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"Lets Roll" <letsroll@meet-me-in-hell.com> wrote in message
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> VDARE.COM - http://vdare.com/malkin/051115_dhs.htm
> November 15, 2005
> Homeland Security: Red Alert
> By Michelle Malkin
> Things are going from bad to worse at the Bush Department of
> Homeland Security.
> Do not be fooled by DHS chief Michael Chertoff's tough-sounding
> rhetoric.
> While the Washington muckety-mucks pay lip service to reforming
> the nation's broken detention and deportation system, catch-and-
> release of immigration lawbreakers remains the order of the day-
> �not only at the border, but all across the country's interior.
> The rudderless and overwhelmed U.S. Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement agency still does not have a new chief. Which is just
> as well since Bush nominee Julie Myers (a nice Bush lawyer with
> virtually no immigration or customs enforcement experience who
> happens to be the niece of recently retired chairman of the Joint
> Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers/wife of Chertoff's chief of staff/former
> employee of Chertoff and former colleague of outgoing ICE head
> Michael Garcia) would provide as much leadership and morale-
> boosting ability as a pair of junior high pom-poms. Her nomination
> is still pending.
> Meanwhile, as illegal immigration continues unabated, the White
> House has seen fit to award the chief of the Border Patrol, David
> Aguilar, a presidential "Meritorious Executive" award, which comes
> with a cash bonus, for his outstanding performance. I kid you not.
> [Vdare.com note: The Customs and Border Protection website
> describes Chief Aguilar as a" trusted spokesperson within the
> Hispanic community, communicating border-crossing policies
> that have a profound impact on Hispanic communities along
> the border."]
> It's not much better over at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
> Services, which administers all immigration benefits, from
> citizenship applications to asylum requests to work permits, and is
> responsible for overseeing all amnesty, student visa, and marriage
> visa applicants. The head of the agency, a nice banker named
> Eduardo Aguirre whose only experience in immigration law was his
> own personal background as a Cuban refugee, left in June after two
> years in office to become ambassador to Spain. Aguirre's
> biography says that under his "leadership," CIS "made significant
> and measurable progress towards eliminating the immigration
> benefit application backlog, improving customer service, and
> enhancing national security."
> Mission accomplished? Don't make me laugh.
> A new report by the DHS inspector general's office showed that
> Aguirre's agency has failed miserably to crack down on the
> estimated 4 to 8 million foreigners who have overstayed their
> visas�a supposed priority in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist
> attacks, which highlighted how lax enforcement against visa
> overstayers has enabled many al Qaeda operatives to stay in the
> country.
> Of the 301,046 leads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
> agency received in 2004 on possible visa violators, the inspector
> general found, only 4,164 were formally pursued, resulting in just
> 671 apprehensions�-few of which will actually result in deportation.
> In these trying times for conservatives in Washington, you'd think
> the last thing the Bush administration might do is send up yet
> another crony/diversity nominee to fill a sensitive post. But
> Aguirre's proposed replacement, Emilio T. Gonzalez, is just such
> an embarrassment. He appeared before the Senate Judiciary
> Committee recently and was endorsed by two Florida
> Republicans-Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
> who said Gonzalez would "'bring an understanding of national
> security and my own personal immigration experience to
> bear." [Cuban exile likely to direct bureau, By Frank Davies,
> Miami Herald, October 19, 2005]
> Gonzalez is a Cuban refugee who arrived in the U.S. at the age of
> 4, achieved the American dream, and served honorably in the
> Army for 26 years. This makes him a remarkable success story. It
> does not make him a good candidate to head the of Citizenship and
> Immigration Services agency in a time of war.
> Scouring his resume, one finds no immigration law experience
> whatsoever outside his personal experience.
> No indication that he has any clue about how to curtail rampant
> asylum fraud.
> No indication that he has any idea how to deal with those massive
> numbers of visa overstayers and immigration benefit fraudsters, let
> alone root out terrorist operatives among them.
> And no indication that he would have the ability or willingness to
> ensure that the millions of "guest workers" under Bush's proposed
> amnesty plan would be competently screened, registered, and
> deported after their "guest" terms are up.
> Zip. Nada. None.
> This has been the Bush plan on immigration enforcement and
> border security: Recruit the clueless. Reward the failures. Those
> who abide by the law lose. The con artists, the criminals, the
> ideological border saboteurs, and the terrorists win.
> Michelle Malkin [email her] is author of Invasion: How America Still
> Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our
> Shores.

Why does Bush keep muttering about terrorists when we cannot control our own
borders?

Hank
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