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What we need is an integrated system overseas, so that we can track people coming in and out. We need to have a system using fingerprints to track foreign visitors, like the Southwest Border Patrol already does. There is no reason that through technology this cannot be done. Can the INS make changes? Yes, and one of those changes should be immediate: In order to buy some time to improve the system, we need to reduce the number of students and workers coming in for several years...
Senior Administration officials have promised that Ridge will be given budget "pass-back" authority, which means that he will be able to direct the agencies under his purview, like the border patrol, to reorder their spending priorities. His staff is expected to be about 100 strong, many detailed from other agencies. Ridge has already picked Mark Holman, his oldest and most trusted political associate, to run the operation as chief of staff, and is eyeing Admiral Steve Abbott, who has been the military voice on the homeland-security staff currently housed in the Vice President's office. White House officials...
...federal work force in the airports wouldn't sit right with conservatives, who see it as a Big Government solution. But the real problem is that the work is mind numbing--few people with big law-enforcement ambitions want to make suitcase patrol their beat. "We tried that about 25 years ago," says a security veteran at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the New York City-area airports. "The guys get incredibly bored. That's not why they joined the force." But in Europe, some private companies, under tight government control, have proved they...
...statute, with budgetary authority, whose director would be confirmed by the Senate and stand accountable to the President and Congress. This new agency, to be effective, must be even more powerful than the one President Bush proposes: it must include within its control the Coast Guard, Customs Service, border patrol, Federal Emergency Management Agency and elements of at least three dozen other federal offices. Let me explain why these powers are so important...
...commission co-chaired by Rudman and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart concluded in January that the threat of terrorism called for nothing short of a new federal department combining FEMA, the Customs Service, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. Many in Congress agree. "If you want to get a job done, there's no substitute for having an agency with a budget," says Democrat Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But given the fact that Republicans in Congress were trying to kill four Cabinet departments only six years ago, it's hard to imagine a Republican...