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Green M.P. Keith Locke protested the changes, saying Kiwis' "human rights are now in the firing line." But for the National party's Mapp, they can't come soon enough. He believes "dangerous people" could slip in "buried in the numbers of people who overstay their visas and those who come in under humanitarian quotas." Buchanan says the latter is unlikely. The country's U.N.-agreed refugee quota is a tiny 750 a year, and of the 1,200 or so people who, like Zaoui, claim refugee status on arrival, fewer than 20% are accepted. "The easiest...
...believe that you should never overstay your welcome,” McCarthy said. “I have known since this summer that it is time to move on, personally and professionally...
...first lines of defense against terrorism are the country's borders and shores. But the U.S.'s perimeter is long and porous. The government still lacks a system for determining whether immigrants who enter legally overstay their visas, as two 9/11 hijackers did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new budget request includes money to hire 570 more border-patrol agents by next year, but experts think the U.S. needs to add at least twice that number. The border-security act that Bush signed last week aims to modernize the country's system of tracking those who want to enter...
...countless other areas as well, homeland security still needs an upgrade. The Administration plans to hire 800 more customs agents to police the borders but still lacks a system for tracking whether immigrants who enter legally overstay their visas, which three of the Sept. 11 hijackers did. Ridge, who will visit the U.S.-Mexican border this week, has proposed the sensible reform of getting the various border-control agencies--Customs, ins, Border Patrol and Coast Guard--to operate under a single command and work off the same technology. But he lacks the power to make it happen. Despite calls...
...hardly news that the immigration system is a mess. Foreign nationals have long been slipping across the border with bogus papers, and visitors who arrive in the U.S. legitimately often overstay their legal welcomes with impunity. But since Sept. 11, it's become clear that terrorists have been shrewdly factoring the weaknesses of our system into their plans. In addition to their mastery of forging passports, at least three of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were here on expired visas. That's been a safe bet until now. The Immigration and Naturalization Service lacks the resources, and apparently the inclination...