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Saturday, July 16, 2005Hooray for Homeland Security!Immigration Sting Puts 2 U.S. Agencies at Odds Just when you were losing your faith in the TSA and FBI, along comes our immigration department to make us feel safe again. The barbarians may be at the gate, but thank God for a Homeland Security department that keeps them at bay. And their latest clever ploy against the invading marauders... it makes you proud to be an American. So, why, then, are two U.S. agencies at odds? Our friends at Homeland Security just nailed a bunch of illegals - at a phony OSHA conference. OSHA is upset, saying people won't want to work with them to maintain worker safety if there's no way of knowing whether their seminars are for real or staged for the benefit of other agencies with other agendas. I think OSHA's being awfully picky. I mean, I know I'll sleep better at night knowing that the kind of illegal immigrant who complies with government orders to show up at government sponsored seminars are on the next bus out. This fills me with almost as much confidence as I gained when raids in Michigan shut down a dozen Chinese restaurants a month ago, protecting us from the prospect of having our tables bussed or won-ton soup stirred by the unclean. I'll concede that all illegals are illegals and that none of them should be here without following proper immigration procedures. What disturbs is our government's priorities: Our Homeland Security agencies seem to place an awfully high priority on rounding up those who are easy to find and lack any clout once their caught. Forgive me if I'm indelicate on this point, but I'm not interested in how effective our government is at making sure those lucrative jobs in Chinese restaurants are saved for Americans. I'm much more concerned about Muslim extremists who may have the financial backing to get their paperwork filed correctly but are up to no good after the initial exit interview. I'm even concerned about the South American who heads up a gang to push drugs or steal cars. But a guy who comes to an OSHA seminar? Tell him he if he wants to stay, we're bumping him to the next tax bracket. At a time when fruit loops are raising money for terrorists from the Muslim community and maybe at this very moment some guy dreaming of being the next Mohammed Atta is leasing a Chevy with funds from dubious Middle East sources, I don't feel the "We'll get 'em with OSHA" approach to Homeland Security is getting us our tax dollars' worth. Let's hope this is the last gasp of the old INS as it persisted into the Ridge era and not typical of what the vaunted Chertoff is to bring. 
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