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Department of Homeland Security has failed in it's central missionOnly 12 charged with terrorism in three
years
Gee wilikers, another massive government bureaucracy not only fails it's job but
gets distracted. Emphasis
added.
Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. This comes despite the fact the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that fighting terrorism is the central mission of DHS. The Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse said it analyzed millions of previously undisclosed records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act. Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said. Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed. "The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," said David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman. "Either there's no terrorism, or they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us." The TRAC analysis also found that DHS filed a minuscule number of what are called "national security" charges against people in the immigration courts. The report stated that 114, or 0.014 percent of the total of roughly 800,000 individuals charged were charged with national security violations. It goes back to the uniform rule of law. If existing laws had been enforced, 9-11 would never have happened because most of the perpetrators would have long since have been deported. Once a "new" agency was created, the priority was on visible "results," not on it's mission. I think the Department of Homeland Security should be disbanded now. Hat tip Bruce Schneier. 
Posted: Wed - May 30, 2007 at 05:53 AM
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