Thousands mistakenly allowed past U.S. border, report says

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

Government watchdogs have found that thousands of people who shouldn't have been admitted to the United States were mistakenly allowed in last year because of security lapses at legal border crossings.

The number of inadmissible aliens who managed to enter through official ports of entry in 2006 was not disclosed in Monday's report from the Government Accountability Office.

However, a source who has seen a full version of the report, in which those statistics were included, put the total at 21,000.

The author of the GAO report, Richard Stana, said most of those who were wrongly allowed to enter were economic migrants who did not present a security risk.

"But as we saw in the recent past, it doesn't take too many people getting through the ports of entry to cause some real trouble," he said. "And not everyone who comes in and is a danger needs to be a terrorist. It could be someone connected with a criminal enterprise."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/05/border.security/index.html

[DemBones DemBones]

1. No shit, Sherlock! They needed a report to "find this"?

:shrug:

[Dark]

2. Hell, everything needs a report these days.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/29/national/a205623D82.DTL

[DemBones DemBones]

6. "State Report: Texas Has Too Many Reports" -- hilarious!

A 668 page report to report that Texas has too many reports. :rofl:

[drm604]

3. Breaking News! The sky is blue!

This is just more playing to the xenophobia of their base before the elections.

[DCKit]

4. "Most" of 21,000 leaves as many as 10,499 who could be terrorists or felons.

I feel so much safer now.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. no, I think they are actually using the word in it's classic sense...

unlike most articles that seem to think "most" means more than 50% instead of 'all but a few'