John Cornyn, our Senator apparently has more brains than the entire department of Homeland (In)Security. He wrote the following letter to Director Chertoff:
Dear Secretary Chertoff:
I write to you regarding Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman currently attending Yale University on a student visa.
In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act and expanded the terror-related grounds of inadmissibility. Under current law, an alien is inadmissible or removable on terror-related grounds if he is a representative of any designated or nondesignated terrorist organization. Further, an alien is inadmissible or removable if the alien endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization. The REAL ID is clear that the grounds of inadmissibility and removal apply regardless of when the conduct in question occurred.
Mr. Hashemi was an official spokesman for the Taliban, which gave safe haven and other material support to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and continued to do so even after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Yet the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted him into the United States on an F-1 student visa. I would like to know what steps the Department of Homeland Security is taking to determine whether Mr. Hashemi was properly admitted and whether the Department of Homeland Security will seek to deport Mr. Hashemi under one of the terror-related grounds of removal.
I am also concerned about the Department of Homeland Security’s role in reviewing Mr. Hashemi’s student visa application prior to its issuance. The report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States concluded that the key officials responsible for determining alien admissions (consular officers abroad and immigration inspectors in the United States) were not considered full partners in counterterrorism efforts prior to September 11, 2001, and as a result, opportunities to intercept the September 11 terrorists were missed.
Congress subsequently passed the Homeland Security Act, and section 428 allows DHS to assign staff to consular posts abroad to advise consular officers, review visa applications, and conduct investigations. Yet it is not clear that DHS officials were afforded an opportunity to review Mr. Hashemi’s visa application prior to its issuance. Please provide an update on the progress DHS is making in assigning officers to the consulate in Islamabad and whether those officers are fully integrated into the visa screening process.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
JOHN CORNYN United States Senator
Chertoff will be the next slang word for incompetence, mark my words.
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And on that point I give you this image:
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Chertoff is already a slang word for incompetence. Now if we can get Cornyn to take a stand against millions of illegals flowing over our borders. Hopefully, like in this case, he won’t take it one person at a time.
Maybe if we assigned each congressman a couple thousand illegals to deal with personally it would keep them busy enough so that they won’t be able to spend so much time with lobbyists.
But, we can’t offend anyone…… they might not like us anymore. Oh, wait they already hate us…
I am waiting for some of the feminasties to get upset over these guys… A regime that has opressed women probably more than any other, and not a peep from them?
AND, The stanky hippies and libs protest Army recruiters, but not these guys (who opress women by the way)? I believe they are anti abortion too… where’s the outrage?
And Chertoff… Get rid of him… NOW!
Seal up our borders and evaluate the mess we are in. When and only when we can truly fix the problems should we allow immigration. My brother-in law had been applying for citizenship for years now, doing it legally! He has been given appointments to get another appointment several years from now… But I guess that’s because he is an educated white European.
A US Border Patrol Agent catches an illegal alien in the bushes right by the border fence, he pulls him out and says “Sorry, you know the law, you’ve got to go back across the border right now.”
The mexican man pleads with them, “No, noooo Senior, I must stay in de USA! Pleeeze!”
The Border Patrol Agent thinks to himself, I’m going to make it hard for him and says “Ok, I’ll let you stay if you can use 3 english words in a sentence”.
The Mexican man of course agrees.
The Border Patrol Agent tells him, “The 3 words are: Green, Pink and Yellow. Now use them in 1 sentence.”
The Mexican man thinks really hard for about 2 minutes, then says, “Hmmm, Ok. The phone, it went Green, Green, Green, I Pink it up and sez Yellow?”
Not only get rid of Chertoff…….NOW!
What about getting Mr.(And I use the term loosely.) Hasheimi, packing back to his desert oasis. Today, would be soon enough.
All the Illegals who shoot up our Houston neighborhoods and the ones who paint graffiti all over our neighborhoods, aren’t they terrorists too?
We might as well not get our hopes up that the politicians will do anything to stop this onslaught on our country, most of them see this as an opportunity to pose for pictures without actually trying to solve a severe problem.
Isn’t a Democrat standing next to a Dangerously Incompetent redundant?
do-nothing cornyn and gutless hutchinson are poster children for incompentence along with chertoff due to not doing anything about the illegals. Mark my word either nothing will happen about the illegals or they will all be given amnesty either way the border will not be closed.
Might as well get rid of the Government incompetents trying Sept. 11 bomber (alleged of coarse even though he confessed to belonging to Al Queda). They coached their witnesses after the jugde had told them not to do it.
#7, I thought so……
Actually, I’m impressed (in a postive direction) that one of our Senators actually spoke out and Did SOMETHING. Was it as much as I would have wanted? No, but at least it’s a significant step in the correct direction.
[Hey, Kay Bailey! Aren't you running for re-election? Maybe you'd like to grab some headlines! Or, there's always early retirement.]
– Ken
Now thats the pot calling the kettle black!
Cornyn needs to pull his head out too.
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So happy to see Cornyn speak up. Bottom line is that the buck stops at George W. Bush’s feet. I fear he and some of his staff may be burning out. He needs our prayers not our criticisms right now. Many surrounding the President have done a valiant job but they’re wasted, burnt out, fried. Need a long vacation and have earned it. New blood is needed and quick. And I’m talking about those closest to “W”. And there’s no help for “W” from the GOP in general. They’re too busy sipping tea, eating low fat pound cake and having polite meetings. Forget them. They’re worthless. If the cavalry doesn’t come to the rescue soon, I fear the results in 06 and 08 are going to be disasterous for conservatives. Does anyone have any ideas who could step in and get that runaway stagecoach back on track? Does anyone think that “W” understands what a hell its going to be if the GOP loses control of either congress or the senate in 06? Its not too late to salvage the situation but it soon will be if action isn’t taken.
Dubwa is nothing if not loyal! Blind loyalness is his biggest problem just now.
Just read this. This guy was in charge of domestic policy! Thank God and Greyhound he is gone!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187560,00.html
Unfortunately GWB’s blind loyalness will lead him down the wrong path. He stuck with this guy and this is what he is awarded with.
#14 Freeman
Well, had they done a better job, their present predicament wouldn’t be so bad. I could have done a better job in 3 hours per day than they have done in 17 hours per day.
They’re burned out because they’ve been trying to cover and correct previous mistakes. Do the job right the first time, and you’ll have more time to get to new projects and more energy to apply to present objectives.
Everyone who’s read this blog for any significant period of time knows I’m disappointed with the present administration. The problem is that I don’t see anything better coming down the pike.
They could do a whole lot worse, but they’d almost have to try to (as Kerry apparently does).