When we see things like this:
An Iraqi-born U.S. citizen suspected of being a foreign intelligence agent was employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to rule on asylum applications, including those from unfriendly Middle Eastern nations, according to documents obtained from Congress by The Washington Times.
Michael J. Maxwell, the former head of the Office of Security and Investigations at USCIS, is expected to testify about the Iraqi case and other breakdowns at the agency to a House subcommittee today.
Mr. Maxwell will tell legislators that the immigration system is being used by enemy governments to place agents in the United States.
The suspected agent, whose name has not been released, judged 180 asylum applications while at USCIS, the agency that also rules on green cards, citizenship and employment authorization.
A database check during Mr. Maxwell's investigation turned up national-security questions about nearly two dozen of those cases.
The first thing one wonders is why a foreign-born person would even be anywhere near such a responsibility. The answer, of course, is political correctness - that absurdity in which all is well and no one ever need think about what we are doing.
As readers here know, I am a big fan of immigration - but there are some things we just have to take some care about, and in matters of national security, we should try to stick as far as possible to native-born Americans...because that gives us a much better chance of a genuinely exhaustive background check, plus there being very little chance that the person in question will have friends of family overseas who could prevail upon him to cut corners. Say whatever you like, but there's really no way to check the background of a person from Iraq, or Pakistan, or Sudan...the records to check are generally non-existent.
We need to become realistic about things again - we need to shed the past 30 years of liberal/left idiocy on matters of national security - it is because we've fallen for liberal/left ideology that we have Iraqi intelligence agents ruling on asylum applications, and complaints about an NSA signals intelligence program. There is a real world, we live in it, and we should start behaving accordingly.
Posted by Mark Noonan at April 6, 2006 12:40 PM
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This just points to another failure by the bush administration to secure our homeland after 9/11. Here are some more nuggets from the article:
Mr. Maxwell began an investigation that found that the man had been hired by USCIS even though negative "national security information" in his background check caused other federal agencies to pass on him.
A national security polygraph showed repeated deception on his part, and in interviews with Mr. Maxwell, he denied having traveled to Iran, Syria and Jordan while he worked for USCIS, even though electronic databases showed he had made the trips.
WHO IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY?
Posted by: Barneyg2000 at April 6, 2006 01:13 PM
Deleted - Too silly to be allowed on a serious blog.
Posted by:
HugeWangUSAF at April 6, 2006 01:21 PM
First I will not get started on the Non-aryan comment above my post here. But i will say that it is distasteful.
But National Security Should be our upmost priority right now. How can we as american expect to proect our intrest abroad when we can't even protect our own borbers.
Americans need to open their eyes and see that the security we want and deserve come at a price. We should not Make Important descisions on safety by what is best for the individual. But on will improve the greater good.
When we as americans put political correctness in front of the safety of other americans. We take another brick out of the foundation of this great country.
Posted by: US Marine 1997-2005 at April 6, 2006 02:27 PM
Barney,
Who is running this country? In the day to day, it is a bunch of faceless bureaucrats not responsible to the will of the people...if you want a government which will, for instance, regulate smoking, then that is what you get...bloated bureaucracies no one can really control...
All we can do is put in hard and fast rules to protect ourselves...thus my suggestion that foreign born people, regardlss of where they come from, shouldn't be placed in sesnsitive, national security related positions.
Posted by: Mark Noonan at April 6, 2006 04:39 PM
HugeWangUSAF!
You are an idiot sir!
It is comments like yours that give the left more credibility, and the day you end up having a Pakistani born muslim man at the helm of intelligence or ( God forbid) some powerful position in the White house admin, just think it's comments like yours that hasten their appointment.
There are other ways to tackle political correctness, your way is NOT the way.
Posted by: Joe Bananas...in Pyjamas at April 6, 2006 04:43 PM
I be mighty offended that ma thoughts aren't allowed here.
Posted by:
HugeWangUSAF at April 6, 2006 05:24 PM
I suggest that Mark Noonan post the part of the mexican constitution that relates to how mexico treats illegal immigrants and hope he would suggest our government adopt that part of the mexican constitution to be the Uniteds States immigration law.
Posted by: Jim at April 6, 2006 06:05 PM
Welcome to the Kleenex Constitution, folks.
The past 40 years or so of idiotic liberal lunacy has taken hold of many parts of our society. Apparently the Federal Government is not immune to the pathogenic effects. This is a direct result of political correctness gone amok...
But why should this particular story surprise anyone? Hell, we've got the Fox watching over the Henhouse in Congress, as is evidenced by today's so-called "bipartisan agreement" on granting Amnesty to illegal workers. Ooops! Sorry! I'm supposed to ignore the de facto amnesty and smile cheerily while the crappy representatives in the Senate tell us it's not amnesty, it's a "Guest Worker Program."
I'm so hopping mad at the Senate right now that, if I didn't have to work like I do, I'd go out and buy a pitchfork and a torch. It's a neverending display of selling out this country that I've ever seen in my life. The Dubai Ports World fiasco was one example that fell through the cracks, in that enough people reacted passionately enough to cause a tsunami of public opinion. But this type of public outrage doesn't happen often enough, so the Senators and Congressional "representatives" go about in their backroom deals and sell this country out to any and all bidders.
