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| Ashcroft plan to track aliens hits snag |
| 2002-09-06 |
| Three months after Attorney General John Ashcroft said he would enforce an obscure law that requires non-citizens to notify the government when they move, immigration offices have been overwhelmed by 700,000 change-of-address cards. The cards now are in storage here, unread by government workers. Ofergawdsake! Ashcroft's plan was part of an ongoing effort to improve the monitoring of foreigners in this country, and to help U.S. agents track potential terrorist threats. It has run aground because the troubled Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was unprepared for the avalanche of paperwork created by the plan. Is that another way of saying "ineptitude"? Since late July, INS spokesman Russ Bergeron said, his agency has received up to 30,000 change-of-address notices a day. That's up from the 2,800 notices the agency received each month before Ashcroft said he would begin enforcing the 1952 law, which requires non-citizens to notify the government within 10 days of moving or face possible deportation. LET THE GODDAMNED CENSUS BUREAU DO IT THEN! Sorry. Got carried away... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 And still no one at the INS has been fired. These are the putzheads the Democrats want running Homeland Security. "To professionalize, you must federalize." .. Tom Daschle |
| Posted by: Denny Wilson 2002-09-06 17:46:37 |