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...haven’t spent the money on homeland security that we should have spent,” he said. “Are you safer on a train in the U.S. after 9/11? Take the Red Line and find...
...make immediate revisions to its national security policies to improve the current visa application process if it wants to help universities across the country retain their most promising international students, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers wrote Monday in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge...
...applying for and securing a student visa has become even more arduous than before. The government bars citizens of countries with high immigration rates—like China—from entering the United States unless they can prove that they have legitimate plans to return to their homeland after finishing their education...
...objective Canadian, it is easy for me to see how homeland-security money could have been better allocated on the basis of the risk of a terrorist attack rather than most of it being appropriated according to each state's population. If Americans are going to waste money on low-risk areas, they may as well send the money to their allies abroad, such as Spain. It would probably do more good there. NEIL GOODMAN Vancouver...
...addition to practicing financial buffoonery in homeland-security payments, this new bureaucracy has succeeded only in providing an excuse for other federal and state agencies to remain unaccountable for their ineptitude and lack of preparedness. Money is not the answer to security problems when we don't even have a legitimate strategy. The homeland-security plan is another good example of how the U.S. government is too big, too slow and too unimaginative to do anything about terrorism except throw money at it. It's like watching a 900-lb. gorilla fight off a swarm of gnats with a sledgehammer...