Guillermo]

The thing is, the INS continues in the same fashion.

It's not PC to not let terrorists in.

[Eva]

I was told by a San Diego border patrol officer, who is on temporary assignment to the northern border, that the San Diego officers have been ordered to stop, but make no arrests of illegals because too many arrests doesn't look good on the books. The border patrol officials feel that too many arrests will make the public feel insecure, that the system isn't working.