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From:
Frank Kelleher (e-mail
him)
Brenda Walker's Blog:
More Than Eight Years After The 9/11 Terror Attacks,
U.S. Still Can't Keeps Terrorists Off Airplanes
Walker wrote:
"The first line of defense, unfortunately, is the US State Department official in Nigeria who handed a travel visa to a man known to have terrorist affiliations. And there are thousands more in State who don't want to insult anyone in the countries where they are stationed."
The solution is so simple it's painful to think that it hasn't been implemented.
In
his column
stating that legal immigration is a bigger problem than
illegal immigration,
Joe Guzzardi
cited a
Center for Immigration
Studies backgrounder written by a former
tenured member of the U.S. Foreign Service.
According to
David Seminara,
the answer is to advise applicants of the decision
regarding granting the visa by mail instead of face to
face during the process.
That removes any
ugly confrontations
that inevitably occur when applicants are denied and
makes the entire interview process less confrontational.
At the same time, a letter response eliminates the
stress for
consular officers
on the visa frontline. [No
Coyote Needed: U.S. Visas Still an Easy Ticket in
Developing Countries, by David Seminara,
Center for Immigration Studies,
]
Kelleher lives in Hollywood.