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September 12, 2002
 
 

MALKIN: TECHNOLOGY FAILING BORDER SECURITY


Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin says that despite new laws mandating fingerprinting of foreign visitors, the ability of technology to benefit security is limited by bureaucratic inertia. "The INS, Customs Service, State Department, and major law enforcement offices operate dozens of lookout databases on terrorists, deportees, and criminals. Despite this vast multi-billion dollar computer network, terrorists and other undesirable foreign visitors have been able to waltz into the country." Despite technology purchases by the agency, front line agents don't have access to that technology or important databases. "How much more time, how much more money, and how many more dead bodies will it take to push the agency into the 21st century?" she asks.

Malkin's new book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, is available from Amazon.com