I find it beyond pathetic that our troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure their borders, yet our "leaders" poo-poo the sad state of our own borders to the north and south. And when concerned citizens feel compelled to step into the vacuum of leadership on the immigration issue, they're labeled a "vigilantes" by the President and many members of Congress.
As far as I'm concerned, on the Immigration "Reform" issue, everyone from President Bush right down to the faceless bureaucrats you referenced above (including most of Congress) can go straight to hell. We have no representation any more. They're too busy bending over backwards pandering to illegals and playing footsie with Political Correctness goons... I don't know who disgusts me more: the mealy-mouthed, "talking out of both sides of their faces" Demublicans or the "afraid of leading" Republicrats...
Given the rapid rate of acceleration of the erosion of our national sovereignty like the case cited above, I figure it should be within the next five years that we find ourselves bending over and grabbing our ankles.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!!
Posted by:
dbogdan at April 6, 2006 09:52 PM
When the next 9/11 occurs - and believe me - it WILL OCCUR, I won't feel so bad. By then, this country won't be worth defending any more...
Let's just try to remember who got us into this mess and vote them all out in November!!!
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dbogdan at April 6, 2006 09:55 PM
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This just points to another failure by the bush administration to secure our homeland after 9/11. Here are some more nuggets from the article:
Mr. Maxwell began an investigation that found that the man had been hired by USCIS even though negative "national security information" in his background check caused other federal agencies to pass on him.
A national security polygraph showed repeated deception on his part, and in interviews with Mr. Maxwell, he denied having traveled to Iran, Syria and Jordan while he worked for USCIS, even though electronic databases showed he had made the trips.
WHO IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY?
Deleted - Too silly to be allowed on a serious blog.
First I will not get started on the Non-aryan comment above my post here. But i will say that it is distasteful.
But National Security Should be our upmost priority right now. How can we as american expect to proect our intrest abroad when we can't even protect our own borbers.
Americans need to open their eyes and see that the security we want and deserve come at a price. We should not Make Important descisions on safety by what is best for the individual. But on will improve the greater good.
When we as americans put political correctness in front of the safety of other americans. We take another brick out of the foundation of this great country.
Barney,
Who is running this country? In the day to day, it is a bunch of faceless bureaucrats not responsible to the will of the people...if you want a government which will, for instance, regulate smoking, then that is what you get...bloated bureaucracies no one can really control...
All we can do is put in hard and fast rules to protect ourselves...thus my suggestion that foreign born people, regardlss of where they come from, shouldn't be placed in sesnsitive, national security related positions.
HugeWangUSAF!
You are an idiot sir!
It is comments like yours that give the left more credibility, and the day you end up having a Pakistani born muslim man at the helm of intelligence or ( God forbid) some powerful position in the White house admin, just think it's comments like yours that hasten their appointment.
There are other ways to tackle political correctness, your way is NOT the way.
I be mighty offended that ma thoughts aren't allowed here.
I suggest that Mark Noonan post the part of the mexican constitution that relates to how mexico treats illegal immigrants and hope he would suggest our government adopt that part of the mexican constitution to be the Uniteds States immigration law.
Welcome to the Kleenex Constitution, folks.
The past 40 years or so of idiotic liberal lunacy has taken hold of many parts of our society. Apparently the Federal Government is not immune to the pathogenic effects. This is a direct result of political correctness gone amok...
But why should this particular story surprise anyone? Hell, we've got the Fox watching over the Henhouse in Congress, as is evidenced by today's so-called "bipartisan agreement" on granting Amnesty to illegal workers. Ooops! Sorry! I'm supposed to ignore the de facto amnesty and smile cheerily while the crappy representatives in the Senate tell us it's not amnesty, it's a "Guest Worker Program."
I'm so hopping mad at the Senate right now that, if I didn't have to work like I do, I'd go out and buy a pitchfork and a torch. It's a neverending display of selling out this country that I've ever seen in my life. The Dubai Ports World fiasco was one example that fell through the cracks, in that enough people reacted passionately enough to cause a tsunami of public opinion. But this type of public outrage doesn't happen often enough, so the Senators and Congressional "representatives" go about in their backroom deals and sell this country out to any and all bidders.
I find it beyond pathetic that our troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure their borders, yet our "leaders" poo-poo the sad state of our own borders to the north and south. And when concerned citizens feel compelled to step into the vacuum of leadership on the immigration issue, they're labeled a "vigilantes" by the President and many members of Congress.
As far as I'm concerned, on the Immigration "Reform" issue, everyone from President Bush right down to the faceless bureaucrats you referenced above (including most of Congress) can go straight to hell. We have no representation any more. They're too busy bending over backwards pandering to illegals and playing footsie with Political Correctness goons... I don't know who disgusts me more: the mealy-mouthed, "talking out of both sides of their faces" Demublicans or the "afraid of leading" Republicrats...
Given the rapid rate of acceleration of the erosion of our national sovereignty like the case cited above, I figure it should be within the next five years that we find ourselves bending over and grabbing our ankles.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!!
When the next 9/11 occurs - and believe me - it WILL OCCUR, I won't feel so bad. By then, this country won't be worth defending any more...
Let's just try to remember who got us into this mess and vote them all out in November!!!