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Bush hits the roof over visas for crazed killers
2002-03-13
  • Angry at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for approving student visas for two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, President Bush on Wednesday told the attorney general to investigate and ordered the beleaguered agency to shape up. Bush said he was "stunned" to learn of the incident. "I could barely get my coffee down," he told a news conference, calling it a "wake-up call for those who run the INS ... (to) reform as quickly as possible."

    Attorney General John Ashcroft threatened to punish those responsible. But Bush stood by INS Commissioner James Ziglar, who he appointed to the post, saying: "His responsibility is to reform the INS. Let's give him time to do so."
    Okay. Time's up. Fire them all and start a new agency from scratch. Take the resonsibility out from under Justice and put it with the Department of the Interior. That should rub Ashcroft's nose in it! Maybe they'll be able to administer it better than they do with the Indians. But if not, we can put it under Transportation next...

  • Cheeze. Is there an echo in here?
    Bill O'Reilly just suggested shutting INS down and starting over.
    Iaian Murray says that James Sensenbrenner says the same thing. Is this a movement?
    Posted by Anonymous 3/14/2002 9:00:01 AM
    I work for the INS. O'Reilly, Sensenbrenner and Vodkapundit are absolutely right. There is no drive, no care, no thought and certainly no sense of urgency or importance to the work done here. We just held up a reply to a Congressman for three days because it was deemed more sensitive to the bureaucratic egos of those involved to have the answer come from one guy, who thought his time was too important to be wasted on such trivia, than from me, who has done no work for two days because nothing has been assigned to me.
    Hell, I volunteered to take care of this situation! But no, the result is secondary to the process.
    Ziglar does not strike me as the one to repair this agency. He's put up pictures of himself wth the Senate, and written a lengthy "Commissioner's Value Statement", but nothing substantial I can see.
    I could be wrong, of course. But I don't see it.
    Why isn't INS part of the Department of STATE, which deals with the outside world? Oh, right -- they're dangerous idiots. They even let TOURIST AGENCIES in Saudi approve visas to come to America!

    Posted by Anonymous 3/14/2002 12:07:18 PM
    Today, 14 March, I received a letter from a citizen to answer. It was postmarked March 31, 2001. It has taken 50 weeks to go from the mailbox to my desk ...
    Posted by Anonymous 3/14/2002 5:26:04 PM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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