Posted: 8/4/2006 6:42:01 PM EDT
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Greetings from Washington D.C. Because of your interest and previous communication to me about immigration, I am writing to inform you of a hearing that my committee is holding today to highlight the problems at our borders. As Chairman of the Committee on Finance, I will hear testimony from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) about their undercover border crossings over the last three years. The GAO used fake documents, phony driver's licenses, and claimed to be U.S. Citizens in order to enter the United States. The hearing will show that the undercover agents got past the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol 42 of 45 times. The agents failed to catch the intruders 93% of the time. Border checkpoints are America's front door, and our first line of defense. Sadly, this latest GAO investigation proves that anyone with a fake ID and a tall tale can get waived right in. What bothers me is that my committee pointed this problem out three years ago, but it doesn't look like the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol did much to fix it. The inspectors don't have the tools they need. The agency needs to provide its inspectors with technology, such as scanners, that can automatically let them know if a document might be fake. Some foreign countries, state governments and private businesses are using scanners to check IDs. Such technology ought to be put to work to protect our borders, too. If you are interested in reading the testimony or statements provided to the Committee, please visit http://www.finance.senate.gov. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. today. I hope you find this information helpful. I have appreciated your insight and comments over the past few months on immigration reform. Please keep in touch. Your Senator, Chuck Grassley |
Isn't that sad? 4 weeks ago, this would've been 15 pages. Apparently, this is old and tiresome to many and that's a shame. HH |
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Stop worrying and shut your whiny pieholes - the border is fixed: www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=488540 |
Damn. That's the first time I've ever seen you use such "gruff" language here DK-Prof. 
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Even then they would probably do more to restrict our personal liberties before they touched the border problem. |
Can someone explain to me the part where GW is a conservative? Because I keep missing that between the spending, the social programs, the complete lack of interest in the Constitution, and so forth. |
He's a conservative when compared to Democrats like Kerry who are actually socialists. Sadly that is our situation. Liberalism or Socialism. |
Well, it sure doesn't motivate me to write checks to the Republican Party. |
Someone needs to photochop a nice big steering wheel on that picture. |
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