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Thank God we have those wonderful people from the federal government keeping track of things, keeping the world safe from terrorism and all...
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Exactly six months after terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved.
The two suicide hijackers had applied for the visas through their flight school, Huffman Aviation International, in August 2000. But because of backlogs and an antiquated processing system at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notification of the approval did not arrive at the Venice, Fla., flight school until Monday.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), head of a congressional caucus that seeks reduced immigration, said the agency is "completely and totally dysfunctional.
"The INS is the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies, but this actually would indicate that's an insult to Mickey Mouse," Tancredo said. "I do not know what straw is possibly going to be the one that will break this back. The pile is so high now you can't see over it."
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Ben Ferro, a former INS district administrator who now runs a consulting firm, said the Atta and Alshehhi cases reflect how the immigration service has lost control of its own documents.
"What happened here is an embarrassment and worse," Ferro said. "Clearly INS doesn't discriminate in its backlogs and delays. Everyone gets delayed, even dead people."
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Exactly six months after terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved.
The two suicide hijackers had applied for the visas through their flight school, Huffman Aviation International, in August 2000. But because of backlogs and an antiquated processing system at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notification of the approval did not arrive at the Venice, Fla., flight school until Monday.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), head of a congressional caucus that seeks reduced immigration, said the agency is "completely and totally dysfunctional.
"The INS is the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies, but this actually would indicate that's an insult to Mickey Mouse," Tancredo said. "I do not know what straw is possibly going to be the one that will break this back. The pile is so high now you can't see over it."
* * *
Ben Ferro, a former INS district administrator who now runs a consulting firm, said the Atta and Alshehhi cases reflect how the immigration service has lost control of its own documents.
"What happened here is an embarrassment and worse," Ferro said. "Clearly INS doesn't discriminate in its backlogs and delays. Everyone gets delayed, even dead people."
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