Homeland Security to Review Visas Issued

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- The nation's homeland security officers, on the lookout for terrorists, will begin on Tuesday to look over the shoulder of State Department officers charged with issuing visas.

A section of the Homeland Security Act, which took effect earlier this year, transferred the review process for issuing visas from the consular affairs office at the State Department to the new Homeland Security Department. President Bush on Monday signed a memorandum to carry out the law's visa oversight provision.

"The consular officers, who work for the State Department, will still issue the visas, but they will be reviewed by homeland security to help weed out terrorists and others who should not be issued a visa," Homeland Security spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

"While having every intention of keeping unwanted people out of this country, that's not the primary training of the consular officers like it is for our homeland security agents."

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-visas,0,2833331.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. Hey Kef---

we still live in the land of the free do we not?

you have to give up your inalienable rights in order to be free----right?

what a F. U . world


Hi kef...(((( hug))) from Jitterbug