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Monday, October 22, 2001

INS ADMITS IT FAILED
TO PROTECT AMERICA

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had terror ringleader Mohamed Atta in its grasp before the September 11 attacks. Then the agency, which stands at the domestic frontline in the war on terrorism, let him go.

AMERICAN PATROL COMMENT

THERE SHOULD BE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS, BEGINNING WITH DORIS MEISSNER AND DR. ROBERT BACH

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"How many more Americans are going to be killed by illegal aliens before our government gets serious about protecting our borders? When will Americans demand action?"
Glenn Spencer, American Patrol, June, 1999

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San Diego Union-Tribune
Is Tijuana airport safe from terror? Danger could be minutes from San Diego
This city's international airport is less than a mile from the fence that separates Mexico from the United States. Planes heavy with fuel can enter U.S. airspace in seconds and be over downtown San Diego in minutes. -- That stark reality has taken on new significance since terrorists slammed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field last month. A spokesman for the al-Qaeda terrorist organization recently hinted that more planes would be used as weapons.

CNSNews.com
Security Beefed Up at US-Canada Border
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, immigration and security officials are beefing up surveillance of the U.S.- Canada border, a 4,000- mile stretch of largely unguarded back roads and commercial crossings that law enforcement officials fear could be America's Achilles' heel in the war against terrorism. -- But officials believe that unless they tighten so-called perimeter security - which includes all entry points into the North American continent - keeping an eye on the relaxed border both countries have shared for generations will not deter terrorism.

Christian Science Monitor
Immigration focus shifts from economics to security
The terrorist tragedy in the United States has transformed the national debate on immigration. -- "If it hasn't turned it 180 degrees, it has turned it 90 degrees," says Lamar Smith (R) of Texas, former head of the immigration subcommittee in the House of Representatives. -- Advocates of more control note that at least 12 of the 19 terrorists in the Sept. 11 attack entered the country legally on some form of temporary visa - tourist, business, or student. "The defense of our nation begins with the defense of our borders," Rep. Tom Tancredo stated last week.

Christian Science Monitor
Tightening the rules on legal immigrants
...For years, the Washington immigration debate has focused on the US's thousands of miles of unprotected borders and the quiet, undetected masses that slip into the country under cover of night or in the backs of trucks. -- But the open, obvious way Mr. Atta and 12 others entered the US has exposed another huge hole in the nation's immigration system - on the legal side. Authorities are suddenly rethinking what changes in policy might be needed.....

Salt Lake Tribune
Games Prompt Worry For Park City Illegals
Some of the undocumented Latino laborers who bus tables, wash dishes and make beds in this resort town fear this winter's Olympics. -- Instead of looking forward to the pageantry and international athletic competition, these mostly Mexican immigrants worry that tighter security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could result in increased demands for identification and even raids by agents from the U.S. INS.

Re: Games Prompt Worry For Park City Illegals
I would like to nominate one more name for your criminal prosecution list of INS employees, Steven Branch, officer in charge of the Salt Lake City office of the INS. He stresses that the top priority for the INS is dealing with "criminal aliens" rather then sweeps of "undocumented workers".

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L.A. Daily News
Gang-crime explosion feared
Weakened gang suppression efforts in Los Angeles County have led to a sharp increase in graffiti taggings in some neighborhoods and heightened concern among officials of a looming explosion of gang-related violence. -- Various officials who deal with street gang crime have decided to voice their concerns since a Daily News story disclosed the county Probation Department has sharply cut staff in its anti- gang program and modified its policies.

Stein Report
Abraham reinvents his legislative record on immigration
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham appeared on the Oct. 20 CNN "Capital Gang" talk show and was asked by Kate O'Beirne about his record on immigration when he chaired the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. Noting that he had favored "fairly liberal" immigration policies, she asked, "Do you now think we actually do need tighter controls at the border and tighter control on foreign visitors with visas?" [Also see this item.]

New York Post
'Traitor' loses lust for jihad after tough grilling by feds
A traitorous Maine Muslim, who recently boasted to The Post that it would be "noble" to join up with the murderous Taliban, cowered before a federal grand jury in New York City last week - trying to distance himself from the hideous statements he made, law-enforcement sources said. -- Isanu Dyson was grilled in front of the panel Friday about his statements, in which he said he is prepared to join the jihad against the United States, and thinks government workers would be fair game to target in the war against America.

WorldNetDaily.com / Don Feder
Tighter borders now!
If Sept. 11 doesn't cause us to finally get serious about plugging our porous borders, nothing will. -- At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein made the understatement of the year when she observed, "Clearly, something went tragically wrong with our immigration system." -- Feinstein was referring to the ease with which terrorists have entered the United States, due to lack of adequate screening....

El Paso Times
Mexico on lookout for terrorists
Anyone who drove across the Paso del Norte Bridge late Friday morning and afternoon ran into an unusual site -- Mexican soldiers armed with assault rifles patrolling the Mexican side of the bridge. -- Officials said they received an unusual bomb threat, and traffic slowed to a crawl while tempers flared in the hot sun. Fortunately, the threat turned out to be bogus. Authorities have not arrested anyone in connection with the incident.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Mexican Human Rights Lawyer Is Killed
One of Mexico's most prominent human rights lawyers was found shot to death in her office here on Friday, bringing criticism of the administration of President Vicente Fox from environmentalists and rights advocates. -- The lawyer, Digna Ochoa, 37, was a longtime advocate at the Jesuit-run Miguel Agustín Pro Center for Human Rights. She was perhaps most widely recognized for defending two jailed peasant farmers considered by Amnesty International to be "prisoners of conscience."

Time Magazine
Immigration and Naturalization Service - Borderline Competent?
Of all the frightening lessons America has learned since Sept. 11, one of the scariest must be how absurdly easy it was for the bad guys to get into the country and stay. The hijackers didn't slink across the border at midnight or flash expertly forged passports; 13 of the 19 entered this country legally, on tourist, business or student visas. More than 7 million foreigners enter the U.S. on visas each year, and close to 3 million of them overstay their visas, just as three of the terrorists did.

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