Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Kristopher Barrett <threejaguar-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Two Hijackers' Visas Extended -- This Week


Your tax dollars at work....heh.....
Regards,
Kristopher Barrett


Excerpt from 3-12 story, http://www.aero-news.net

Two Hijackers' Visas 
Extended -- This Week
INS Is So Far Behind, and So Screwed Up, 
and So Stupid...

More than a year before September 11, 2001 -- August
29, 2000, to be exact -- Huffman  Aviation, in Venice
(FL), processed visa extension requests for two
student pilots: Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. On
September 11, those two flew commercial jets into
history.

We reported on Huffman Aviation, and Rudi Deckers, who
bounced Atta later, back last fall. We thought that
would be the end of the story.

On Monday, ironically six months, exactly, after Atta
and Al-Shehhi killed so 
many people, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service delivered notice of the 
extended visas -- to Huffman Aviation. The fact that
the two terrorists were long dead apparently never
reached the INS; neither had their names rung any
bells at the agency. We all knew the feds were slow --
just how many meanings of that word fit, in this case,
is up to interpretation.

"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters
show up at this late 
date," said an embarrassed INS spokesman Russ
Bergeron. He pointed out that the approvals were made
before September 11 (July 17, 2001, for Atta, and
August 9, 2001 for al-Shehhi); it just took months and
months to get them through the labyrinthine maze that
is the wasteful, clogged, and stupid bureaucracy for 
which he flacks.

"It does serve to illustrate what we have been saying
since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting
information and tracking foreign students is
antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely." It
also shows that there is no reason to have the agency
at all. It's a total waste of money. It hasn't
improved; and more taxpayer monies won't improve it.

Just suppose the two terrorists were legitimate
students, who needed those extensions -- why do we
continue to wonder why there are so many illegal 
students, over- staying their visas, in the US?

[Partial solution: send all the INS people out into
the street, where they might 
find jobs at which they can earn their keep. Even if
they can't find such jobs, at least they'll stop
giving us a false sense of security and wasting money
-- money that could then be spent buying ammunition
for the "war" on terror, fixing their mistakes --ed.]
FMI: www.ins.gov 


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