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Sabotaging border security from within.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
While the Bush administration continues to insist that American citizens must accept increased inconveniences at airports and more privacy intrusions under the Real ID Act, it is waiving security checks for tens of thousands of new immigrants, including many who are being hired as Border Patrol officers.
"Facing a rapidly growing backlog of immigration cases, the Bush administration will grant permanent residency to tens of thousands of legal U.S. immigrants without first completing required background checks against the FBI's investigative files," the Washington Post reported on February 12. The change, it said, applies to about 47,000 permanent residency, or green card, applicants whose FBI checks have been pending for more than six months.
Even more disturbing is information that the administration is using the same "wave them through" policy when it comes to applicants for the Border ...
- Border Patrol: Checkpoints Contribute to Border Patrol's Mission, but More...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony September 1, 2009 700+ words
...824 August 31, 2009 The U.S. Border Patrol, part of the Department of Homeland...and apprehension of illegal aliens, Border Patrol agents at checkpoints screen vehicles...communities. GAO work included a review of Border Patrol data and guidance; visits to checkpoints...
- Border Patrol Job Application Hotline to Open Next Week
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire November 13, 1996 700+ words
...applicants seeking positions as U.S. Border Patrol agents. Interviews and tests for...to recruit more than 1,100 new Border Patrol agents in 1997 for assignment to the Southwest border. The Border Patrol is part of INS, which has jurisdiction...
- For Border Patrol trackers, every footprint tells a story.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dillow, Gordon January 2, 1996 700+ words
...levee near the Colorado River, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Steve Johnson is reading by the...footprints, in fact. Like a lot of Border Patrol agents here in the Yuma border sector...play in this dry, rugged country as Border Patrol agents use ancient methods to battle...
- Private contractor may help Border Patrol: DynCorp wants to hire temporary...
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) September 7, 2007 700+ words
...Byline: David Mclemore Sep. 7--The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and ads during...private agents to temporarily augment the Border Patrol's mission along the Mexican border...said spokeswoman Shea Snider. Border Patrol officials say that they don't need...
- Private contractor may help Border Patrol.
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) September 7, 2007 700+ words
...Byline: David McLemore DALLAS _ The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and ads during...private agents to temporarily augment the Border Patrol's mission along the Mexican border...said spokeswoman Shea Snider. Border Patrol officials say that they don't need...
- INS Names New Tucson Border Patrol Chief.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 24, 1999 700+ words
...new Chief Patrol Agent of the Tucson Border Patrol Sector. Aguilar, one of the key architects...Assistant Regional Director for the Border Patrol in the agency's Central Regional...said Gus de la Vina, Chief of the Border Patrol. "His expertise and leadership have...
- INS Names Douglas Kruhm New Assistant Commissioner of Border Patrol
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire February 17, 1995 700+ words
...position of assistant commissioner, Border Patrol. Kruhm has been serving as assistant...he was the project director for the Border Patrol Academy at Ft. McClellan, Ala...FY 1995 budget will pay for 700 more border patrol agents, equipment and technology in...
- Border violence against illegal immigrants and the need to change the Border...
- Magazine article from: Houston Journal of International Law Trevino, Jesus A. September 22, 1998 700+ words
...States illegally.(5) The U.S. Border Patrol agent waits to apprehend and deport...nightstick, the harsh reality that some Border Patrol agents abuse illegal immigrants...vigilante groups, but now he must add Border Patrol agents to his list.(8) There continues...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sabotaging border security from within.(Inside Track)(Brief article)