We are Ever Safer with the Current Regime than we Would Ever be with Spineless Liberal Democrats

Of course, people leaving the U.S. by land isn't the greatest threat to this nations' security but this shows how concerned Our Leaders are when it comes to actually, you know, acting.

You'd almost think this is a joke....

The Bush administration on Friday defended its decision to postpone a plan to track foreign visitors as they leave the country by land. * *

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he still intends to implement the tracking program, but the department currently does not have a viable system to track people crossing into Canada and Mexico by land.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who will chair the Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security, said in a statement that she was dismayed by the department's decision.

''This failure, which follows on delay after delay since 1996, essentially means that there will be no exit-monitoring system at the nation's 50 busiest land border crossings,'' Feinstein said.

At a midday news conference, Chertoff said the department's ''priorities have been tailored to the highest risk.''

''The highest priority is to keep terrorists out of the country,'' he said. ''If we keep them out in the first place we don't have to worry about them staying over.''

Chertoff's comment followed a report by congressional investigators that said another five to 10 years will be needed to develop technology record and track travelers leaving the United States by land without major disruptions at border crossings.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, in an interview with The Associated Press, expressed surprise at the development, and said that the program's former head, Jim Williams, had a pretty clear vision of where he thought the program had been headed.

In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office concluded that the entry portion of the Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology program, known as US-VISIT, has been installed at most of the nation's land borders with minimal disruption.

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How an electorate can put up with such relentless, endless crap eludes....