Immigration Update

From the Counterterrorism Research Center:

In this week's CRC Open Sources we include a piece, 'Southern border a gateway for terrorists,' addressing the problem of 'special interest aliens' illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico. According to the article, "In 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. illegally. Of those, 165,000 were from countries other than Mexico, and roughly 650 were from special-interest countries.' (source)

Your money at work on immigration:

“The Homeland Security Department Inspector General report, released late last month, stated that CIS' current business transformation effort duplicates parts of previous attempts by the agency's chief information office to update IT systems. The agency also has repeatedly developed plans to test elements of the transformation program, but has failed to fully implement any of them, the auditors stated.”

So reports Government Executive Magazine. This once again makes it clear that the infrastructure USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) relies upon to adjudicate applications for a wide variety of immigration benefits is not working effectively. Even with the astounding expenditure of $190 million to modernize its efforts to computerize fifty-five million immigration files, it has not been done properly.

It is important to understand that these files are absolutely essential to the processing of applications for immigration benefits. --Immigrant Application System Not Working After $190 Million Expenditure by Mike Cutler

Others posting:
Texas Fred, *UPDATED* Guardsmen overrun at the Border
Liberally Conservative, Schwarzenegger Terminates Conservative Principles
Illegal Aliens the talk of Texas, The Uncooperative Blogger
DeMediacratic Nation, New Hope For Immigration Reform
Terry Meets The Troops, via ACT of Take Back Georgia who also has Rome Georgia Won't Make English The Official Language

Linked with:
Stop the ACLU,
The Democratic Miscalculation, Right Wing Guy
Learning Straight Up, Excuse Me Speaker Pelosi

Comments

[Rastaman]

Maybe it's time to nuke Mexico.

Rastaman

[Mike@CopTheTruth]

I'm sure Pelosi will fix this within the first 100 hours, since it's such a high priority. Won't she? Hello? Anybody?

[Faultline USA]

Thanks for you comment on the Halo Award. Can you e-mail me at faultlineusa@yahoo.com