The clowns in DC know this and they still push the amnesty bill. With revelations like this illustrating how insane their open-borders/amnesty policy is, must proceed as though everyone in Washington is smoking crack. One of our major complaints is the fact that there is no infrastructure to implement the Amnesty monster bill. Just stand in line at the DMV or the post office and reflect on the fact that it will be the same people, the same attitudes and the same unions controlling whatever bureaucracy the Bush machine hobbles together.
It will be the same mess that couldn’t even cope with the passport demand by U.S. citizens for their summer travel. In addition to all the other reasons to kill this thing, the Big Government is Stupid, Inept Government is one right at the top.
FBI Name Check Cited In Naturalization Delays
Since 2005, the backlog of legal U.S. immigrants whose applications for naturalization and other benefits are stuck on hold awaiting FBI name checks has doubled to 329,160, prompting a flood of lawsuits in federal courts, bureaucratic finger-pointing in Washington and tough scrutiny by 2008 presidential candidates.
At a time when Congress is intensely focused on border security, the growing backlog is one of the most visible signs of the U.S. immigration system’s breakdown, current and former government officials said.Unexplained delays in determining whether longtime residents pose a threat promise neither justice to the applicants nor added security to the country, they said. They blame bureaucratic mismanagement and poor coordination at the FBI and the immigration service, and the inefficient methods of screening files for genuine security threats.
Calling the delays the “most pervasive problem” in processing, Khatri concluded that they “may increase the risk to national security by prolonging the time a potential criminal or terrorist remains in the country.” He concluded that the agency should end or sharply narrow its use of name checks.
But FBI officials say a heavy workload is not the only problem. They also blame inadequate staffing and technology, as well as a decentralized, paper-based process of status review.
About 90 percent of name checks, officials say, emerge with no matches within three months, after an automated search of databases. But the remaining 10 percent can take months or years, as 30 analysts and assistants must coordinate with 56 field offices and retrieve files stored in 265 locations nationwide.
Ha! So because the FBI can’t handle the volume of name checks, one of the most important elements of determining where the terrorists are, the genius suggests we stop doing them altogether. This is the sort of insane decision-making that putts this entire nation at risk. And now the clowns in Washington want to add 20 million more names to the list.
Absolute effiing raging mindless incompetence.
And they have the nerve to tell us this is all about “diversity,” when we have already made this nation the most productive and diverse on Earth, yet they can’t even figure out how to coordinate background name
14 years after the first WTC bombing, and 6 years since 9/11.
Add these facts to your ammunition pile for your calls this week. Hopefully the anti-amnesty heroes on the Hill will also find ways to use this to help them kill the monster.
Make that 329,159 names. My wife was finally able to renew her “green card”. She is a legal immigrant – yes, there are one or two like her around – from a country in east Africa.
To get my wife’s visa after we were married in her home country took almost a year and required my Congressman contacting the US Ambassador. Getting her green card – after USCIS lost her biometrics – took almost another year and required the intervention of another Congressman (Texas had a mid-decade redistricting, and we wound up with someone new). Her renewal also required Congressional assistance.
The current immigration system required us to seek Congressional intervention at each step of the way. In other words – political pull. If the amnesty bill currently in the Senate becomes law, this situation will be magnified many times over. Those immigrants (legal or otherwise) with connections in Congress will benefit the most. Given the influence of powerful Latino groups in this country (LULAC, La Raza), the preponderance towards far Left politics by certain immigration “rights†groups, and the MSM, it is a fair bet that illegals from Latin America will gobble up most if not all of the new slots opened up by this bill. In fact, I predict that the political pressure from these groups will be so great that Latin American applicants will simply have their applications rubber-stamped. It does not take a terrorism expert to see the possibilities this bill opens up for groups like al Qaeda.
You cannot “fix†a system that does not work in the first place. Take it from someone who has been through the bureaucratic hell called the US immigration system. Calling the amnesty bill in the Senate a disaster is like calling Hiroshima a loud bang.