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Border Officials Let Millions Enter U.S. Without Proper ID

December 28th, 2010 Judicial Watch

While the Obama Administration is busy controlling the American diet and bringing “environmental justice” to the inner city, it’s failing miserably to protect the nation from terrorists by allowing millions of travelers to enter the U.S. without proper identification.
For more than a year and a half, the Homeland Security agency charged with safeguarding the country’s borders has blown off a crucial measure that requires all travelers to provide a passport or secure identification before entering the United States. The security rule, known as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, was implemented at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission to protect the U.S. from another terrorist attack.
As of June 2009 all American, Canadian, Mexican and Bermudian citizens must provide a passport or other secure identification that establishes the traveler’s nationality and identity before entering the U.S. More than 18 months later, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are not enforcing the law, which was passed by Congress in 2004 as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act.
In the first eight months after the law took effect, 2.3 million travelers failed to provide proper paperwork at U.S. land ports of entry, according to a Homeland Security Inspector General report made public this week. It turns out that CBP, which claims to protect the American public against terrorists and the instruments of terror, never really intended to enforce the law even though it’s received $365 million in the last two years to do it.
CBP internal policy divulged by auditors….
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