HOMELAND SECURITY -- INSECURE BORDERS

HOMELAND SECURITY -- INSECURE BORDERS: An investigation by Time
Magazine supports 9/11 Commission findings
(http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3859756) that the Bush
administration has failed to establish effective border security since
9/11. Time reports, "Despite all the talk of homeland security, sneaking
into the U.S. is scandalously easy?and on the rise. Millions of illegal
aliens will pour across the U.S.-Mexican border this year, many from
countries hostile to America...The U.S.'s borders, rather than becoming
more secure since 9/11, have grown even more porous
(http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040920/story.html) . And the trend
has accelerated in the past year." A nationwide survey of the U.S.
Border Patrol conducted last month found the majority of the nation's
customs and border officials believe " they are ill-equipped to prevent
another terrorist attack
(http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=29264&dcn=todaysnews)
." Read more about the Bush administration's inadequate efforts to
improve border control and plug other gaps in Homeland Security in American
Progress' report, " Failing Grades
(http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=183682) ."